
Windows Hardware


Advice for IDE Controler Cards
ViolentGreen
I am looking for a inexpensive IDE Controler Card. Any suggestions?.

TV-out no longer works, NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200
Phalanx-Imawano
Seems that since the 30. xx plus detonator drivers, my Inno3D Tornado GeForce4 Ti4200 won't display anything on the TV out (on my TV, it just shows a plain blue screen, which it shows if Video In is selected and there's no video signal coming in).

Win. Serv. 2003 Ent. and old Sounblaster 64 (isa)? -SOLVED-
Dudemeister
Hi there. Well is this soundcard even possible to get to run under Windows Server 2003? Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold ISA ? Right now after a fresh install it just wount install or find drivers anywhere.

msi fx5200 td 128 screen refresh
mat69
A month ago i bought a msi fx5200 (AGP) to replace my pci gf4 420 card. Installed it and used the drivers on the cd. Immediately i noticed the screen refreshing at random intervals. I did the usual troubleshooting, lowering the refresh rate to 75 - 72 -60 and also the res and colour bits ,etc.

TvOut problems on a radeon 9600
Tomay
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.

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz drivers in Win2k3
OneFierceFoo
Hi there, I am running Win2k3 Enterprise Server on one of my machines and have encountered a bit of a problem. I can not find a working driver for the sound card I have installed in this machine. I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card.

DVD-ROM ain't reading my DVDs anymore
djelite
Only thing I did different on my re-install of XP Pro, was have My Computer be set up as a Standard PC, instead of a ACPI-PC. (For music production reasons. ) It will read DATA and MUSIC CDs but, that's it.

Building a PC with DDR
jwl812
I am going to build an AMD system with an Athlon 2400+ processor. The 2400+ is a 266 FSB processor. I plan on using an nforce 2 ultra 400 mobo. Does anyone know if I have to use 266mhz DDR memory or can I install the new faster 400 mhz DDR memory with a processor that runs on a 266mhz FSB?.

XP locking up on new machine
azygos
Hi! I bought my new computer a week back. Specs: PIV - 1. 8Mhz Motherboard : VIA P4M266A+VT8235 U8668D-Z4 VER:6. 1 DVD LG CD-R LG LG e700b monitor (17 ) ATI Radeon 7500 Onboard AC97 sound I have installed both win xp and win 98 SE as dual booting 512 mb ddr RAM I am facing numerous problems with both these OSs 1.

Netgear FA311 and USB2 Controller Card Problem
Nick601
Hi I have an Elite Motherboard Model K7S5A and i also have a Netgear FA311 NIC and a USB 2 Controller Card that i want to run at the same time in my PC When i put the NIC in the computer along with the USB 2 Card a number of different things happen when i turn the computer on.

XP Crashes when webcam connected.
Caro
I've installed VP-EYE which works fine, it's only when I actually plug my webcam (CMOS 100K-R Rev. 1. 90) in that the system crashes. I'm using XP Home AT/AT COMPATIBLE System BIOS Version VIA601-42302e31 Processor Type x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 8 VIA EZRA 801MHz 120MB of RAM I've just printed of a system resou ...

fa311 and usb2 card
Nick601
hey thanks for the reply!!! havent had chance to read it all through properly one thing i am doing is running 2 hard drives (primary and slave!) on the primary IDE Channel the DVD drive is on its own on the secondary channel, just to clear that up!! i didnt think of disabling the onboard USB ill give that a go! whe ...

Guys need help determining what is causing system instabilit
pr-man
ok if I run 3dmark or play games after about 30 sec my system reboots. My vid card is not overclocked, neither is my processor. is there any programs that would help me determine exactly what is causing my problems? I have reinstalled vid drivers, dx etc etc also.

Problem with my video card (I think)
ReadError
Whenever I play a game, any game or even a movie sometimes, 2 things can happen, 1- the game crashes 2- I get a blue screen (in XP!) saying nv4_disp. dll causes a problem. It can happen after 30 seconds, 1 hour, or not at all.

no tv out on new nvidia driver
Vulcan
hey. . . i just installed the new nvidia drivers and i can't find where i can enable TV out on my geforce4 mx. . the nview tab is missing in the display properties can you help me. . ?.


DVD Video Playback disabled in 64bit v. of Win2k3?
OneFierceFoo
Hi there, I have been reading through some of the help files and various other tutorials on my new operating system (Win2k3 Ent. Server) and have found that supposedly the 64bit versions of Win2k3 do not support DVD video playback.

usb 2.0 win xp
walrus_55
if have windows xp beta version so i cant instal sp1 i have a gigabyte GA-7NNXP motherbord with nforce 2 chip does anyone know how i can get usb 2. 0 working.

Is this PC USB 1.0, 1.1 or 2.0 compatible?
SnapperOne
How do I determine which USB format a particular machine follows; 1. 0, 1. 1, 2. 0? Trying to help a friend buy a USB HD for bulk storage, but want to make certain her system and the HD are compatible.