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Tried the new v. of WinMX? It has the ability to find more sources, like Kazaa & they've added an hours column for estimated times [especially useful for those on dialup ].

Quote: Have you ever seen the code FrontPage produces? It can barely be called HTML... I'm not exactly a black-belt in html-fu, I prefer something GUI based with the option to do minor HTML tweaks as & when needed, but I have noticed some oddities in FPXP-prodiced html - though I think you're exagerating a tad when you say it's hardly recognisable.

Quote: And who said the PC will catch up with the xbox in 6 months... I thought the Xbox was only a P3 733, with a GF3? or have I been mislead?

You don't really need to - I've never used it. What I do when installing new drivers for my Radeon [you're supposed to uninstall the old ones 1st] is uninstall them 1st, then install the new ones with out rebooting, then reboot. I've found it works ok for other hardware in XP as well. So in your case, you could uninstall the driver for the card that was in the system originally, shutdown & power off, put the new card in & power up. When Windows boots up it should see that there's a new card & do it's found new hardware bit @ which stage it may well install MS's drivers for the card [will most likely ask for the Windows CD unless U keep the install files on the HDD]. I'm guessing @ that bit as I always install from HDD [faster than installing from CD, plus saves you having to hunt around for the CD if Windows ever asks for it], but if it does ask you for the windows CD or the driver CD I would assume you could just cancel it, then run the install prog for the drivers. If you do have it set up like me [install files copied onto HDD] then wait til [if] it installs the MS v. of the drivers, then uninstall them [without rebooting], then install the drivers you want to use & reboot. Job done [hopefully ].

Yeah, can we? Please?

& if we're talking about positive points of students there's also the fact that plenty of them are female, & the warmer the weather gets the less they wear.

Quote: Frontpage blows goats and the web will be much better off if everyone quit using it. Why? It could be worse, @ least it's not made by Adobe. Now GoLive, there's a prog that knows how to really satisfy your average affection-starved goat!

1 prob with Cambridge - too many bloody students!!! LOL

Ah, so you mean you want p0rno avatars only then?

It does sound good, however it would need video capture as well for me to even consider it.

Quote: Paul's Unofficial Abit FAQ explains all about that Abit PCI-Irq Table. "What on earth is the interrupt pin assignment table in the manual all about?!": http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kg7kr7/bios.htm I'm glad I didn't see that 1st as it's more confusing than the thing I found buried on Abit's site, but thanks anyway. Quote: Take note that most Asus motherboard have an Asic for control of PCI sharing activated only by enabling PnP OS in the Bios. Ummm, yeah, but I only just bought an Abit - I won't be buying a new mobo for quite a while, unless I win the lottery. Quote: 1394a (i.e. "Firewire", "I-Link") as network solution with Internet Cable Modem plus USB2 and ADS USB Turbo Quad bring a clear slowdown on ACPI. Good thing I don't have any of them then, ain't it? Well, I do have a cable modem - a Motorola Surfboard 3100, but it uses good old ordinary ethernet. Quote: These tools go far to solve the lack of sufficient IRQs. Standard PC is then more efficient and recovers the one Gigabyte HD space otherwise lost to hiberfile.sys. Ummm, it's only 1GB if you have 1GB of RAM, I only have 384MB. Besides, I want hibernation capability, & even if I didn't, or desperately needed the extra space it's a lot simpler to just go to Control Panel -> Power Options -> Hibernation & uncheck the box marked "Enable Hibernation", & you don't even need to reboot when enabling/disabling it.

I don't know of anywhere in the UK that does TB/SC cards, I've checked all the usual places I deal with & they only do Creative, Videologic, Terratec, Hercules, Diamond, & Guillemot. I won't be going with Videologic again, that's for sure! Besides, apparently Creative have a 30 day satisfaction guarantee in addition to the normal faults guarantee/warranty/whatever. Edit: I forgot to mention, I saw an Abit AU10 mentioned somewhere as well, but so far I think the Audigy OEM v. still looks a good bet, especially as I can send it back if I don't like it.

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Cheers, I'll check it out. I know there were probs between the SB Live series & KT7 series boards, & even with KT7A series, but that was [so I've heard & read] fixed with a BIOS update, & mine came with a BIOS that was newer than that BIOS patch anyway. I built a system for a friend last year with a KT7A [non RAID & not sure what v. #] & put a Live 5.1 Player in it & it works fine. so hopefully CL &/or Abit &/or VIA have got their collective acts together. Just had a chat/conference with someone from CL tech support via their website & they told me that they're "not aware of any incompatibilities" with my mobo, which is nice. However, 1 thing that did bother me a bit was: Quote: In order to install sb. audigy first you need to install drivers, software for win.2k and then run the patch for win.xp from our web site I think it sucks that you have to install the 2K driver 1st, & that they don't offer a complete download of the driver for XP, only an update. I remember reading that this was something to do with bandwidth on their server or whatever & the size of the patch, but having looked @ the stuff on the download page & from installing a CL card on someone else's system before the only thing I'd want is the drivers, not all the other crap.

What alternatives would you suggest? I'm rather reluctant to go with Videologic again as this is the 2nd card from them that I've had probs with - haven't had any CL cards yet. Please bear in mind that I can't really afford to spend more than the cost of that Audigy. I was planning on getting that Audigy [though not for a few weeks yet, sadly] from Overclockers.co.uk, & I was thinking that if I fone them beforehand & specifically ask them if there would be any problems using it with a KT7A-RAID v1.3 & XP & they say that it should be fine & it then turns out to be problematic then I could send it back.

