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Quote: [ P.S. The all in wonder cards are a good option for saving PCI slots on video input cards. I haven't actually had the chance to test one out tho. the A-i-w is great. the capture quality is quite good. i have tested some cheap PCI Tuners/Capture cards, they are not worth the price. the quality on TV-Tuner is clearly crap! capturing is a drag on thoes PCI cards also. If you want a PCI capture card that works you have to pull your credits together and buy a Matrox or other proffessional card that will cost more than just buying the a-w-i. (you have to pay for a good video card on top of that too). I just LOVE my ATI all-in-wonder. i have had them since a-i-w 128 pro 32MB (that didn't work that good for capturing. i recommend anything like a-i-w r. 7500 or higher for capturing)

Quote: Quote: i really HATE people who can not admit one product is better then another when simple plain facts and numbers are shown (if u can find fair ones) Nvidia had it's day, now it is ati's turn. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. The FX5200 ultra can beat the 9200, 9100, 9000, 8500 Pro. The FX5600U can beat the R9600Pro. Hell even a ti4200 can beat the R9600pro in some tests. A AUD$400 card being beaten by a AUD$150 card, how funny. ATI fanboys can believe whatever they want but the cold hard fact is in the Radeon range the only cards that I'd look at are the 9700 and 9800 series. You guys are taking it too seriously. Come on, just have fun. buy what you need and that's it. For me i really like my all-in-wonder card. for my brother, he never uses the stuff that i use. he does different things. Just get what's best for you.

Today we have recievd TONS of calls with this problem. Does anybody else is experiencing this? is there any solutions to this problems? non of my computers at work or at home have this problem, but a Large number of our customers are having this problem. they mostly run Winxp Home and some have Kazaa installed and some don't. any suggestions/ information will be appreciated. Edit: Exact same problem, but this time it says "NT Athority" is shutting down your system in **:** min (and there is a count down in all cases).

Quote: Right click My Computer, Click Properties, Hardware Tab, Click Device Manager Under IDE/ATAPI Controllers, click the channel that the drive is on (Primary or Secondary) and it will be listed there under Current Transfer Mode on the Advanced Settings Tab. Mode 5 = ATA100 and Mode 4 = ATA66, 3 = ATA33, etc only problem is mine does not have "Advanced" tab. only General, Drive, and Resources.

Thanks for all the replies we had two disaster falling on us back to back. Mon we discovered the worm that we saw first about two weeks ago. (it seemed to go away for some time, that's why we didn't bother with it). 8) Mon afternoon to Tue evening we were flooded with phone calls about the worm. ;( Wed mornig we could remove the first of them but our firewall got hit with about 50000000 requests per second and our internet connection died! just because of that one computer. Thu we had the major blackout, and we couldn't operate on Fri because of that. and today (SAT) we had to fix 60+ systems that came in for service (95% hit by the worm). ;( i turned on MY computer and there was a crap load of virus on my computer. i have no idea where they came from. ;( I evantually had to formatted it (i have backup of my files !!!!). you could see what a nice week i had! Have a good weekend everyone (what's left of it anyways).

Quote: The new ATI 9200 Cards are out and the 128MB versions are around 70 bucks US. The reviews say they are the best for the money i don't trust the reviews, i test them myself. they are good, but i don't think AGP 8x is doing anything for it. (this is the standard VGA card that they sell with our systems. on 865 chipset it doesn't seem to run any faster, because 3dmarks and pc-marks don't run on this chipset, or it crashes on start up) but running games, we have no problems what so ever. it runs Unreal II, GTA Vice city and Willrock properly. Willrock is a drag, it lags on my R.9700 pro, so a little shakey is ok on 9200. for a low cost and high performence i would recommend R. 9200 128MB.

Someone has flashed the bios using intel Express bios update, thinking that he is just installing a driver! the funnier thing is that he not only ignored all the warnings by clicking "yes" and "ok" blindlly, but also after sytem rebooted and was flashing he had pulled the plug. so do you guy think Intel will send us a new one as RMA or they will want the cudtomer to pay for it ?

