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I don't use anything. I just buy a faster computer when things start to slow down

So far 64bit is not much faster for the average desktop user. And multiprocessing doesn't do anything good. It'll take a while until we will see some benefit from that in games and multimedia.

Cpu usage is between 2-6% on my sb pci. There is a ZDbench audio test that measures that. You can check it out in many reviews.

Try to create a copy of the original discs, and install it from them. Of course if you can create a copy at all Try another computer.

I use prime95 for my testing. It stresses all components (cpu, chipset, ram), but it is not a pure ram tester. And if it fails you can't tell for sure what is faulty especaily not if you're overclocking.

Yeah memtest is quite good.

In Slovenia it's 0,8 euro.

Touch the cards cooler or the back side of the card where the gpu is. If you can hold it for more than a minute it's not overheating.

what os are you running. You might try to disable acpi.

Check if you have the latest bios, latest drivers, latest intel inf... Try creating a new user and log in as the new user only. Still the same. Was it like that from the fresh install of windows?

I have 6 of them running. One is local service, one is network service and the other four are I don't know what ;( And I don't even care, but I'd be lucky to have just two

I had no problems switching intel to intel, but when I switched from intel to via I had some issues, most with power management. I can be done, but micro$oft could support this more. If you boot up your system with the /sos switch you will see that it still loads some drivers from the previous platform like 440agp.sys .... and the viaagp.sys from the curent platform, so it consumes more memory ... I haven't found a feature to disable or uninstall this drivers and I doubt it can be done.

Check if the card isn't overheating.

What kind of problems?

If you have only one user then xp logs on automaticly.

I'm running 2 transcend 512 memory sticks in dual channel-mode. On boot it says "dual-channel, linear mode" Are there any other modes and how do I change modes?

You could also try assining an irq to a pci slot in the bios. Not sure wheter 2k or xp overrides that.

Try disabling the system speaker in the device manager under system devices. Sometimes you have the slider under volume control called PC speaker. Muting that could help.

Plus try out all cable positions. Master is closer to the board. slave_______ master_____________________board +----------------+-----------------------------------------+ <- ide cable If this is the ide cable you usualy get best results if you connect like this, but first try as a single on ide1 or 2

Hibernation rocks! I used it all the time, but now I figured it's better if I don't trun my computer off at all It won't damage your harddrive anymore then normal usage would. Anyway it should work ok if you don't change the hardware. I did try that and it gave me some errors, but I think that was fixed by SP1, but I still wouldn't recomend it.

Usb 2.0 devices should be backward compatible, but check before you buy.

From Hercules FAQ Quote: I heard that KYROII based graphics cards, such as 3D Prophet 4500, can cause the frying of motherboards based on i845 and i850. This assumption is wrong. 3D Prophet 4500 works perfectly with motherboards based i845 and i850, the typical motherboards controllers for Pentium 4. Actually, motherboards based on i845 and i850 are AGP 4X, 2X, 1X, supporting only 1.5 volts AGP signals. An AGP 4X graphics board delivers 1.5 volt AGP signals; an AGP 2X graphics board (typically 3D Prophet 4500) can actually deliver both 1.5 and 3.3 volt AGP signal. If the motherboard is based on I845 or I850, then 3D Prophet 4500 will automatically deliver 1.5 volt AGP signals. The 3D Prophet 4500 has been successfully tested on the following motherboards for Pentium 4: Intel 850: AOpen AX4T Asus P4T Gigabyte GA-8TX Intel D850GB MSI MS-6339 Intel 845: Epox 4B2A2 MSI MS-6529(845 Pro) MSI MS-6528(845 Pro2) Gigabyte GA-8IDMLC Intel D845WN It should work, but it also might not since i865 is a newer chipset. Try switching to agp 2x or 1x if you can. From MSI page: Quote: One AGP slot supports 8x/4x at 0.8V (AGP 3.0) or 4x at 1.5V (3.3v is not supported) I guess you're out of luck. Your mobo doesn't support 2x AGP, but kyroII is a 2x AGP card. Get a new one. Something that supports 8x AGP. I have a ATI radeon 9600 that is quite nice, but I would recomend a radeon 9500 or radeon 9700 or if you can afford it a radeon 9800. ____________________________________________Hope I helped

You can upgrade, but most of the laptops I've seen use mobile cpus and sometimes the're hard to get here. Also check I the laptop supports the cpu.

I have a GigaCube radeon 9600 with 128MB ram. When I first tried the tvout it was working with no problems. But now it started to suck. It won't detect my TV that is connected to the tvout. If I short circuit the tvout I can enable tvout and when I plug in the TV everything works ok. The picture on the TV is what it's suppose to be. When I plug the 4 pin tvout connector it detects the tv but the screen is b&w (probably cos it detects ntsc but it should be pal) Even if I boot the computer with tv only (no monitor) it doesn't boot to the tv but to the monitor except for the 4 pin connector. I guess it's a hardware problem. I'm going to try different cables and a different TV but since it works ok it just doesn't detect right is there any other tweak (beside short circuiting wich I find a little dangerous) to fool the ati drivers? Any other ideas what could be worng? ;( Please help!!!

No it doesn't. It boots to the monitor even if there is no monitor plugged in. I've tried different tv's, different cables. No idea what else to try...