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    Help! MX2 Video Out new Det. trouble

    Strange, my Videocard served me faithfully for over a year, but, upon Win XP + the latest Detonator upgrade everything got wrong. There is still a picture on TV, but it SO DIM! Brightness/contrast adjustments on control panel wouldn't help at all! Am I missing something? Thanx!
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    Win XP Upgrade and DialUp problem

    I'm still a baby in Win XP, thus this question might be silly. Still... I've upgraded to XP from Win 98 without problem. However, now my dialup, which worked fine under 98, refused to cooperate. It calls the server, passed the password, establish the connection (?) and that's it. I can't get to...
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    XP and SCSI

    I've got a nice old Diamond Fireport 40 SCSI card. As it has BIOS of it own, technically it doesn't need any drivers for Windows. Now, do you think Win XP will work with it? As the card is not supported by manufacturer anymore, the chances are no goog, but maybe somebedy has some experience there?
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    How to slow down cd-rom?

    The subject says it all. With some cd's my 40X Yamaha sounds like it'll explode shattering the rest of the box. I guess the drive isn't that good overall, but when it slows down, it's quite usable. Is there any software solution which allows to control the rotation speed?
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    GeForce2 MX Settings won't change. Help!

    Actually, they are changing, but only untill reboot. After reboot everything (including OC, digital picture control, brightness) come back to it's default values. What is that? It've started one before last update of Detonater. Any workarround or registry tweak? Thanx!
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    Phoenix/Award BIOS is now Spyware!!!???

    (reposted from Sysopt Forum) (Reposted from the Fred Langa's newsletter. Sorry about the crummy formatting. I didn't have time to fix it all.) Oh No! *Hardware-Based* Phone Home Apps! It's true: Phoenix, the BIOS people (they make the Phoenix and Award BIOSes), recently launched PhoenixNet...
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    Poll: Phoenix/Award BIOS is now Spyware!!!???

    (reposted from Sysopt Forum) (Reposted from the Fred Langa's newsletter. Sorry about the crummy formatting. I didn't have time to fix it all.) Oh No! *Hardware-Based* Phone Home Apps! It's true: Phoenix, the BIOS people (they make the Phoenix and Award BIOSes), recently launched PhoenixNet...
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    Outpost.com shoppers, beware...

    For those who used to/still buying CD's and other cheap stuff from them: Free shipping is no more, unless you speding 100$. Worse. Recently, I've ordered a spindle of 50 Kingston CD-Rs + 10 3" CD-r's, thinking that in that case 9$ s/h is OK. But, here is what happened - spindle was...
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    MPEG-1 to MPEG-4 recoding. Plz Help

    Here is the deal - I need to recode some MPEG-1 video to MPEG-4 (DivX). The original file has .DAT extension and playz nicely on Mediaplayer. Do anybody knows how I can do it? I've tried FlaskMPEG, but it doesn't recognize the file as MPEG type (even after I've changed the extension). Any Ideas...
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    CAS 2 vs CAS 3: Clarification needed

    I generally know what CAS means and why 2 is better then 3. Now, I have K7V and some decent Mushkin RAM. What would be the practical advise on trying CAS2. I.e. I have 3 settings in BIOS: SDRAM CAS Latency [3T](which I presume should go to 2) SDRAM RAS Precharge Time [3T] (should I change it to...
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    TwinView: Fundamental question

    The question is - does every new Detonator has an update for the Tweenview (or TV-OUT for that matter) driver? If not - which ones do have them? Is it a separate driver, or a part of Detonator itself?
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    Shutdown problem, like I never seen before...

    Tweaking, tweaking, tweaking. Tried to get my system in the suspend mode from the screensaver.... REsult beat all the expectations. When I'm shutting down the system - everything is going down (no lights, no HD activity) except for the POWER SUPLLY!!!!!!!! Anybody had such problem? The system...
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    BIOS Optimisation K7V

    Hey, people! A while ago somebody suggested me a good site, describing BIOS optimisation. I lost that link (my stupid!). Do you know any good sites on this topic? I'm trying to optimise my System, which became lit'l bit odd since I've moved from TNT to GF and refreshed the bios. ThanX! Ho-Ho
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    MSI K7T + Win2k = onboard audio problem

    The p[roblem is as simple as that - when I've upgraded from Win 98 to Win2K, installation had informed me that the sound driver (I think it's VIa?) is not compatible with the OS, thus disabled. Where can I get the upgrade for it? Will it fix the problem, or it's more serious than that?
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    TV-out: Fuzzy as hell. Am I doing something wrong?

    I just got my Geforce2 MX card with TV-out. Put it in - works great. But, when I've connected it to my TV (through S-out/RCA adapter, the picture on my TV was less then impressive. In fact it was VERY POOR. Unfocused. Fuzzy. I'm-no even thinking of playing DVD... Am I doing something wrong? I've...
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    DVD doesn't read CD-RW. Am I missing something?

    I've got Creative 5X DVD ROM. In the manual they state that it should read the CD-RW's. But It's not! Am I missing something? I've got Adaptec EZ-CD Creator installed on my system. Shouldn't that be enough?
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    Geforce MX eVGA or Inno 3d

    In my desire to get GeForce MX, I've chosing between eVGA and Inno 3D. The models I'm looking at are the ones with TV out (not twin view)... eVGA comes from my local MIXPC, while INNO 3D from OCIE.COM. Can anybody help me to chose? I assume that video capabilities should be about the same, but...
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    GeForce MX and K7V: Anything I should know?

    Would appreciate if you share your experience of this combo. Any compatability/stability issues. Any particular GF MX brand problems? Thank you!
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    Software to burn-in the system?

    Question is as simple as that - which software is best to use to burn-in the system?
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    Savage 4 question

    Does S3 reference drivers will work on all Cards with this chipset? What about Video out?
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    MSI K7 Pro + Savage 4 = NO GO?

    I've put together the system based on MSI K7Pro board with duron 700. Everything was fine, till I started setting drivers for Aopen P700 board which is S3 Savage 4 - based card. Then the things went really messy, to the point the system won't powerup without unplugging. Any ideas? Bad Card? Bad...
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    Memory For MSI/Duron

    The question is as simple is that. I'm helping my friend to put together a Duron system. And he's on tight budget. The question is - what's the cheapest memory I can buy out there which won't give me a headache. Will Mushkin budget PC133 (Cas 333) work?
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    iTag - Cool new Gizmo. Free!

    Cool new gizmo. Hard to say how usefull it is, but it's free - check if your city is on the list. http://www.xenote.com