Posts by Coconut Monkey

You have standard PCI slots. PCI-E support is only available on the newer motherboard chipsets - those with Intel's 775 CPU socket or (possibly and) AMD's 939 CPU socket.

You can just Fdisk

I'd use the built-in Windows XP tools personally - you're not limited to FAT32 that way. ;)

You can create a new partition in the unused space using Disk Management (Control Panel->Admin Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management).

I call a halt to this thread!

Regardless of all the upgrade advice, the fact is that games that should run fine are not actually working. At all. We should be troubleshooting that first. ;)

Pim, what happens exactly when you try to run, say, UT2003 or Unreal 2?

It should run them fine, provided you don't have some sub-1Ghz model (then you're just lacking general grunt - it would be a similar story for any other CPU in that range). STP72, maths co-processors being sold separately went out in the days of the 486! ;)

What computer do you have exactly? Specifications please!

more RAM does allow you to get the most out of your card tho.... it speeds the game up (to a certain point)

No, not as such. It does speed up loading and prevent swapping to the hard drive, but doesn't help your video card that much. If it runs out of onboard memory, then it will swap out to the system RAM. However, this is far slower, in terms of both latency and transfer speeds. If this starts to occur, then you probably want to lower graphics detail or look at a new video card.

also a while ago after I got my card back from ATI just for the heck of it I tried changing AGP 8x to AGP 4x and HL2 ran just fine.... but I want to run it on 8x for hte full HL2 experience!

That's a common fix, along with disabling fast-writes. Performance difference? Hardly any!

When you sent the card back for repairs, were you actually told it was replaced/repaired?

Is the card running rather warm at all? Try a quick thermal test using an open case and a deskfan blowing right on the video card (unless you happen to have thermal monitoring on the card and a readout in the control panel).

by pretty i ment tsome of the nicer video options which when i turn them on the frame rate drops rather a lot when lots of things start to happen.

As belama stated, RAM doesn't really play a part in this unless your hard drive starts thrashing in the middle of your game. The video card and to a lesser extent your CPU play the most important roles in "eye candy".

Hmmm....you'll have to expand on your past Chris. Back then I was still running between adult legs and begging for froot loop breakfasts. Whassa Pliocene?

Anyway, welcome to the boards!

Hey ho ezest. Enjoy your stay.

Greets! Welcome to the community.

The HP tech support fellow is probably referring to the type of AGP slot, but he sounds rather mixed up. AGP8X slots run at an effective speed of 533Mhz, while AGP4X slots run at 266Mhz.

You can overclock the AGP bus, but this will (for many motherboards) also overclock the PCI bus and require that you overclock your front side bus (and thus your CPU). Overclocking the AGP/PCI buses will also result in system instability because they don't like operating very far from their standard frequencies.

How is the 200Gb drive connected? If it's SATA, then you will have install the required SATA controller drivers in order for Windows XP to see it (unless you have a native SATA motherboard, such as one using an Intel chipset).

Otherwise, you might have to give Windows a gentle push! Make sure you're logged in with your administrator account, and head into Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management. On the right you should see a list of drives, with your 200Gb drive somewhere within. "Activation" may be required by right clicking its entry and choosing the right option (I'm not sure which).

However, if you have an Athlon XP or socket A Sempron system, then dual channel is rather useless to you (due to the slower front side bus). ;)

kashfkb, I've merged your two threads into one. Creating a new topic for each useful website you find would result in a fair few threads cluttering up the forum, so it's better to keep it all together. ;)

Please post future useful networking links in this thread for now.

The type of RAM a video card uses has nothing to do with the type of RAM your motherboard takes. In this case, you only have to worry about the quality of your power supply and whether it can handle a 6600.

You already have a thread on the subject of overclocking the_mistah. Please keep everything in there.

"DDR266" does indeed refer to the RAM module's maximum rated clockspeed. DD266 means that the module is capable of 133Mhz, which is 266Mhz "double-pumped" (DDR - Double Data Rate).

"PC2100" refers to the module's maximum transfer rate, which in this case is 2.1Gb/s. It's also another way of identifying the RAM module's speed. PC2100 = DDR266, PC2700 = DDR333, PC3200 = DDR400.

Additional information can be found by Googling and looking here. ;)

Let's stick with the one thread eh? ;)

I found out that it is the x700xt that is more likely to beat the 6600GT.

Good luck finding an X700XT - it's fallen into the void. ;)

Guys,
My office help-desk team set WEP key on my laptop but they refused to set it on my another laptop. :sad:

Sorry, but that's too bad! If your tech department doesn't want to give you another key then they usually have a good reason for it, and we're not about to help you circumvent company policy. I suggest you take up the issue with them.

