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Yep, pretty much what DosFreak said, try to narrow down the possible cause and run diagnostics, especially the memory ones just to see if you are having problems there.

Nope, not anymore I'm afraid. Everything produced now a days uses what is called Bus Mastering and devices are supposed to share IRQ's nicely. This doesn't always mean that will happen however Also the OS will not help either as it uses the Extended BIOS features to support higher then 15 IRQ's now, hence the reason you see devices under the OS using IRQ20 etc.... I would look at the following components: 1) Memory 2) CPU 3) PS Unit Use something like Ultimate Boot CD to run Memtest and Prime and check the onboard voltages using the motherboard monitoring software. Hopefully you will be able to give your machine enought Felaxan or Petromalt to cough up that hairball and get it working once again and purring like a kitten

Most online games will say what kind of speed they require, like a 768k DSL or faster type connection for instance. Check the back or bottom of the game box for details, it should state what it requires. Since I only use my PS3 for a BluRay player, I'm afraid I can't really say for sure, the couple of games I have I only use for local play. I do use the PlayStation @ Home (Folding @ Home) Client and of course it runs fine on my connection but then again I have a Comcast 16Mb connection.

Which build are you using ??? The original 7000 build ??? One thing you could try in safe mode, open control panel and the User Accounts and add another user and see if that profile loads properly. If so, make sure it's a local administrator and then logon using that account. You may have to delete and recreate the original account as it maybe corrupted. Since you have a bunch of save dumps too, could also be related to that issue which in turn has corrupted the os and in turn the user profile.

Originally Posted By: Myke Well, with that being said, I pose another question: With the provided article even stating that the video card does feed off of the onboard RAM, and the memory hole also sucking some of the potential RAM from the system, could I add (say) 5 GB of RAM to my system, whereby the memory hole and video card and use up some of the onboard RAM, which would allow the OS to use a full 4 GB? I have a Phenom x4 CPU and nVidia GeForce 8500 GT (silent running) on a Biostar board with an nVidia chipset (everything is new, less than a few months old). By what you have stated, my machine should be able to deal with it, but my 32-bit OS can only handle 4 GB. If the answer is no, then how much of a pain would it be to upgrade from a 32-bit to a 64-bit OS? Is it a clean install or a simple upgrade? Thanks to both of you for your responses, as they've been very helpful in aiding me in my understanding of this topic. If you are referring to a Windows OS flavor, I can't say I've ever tried to upgrade from a 32-bit version to a 64-bit version. I always setup a new HDD or partition and install the new OS there and migrate and data files I need over to the new install. This also allows me to dual-boot if neccessary into the older 32-bit version.

Yeah, pretty much what dosfreak says, for an example I will give you my scenario: I have an older Dual-Xeon motherboard based around the older Intel D875P Chipset along with the 6300 SB for I/O. Now this was a good chipset in it's day but only supported the older DDR1 memory type up to 4GB total, which is what I have installed. I'm using a 64-bit Xeon CPU but when I read the POST message it only shows about 3.4GB available when it shows I have 4GB installed. Well with that chipset and so many others including the Intel D915/945 they were limited to a max of 4GB, but anywheres between 3.2~3.5GB could be mapped for the OS to use. So even if you have a 64-bit OS like I do, it doesn't matter if the chipset is limited to how can be mapped. Now for my gaming rig I use an MSI 790FX chipset by AMD along with a Phenom X4 CPU and Windows Vista Business 64-bit Edition which I dual boot with Windows 7 BETA 64-bit Edition. I have 8GB of DDR2 memory installed and it can see the entire amount. Many of the current motherboard chipsets from Intel, AMD and nVidia can address 8GB or 16GB. The Intel X58 for the new Core i7 CPU's I think can address up to 24GB of memory which is great for users that want to do a lot of video and/or graphics work, not just gaming, that falls under a different category as games need to evolve to 64-bit platforms to really take advantage of the added memory space

A 0x8E seems to indicate some ram issues, take a look at this Microsoft KB search for more information. It found 25 matches but I think the top finds are most likely going to help you. I would recommend getting Ultimate Boot CD and burning it to a disc and running that. Then from the menu select Motherboard Diagnostics and Memtest and see if this finds any faulty memory sticks.

