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You have an AGP port on your board, so you won't be using PCI-E cards. I shop here, and there's the list of AGP cards that ncix sells. AGP Cards Personally, I'm a fan of EVGA cards, and the 7600GS at $155 Canadian is a good price. If you want something to tide you over until you do a full system upgrade, the 7600 series of AGP cards will do the trick for now. There's no point in spending much more than $100 to $140 American on a vidcard for your system. Before you ask, AGP cards that state they are "AGP 8X" will work in your AGP 2X/4X slot, so that's not a problem. ***EDIT*** Alternatively if the main board is not up to the task of supporting the newer graphics cards I'll build a new system. So I need some guidance here. Also is it generally cheaper to build up your own system from components or buy a complete customized system from a vendor? The 7600 is a newer card, PCI-E actually, but it uses a "bridge" so it will work in an AGP slot. What slows the card down is the AGP slot itself, it's just not as fast as the PCI-Express slot. Basically, a 7600 AGP, although it's the same card, will not be as fast as a 7600 PCI-E due to having to use the AGP slot. In general, building your own system is cheaper than buying a pre-built system, plus you can build it to meet your specific needs. You want a gaming system, you buy gaming/performance components. Building your first system can be kinda nerve racking, you want to make sure you get all the right stuff. Not a prob, there are plenty of people in here willing to help. Gives you a sense accomplishment when you complete your first build and it boots, it's your build, and it didn't come in a box that looks like cowhide.

I have F15 Strike Eagle III and it runs like crap on XP, messed up screens/views, graphics suck, it doesn't recognize my vidcard as it's too new, and the game is too old. When I finally got it sorta running the graphics sucked, I remembered them being really sweet, and they probably were in their day, but they suck now. Same with TFX Experimental Fighter, excellent graphics in their day, but are really sad now. Only flight game that still has fairly decent graphics, that I know of, is TAW Total Air War. Even the last patch for SE III didn't solve my probs, so if you do find this game, I think you'll be disappointed. There are so many games that I've wanted to play again, but once I see the graphics, I laugh at myself, hard to believe that at one time I thought these graphics were awesome.

Yuppers score the ones dated 2006/01/18, they're the latest.

Hmmm, I'm using IE7, but should be the same... Click "Tools/Internet Options/Content", then click the "settings" button beside "AutoComplete", and thar ya go.

Seems to me you have one screwed up combin of RAM there, like what do you have, four slots, with a 256/128/64/32MB combo? That's gotta be some old RAM, and my guess is some of it is dying. Try pulling everything but the stick of 256, see if it's okay. If it still screws up, pull the 256 and drop in the 128, then keep trying combins until it works. If anything is faulty, I'd guess the 64MB stick, and the 32MB, they'd be the oldest of the bunch.

Unless there is a problem, there is no need to reboot XP on a regular basis. I doubt you'll find a tech article or white paper telling you to reboot XP when it gets screwed up, that's just obvious. If your boss can't figure that out, maybe he ought to be out front parking cars instead of running a call center.

You have an answer to this over in the EVGA forums.

I'd suggest pulling the RAM and reseating it, but before you do that, try another wall outlet in the house, sometimes that's the problem, too much draw on the circuit the outlet is hooked into.

First off, lemme say the guy is most likely full of shit. Secondly, I doubt he has any program installed on that second HDD to watch her computer, that would be easily detectable with just about any firewall out there. Thirdly, all she has to do is boot up with her XP CD, and then format the HDD. Hell, she doesn't need the XP CD, just download a bootdisk from bootdisk.com, and wipe the HDD. Last, but not least, the guy is probably a foching moron, and enabled remote assistance on her XP installation, and being nothing more than a dork, he figures he can say he's a hacker. The dork doesn't even rate "script kiddie" status, I piss in his Corn Flakes.

Lessee... you moved. Before the move, the computer was fine, now it isn't. Have you tried pulling the RAM then reseating it? Have you tried pulling your vidcard and reseating it? Have you tried pulling every single connector from your PSU and re-connecting them? My guess is that something shook loose during the move. If a known working HDD won't work in your system, it's probably not the HDD. Look for loose connections.

Good linkage, props dude.

