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| | I've picked out the components listed below to build a portable gaming computer. My budget is around $800. It's been about ten years since I built my last computer, so I'm a bit rusty. I would greatly appreciate any opinions you have about the compatibility, cost, and performance of this … |
| | Hi! I was wondering if any creative sound card actually offers an [B]optical [/B] SPDIF plug, in order to plug my Logitech Z5500 on the best Numeric sound possible... I don't mean RCA connector, rather the square shaped one like this pic: [code]http://img101.echo.cx/img101/4219/revps2000theback0wi.jpg[/code] I heard some Creative Live! sound card … |
| | I have installed a new AGP card a Chaintech nvdia Ge Force 4200 128mb. This replaces a PCI card. The monitor does not recognise the card and will not boot up. If I re-install the old card into its PCI slot and plug the monitor in to the new AGP …  |
| | hi does anyone know how to get backbuffer device (supose an ATI AGP 8x card) to a backbuffer PCI device ( BMDesign device) without dropping performance like SurfaceLoader does, using C# and DirectX 9 c (update June 2005). Imagine i have a ATI X800 AGP card capable of outstanding 3D … |
| | Hi. I have installed a new Motherbaord- a Gigabyte GA-7dxr and an AGP video card- a Chaintech nvdia Ge Force 4 T14200 128mb. It all works fine running on the new card until I remove the old PCI card. When I try to boot up without the PCI card installed … |
 | I have an Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb card. I recently decided to disconnect my extra case fan at the back. It has worked normally for a few weeks. Yesterday when I turned it on, it got some way towards loading windows (I saw it at the grub bootloader stage) and … |
| | I recently added a "COMBO" PCI card to my Intel 845BG board. Card provides SATA, USB 2.0, & FIREWIRE ports. Windows XP was already installed. All drivers that came with card were loaded. I then added 120GB SAMSUNG SATA drive. Two issues: 1. Drive not recognized in BIOS set-up, but … |
| | LOL as you can probably tell im quite new to this game so bear with me! after the previous problems i had with my speakers, im now having trouble successfully installing the sound card ive bought. Its an audigy 2 zs so not a bad card.. and ive put it …  |
| | in addition to my last post.. i was wondering if any one can reccomend a decent sound card and the onboard one im using sucks... i wouldnt mind one with optical output. and as mentioned i have logitech z5000 speakers and feel that they are being wasted with the sound … |
| | Hi, I have 4 computers networked using a Netgear router. My ISP is Verizon DSL. Three of the computers are XP, but the one I use for work is Windows 98. I use VPN and my company prefers we use a non-XP machine for security reasons. Well, all was fine …  |
| | I just purchased a Seagate (ST39102FC) SCSI 40 pin HD, and am now looking for a controller/I/O PCI card. I've been searching around and have found a couple of possibilities but am not sure. My knowledge of SCSI devices is minimal. The documentation for the HD is at this url: … |
| | I have a problem with a Dell Computer (My Brothers Computer) And it had a Aureal 8830 Sound Card and i had problems with it. So just now i take that one out and put this other Sound Card in it this is whats the computer is From [url]www.Belarc.com[/url] The … |
| | I'm at the end of my goddamn tether here. I installed Windows last week, and not long after installing it my network started giving me an error about my Windows Managment Instrumenation being corrupted, which crippled the network preventing me from getting online and preventing my client computer from connecting … |
| | I found a sweet video card but i didnt find any reviews on the card....maybe im looking in the wrong place or something. Can anyone tell me if my card is good, bad or should i consider another one just in case. Any help/advice is more than welcomed :-) Video … |
 | I've noticed two strange things with my sound card when it comes to using a microphone. Using multiple microphones, they work, but the result is very very quiet. Also, the plugs are are very loose when seated in the microphone socket. Without going into detailed troubleshooting, has anyone seen these … |
| | With over 7years experience as a PC Technician, id like to share with you guys a few of my most valuable diagnostic tools and tricks to fixing any Computer, easily. 1: a PCI PC POST card- which you can pick up from CompUSA (tells you exactly what is wrong with … |
| | If you were to build your own computer what would you use for a video capture device? Would you use an ati all in wonder card or a just a good card and then get a good pci capture device? What is the BEST? |
| | Hi can anyone recommend a low latency soundcard for use with cubase sx. I was looking at the creative platinum with the breakout box for about £150 I've got the old version that i've put in the kids machine but I can't get the latency down below 100ms. The soundstorm … |
| | hi all - i am new to this forum but have an urgent question. I am an mac user by nature, but my question relates to a pc (my mothers actually). the pc in question is (as listed in its system requirements) AuthenticAMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor 128 MB RAM system …  |
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My new rig has been running for about a week without a problem, until i rebooted windows and my raid 0 disapeared. All the connectors are connected, the BIOS is all set correctly. Could one of them have failed? The only thing it says is read disk failed press …  |
| | I pasted all of the highjackthis report but Idont know if you can read it. I cant get my internet Explorer to download a single thing. I gat a message that IE cant find the file or the file doent exist. If someone could make heads or tails 0f this … |
| | All of a sudden for no reason I can think of, the inbuilt speakers on my sisters computer stopped working. Earlier (a few hours before it stopepd working) the speakers were working fine. We did not do anything. We have tried external speakers, headphones, everything but no sound. The only … |
| | Greetings My Mother-in-law finally decided to get DSL and received the "kit" the other day. I put in a network card and got it set up thru WIN98SE. No problems there. The software that came with the DSL modem/router tells me that I need to install a network card in … |
| | I suppose it's the video cards fault. Because when I move the mouse on the screen while playing the game (in particular Sid Meyer's Pirates and Guild Wars) the sound start to tremble and the speed of the mouse movements slows down. My system information is as follows: System Host … |