Or, if you wanna get really paranoid, could this be MS's attempt to scare ppl off of doing it? LOL, just kidding - would be funny if it was though.

Depends on the Media, & ppl's preferences. My preferences are: MP3 - Winamp watching stuff that's more than just a couple of minutes long, eg stuff I've recorded - Power DVD XP 4 for short video clips or just to preview stuff - the older version of Media Player [mplayer2.exe] as it's basic & loads quicker.

I figured it out eventually, not that it did me much good - made no difference @ all. Tried moving cards around according to what slots share IRQs with each other & so on to get it on its own & managed to get it on the right IRQ in the BIOS, but that didn't help. Did the thing in device Manager to switch to a Standard PC [instead of ACPI] so that windows reports IRQ useage the same as the BIOS, but that makes no difference either, well, actually that's not strictly true - it made the problem a bit worse, Now, if the sound goes the system sometimes freezes up which is a less dramatic version of what my SV2 used to do with old mobo [used to lock the system & black-screen]. I've also updated to the latest BIOS [incase anyone else has a KT7A (RAID or non-RAID) version 1.3, there's a new BIOS out - 8T]. No change from that, nor from the latest VIA 4-in1 betas. Oh well, I think my system's probably in a bit of a mess "under the hood" now after all this fiddling, so am gonna reinstall. <sarcasm>Oh what fun!</sarcasm> Unless doing the fresh reinstall solves the issue then it looks like I'll be in the market for a new soundcard. Will probably go for an Audigy, £55.28 [inc VAT & delivery] for the OEM version doesn't sound too bad I guess.

I use both [Kazaa Lite & WinMX] Oh, & it's [WinMX] not just like Napster used to be, it's much better!

Errrmmm... That's not exactly what I meant. I know that it's a more awkward way of assigning IRQs to PCI slots, but what I don't understand is how to use that table to figure out how to make a spcific PCI slot use a specific IRQ. I don't know why Abit [or Award, if it was their idea] would chose to do it this way instead of the "PCI no. X use IRQ Y" way.

Have denied it server permission now in ZA - problem solved [hopefully].

I'd forgotten that my mobo does [or so it seems] have the ability to allocate specific IRQs to specific PCI slots. The reason I forgot about it before is well... I've seen the ability/function to do this in the BIOS's of other mobos & the way it was done was nice & simple: PCI no. X use IRQ Y Anyone care to guess which way of doing this Abit didn't use? Yup, that's right - the simple 1. The reason I forgot about my KT7A-RAID v1.3 [supposedly] having this ability is that when I tried to wrap my head around the explanation of it in the manual I ended up tying my brain in knots! Here's what it says: Quote: PIRQ_0 Use IRQ No. ~ PIRQ_3 Use IRQ No.: Eleven options are available: Auto, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15. Default setting is Auto. This item allows the system to automatically specify the IRQ number for the device installed on PCI slots. Which means, the system can specify the fixed IRQ number for the device installed on the PCI slots (PCI slot 1 to PCI slot 6). ....<snipped part explaining why you might want to use this function> So far, so good - normal straight-forward stuff, right? So then there's this: Quote: For the relations between the hardware layout of PIRQ (the signals from VIA VT82C686A chipset), INT# (means PCI slot IRQ signals) and devices, please refer to the table below: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |_____SIGNALS____ | Slot 1 | Slot 2| Slot 3 | Slot 4 | Slot 5| Slot 6 | | PIRQ_0 Assignment | INT A | INT B | INT B | INT D | INT C | INT D | | PIRQ_1 Assignment | INT B | INT D | INT A | INT A | INT D | INT B | | PIRQ_2 Assignment | INT C | INT C | INT D | INT B | INT A | INT C | | PIRQ_3 Assignment | INT D | INT A | INT C | INT C | INT B | INT A | USB used INT D Each PCI slot has four INT#s (INT A~INT D), and the AGP slot has two INT#S (INT A and INT . WTF??? Can anyone explain that in plain & simple English please?

Oh, right, that makes things a little clearer as a friend of mine had it & was raving on about it when he 1st got it - not my sorta thing though.

I know that the file protection thing is there for a reason, & I don't want to disable it entirely, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that you can stop it from protecting specific files or folders - does anyone happen to know how? I decided to have a rummage in my windows folder, to see what I could get rid of & came accross that Tours thing in c:\windows\help - had a look @ it just to double check what it was, decided I didn't want it & tried to delete it, only to be told that I couldn't, seemingly because of 1 file : C:\WINDOWS\Help\tours\mmtour\tour.exe. So, I deleted the rest of the stuff in the c:\windows\tours folder & subfolders, which freed up about 24-25MB, but I still couldn't get rid of that 1 file. I eventually managed to get rid of it in Safe Mode, but when I rebooted back into normal Windows it had recreated the folder C:\WINDOWS\Help\tours\mmtour [which I had deleted in Safe Mode], though it hadn't put the file itself back. Where is the info about what files & folders to protect kept?

LOL, in this case it's just a couple of empty folders that I've managed to delete everything out of, it just bugs me that I can't delete the folders as well.