I have no idea if any of these are for your camera, but this is all I could find... http://www.minton.com.tw/english/main.php?Navi=Driver

Very easy... Set BIOS to boot from the CD drive the XP CD is in/will be in, insert the CD, boot the system... Eventually you will come to a screen that says XP is already installed on your system, and you'll be asked if you want to install another instance of XP. There'll be a few options there, choose to format your HDD. Then you can begin the long and boring process of installing XP. After that, you can begin the even longer and more boring process of installing service packs and updates. Finally, after multiple reboots, you can start setting everything back to where it was before. As for partitions, that's basically dividing your HDD into different areas, you can have a separate area to run another OS, or just for storage, or whatever. Personally, unless you are running two operating systems, I see no reason to partition your HDD. Others may disagree, but that's what makes life interesting.

Try the 3 finger salute, ctrl+alt+del and see what you have running in the background, possibly you have a program that updates at regular intervals. You are running an AVP, right?

Have you tried shutting down your email program before going on standby? Could be that everytime it checks your email, your computer wakes up because you access the net.

What gef4000 mx means is this: go to your laptop manufacturer's website, download the chipset drivers for your motherboard. Uninstall your old drivers/soundcard, reboot. Install the new drivers for for your chipset/soundcard, reboot. Hopefully, that fixes the prob.

Originally Posted By: Cormac Have you ever defragged your hard drive? Add in; Start/Programs/Accessories/Sytem Tools/Disk Cleanup ? Also, go to "My Computer", right click your HDD, click "properties", and does it actually show you have a 60GB HDD with only 1GB left?

Upgrade to XP, '98 is obsolete, and Micro$haft doesn't support it anymore. Basically, don't count on any kind of support for '98 from M$, which includes WMP 9. Seriously, you have to upgrade your OS...

Originally Posted By: Cormac You realise you resurected a 3 year old thread? I figure this thread will never die, as long as we are running processes in our computers. My question is this; how do people find these old threads? Personally, I figure if there hasn't been a post in a thread for 3 months, tops, it should just be deleted. Not my server, but man man, why keep all this crapola in the database? How's the defrag doin? Heh heh heh

OEM's can be sold with hardware in Canada too. Heh, for kicks I placed an order with a certain Canadian company that ONLY had XP and a heavy-duty cardboard shipping box. It went through. I cancelled of course, but it did prove that large companies get away with a lot of BS. Most places will sell you a copy of OEM XP with a freakin USB cable, they just don't care, nor does M$. Only prob with the OEM version is that you have to lie to M$ when you upgrade. Swap out a mobo, when you go to reactivate you tell them your mobo blew up. They reactivate XP for you. Tell them you upgraded, they say buy a new copy. What a sick and sad joke. > Explains why a lot people, even those with legit copies of XP, just go the, ahem, "un-legit" way of "activating" XP.

Or if you can boot into safe mode, run an AVP on it, could have been bit by a virus/malware.

Yeah, I agree with Samson, nothing wrong with SP2, my system is rock solid stable, and I overclock everything in it.

Originally Posted By: jarves hello, can somebody help me out? my windows XP is not genuine and everytime i log in to windows, a dialog box would come out giving me 2 choices, either to get a genuine one or to resolve it later. can somebody help me how can i remove this annoying windows message? on the lower right, there is a portion there saying that my windowsXP is not genuine. can somebody help me how to restore it to its normal state? tnx... To restore Windo$e to its normal state, buy the Windo$e XP CD, install it, register it, and all will be well. If you want illegal advice, go to cracks/hackme.com, heh heh heh.

Yes, "cord off for 30 minutes" means leave the cord off/batteries out for 30 minutes. I've seen people complain that when they clear their CMOS it doesn't fix anything. They pull the battery/move the jumper, but don't unplug from the wall. See the wee LED's on the mobo all lit up? That's power going to the mobo. Turn off all power, pull all cords, allow the system to sit that way for 30 minutes, then power back up.

After starting out on DOS, then going through Window$ 3.11/95/98/2000, I'd have to say that XP is the most stable version Micro$haft ever produced. From what I've read so far, Vista is going to be a huge memory hawg, and personally, I wouldn't touch it until the first service pack is released. We all know there will be service packs, heh.