I just thought, as I'm going to be running a AGP 8x card in a 4x slot, will the extra speed of the 6600GT show itself through the slower slot? Would this mean that I'd be better off going for the 256mb X700?
guymof

No. There's hardly any difference in performance between AGP4X and AGP8X, since the extra bandwidth isn't really utilised. It would only be an issue if the graphics card ran out of onboard memory and was forced to swap out to your RAM, which would be rather slow anyway (compared to onboard memory transfer rates!).

Simple way to be sure? When purchasing a particular AGP 8X card, name you motherboard make/model and insist that the vendor guarantees the card will be suitable for the motherboard. If the vendor says it will work, and it turns out that it doesn't, then it's the vendor's responsibility to fix things up, eh?

Agreed. A lot simpler and less fuss! ;)

One thread will do. ;)

I have a smilar issue with Firefox...
I cant send email with attachments or it will error out. I can send and recieve mail and recieve attachments.

Are we talking Firefox or Thunderbird, the Mozilla email client? :-|

Many websites on the 'net are made with purely IE in mind, with some refusing to work properly in anything other than Microsoft's browser. Are you able to provide a link to the page where were trying to download a manual?

Okay. Last night i ran the memtest86 and it came back with no errors. I've been really busy lately and haven't had a chance to look at the application logs, but the last time i did know there were tons of program hangs. I think there were errors, and i will get them posted asap. Are program hangs significant at all? or just the errors?

How long did you run the test for? A few hours is recommended and overnight is highly encouraged!

I have tried to download the memory tester from the given site www.memtest86.com but i couldnt figure it out how to download and run it .. so could any of you tell me how should i install and run this thing...

thank you

Download "Pre-Compiled Memtest86 v3.2 installable from Windows and DOS". You will need a 3.5" floppy drive and disk (which will be wiped clean). Unzip the contents of the file you downloaded and run the install file within, specifying the drive letter of the 3.5" floppy drive when prompted. Then, when the install is complete, boot off the 3.5" floppy disk.

It just sounds like ordinary spam to me (best to have anti-spyware tools handy regardless!). Ensure you have a firewall running on your internet connection (properties of network connection, advanced tab. If you have SP2, then the Firewall item in Control Panel). To stop the messages from appearing in future, just Start -> Run -> "services.msc" and permanently disable the Messenger service (this does not affect MSN Messenger).

Well, let's look at the page for ATI's 9600 Pro chipset which utilises the AGP8X bus.
http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9600/radeon9600pro/specs.html

And then the 9800 chipset.
http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9800/radeon9800pro/specs.html

Both happy to run in an AGP4X slot (see requirements - Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD® Athlon® or higher with AGP 8X (0.8v), 4X (1.5V) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (8X/4X)).

Dude

why r u using a PCI card? surely if u know anything about graphics u'd be using an AGP card??

Umm, billenium_uk, that's a PCI-Express card he's using. You could say it's better than an equivalent AGP model. ;)

buddylee614, is this a new card you've just installed? Do other games work fine? Do you have the latest drivers for the card (make sure you uninstall any previous drivers properly before updating)?

I'm thinking another way. ;)

ljmora501, were you connected to the internet when these messages popped up? What kind of window were the message displayed in? A simple pop-up with an OK button at the bottom? Do you have any anti-spyware/virus programs running in the background that would pop up such a message?

I have the feeling these messages are nothing more than spam sent via the Messenger service.

No, the "FSB" is the Front Side Bus speed on the motherboard.The DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 items are the various speeds of DDR RAM available.

However, to get a better idea of what is happening (and so offer the best advice), what motherboard are we talking about here and what is it you are trying to do exactly?

RGPHNX, we've been through this before. Windows drivers are playing no part in this problem - the machine will not even boot up with only the new card in. Also, that motherboard does not have onboard video.

joodee, are you able to test the card in another system? (make sure it has an AGP4X slot or better)

Hi guymof,
Nope........... a 8X card will not work in a 4X slot. sorry.. You run the rick of burning out the slot.. your card..or both.
RGPHNX

Incorrect. An AGP8X card will work fine in an AGP4X slot.

Back! Bloody uni exams.

Is the network still working? Ping the server from the client.

The Windows 98SE ICS software has a nasty habit of falling over, requiring a reinstall and maybe even a reinstall of the network card (remove from device manager and reboot). Anyway, see how the above works first.

i faced a similar problem, firstly on the IDE cable. the first connector must go with the master cd drive, then the second connecter with the slave.

Also ensure the jumpers are set up correctly. However, since the drives are being detected in Windows, I don't think this is the problem.

Actual bad sectors or possible partition errors? I'm not sure what Seatools tests for but you could just have a corrupted paritition. If there's nothing worth recovering then perhaps a zerofill utility could give you a working (albeit blank) drive.

