Mr.Guvernment

Good point Tomay - many xvid release are using the AC3 codes (5.1 surround) audio tracks - forgot about that!

well am up to 310.5 now on core is most stable with ram @ 634.5 - from 400 stock. seems i can not get it it to run @ 320.9 with the ram @ this speed, or could be the drivers with out artifacts - but got to mess with it some more i guess. too bad this moterhboard sucks! - Asus P4S8x-X - do not buy one! - it seem prone to data coruption easily if u clock too high on the cpu.

no, he means Xvid - iu is a somewhat new encoding format that has better quality then DivX hee grab them from http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tools.php#codecs

ths kew - as long as the demo can at least show me what i need and that it can do it, i am more then happy to buy it!

yes it does - me trying it now.

kew kew basically all that happened was windows had an error when assigning the drive letter does that software have a demo so i can make sure it will do what i want?

well i spoke too soon looks like Ontrack dropped the ball again! i called in -0 to place the order in over the phone - lady took the credit info everytying - said that in 15mins i should get an email with a download link and if any problems they would call. This was on Wensday - it is now saturday and i still have not gotten an email or a phone call - AND i emailed them yesterday and thursday again!! ARGHHHH So - what other options do i have beside ontrack for datarecovery?

Quote: Anyone solved the overlay problem with w2k3 yet? what exactly is the problem?

Quote: muLinux, LOAF, Trinux, all one single floppy disk versions of Linux.. and there are more out there. Do you have any experience with them? are they any good or worth using?

really restores lost faith in a company when they do go the extra step to right a wrong. Now thought i am trying the CEO's credit card from the US and it gives me an error as well..LOL well. time to call an be transfered around about 5 times again between the tech department and some ditsy receiptionist who kept putting me through to support when i needed sales.

I guess i made a difference with Ontrack! Now on their purchase form where you put in your address they have added this field! Quote: If your Country/Region is not listed, please call 952-937-5161 to place your order by telephone. Good job ontrack!

i got another email today but deleted by accident! from the same marketing guy - saying he spoke with his uppers today and they are going to try to make some changes to the site and review what countries they allow CC transaction from as explained and as i had assumed countries not on the list were ones they were not accepting transaction from - usually due to high fraud rates - understandable. and that i can call the 800 number and they will process my order over the phone OnTrack i just say has proven them selves! - but still needs better weekend support

LOL i asked in my email for a non canned response. here is what they email me back with! Quote: You recently requested personal assistance from our online support center. Below is a summary of your request and our response. We will assume your issue has been resolved if we do not hear back from you within 48 hours. If your issue is not resolved please scroll to the bottom of this message and enter your reply between the lines. Thank you for contacting Ontrack Support. We hope that we have answered your question to your satisfaction. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance. Subject --------------------------------------------------------------- Dissapointed with experience. Discussion Thread --------------------------------------------------------------- Response (Ontrack Technical Support) - 09/29/2003 09:33 AM Matthew, I'm sorry you had a negative experience ordering off the web. Our technical support and customer service hours for phone and email are 8am-7pm Central time, Monday-Friday. Customer Service: (952) 906-4860 Technical Support: (952) 937-2121 I am forwarding this incident to our webmaster so that your comments regarding the E-Commerce site can be taken into account -- you should receive a response fairly soon. lol - they give me the numebr and their hours - that is what i was complaining about! but then the web master also sent me an email which made me happy. Quote: Mr. ***** I am sincerely sorry that you recently had a negative experience on our web site. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our web site, and rely on feedback such as yours to do so. Just as an FYI...we made some changes to our e-commerce system some time ago and were required to significantly reduce the number of countries we are able to process credit card transactions for. Some time has passed, and I believe that it is now time to re-evaluate that list. At your urging, I will take it upon myself to personally see that this gets done. Thank you for your feedback. Please let me know if your issue was resolved or if you still need to purchase our software. Thank you, Ronda Kemper Internet Marketing & Database Manager

oh they do - that mathiau@hotmail.com is my address. it is sarcastic more so because i am annoyed that such a larger comapny -that does produce very good products - can not cater to an international customer base and as said - they try to. i mean St Kitts and Nevis? Fiji? - i woudl think Costa Rica would stand out a little more then those 2 islands.

