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hard drive SATA question

Posted on 2014-07-04, 02:11

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I have yet to activate my new XP box because I know once I do I am "stuck" with that configuration. One my my last issues is the.......hard drive. It currently has a ST340016A (40-gigabute). Old reliable - I probably have 10-12 of these drives and have bot had one fail. But a tad small. The MB is an …

Re: What does this dream mean?

Posted on 2014-07-03, 02:37

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My experience has been that if you are working on something technical right up until you go to bed then you are going to have nightmares about it. A long time ago I developed the habit of reading a fiction book for an hour before going to bed (unfortunately I now have enough paperback books to stock …

where to go from here?

Posted on 2014-07-03, 02:22

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The last computer I built was an Athlon XP2600+ running Windows XP. The question is - where do I go from here? I definitely want to more forward, not backward (got enough retro machines). I want to go with Intel and I have become partial to Asus and I was looking at their P5 boards. Then I realized …

Re: Old computers for daily tasks?

Posted on 2014-06-14, 20:07

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I do. I have a nice S370 pentium III 650 megahertz system with dual 40-gigabyte drives, voodoo3, and AWE64 gold that I use for everyday work. I have some athlon 2 - gigahertz systems but I only get those out of I want to do rendering or encoding 😀

Re: usb drive turning on and off

Posted on 2014-06-03, 21:41

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Thanks for the reply! I think I found the problem. I noticed the BIOS was giving me an error message in the power section... the +5 volt supply was down to 4.46 volts. I put in a different supply and it seems to have fixed the problem. This may also explain some of the other problems I was having …

usb drive turning on and off

Posted on 2014-06-03, 16:34

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Could someone shed some light on this? I have a seagate goflex drive that is turning itself on and off under XP - it won't even stay on long enough to recognize the drive. My first guess was a power problem - maybe it trying to draw more than the port can supply. My second guess is something windows …

Re: would appreciate any feedback :(

Posted on 2014-05-17, 01:52

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Actually problem solved! I used an EARLIER version of the catalyst program (which apparently doesn't require .NET). Once I was able to run smartgart I could see that the AGP was OFF. I tried the VIA AGP driver and this time I was able to install it, and everything was fine after that. Doesn't ATI …

Re: would appreciate any feedback :(

Posted on 2014-05-16, 01:38

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Well I solved a FEW of the problems... I installed SP3 and the .NET framework and suddenly I was able to install Catalyst - did not realize it was a requirement (nice of them to say it). I then realized that AGP texture acceleration was enabled. Okay maybe it was fixed. But it is STILL failing the …

would appreciate any feedback :(

Posted on 2014-05-14, 01:50

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I would appreciate any feedback on this - have been pulling my hair out for two days System = a7v600 motherboard, athlon xp2600+ cpu, 2 gigs crucial RAM, windows XP Problem = AGP texturing not enabled. Direct draw and D3D work fine - even played through Unreal 2 on it before I even realized there …

Re: windows media player skipping

Posted on 2014-05-12, 22:15

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HELP I think I have found the culprit, or another problem. Under directX test AGP memory sharing is not enabled. If install the VIA AGP driver then it becomes enabled, but the direct3D tests fail with an "out of memory" error. At this point I could not recover the system and had to reinstall …

windows media player skipping

Posted on 2014-05-10, 17:49

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I have run into a problem on my newly setup XP box..... the media player sometimes skips when playing video and mp3 files. I tied fooling around with the buffer settings, even the hardware rendering, but nothing fixed. Then I realize it was version 8.1 and was behind what I had been running on win98 …

Re: I Like to introduce myself :)

Posted on 2014-05-04, 11:38

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Welcome to you, Peter Jørgensen. Long live DOS! Death to Windows! - That was my feeling back in the day. I was a "reluctant convert" to the modern OS you might say. More like kicking and screaming was more like it. Eventually, I went along... but I have always had a soft spot in my heart for the …

Re: windows xp box

Posted on 2014-05-03, 11:49

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Well if anyone is interested.... I got my copy of XP and it is up abd running!!!!!!!!! This was my first experience with XP. I did have some trouble - it did not want to boot from the XP CD, nor did it want to install from my win98 boot disk. I had to install it from win98 itself. Actually I am very …

athlon hardware on ebay

Posted on 2014-04-26, 12:47

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Is it just me, or is there a lot of cheap Athlon hardware on Ebay right now? At the same time, it seems like the Pentium3 stuff is getting more scarce and expensive

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