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    multimedia audio controller and other stuff

    After my power supply burned up, none of my periphreals worked, but I got those back up, no problems...except that my sound still won't work. In my device mananger, I see the multimedia audio controller is listed under OTHER DEVICES as an unknown device. I've reinstalled updated drivers for...
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    What's it all mean?

    My office is in 2 separate buildings. Currently we have one computer (desktop) on a dial up and the other (partner's laptop) on a wifi connection. Luckily for us, the building came set up. But we're thinking we may pick up a wireless card for the Desktop as well. His Dell has a **********...
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    Hardrives driven to hard?

    Dear Gents, Some time ago I was given a maxtor 40gig as a gift, after installation, it worked great for severl amonths as a slave drive until it just up and quit. Months later, the same friend gave me a WD 80 gig, short time later it died. I replaced it 3 months ago with a brand new...
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    Chill out!

    I have a weird issue that may just be a bad mobo. at start up both the CPU and system therms shows a cold start up temp of 102 f. This of course causes a problem of the machine shutting down when it allegedly reaches 158f. (not taking any chances. Is there any way to adjust the thermostat...
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    CHILL BABY!

    Two days ago I suddenly noticed that my CPU and case are running at a constant 134F, about 57C. 17f degrees hotter than before. Prior to that the 80mm fan in my powersupply died with out my knowing it until I noticed it was acting funny and I checked the temp (Motherboard Monitor 5)...140F I...
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    Reformatting

    OK, i fried my old mobo..it was a cheap Asrock, and replaced it with an equally cheap (but highly recommended) EPoX 8RD3AI. Knowing you should always start with a fresh drive, I put in a brand new Seagate 80gig. Ran Fdisk it, and when the dos partition comes up, it comes up as a 10 MEGABYTE...
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    k7s8x comparison

    Currently using an Asrock k7s8x. Asrock K7S8X specs I'm having so many issues with it i'd like to find something comparable. i'm partial to Asus, but will consider something else. Anyone have any suggestions?
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    HDH

    Ok, hoping someone has dealt with this before... Dinosaur win98se, Asrock K7S8x, 512 ram, Audigy 2, Nvidia 5100 pro some time ago, my drivers got wiped, after reinstalling all my drivers, My slave drive (maxtor 40 gig) would only show up on boot up, and in the bios as a 33gb, but not in...
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    BIOS update?

    OK, in trying to update my BIOS on a Asrock K7S8X runnin Win98se Asrock requires a flash utility of their own that needs to be loaded on the bootdisk along with the bios info. Here's the problem...when creating a oot disk, it uses 1.14MB, leaving 250k. The flash util and bios info are 256 and...
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    Done Botched it

    running an Asrock A7SX8 512mbram, AMD 2100+, Win 98se first question.... having a 40 gig slave drive, I noticed that as it was showing up on boot up and in teh bios as a 33gig, it's not being recognized in windows. I recently bought a western digital 80 gig. it too shows up on boot up and in...
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    USB freezing

    I recently bought a new digital cam. Fuji S3800 running Win98se on a AMD 2100+ 512mb ram, Asrock mobo. I've run into this issue before but can't remember how I remedied it. It seemed like somethinig simple. I can plug the cam in and get ready to transfer pix. As soon as I turn cam on, windows...
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    USB and Windoze 98se

    I recently bought a new digital cam. running Win98se on a AMD 2100+ 512mb ram I've run into this issue before but can't remember how I remedied it. I can plug the cam in and get ready to transfer pix. As soon as I turn cam on, windows freezes. Anyone run into this before? If so, what's the issue?
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    What happened to the drivers?!

    I had a very odd thing happen and was hoping someone could give me some direction as to what happened and how to fix it. Running an Asrock K7SBX onboard sound, with 98SE, etc etc.... I notice on startup the message that the ALIHDD.sys file is missing, and the error in the config.sys file (error...
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    Driver melt down

    I had a very odd thing happen and was hoping someone could give me some direction as to what happened and how to fix it. Running an Asrock K7SBX onboard sound, with 98SE, etc etc.... I notice on startup the message that the ALIHDD.sys file is missing, and the error in the config.sys file (error...