Quote: Can I suggest one thing, replace that 5200 fx it's garbage. I've brought 5600 and trade it for 9700 pro, I became very happy. Should get ATI 9500 pro or 9700 pro, it's better. Other thing I agree with Hawkboy for Quadro or FireGl, because you said you're interesting in 3d design. they're professional video card for designing 3D. by the way good luck on your new computer Can i show this to my brother?!! as much as i'm fan of ATI, my brother is a fan of nVidia. it's like his religion or something and he gets offended if anyone said ATI is better!! I'm an All-in-Wonder fan!

Quote: The A7N8X deluxe has the soundstorm. The regular model just has the standard onboard sound (which isn't bad). The Deluxe's sound supposedly rivals the audigy2. I don't have the speakers to test it out myself. Whatever way you look at it, the $40 extra that you spend on the deluxe model is a far cry from the $150+ you would have to spend for the audigy2. Head over to www.nforcershq.com/forum and check out the asus topic for more info then you can ever want to know about the board. It is really great IMO. i have an OEM Audigy2 card and it was only $90 CND. It is not too bad. Still saving money for THX certified speakers. right now with my 4.1 speakers i don't see any difference between Audigy2 and the old SB Live! Value.

depending on your mobo, it may tell you on startup if it is runnig on UDMA2, 4, 5, or 6. then you can be sure it is running at ATA 100 or whatever.

Another suggestion: go to crucial website, find your mobo model number or name and check their listings for their compatible memory sticks! you can always close the browser and not to buy it from them!

Quote: Quote: Here's the biggest thing to watch out for, if you install a new stick of memory into the machine and it only shows half the memory of that stick, then your motherboard may not properly support high-density ram modules. Sorry to nitpick, but that's not necessarily correct. If adding a new stick only half is addressed, there's a good chance that the motherboard cannot support double-sided memory modules. As an example, my current workstation motherboard, an Asus P4B533-E with the Intel 845-E chipset, supports the following memory configurations: Slot 1: Any single or double-sided module, up to 1GB. Slot 2: Any single or double-sided module, up to 1GB. Slot 3: If slot 2 has a double sided module, then slot 3 must be vacant. If slot 2 has a single-sided module, then only a single-sided module may be placed in slot 3. Note that if single-sided modules are used in both slots 2 and 3, they may each be 1GB sticks, for a system (chipset) total limitation of 3GB. Hope that clears things up a bit, and jmmijo was correct about Windows 9x and the vcache patch. If it is any of the i845 chipsets from intel, then it's 2Gigs of ram. sorry, ASUS website is just too slow for me to chech the mobo. (why their site sucks so badly, i can never find anything there, i hate their website ;( ) My Gigabyte Mobo is like that. it has a i845PE chipset, BUT it has 3 DDR memory sluts! it's just that the 2nd and the 3rd one is shared. (that's only for DDR SDRAM and i have never seen it for SDRAM) Come on, don't make it complex. just get a stick of ram and stick it in and see if it wors. how bad could it be? worse case senario is that your mobo may not support 1 stick of 512MB on each memory bank, or you can't mix it with the old one.

Quote: To my knowledge that mouse will not work with PS/2 At least the newer one won't The PS/2 adapter works for me everytime, even on older systems. Have you checked the battery and have you tried the tiny connect botton on the mouse and the reciever?

I was wondering if it is possible to make a local windows update server. the problem is that we do so many services and we need to be able to update windows o most of them. High speed internet hepls but when you have 5 systems downloading updates at a time it still takes a long time . we have windows 2000 server installed on one of the servers and we have an evaluation copy on windows server 2003 standard edition (if it works on this one we may be able to make the manager to buy a copy) . thanks in advance for your suggestions and replies.

Thanks for the reply Evan. It says it only works for Win XP Pro and 2K Pro. Does it work for up[censored] customer's computers? For example instead of connecting to the Microsoft Windows Updater server through internet, we connect to the local server, it scans for updates and does the rest. It also has to work for several o/s that we sell here (Win XP Home, or even ME and 98SE on older systems that we service). Does such a thing exists? we are just trying to save time on download time that it takes for over 80MB of data to be downloaded every time we install Win XP with SP1.

