paul_h_amiga

SWEET! May as well buy XP Pro then, and not worry at all!!

I read about the problems that People have with the Socket A motherboards, and it mainly boiled down to the VIA Chipsets. This concerns me for the future. Which would be the best choice for stablity above all else, or would I be better off going all the way and getting a P4 with matching board (that has to support DDR Ram, I don't wanna pay out for yet more RAM!!) Cheers ya'all

Well these posts were a fair response, and too be honest some surprised me, ripping a dvd while playing Wolfenstein? Geez....

I didn't know the license applied to ealier versions of windows NT (well, 2000 and NT) as well. When I asked MS, they said you need a separate license for each OS.

It seems that whenever a new graphics card, sound system or whatever comes out I see a lot of posts on forums (not just this one) saying that they simply have to have them becuase it is a tiny bit faster than what they have now be it a the ATI Washing powder or the Nvidia Geforce. I recently got the Geforce 4 Ti 4600, because of upcoming releases such as Doom III and Unreal II which would be better played on such a card rather than the Geforce 2 GTS which inhabited my system, and which was serving me very well, right up to the very end. I really had to spend some money over the last year or so as the Celeron 500 system I had for 2 years was no longer cutting it. That really is my only reason, and what I have now will siut me for a long time yet it seems. My Question is this: Why is everyone so obsessed with having the very latest kit when there is nothing that will take advantage for a long time to come?

Anyone know of a program that ups the default 60Hz Refresh rate for the 28.30 Drivers for Geforce 2 GTSs, the old Program that I have (Nvidia Refresh Rate Fixer) No longer works. Cheers

yep I checked those settings and they were set to the DMA Mode.

"Did you ever feel like we're just playing fox and the hounds with these machines?" Yep, except if there were never any problems, where would the fun be!! Cheers for those links I will give them a go, I don't see how there could be lack of memory as 512MB should be more than enough! I do have a nagging feeling about The Video overlay, but the geforce 2 gts should be more than enough to play it back shouldn't it?

I have one of the older cases which doesn't have a fan next the CPU/heatsink. The temperature inside is worrying at times, I must admit, which is why I am getting one of those coolercase cases from Overclockers.co.uk, so maybe if it is the heat, then hopefully that will get it sorted. as for the DVDs, It does happen at the same sort of areas. but is seems that any fast mving struff as as credits etc, are blurred.

It is one of those round IDE cables, and they are ATA100. I assume it is a 40 pin cable.

Hey no worries mate, I will remain calm at all times. GOD DAMN IT! The way i have it setup is that, as you have said, the DVD Drive is the Master Drive and the Plextor is the slave. I have no problems with the Plextor drive, far from it gives great performance. I am using the latest 4.38V Via Drivers, and also I have already flashed the BIOS with the latest update from ABIT. (The motherboard which I failed to mention before is the KG7-Lite, and in all honesty I was thinking about the KG7-RAID Version so I could have the DVD and CD-Writer on Separate IDE Connections but of course I need cash way before I do that.) but I want to find a way of not really having to resort to spending more money than I have to first. I have thought about the display set at 32-bit and 16 bit, but still the problem remains. Cheers

Well gang here goes nothing!! I'm using PowerDVD 4, The drive in Question is a Pioneer DVD-106S Drive. The DVD Playback is strange in that it seems to be missing a few frames or frames get blurred together for a second. This is most noticeable on Futrarama or other animation. But it is fine when I view real-life? DVDs such as Monty Python or Three Kings. I have tried setting the UDMA setting's using PowerDVD's System Diagnostic but when I reboot it says it has failed, although in the Device Manager It says it is set to UDMA Mode. This confuses me. I have tried another OS (winXP and it is the same in that. I have tried WinDVD 3 and still the problem persists? Any solutions you can provide would a great peace of mind. Cheers y'all.

Yep but it didn't acutally say anything about OpenGL and any shape or form.

Does anyone know about the full specs of the Advent Laptop 5480 DVD and indeed where the manufactorer's web site is? Also I want to know about the SIS 630 Graphics i.e. does it support OpenGL or other 3D?

HOW MUCH ARE THEY?