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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 …

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I recently put together the following computer: Asus A7N8x-x mboard AMD 3200+ chip Corsair 400MHz 512MB ram Antec 350W power supply ATI 9800 pro video card Windows XP After several errors when running the computer at 400MHz FSB, I finally got my board and ram replaced from the companies. This …

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I have a group of mpg files that WMP used to play. Sometime in the last few months it stopped doing this correctly. Ihave two problems: 1. Some files load and play sound, but the picture is a bunch of nondescript squares. If I let this run for about 20 …

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I have a Microstar 6160 socket 370 in one of my many pc's the board supports up to 1.1ghz so I bought a second user Celeron 1.0ghz and it was tested as working. I installed it onto the mainboard switched it on everything fired up as normal but there was …

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I now got a new machine, my M/B thinks my cpu start at about 160 degrees farenheit, and shoots up to 320 degrees fareinheit, yet my programs say my CPU's temperature is in the negatives! I have 2 intake fans, 4 out-take (2 in back of case, 2 on side …

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my computer is a mystery. After taking it out of storage it refused to POST and all it gave me was a blank screen. I decided that this was an excuse to upgrade the CPU and video card, now it has a Sempron 2300 and a G-force fx 5200, it …

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I have a Radeon 9550 with latest drivers on an XP SP2 computer. Recently, though I don't know exactly when, a system dialog box that pops up allowing me to change settings for my sound card went awry. The box size is too small to fit all the text and …

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I am trying to solve an on going problem with an AMD 1.8 system. I have a new Radeon 9200SE card installed and a new Optiquest Q95 monitor, running XP Home SP2 with 256MB Ram. I probably could double the RAM but the system is not running any high powered …

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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 …

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I have a Jetway motherboard with a Celeron 1.7 gig chip and onboard video card. We had problems a while ago with the display freezing up. Eventually the screen would not display during the boot process. Right now we are trying to install a new hard drive and install Windows …

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Hi, My monitor won't start up when I boot my computer, there's a bit of a story so I'll start from the beginning... About 3 - 4 months ago my monitor started playing up, when I booted the system the screen would be jumping, so I turned my machine off, …

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Hi, My monitor won't start up when I boot my computer, there's a bit of a story so I'll start from the beginning... About 3 - 4 months ago my monitor started playing up, when I booted the system the screen would be jumping, so I turned my machine off, …

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Hi, I'm new here. My computer isn't starting up properly at all. I have Windows XP. I think the problem is regarding either the Video Card or Windows. Each time I start up the computer, pressing the power button. It loads up normally, but after 8 seconds or so the …

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This problem has happened to me since last week... I was playing total war and monitor suddenly turn off but i still could hear music,and after restart and i played the same game again and it happened again,so i uninstalled the game and played the sims 2 and the same …

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I have recently formatted my hard drive because it was beyond rescue. i installed windows xp professional on it and now cannot seem to install the 'video controller' (vga compatble). I cannot identify the make of it and so am not abler to go direct to the manufacturers website and …

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Hello all, i just got a g4 400mhz mac with 128 mb memory dvd writter and zip drive, the problem is that when i install os 10.3 i format the new hdd then start the install the install fails at the point where its creating the base system part 2, …

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Hello. My system will freeze when It hits windows right after I install the drivers for my Radeon 9600 Pro video card. I then have to enter safemode to remover the drivers and the system will run. I put a Nividia gforce 2 old card back in for now. I …

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Hi! Recently I heard that you could clock your video card and make you graphic more smooth and faster speed. Can anyone please teach me how to do that! thx!

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About 3 weeks ago I got a new video card, an Nvidia Geforce 4 ti, made by Asylum (basically an unknown brand). At the same time as I installed it, I reformatted my computer. This all happened less than a week after Nvidia released new DetonatorXP drivers. So I reformatted. …

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I have a gateway computer and when i turn it on it makes the regular noises, the cdrom drive has power, the keyboard lights up, but the monitor doesnt turn on. i tried 2 other working monitors and they both didnt work. Could it be my video card? Any help …

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Can someone give me some help in identifying my video card? I've added an extra computer to my net and loaded it up from scratch. Win2Kpro and it id's as a generic VGA, so the system can't find a driver for it. I've got a display but it's not very …

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[COLOR=Blue]i have an ibm thinkpad T30 i got from my step dad and it hasnt ever been upgraded or anything. it has a pentium 4 moble cpu 1.60GHz and windows xp and 256 mb of ram and a 20 gig hard drive, i dont know much about computers and i …

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hi, i wanted to buy a new video card from ebay. i found a guy whos selling sealed grahics card and i think one went for quite cheap (40-50$ cheaper) as compared to the same model at some registered shops. i was slightly aprehensive as to why some one would …

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Hey, I have an ATI Radeon 9800PRO video card with a 17" flat panel (LCD) monitor. I wanted to know if I could plug in my other monitor as a second monitor even though it is a CTX monitor, not a flat panel. I'm not sure if CTX and LCD …

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I recently moved my (very old) 50" big screen tv into my room next to my computer. I have a Geforce FX 5500 card, hooked up S Video from the card to the TV but I am having a few problems... 1. I can't seem to get the correct resolution …

