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  1. Posted

    I just bought a Yamaha 20x10x40, and the box says that it has Safeburn

     

    Is this in any way related to Burnproof? I had another burner and it had lots of coasters coming out. So I want something that will reduce the ratio.

     

    It also has an 8mb buffer....so should I see a big improvement?

     

    And is safeburn akin to burnproof?

     

    Thanks!

  3. Posted

    Hey there.

     

    Ok let me start off by saying that I want stability above all other features.

     

    I have an abit Ka7-100 now, with a 750 Athalon, and its horrible. Only certain PCI slots will take cards without IRQ conflicts etc.

     

    I dont want to put up with this crap for my next upgrade.

    Im looking to get a midrange gigahertz Athalon chip, but I am uncertain as to which motherboard will give me the most stability.

     

    Any advice would be appreciated.

     

    Thanks.

  4. Posted

    Hello all,

    I have a Amd Athalon 750 oced to 800

    526 Ram pc 100

    abit ka7-100

    Asus v 6800 32 ddr

    20 gig Maxtor HD

     

    I am running win2k pro. My problem is with the Detonator drivers for the graphics card. I had the 6.67 drivers installed for my system, and I had no problems whatsoever. MY brother told me that the 10.80 drivers were really good and improved performance.

     

    So i downloaded them from reactor critical, and installed them. Everything seemed to be going fine, until at the very end where it usually tells you that the install was successful, it said that an error occured during install, and that the system could not find a specified file.

     

    Ok then it tells me to reboot, so I reboot. To my dismay im back in 800x600 in 16 colours. When i go to hardware manager it shows my geforce with a yellow exclamation mark, saying that the drivers arent installed.

     

    I have tried 3 different drivers. I have tried installing in Safe mode, and in normal mode. I have tried clicking uninstall, and then installing drivers. Every time I get that fricken error message!!!!

     

    What the hell can I do????

     

    thanks

  5. Posted

    Hello,

     

    I just got a new KA7-100 mobo, and I am having quite a few problems getting

    my computer back up to work.

     

    Here are my specs:

    asus v6800 Geforce 32 DDR

    SB Live ! value

    Intel and Macronix NIC's

    20 gig maxtor HD

    3.2 gig WD HD

    526 Ram. Pc-100

    Athalon 750.

    3 partition on 20 gig, 1 for WinMe, 1 for Win2k.

     

    The problem I have is that there seems to be some sort of conflict with the

    PCI slots and installing an operating system

     

    I initially install Windows ME, and everything seemed to work fine. Then I

    try and upgrade to Windows 2k, which is my standard operating system.

    I get throught the whole copying files process with no hitch. The computer

    reboots, and then goes into a quasi-windows environment where it says it is

    detecting my devices. It gets about half way through the progress bar, and

    the system basically hard locks, keyboard/mouse dont work.

     

    I tried various things, and when I took out all my PCI cards (sound card and

    2 nics) the installation went throught, and i got to the OS. So I went

    ahead and plugged my cards back in. When I got back into the system, it

    froze once it reached the Windows 2000 OS. So then through Win ME I got the

    newest KA7-100 flash, and flashed the system. I plugged my cards back in

    restarted, and Windows 2000 worked.

     

    Then I installed the Livewire drivers for my sound card. When the system

    rebooted, it showed that some file for the Creative Launcher was missing,

    and it hard locked. So I thought it was because the installation process

    got interrupted so many times when I was installing before. So i formatted

    the Win2k partition in Windows ME, and did the setup once again.

     

    Lo and behold it crashed in the detecting devices part of the install

    again!!!! This is after the mother board flash.... I have no idea what to

    do, but it seems as soon as I plug in any PCI card, Windows 2000 locks up...

    I need that OS since I am running a home network.

     

    Like I said Windows ME works fine, I am online right now.

     

    Thanks!!!

  8. Posted

    Ive been coming across some articles that say the Athalon is clock locked, and to OC it you need to get some sodering skills going.

     

    Is that true??

     

    Ive Oc'ed a Celeron before, and a Duron (with that funky lead pencil trick), but Ive never done any actual chip modifications.

  9. Posted

    Geez, I am so humbled...

     

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    Athalon 750 @ 750 (Yeah Im chicken **** )

    256 pc-100

    Asus K7m

    Asus v6800 Geforce ddr

    20 gig 7200 rpm Maxtor

    8 gig 5400 rpm WD

    SB Live!

    19 inch KDS Avitron monitor

    50X sony cd

    8x4x32 QPS Que drive

    300 Watt P.S.

    Intel 100mb nic card

    Macronix 10mb Nic Card

     

     

    BTW, what kind of success have you guys had O/Cing the athalon 750 Retail? How far would i go with the original heatsink and fan on it....I got a couple of mods inside the case already to keep Temp down.

     

    Thanks.

     

    [This message has been edited by mello_j (edited 30 January 2001).]

  10. Posted

    Hey Guys,

     

    need some advice. I am interested in getting a TV Tuner card for my system. On Ebay I notice a lot of tuner cards by Hauppage (or something like that), connecting via a PCI slot.

     

    Does anyone have any experience with this card, and whether or not it works smoothly in Win2k?

     

    Thanks!

  11. Posted

    Hey,

     

    The problem isnt random.

     

    It occurs whenever I shut down my system for a period.

    If i reboot it, its fine, I can reboot, switch OS's and all.