You appear to have a D945G based motherboard, most came with a single 16x, PCIe slot for Graphics Cards. You should check with your motherboard manual or the manual that came with your machine to verify this. If so, then there are a ton of good and cheap entry level graphics cards that will work in a PCIe slot. Many of these cards will also support DX10 or even DX10.1 which is backwards compatible with DX9 apps. That should take care of any gaming issues that require a lot more graphics horsepower then the onboard vga supports, however, if you still get random crashes to desktop, this could be an issue with the game itself, you will have to check with the game publisher to make sure. As for the RAM, most of these same chipset motherboards had 4 DIMM slots, you appear to have the first channel populated with a pair of 256MB Modules. Since DDR2 memory kits are just dirt cheap, there is no reason not to get a matched 2GB kit to populate the remaining 2 slots. This chipset supports up to 4GB of RAM so you will have a machine that is fully populated with 2.5GB of Physical memory if you do this upgrade. Good Luck

Originally Posted By: DosFreak AFAIK, the latest versions install fine in 9x. I installed the NOV 08 Redist in 9x last week. Ask here to make sure: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=8 Hmm, I tried to do this and received an error message stating I didn't have a supported OS I will test it out once agian just in case....

Since I don't see a specific category for this topic, I'm placing it under SOFTWARE. If any mods would like to create a new category for Virtualization talk, then feel free So I decided to download the latest Sun xVM Virtualbox, it's an interesting app and does some neat things with a more current guest OS like Windows 2000 or later or even a Linux Distro. It includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It does run mighty fast on my new Quad-Core system but of course the lack of any native driver support for your host machine graphics card makes for some interesting 16 color VGA display issues... If you intend to run an older Windows based OS like 98/98-SE then have a copy of UniVBE or Display Doctor from SciTech Software handy As a side note, I powered up my old 98-SE box with a Voodoo 5/5500 card and found that there are still some folks out there coding driver packs for these cards, even support Vista x64

Good info Dosfreak, I've read some of your posts over on Vogons too about this very subject. For the moment I've decided to keep using my real hardware box for older gaming as it has a Voodoo 5/5500 PCI card and there are still folks up[censored] driver packs for it

Thanks for the links Philip, but like I mentioned and is mentioned here, using Win98 and/or DOS will not allow any of the Guest Addon's to function It's an interesting idea to have support like this out of the box and perhaps someday it will come to pass. It is interesting to see that my old DOS and Win3.11 Diskette's still function with no signs of bit rot yet

Just a recent purchase for my Pimp Daddy Gaming Rig. MSI K9A2 Platinum Motherboard, ATi/AMD 790FX Chipset AMD Phenom Quad Core, 9850 Black Edition Corsair Dominator, 4GB RAM Kit, DDR2/800 Memory Modules, 2 x 2GB Modules Windows Vista Business, x64 Bit Edition Seagate 500GB, SATA HDD's, ES Models x 2 Now Dual-Booting with XP Pro 64-bit Edition and Vista on two separate HDD's. Amazing how much faster my frame rates are already, Fallout 3 looks fantastic

Adding onto my recent Graphics Card purchase I also did the following: Antec Quad-Power 1KW PS Unit. Trendnet 8-port Gigabit Switch with dozen CAT6 Patch cables of various lengths and colors. And not really something I purchased unless you count the Intel Gigabit PCI NIC, but I was given a Maxspeed Thin Client awhile back for free and created a pfSense VPN Router out of it. If anyone has ever used this distro before then you know it's based on BSD and some Monowall technology. Now I need to tweak it some more

Purchased a BFG 9800GTX w/512MB of frame buffer space for $199.99 at Fry's. Now I need to get an upgrade on my old dedicated sli ps unit which I have on order now, the Thermaltake W0158RU. Apparently these GPU's require around 24~26a of current