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Hi,i typed my post in another section and i am typing it again. I am not a good computer user and my brother brought my computer for me and i dont even know the brand of my computer and the video card and all i know is that it's window …

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Hi, a friend of mine is expierencing a problem on his Sony VAIO with Windows XP. Here is the message he sent me.... [QUOTE]I was playing Couter-Strike, and my comp froze totally, so i rebooted, and when it did there was some blue lines on the VAIO and P4 logos. …

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Hey, im rallying all the hardware together for when I build my new computer, check out all this hardware and tell me what you think. Also tell me if there is a mismatch of hardware, or something im missing, here goes: Case =ASPIRE X-Infinity Black ATX Mid-Tower Case with 350W …

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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 …

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Could anyone tell me how should I know when to stop increasing a video card's core and memory clocks? I have a Sapphire Radeon 9600XT / 256 mb Its original core clock speed is 500 MHz Its original memory speed is 250 MHz (I thought it was 300 but when …

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Hi all I'd appreciate some help: Have just self-upgraded my PC: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ - new Abit KV7 - new but deffo OK 1 GB PC3200 DDR RAM - used before OK Gigabyte fx5900xt 128 MB (in 8x AGP slot) - new, worked OK in prev. PC. 120 GB …

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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 …

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Ok, I am sure the topic seems strange to you, but it's exactly what it should be. Here is my sitiation. I am currently visiting my girlfriend in Japan for 3 months. While I am here I brought my home PC (desktop) with me to keep me busy. Seeing as …

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I com computer literate to a point, i built my PC. I just updated my videocard. I bought ATI Radeon 9600 XT. My Current computer specs are: P4 2.4 Ghz 768 Mb of Ram 80 Gb HD Asus P4PE I have an AGP slot that is 1x/4x compatible I bought …

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I have an annoying problem with application hangs. I'm running xp sp2 AMD Duron 1.33 ghz.,km-266 8735 chipset, 40 gig hard drive and 512 DDR mem. The problem is most noticable on music and video playback but all programs stop momentarily and then restart from that point with no loss …

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I have a Jetway motherboard with a Celeron 1.7 gig chip and onboard video card. We had problems a while ago with the display freezing up. Eventually the screen would not display during the boot process. Right now we are trying to install a new hard drive and install Windows …

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[code] Mode13h The Beginning of 3D/2D Graphics [/code] [B]Intro[/B] Lots of people want to know how to do graphics but find most APIs like OpenGL, DirectX etc too complex for a beginner, especially as they involve GUI code which follows a different approach from the simple dos programming Here, I …

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I've been trying to get a triple-boot set up with Windows 98, Windows XP, and SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional. Here is the setup I had BEFORHAND: Hard Drive 1: - Partition 1, FAT32, 80gb, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Hard Drive 2 - Partition 1, NTFS, 80gb, Microsoft Windows XP …

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How can I find out how many MB, exactly, my video card has? Btw its onboard memory, can I find it using Everest? and if so what would it be under in Everest? thanks

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Ive had this video card for a couple of years but my son tried playing a couple of lego video games on it but the games are not working. I updated my drivers recently but still no good. I have direct x 9 installed. I run the dx diagnostic test …

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I'm new to this so please be gentle with me :confused: I want to fit a new motherboard to get more performance from my PC. It is currently 1GHz, 128Mb RAM. I can only fit a maximum of 512 RAM so I want to get a better processor and more …

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Before I start, I'd like to thank everyone here for offering the free service of technical support! Anyway, I need to know if there's something I can do to fix my computer, or if I need to call an exorcist, because I swear that thing is posessed. Ok, I am …

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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 …

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Hey guys. New here. I recently had some computer troubles about three weeks or a month ago. When I started the computer up one day I had found that the computer suddenly had a 16-color display and 640 x 480 resolution. (I think that was the resolution) And I could …

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i've read from past threads about sharing ram to video. How will i know that i can share my ram with it?? I'm using an Old IBM PC (300PL) with s3 video card attached to the board (4 megs). Can i share ram to video?? Anything helpful will be very …

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I have a desktop computer with windows Xp Professionnal sp2. When my computer has been turned off for the night or for an hour or so, windows Xp won't boot. I see the bios and everything goes well. Then just before the windows logo is supposed to appear, it just …

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i am having a problem with my monitor it only has two choices 2 or 16 how can i fix that problem my monitor says kds visual sensation. her is some information i do not understand can any one help me AuthenticAMD AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions 64MB RAM 92% system …

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Hi, a friend of mine has a 48 inch HD TV/Monitor. He wants to use his TV as his computer monitor and use a wireless keyboard/mouse. What video card would he need to fill the screen and have a good quality picture? Would s-video work or would he need a …

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Just installed a maxtor 200gig hard drive. Got it up and running for a day and transfered lots & lots & lots files to it. It is a third drive, so I installed it with a sabrent pci controler card. Also have 2 cd-dvd player\burners. computer is a Dell 8200 …

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The announcement of SLI and the nForce 4 in the middle of 2004 generated a lot of talk in the hardware community. There were the skeptics who thought that it would remain a limited release product and be relegated to a niche solution but when pretty much every single major …

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