 | [B]Background:[/B] I had 2 networked NT machines: 1 crashed so I decided to "bite the bullet" and rebuild it with XP. After much hair pulling I finally got the XP machine to see and access the NT box. Then I went to work trying to get the NT box to … |
| | I have installed a second WD Hard drive in my Dell Dimension 4100. I had to use the 40 pin connector originally on my internal Zip drive. I now have nowhere to connect the Zip to the motherboard as all four connections are used up, two for CD drives, two … |
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| | I just put in a new sound card. I had the audigy2 but upgraded to the audigy2 zs gamer because it was a deal I couldn't pass up. Anyway I used to be able to get sound when I would watch tv on my computer but now after installing the … |
| | Hi. My brother recently got cable internet for his old computer. It is an Inteva with Windows 98 Standard Edition. I believe this computer is 8 years old or so. It is a Pentium 2 , 300mhz, 196 MB of RAM computer. I call this ancient. I had to install … |
| | I have a tnt2 32mb agp card. works fine, but cant handle newer games. So ive purchased a fx5200 by pny (pci card). I want to run both cards, but i made a silly mistake when installing the new card. I kept my tnt2 in ( as primary) I installed … |
| | I recently purchased a Radeon 9250 pci card for my Dell 2350. Need I say the Install instructions are wanting. Question: Do I remove the old video driver before installing the new driver? If so how can I run a monitor to do the install? Do I then plug my … |
| | I am installing an audigy 2 soundcard into a system. It has onboard sound already. Do I have to disable the onboard sound or will it be ok. I have a front audio port which I want to use. Will it work if the onboard is disabled? |
 | I recently installed debian sarge in my system everything is working fine but the only problem is my sound card. I am using a asus k8v-x motherboard with amd64 2800+ processor. I tried configuring my soundcard with alsaconf. It does show me my sound card but I get the following … |
| | Is there a good pci express graphics card out there for under150? |
| | I have been trying to install numerous sound cards and I can not get it to work. I would remove it from slot to slot and I continue to recieve an error message of Data invalid. I found sites that gave advice that were all the same but when I … |
| | I have an nforce2 ultra non-sound storm mobo and a very old creative live value. question is, is it worth shelling out say $70 for a audigy 2 value? What tangible benefit does a new sound card offer for occasional music listening, rare movie watching, and sporadic game playing especially … |
| | I have an audigy 2 sound card in my dell and want to move it to another computer I am building. This should be possible shouldn't it. It came with the dell but I should be able to go to creative to get the latest drivers and such. I do … |
| | Computer is saying that no device or modem is installed! When I put the modem in message saying " has found new hardware" and searches for drivers. Installs modem and drivers but when I try to connect or detect modem say no :rolleyes: modem installed. I'm a bit green when … |
| | :cheesy: question 1: thinking of a new agp gpu card. not really bothered about price just want the best performer tell me what would you recommend? ;) system info, amd 64 fx-55 asus a8v MB 1 ghz of ram raptor wd740 (when i get it to work!!!) Hyundai ImageQuest L90D+ … |
| | I recently moved my Dell Dimension 4400 with Windows XP Home edition. Upon reconnecting everything, I had some issues. The first was I could not get a monitor signal. I opened up the tower and seated the video card firmly in the slot (I guess it got jiggled loose upon … |
| | What a nightmare!!! Woke up the other day to find i had absoloutly no sound. I have onboard sound AC 97 however i dont use it as i already had a s/b 5.1 card from my previous pc, so it was switched off using bios. I have been through all … |
 | I have a nVidia GeForce4 MX420 64MB PCI card. Since this really isn't much to brag about, I just bought this card --> [url]https://www.komplett.no/k/ki.asp?sku=304713[/url] - it cost me 849 Norwegian Kroner, which is approx. $110. Here is the same card in english - [url]http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=304713&cks=PRL[/url] - . It is a GeForce … |
| | I've posted the following in the PCI hardware forum, but was wondering if a worm or virus might be the cause. I have run AdAware and Spybot and they found nothing. I will install and run HighJackthis and post here. Here's my problem: I recently moved my Dell Dimension 4400 …  |
| | I have an Agere PCI modem in my HP AMD. I have XP, DOS, and 98 installed in 3 partitions on my HD. My modem works great in XP but won't work on 98. I downloaded the correct driver for my Agere (98 type) and everything looks good. My hardware … |
| | I've got a Win98 PC here (i do computer repair in this area) and for some reason it will not detect a PCI modem i'm attempting to install - nor any PCI modem for that matter (I've tryed different ones) It does however detect a network card, so the PCI … |
| | Help! I've had probs with my sound card - it plays very very very quietly (can only hear with ear pressed up right to speaker!) even though everythin is turned up to maximum. I had AWE32, swapped with SB Live from another PC - still not working. Swapped graphics card … |
| | When I log into my pc, the network needs to be disabled and then enabled again before it can be used. There are no error messages and it appears to be working in the network properties page. It even clams to be receiving packets (but only 2). I am running … |
| | What is the most important companent in buying a video card. I know there a combinations of a few, but i have a 4x AGP slot, i know PCI express would be better but i dont want to but a new Motherboard, What is better, 256 MB and 128 bit … |
| | Okay, this is driving me crazy. I recently purchased a segate 200 gig hard drive for my windows 98 second edition system (I am using a pentium III computer with a asus cusl2 motherboard). When I first installed the segate hard drive, I only could access the first 132 GIG. … |
| | Hi! I've been trying to get a multi monitor setup running but failing miserably. One of the monitors always fails to come up with a display. I'm starting wth two monitors, eventually having three. I'm using individual PCI cards, rather than a single card with multiple outputs. Have already checked … |
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