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OK, so I work for a local POS company and at one time we used these boxes with XP Embedded for the client side OS. Well these are actually nice little boxes, they are based on the C3 cpu and of course that means the VIA chipset too with the crappy onboard graphics. Well, I've already swapped out the small Compact Flash with a 1GB module as they have a nice CF -> IDE adapter and swapped out the single 256MB memory module for a 512MB stick. I also installed Windows 98-SE and my final thought is to swap out the dual-port serial card with a better graphics card. Since it's also quite small, form factor wise, it does come with a special PCI riser card for a single PCI card, however, it's not deep enough for me to install my old Voodoo 5-5000 into, the card is to long to fit, haha.... I do have another one however, an old Radeon 7000/7200 with 64MB on it. But of course I was looking to be able to play some older DOS based Glide Games on it as well I thought I also had an older VooDoo 3 model which maybe short enough to fit like the Radeon does, but I can't seem to locate it anywhere Does anybody know some online vendors that still have some new/used parts like this ?!?

Nice tip there, thanks for the post

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So does anybody have any experience with using the /3GB switch with Windows 2000 Pro ?!? I recently added a pair of matching 1GB memory modules to my file server running just Win 2K Pro and not any of the server flavors. I've read some info on these switches to help with allocating more User Mode Application Memory space but everything seems to point to using only the Server flavors. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks

Thanks for the info, I was going to try the /3GB switch to see if it made any difference or not. If I run into any issues I can always take it out...

I hate replying to myself but I guess nobody has ever used that switch or it's not functional under Windows 2000 Pro ?!? I did read that the switch is there for the server flavors of Windows 2000 but nothing is mentioned about the desktop OS.

I do believe that Partition Magic can do this, however, it's a third party retail app so if you are looking for low/no-cost I wouldn't know where to refer you to

Check here for the latest Vista drivers for your Silicon Image SATA controller. Another possible solution is to use a third party controller like those from Promise or Adaptec, or if price is no object get a higher end 3ware card

I would also think that cost per GB of HDD storage space is small too since the pricing keeps dropping on these things

When you get an OS error message/dialog box, it's best to press the CTRL + PrtScn key to copy the screenie into the Clipboard, then open Paint/MSpaint and paste that screenie into a new document. Be sure to save as a JPG format as the default is BMP for Paint Then you can edit the screenie to show only the error/dialog box and nothing else.

This should work, I would first however d/l and install the latest video drivers for you current graphics card, also make sure you have the latest Chipset/INF drivers for your motherboard as well as all current patches and such for the OS. After this find and d/l the latest drivers for that PCI card and have them ready to installe. You should be able to install that PCI card and boot up into your OS and install those drivers you have just d/l for it. Now, of course the fun in managing the desktop and monitors connected to each card You may have to play around with these settings to get things to work properly however.

Most likely it will just clock the speed of that memory stick down to the FSB of your CPU, either DDR200 or DDR266. However, check on ASUS's website first and verify that you have the latest BIOS/FIRMWARE installed for you model motherboard. This usually helps with any possible timing issues when using faster then spec'd memory modules

Nope, 50C is fine, in fact on the cooler side for either GPU's or CPU's. Now, it's possible that there was some thermal damage already done to the GPU on your graphics card that would cause this as wll. However, you would have to have another graphics card to test this out and see. As for the PS Unit, OCZ makes some fine products so I would think this wouldn't be the cause of the lockups, and the fact that you mention both games and 3D apps that tax the GPU heavily, this may indeed indicate that the issue is the graphics card.

I'm going to say the issue may indeed lye with the PS Unit in your chassis/case. What is the make/model of this unit ?!? Could be one or more of the 12v rails is not able to provide enough current/power to the graphics card and the rest of the system so after awhile it freezes up. This will happen more often then not during gameplay as this is really taxing the overall system resources and power needs.

Then either the sensor really isn't there are the sensor is sending incorrect readings back to the app. I would suggest sending this information to ASrock and see if the motherboard sensor/sensors are properly supported by the app.

Since you have passive cooling on the northbridge I would think that the only way to verify this is to try a different graphics card and see if that same sensor reads the same temp or not. This will then tell us if it related to the graphics card or not. Another thing to note is that most passive coolers have thermal tape instead of a nice thin layer of thermal transfer compound. It's possible that this tape is not working so good and hence the reason that sensor is reading high. Could also mean the the sensor is not relaying the correct information back too, hard to say until you can determine what the sensor is supposed to be reading

This could be the GPU sensor but I'm kind of thinking it maybe the NORTHBRIDGE chipset sensor instead. Do you perchance have a passive or active cooling solution for your chipset on the motherboard ?!?

If that's the case then you may need to get a seperate PCI TV Tuner card instead.

Since it's a full Video Card along with a TV Tuner, then try removing your nVidia graphics card for testing purposes to verify that it is not somehow interfering with the ATi drivers. You will need to uninstall the nVidia drivers and reboot the machine to test this as well.

This sounds like a Malware issue, do you have another machine that you can d/l some apps like Spybot - S & D, AdAware PE and the like ?!? It would be interesting to note if this same thing occurs if you go into safe mode or disconnect the network cable from your ISP.

That is an older GPU, the Rage 128 chipset. Have you tried to download the latest drivers for that GPU yet from ATi ??? See if there are later versions of the base driver set, the wdm drivers and for the MMC apps.

If it's a standard analog mic/headset combo, then make sure that the mic input is not muted and turned up a bit so the input signal is louder. Also, are you using the onboard sound or a third-party sound card ?!? If you are using the onboard sound and the front-panel jacks then they should be connected properly to the motherboard, but not always OK, I just looked and THIS MODEL headset is a USB type. So it's possible that the drivers for it need to be tweaked. However I would go to their website and make sure you have the latest device drivers for it installed on your machine

There you go, I was wondering about power and you have resolved this yourself too

Apps like Alcohol, Daemon-Tools, Disc Juggler et.al. do indeed install a virtual device driver that can be used to mount disc images onto, this is how they work and why they show up like they do.

A faulty stick of memory could be causing issues like this but also random BSOD's and/or freezing/lockups would be occuring as well.