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Hardware Failure whilst installing Windows 2000

cathal
Turning on my PC last week, Windows failed to start. After Detecting IDE drives and just before 'windows is starting' message the screen goes black. I discovered that by removing my soundcard (Audigy Platinum)windows started as normal.
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AWE64 in Windows Server 2003

Visslik
I have a Creative Soundblaster AWE64 ISA device in a PIII 800 box running Windows Server 2003. I've wanted to get the audio working and have been unable to locate any drivers or information, however Google brought me to this forum, in particular this location: This article refers to a post or article somewhere (I'm ...
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Compatibility With Windows XP-64bit Edition

jmmijo
Well, I'm looking to upgrade my server to some of the following item: Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885) Dual Opteron Motherboard Tyan Tiger K8W (S2875) Dual Opteron Motherboard (2)Two AMD Opteron Model 250 CPU's (2)Two AMD Opteron Model 248 CPU's (2)Two AMD Opteron Model 246 CPU's (2)Two AMD Opteron Model 244 CPU's (4)Four ...
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agp not running at maximum

sims_321
can anyone help me get my geforce fx 5200 card running faster? because its running at agp 1X and i cant seem to get it any higher in the bios, and i have the latest drivers, i am useing a 71-xe motherboard, can anyone please help me turn the 1x faster to at least a 2x?
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WinXP activation

Vampyr
ok. . . i had to reinstall 2454 again but i lost the hacks to bypass activation. I tried to get them from ETPlanet but their site has been down for quite some time. Does anyone know of another place that i can get the activation bypass?.
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booting and/or videocard problem

NoviceBill
I have a compaq presario with a pentium III CPU. Recently replaced the hard drive with a 80GB Western Digital drive, and did a clean install of Windows 2000. It wouldn't boot unless I went into Safe Mode or Enable VGA Mode, even after I reinstalled the drivers for the video card, so I assumed the video card was bad ...
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help i am not surewhat this is

MadcapMagician
hiys peeps. got this error while diing a clean install of windows 2000 advanced server. the error is as follows *** STOP: 0x00000050(0xBC309CC8,0x00000000,0x8040FC62,0x00000000) ***Address 8040FC62 base at 80400000,DateStamp 384d9b17-ntoskrnl.
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CD/RW problems: All discs are empty :(

iks
Hello there, My CD/RW aways claims that it has an empty medium inserted. No matter if there is or is not a disc in. I can boot WindowsXP instalation from this CD/RW - so it is not broken. It 'stopps' working when WindowsXP are loaded.
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need help with my volume control

poe35
hi, i have a cambridge soundworks with 1 sub and 2 sat's. It's great but i have a promble with it. I have the volume controler and it does work without using the volume control on the taskbar. next to the time.
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Help with reinstall of HP CD Writer 9300

pulya
This may seem like a DUMB question, but since there really is no such thing, I will take my chances. Need to reinstall CD Writer 9300 driver running on Win 2000 pro. Deleted a bunch of files and tried to remove CD Writer, but could not due to missing file.
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Untitled thread

Gino
Ok the situation is this. I have a Celeron 2. 4, with one gig of PC2100, 9800 Pro 128 meg 8x, and can not seem to get good gaming frame rates at all. In Half-Life I get 30fps and can not understand my problem.
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Untitled thread

Gino
Ok the situation is this. I have a Celeron 2. 4, with one gig of PC2100, 9800 Pro 128 meg 8x, and can not seem to get good gaming frame rates at all. In Half-Life I get 30fps and can not understand my problem.
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nVidia GeForce MX4000 :S

whelkschance
hey, i've just bought a nVidia GeForceMX4000 and its playing up. when i try and play games like Diablo 2, or run 3DMark2001 (graphic benchmarking program) it doesnt like it. images are skewed and there are horizontal lines everywhere! thx if anyone can help me! not sure how often i can check this, so can u email me ...
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Windows Server 2003 + Epson Perfection 1640SU = NO YUO

zen69x
Anyone get this to work? I can get it working using the Windows scanning wizard, but GOD that sucks. BTW it is connected via the SCSI interface, not that it should make a difference. I have a multiboot setup and it works fine in 2000, 2000 Server, and XP.
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Hdds stuck in PIO mode

Massacre
Hey I have a Barton 2500 @ 3200+, Gigabyte Ga7n400-L Motherboard, 2 x 120 gig seagates (both 7200 rpm, 8 meg cache). When copying from the slave to the primary, my system has 100% cpu usage, and the transfer is extremely slow.
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