Quote: for the purposes of gaming which one is the better performer? Would not matter only handfull of games are MP ready - like Quake 3 i beleive and maybe a handfull of older game - fact is, games dont need that much pwoer to run Quote: for the purposes of desktop muckety muck which one is the better performer? either or - dekstop crud does not use much cpu power - unless u opening a million IE windows and multi apps - then RAM is what matters and if you got 512 or more of anything DDR or Rambus u will be good Quote: for the purposes of 2d graphics like photoshop7 and painter8 which one is the better performer? Dual Xeon's - PS uses dual CPU and Xeon have more cache. Quote: I don't care about 3d. well anyways most 3d apps use MP so again the dual Xeon's would perform better then a P4 with HT Quote: I've heard two conflicting opinions. While XP itself has some kind of support for multiple CPUs do programs have to have their own internal support for multiple processorys to gain from dual xeon? TIA NO, the program has to be made top support MP - most video editing suits will use dual CPU's but most games and general apps wont - this is where hyperthreading could benefit,. but fact is if you using 100% CPU power with P4 HT is useless - dual Xeons - u still got an extra CPU to use and as said - look @ the price tag

there were a few previous versions of linux i beleive that would run off a floppy disk i beleive (v5 or something?) - they were used as firewall boxes and such. - i was going to do one myself but never got around to it.

with that ms virus letter goin around about 100-200 a day on any acocunt Thing is i have many acounts - but it does not help when your email provider is likely selling your email address. Do not get Beanfield.com internet or email - their services are half ass! heck , they dont even have a decent web site with any info!

Well u can get a 180 trail 2k3 is FAR faster then XP - To enable the features like hardware / themes etc takes what a whole like 10 mins! Xp out of the box usually runs around 100-110mb - 2k3 is more around 80mb by the time it takes you time to tweak XP down to that - u could of had 2k3 installed - running as a workstation and playing your favorite game already. 2k3 is simply faster then Xp PRO and only takes a few mins to turn it into a desktop type system

^^^^ they can not fix it in the FX line - they can promise drivers to do this and that but bottom line is, the drivers can not improve where the lack of hardware is. - it would require them to redeisgn the entire! card - which is not worth it for them. SO they as far as i know are "dropping" the fx line as they should and are concentrating on the new NV40 CHIP - i feel sorry for ANYONE who bought an FX - especially those who had a good warning. Your next card SHOULD be an ATI, even after the NV40 is out.

it is more likely the hardware then windows..lol asus a7n8x For a start - like alot of AMD systems u need to tweak the mobo before you even install windows! , chaintech geforce fx 5200 , I am sorry, i really feel sorry for you since u bought this card have u grabbd all chipset driver for your mobo? check all setting? i know a few forums i post on have threads about 50 pages long about how to trouble shoot with that particular mobo - i dont htink switching to linux will help - it might because you wont have as many options with your hardware as you do windows. Quote: Now a friend brougtht over by me knoppix -linux I put it into one of my drives , to install it , it read all my hardware then the monitor is blank. some one told me my chaintech geforce fx 5200- agp8x 128ddr vga card need drivers to show the knoppix-linux. Can you tell me what may the real problem ? I went to the chaintech site I get no help. some one please assist me? thanking you in advance. And yet you say it is windows fault that your system freezes and such?

well then what about the most recent that NVIDIA has the latest update for the new tomb raider game pulled because it made the NVIDIA card look like crud next to ATI - seem Edios is in NVIDIA's pocket. Doom III will be DX 9 - and it's test showed ATi getting raped by NVIDIA, now it is backwards - but at least they did not say that ATI had to run in DX 8 mode to get good frame rates. Also, the issue with the FX is poor programming on their behalf with crap pixe shader 2.0 and otehr features just poorly writtin on NVIDIA behalf. this FX line is toast - they better hope they get the NV40 out before HL2 is out or they are likely to lose anotehr cycle to ATI.

^^^^ It is a good card - but too bad the issues with Dx9 make it look like crude - or more for what it really is! not sure how accruate they are but the HL2 benchmarks and some other places are now showing that the FX line is not fully Dx9 compatible and it is now suggested that when Dx 9 games come out that if u own and FX card u are asked to run the games ina Dx8 compatibility mode. Sorry, i think i will go with ATI who is actually FULL DX9 compliant. Also not to mention when using 3dmark2003 there are areas in the benchmark that should not be there and is being presumed that once AGAIN NVIDIA is cheating on their drivers but simply because they now encrypt their drivers it is harder to find these new so called "legit" optimizations as NVIDIA puts it.

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i try to tuck al the wiares behind the mobo plate (hold the mobo in palce) - most will fit behind therethen i sneak the wires around by usually where u lug in your IDE cables is an open a rea, and yes, ties are your friend! - i will get some pics once i have done ym case again.

^^^^ good piont!..lol that i should of known ti4200 are certainly a great card- probably one of NVIDIA's last grat cards they made since the FX line is a joke.