Are you able to test the cards in another PC?

In regards to the extra power connector for the card (I trust you did connect this?), is it a dedicated line with no other devices hooked up to it?

You don't need any tutorials for "hyperthreading" Cal unless you actually plan to start programming threaded applications. Otherwise, all you need to do is......well, do what you always do. Hyperthreading is designed to make multi-tasking a little quicker without any special actions on your part - it's all automated. As an extreme example, fire up an intensive 3D game then alt-tab to Windows and start flicking through a PDF document. A rather pointless exercise but it does demonstrate the extra bit of performance HT provides.

As for setting up RAID, are you sure you want to? Do you have 2 identical hard drives? Do you want a RAID0 configuration (granting extra performance but complete disaster if one drive dies) or RAID1 (one drive is a mirror of the other but you lose the capacity of a drive for complete backup)? Does your motherboard support other RAID configs? A search using these forums or even google should turn up some more information if you're still interested.

Hi again Aardcore,
Thanks for the additional info. From the sequence you describe...
Looks like you "might have" forgotten to install the "drivers" program for your new video card. :sad:

RGPHNX, that's not the case at all. The PC is not even booting up correctly to begin with! Drivers only come into play once Windows has started up and Aardcore isn't even getting a POST screen. Hence my assumption that the card is a dud.

Your post does bring something else to my attention however. Aardcore, is the Radeon 7000 an AGP card as well? If it's actually a PCI card, then you may have to head into your BIOS (with the Radeon in) to set the video card preference to AGP rather than PCI.

Ensure the client PC is still correctly setup with the network settings I supplied in my guide (or similar).

Then, in IE, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings -> Uncheck everything (failing that, tick "Automatically detect settings").

Oh blast, you've got me double posting now!

Make sure you have file sharing enabled for each PC (under the network settings). Right click folders/drives and choose either the sharing option or the tab under properties.

The *.cab setup files will all be in one place, so all you need to do is point the popup window to their folder location. There are over 70 of them, with many using the naming convention of "WIN98_x.CAB".

Looks good! A simple test to try after you reboot is to ping the other machine. Start->Run->"command". Type "ping 192.168.0.<address of other PC>" and hope it works.

As I said before, the *.cab files may be located on your hard drive or accessible via the recovery CD. Find their location and point the pop-up window requesting the setup CD to it.

You may even have the files stored in your Windows folder already. You can try pointing the pop-up window to your C:\Windows & C:\Windows\System folders (multiple switches may be required with files in different locations).

Where would I be looking for the ICS program?

What do you mean? You need to add it to the installed Windows components via the setup in Add/Remove programs (see point 1 of the guide!) and to do this you need a Win98 CD or the required *.cab files.

That card should work fine with that configuration. While I hope you purchased a reputable brand of PSU for your system, the PC should at least turn on, which leads me to believe that you have a dud card. Is it possible for you to test the card in another system with an AGP4X or better slot and suitable PSU?

Howdy Cat. I would prefer it if we could solve your problem in the open forum rather than through private communication. This way others can benefit from the discussion generated!

First of all, how is your network configured? You say the wireless-capable laptops are connected - is the desktop linked to the router via cable? What network settings are you using for each PC?

Well, to be embarassingly honest that's all I did to set up a LAN! Just started the ICS program, from then on it didn't even have to be open to play games on Quake etc.

Ah, the ICS proggies did it for you.

That tutorial really doesn't show how to set up a LAN, more of a fundamentals thing. If you could tell me step by step, that'd be great.

My guide tells you how to setup a basic LAN, as well as ICS. Is there a part you're unsure about?

Oh, and sure I'll hunt for the files.

Keep your eyes open for lots of *.cab files.

It's common for systems supplied with those CDs to have the Windows setup files stored on your hard drive somewhere. Have a hunt around! The setup files may also be readily accessible from the CD, with Windows just needing to be pointed in the right direction when it asks for the install CD. This way you can just make use of the supplied ICS functionality.

By the way, how is your network setup? IP addresses and so forth. Just connecting the two Win98 boxes will not instantly grant you a fully featured network. Take note of the guide I supplied earlier.

Lastly, I wouldn't bother with download accelerator programs unless you need the download resume feature that many come with.

Is it a brand name box? Compaq, HP, IBM, etc? You should have been provided with a Windows 98 CD or a repair CD which wipes your drive and reinstalls Windows. Sometimes the CD contents are located on your hard drive.

I see now, sorry for the mix-up. What kind of drive is it? Model, make and interface type.

Regardless, you should check out the disk management section mentioned in the guide I posted. That should provide some information on what exactly is happening with the hard drive.