     

    And when I am in Win 2k etc. I can run all my proggies without a problem.. My time keeps getting screwed up whenever I shut down as well...makes me think its cmos battery as earlier suggested.

  14. Posted

    HELP ME!

     

    Three days ago, I started my system up, and heard 2 beeps, and then a third one. They stuck a chill deep in my bones.

    The monitor showed a error message saying that there was a primary HDD-0 failure.

     

    Then it left me at a prompt asking for a boot disk. So I rebooted, and got a different error message:

    "Cmos settings incorrect"

    and was forced into the BIOS setup. I then hit the auto-detect Hard Drive button, and all my hard drives appeared without a problem.

    I rebooted again, and went into Win2k without a problem. However the next time I shut down my system for the night, and booted up in the morning I got the same error!

     

    Whats wrong!, I ran disk doctor on the hardrive, and it came out fine. all the cables are fine, and I didnt do ANYTHING out of the ordinary on the day this all started?

     

    Specs:

    AMD athalon 750

    Asus K7M motherboard.

    Asus v6800 Geforce

    1)Maxtor 20 gig 7200 RPM (boot drive)

    2)WD 3.5 gig 5400 RPM

    SB LIVE! value

    Intel and Matronix NIC's

    300 Watt power supply.

  15. Posted

    Hello,

     

    I have not been able to get to Reactor Critical for several days now. I have a Geforce based system, and running drivers 6.34

     

    Seems to give most stable results. However I heard some latter versions are better. I cant seem to find a place that has a whole list of drivers. I tried 7.17 with DX8, but that thing sucked totally...

     

    Anyone know of a good site with database of drivers?

  17. Posted

    I dont have the game yet, so I cant test it out, but I plan on getting it this week.

     

    But Could it be that the game cant access data on an NTFS partition?

    I remember Quest for Glory MOE had the same problem, also saying that the hard drive was full, and when i installed it on a fat32 partition it worked fine...

     

    Anyone test that out?

     

     

    [This message has been edited by mello_j (edited 02 October 2000).]

  18. Posted

    Hello,

     

    I was wondering if anyone out there has run across graphic problems while running Combat Mission under Win2k.

     

    I get wierd text flickering on the bottom bar, the VCR controls during playback, and the command screen when it is shown.

     

    ALso in the main menu and briefings text sometimes goes all wierd and is impossible to read. Pressing ESC, solves some problems, but not all.

     

    Any ideas?

  19. Posted

    I have seen some screenshots of the Litestep replacement shell for windows. It looks pretty good.

     

    I was interested in getting it, but i wanted to find out if anyone out there has had success with it in Windows 2k?

     

    Also which build or version would you recomend, since the litestep website lists several...thanks!

  20. Posted

    Yes toby I think so.

     

    P Monkey:

     

    OK read this CAREFULLY.

    This is NOT a W-A-R-E-Z board (can you say Warez? I can say warez)

    What you are asking for is I-l-l-e-g-a-l.

     

    Look at the content of message boards before you post something on them. Find yourself a board where all the Warez kiddies hang out, and then ask there. This forum is for people having problems running games on Win NT or 2K. etc.

  21. Posted

    ghackmann,

     

    normally i would agree with you, raising the voltage is what i always knew to improve stability especially on an O/C'ed system.

     

    It seems however that for the K7M, the lower voltage specifically improves stability.

    I got that from geforcefaq.com, which i think is one of the best resources out there, even for those who dont own geforce's

     

    anyways here is the Q&A as found on that site:

    Q. I have an Asus K7M or Abit BE6-II motherboard and I have instability or tearing problems with the GeForce. How can I fix it?

     

    A. Thanks to Markus Weissmann who told me about this solution from Creative Labs:

     

    The Asus K7M has a jumper for selecting the I/O-voltage, which is set to 3.4V by default. Set this to 3.31V (since this is the 'official' voltage for video cards). On the K7M this jumper is on the upper right side, a jumper-block with 4 pins.

  23. Posted

    Guys,

     

    If you have tried everything else, and nothing works try this.

     

    On your motherboard (helps if you have your manual so you can track it down easier) there is a 4-pin jumper that controls the VIO voltage (juice that goes to your cards).

    the default for this is the middle position which i believe is 3.4 volts.

    Change the jumper to the first two positions, so that the voltage is 3.31V

    Once again it helps if you look in your manual if you are unsure which jumper this is.

     

    I have done this, and along with all the other "fixes" my K7M system is much more stable. There are crashes once a few days, but thats relatively normal, compared to the constant crashed i had before.

     

     

     

    [This message has been edited by mello_j (edited 02 August 2000).]

  25. Posted

    Hey there

     

    I have a similar system config, and i also had a ****load of problems.

     

    First off, I dont know if it was just me, but i found the 5.30 detonators more stable than 5.32

     

    Second. Turn of the Super By-pass in your Bios (under advance cmos settings i believe)

     

    In your hardware acceleration (its in control panel somewhere) lower the slide by one notch...this will hardly affect performance, but apparently drasticly improves stability.

     

    Also (if you want to risk it) try installing directx 8.0 beta. I have it in, and I find everything works great!

     

    Finally go to www.geforcefaq.com and look at the tips they have there...Under generice geforce lockups, and under the "athalon and geforce section"

     

    I have followed their advice, and Have been running quite stable.

     

    Believe me, i know the frustration, I was ready to just replace the whole thing. Good luck!

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