Quote: no swap file what's or ever??? and it works???.... let's assume that the OS needs more memory...what will happen then ??? will there be a big blue screen of death ?? i had 1.5 GB of SDRAM on my old 3dsmax system and disabling the swap files didn't work for me (it somehow ruined my windows and i had to reinstall it). I have Win XP Pro SP1. so i think it mostly depends on the applications and the way the user is using the system. it is different for every single computer. if it works don't mess with it.

ok, that's why. Norton Ghost is finding some Bad Blocks. just what i hate. i guess Scandisk is not all that great anyways.

at work i use an air compressor for cleaning dust off the computers. it works really good. i could set the pressure and get just the right pressure, so it won't damage anything. it removes all kiknds of sticky dust.

most routers do offer a setting so you could let one or more of yours computer to be contacted from outside of the firewall. my friend here does it even with cheap Linksys and SMC router. we have the exact same problem with our Linksys 8 port router at work. the connection keeps getting intrrupted for no reason. but the one i haved at home is not doing that yet (after 2 1/2 years)

you guys may use it for something. i'll stick to my ATI A-I-W 9700 pro and GF4Ti 4600. they are ok for now and a lot cheaper too.

Quote: I've been thinking the same thing, but there is no way to directly plug your vga into a tv. You need some kind of a converter. BTW why don't you get an cheap agp card with tvout? I got myself a geforce mx200 tvout for my system and it was really cheap. hey what do you say! i have such a device (convertor) in stock now. one end is vga, the other end is s-video and comp. out. it seems to be a very simple thing. if you live in norht america you can try Radio Shack and order one.

it could be the settings for the mouse. you can set your mouse so when you move it over an icon it will select it and when you click it's like you have double-clicked on it. i'm sure it is just one check mark somewhere in the settings but i dont see it now.

yes, AMD CPU is cheaper, but the price for everythingelse is the same (mobo, memory, HDD, etc.). the money you may save on tthe cpu you have to spend on a better case and cooling fan for the cpu. so there is not much difference anyways.

Quote: You people act like it is a freeking IRON. It is a computer, you can leave it on 24 7 365. I will not melt down! Heat is an issue with any electrical component with that much going on inside it. AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A DECENT HS&F, IT IS A COMPUTER LIKE ANY OTHER. A great deal of my clients have machines, Dell, Gateway etc. with AMD chips in them, and they NEVER have a problem. The biggest problem is Windows. I think YOU are making it bigger that it really is. As it comes to thinking of it, most probmels are generated by id10T users. I think windows XP is great, but everybody is complaining (my computer rookie customers) about every little thing they encounter. Most of the times it is their own fault. In my case i did some modifications to the system. I bought a bette case, an Enermax 350W powersupply with two fans (because the other one started acting up and getting hot and giving out only 2.9v instead of 3.3v). now after spending another $300 CND it seems to be working really good. So much for saving money! over buying an intel. This one makes 10 times more nise than my p4 because of the vocano9.

We have reciever two intel mobo's. D865PERL and D865GLC. over 50% of Pelrs are defective out of the box. they don't even POST! wen you get one to post, it works really fast (you have to flash the BIOS to get it to go with the p4 c serries) but you get all kinds of random crashes. applications and even windows explorer keep going "not responding", or it just freeze ther and you cannot do anything with it for 5 min or so. Here is the config/parts we have used so far for testing: CPU's: P4 2.4/2.4B/2.4C/3.06Ghz/3Ghz (800FBS) VGA CARDS: Sapphire ATI Radeon 7000 64MB Sapphire ATI Radeon 9000 128MB Sapphire ATI Radeon 9100 128MB Sapphire ATI Radeon 9200 128MB Memory: Crutial 256/512 DDR PC 2100 and 2700 Single/Dual Channel configs. (win xp: random crashes/freezing) Syncmax 256/512 DDR PC 2100 and 2700 Single/Dual Channel configs. (win xp: random crashes/freezing) Kingston 512 DDR PC 2700 only Single Channel (win xp random crashes but more stable than the previous ones!) Samsung PC 3200 256 MB (on dual Channel) the PERL Mobos look so good and they work so fast (even with all the winXP fade effects and shadows and all kinds of things, you can feel it. when you click it just opens up right there without any delays. BUT IT CRASHES A LOT! ) I said all bad things about AMD, now Intel is catching up too!