So, I'm in a quandary at the moment, I can't really upgrade my SLI Gaming rig as it has the older nForce chipset that only supports around 3GB of memory. So I'm looking at recycling some of my parts and get another MB/CPU combo and reuse the case, graphics cards and such. I will most likely have to upgrade my memory as I can't find any updated Socket 939 motherboards any longer So I'm thinking either another AMD CPU based nForce motherboard or an Intel CPU based model. You can get some pretty cheap models but most seem to be based around the nForce 5xx or 6xx series chipsets. Many of the nForce 7xx series are more expensive then I really want to pay however, some of them like the ASUS models offer their new dedicated Sound Card rather then using the onboard audio codec. Of course I would want to add the new Creative Labs X-Fi Sound Card and upgrade my older 7800 GTX cards when I can. I also want to future proof as much as possible without having to go with the nForce 790 chipset which requires DDR3 memory modules. Any suggestions would be welcome, thanks

Thanks for the info, I was looking at both ATi and nVidia for the GPU and then possibly even the MB Chipset. I settled on getting a piece meal configuration and the clincher was that Fry's now sells the BFG 9800GTX card for $199.99 with a $50.00 mail in rebate. So it looks like either an nVidia 750 or 780 chipset board for me

So I now have dual-booted my File Server using both Windows 2000 Pro and now XP Pro 64-bit. My question is that I want to primarialy use the XP Pro side for most things but I'm wondering if I can just forgo the Win 2k side after moving all my data over and testing all the apps for proper functionality on the 64 bit side of things. So far I've upgraded to the following 64-bit apps: MySql Java SDK These have tested out ok so far but I want to do further testing until the end of the month just to make sure. The other thing I want to do is to upgrade to a full 4GB of ram even though I have 3GB installed already. I will of course need to verify the chipset supports that or if it has a weird memory mapping issue like the 32-bit Windows OS's do. So does anyone else use this OS and if so do you use a full 4GB of memory ?!? Any tips/tricks would be welcome

So, has anybody else used any of these online services for their companies USER and MS SQL data ?!? I've checked out both Iron Mountain and Mozy and they both offer some nice features. I have to wonder if EMC has found a nice revenue stream when they bought Mozy as their pricing seems to be very nice indeed while Iron Mountain charges an arm, a leg and your spinal cord for their services. Pros for Iron Mountain is support for many Linux Distros, however the company I work for doesn't need direct support if we can rsync data from MySql servers over to a share on one of the Windows Servers.

Originally Posted By: Atreyu XP Pro 64 Bit Edition is the best client operating system I've ever used. No problems with any software or drivers with it whatsoever. Stable as heck. If I need any other OS I load it up in a VM. I like VM's but I've got so many extra parts lying about that I just make up a machine if I need it for a certain task

Thanks for the update

I just got back from Fry's and purchased a little something for my birthday... They had the Seagate 750GB, SATA HDD's on sale for $140.00, so I picked up one of these along with a Promise 4-port eSATA/SATA Controller card and a Kingwin External Enclosure that supports USB and eSATA interfaces. That price is so kicking I'm thinking I should pick up one more HDD

This sounds like one or more of the Realtek device drivers has become corrupted. I would first open the Realtek Sound Manager from the Control Panel Applet and then check the Sound Chipset Model and note this version. Then go to Realtek's website to download the correct driver type, it's either the older AC97 or the newer HD Audio CODEC. When you find the correct type for your chipset then download and run the installer. This should require you to reboot the machine and then after the desktop comes back, try it out and see if this resolves the matter

Check out the advanced troubleshooting guide on Microsoft's Website on this error message.

I do not know if this will help or not but have you looked at support site and the Knowledge Base articles yet ?!? CLICKY!!! I have not used their PCIe sound card yet, I wonder if there are some compatibility issues with different motherboards and/or chipsets ?!? Also check out Asus's website as maybe they have tested this card and have some tips as well.