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Athlon 1400 reboots at shutdown

I think you're thinking of the dreded Win98 shutdown bug, where your system would hang at shutdown. My system doesn't do that. It does shutdown. The prob here is that it immediatly reboots. Thanks anyway
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- Post #6
- Aug 26, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Athlon 1400 reboots at shutdown

That was one of the first things I checked. All my connections are correct. Beining to think it is psu related. Gotta double check the specs on my Enermax. Seems like the important rating is the 5v + 3.3V spec. When I bought it I figgured 350 Watts would be enough for anything. But that was...
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- Post #4
- Aug 26, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Athlon 1400 reboots at shutdown

Hi, my problem is this: whenever I shutdown my computer through windows ME, it just reboots. Windows ME shuts down and the system just starts up again. I click "Start" => "Shutdown" => "Shutdown", and everything seems fine, but the next thing I know, there's my video card bios on my screen and...
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- Aug 26, 2001
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Computer Building
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CUSL2-C restarts instead of shutting down..any ideas?

I have the same prob with my CUSL2-C. Only happens when I overclock though. Try setting your CPU back to its rated speed (only for a little while) and see what happens. This has to be a BIOS issue, hopefully this will be fixed in the next BIOS release.
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- Post #11
- Mar 4, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is there anything bad to say about the voodoo 5500 against the radeon or Geforce2 GTS?

Hmmm ... where to start. What a crappy time this is to buy a new vid card. IMO, no card on the market right now has all the bases covered, you're gonna sacrifice something. the Geforce is undeniably the fastest card on the market. The drivers are good, stability and compatability is good...
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- Post #17
- Mar 3, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Win2k problem

You know your OS is secure when it won't let you recover any data after it gets blown away. Try booting off the Win2K install CD and run a repair. It that don't work you can use a second hard disk to install Windows. Hook up your old hard disk (with win 2K on it) as slave and copy the data...
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- Post #2
- Feb 25, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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What video card should I get?

Please correct me if I am wrong, but, are there not problems with Geforce cards and super 7 motherboards. I remember reading somewhere that the the AGP slot has trouble delivering enough power to many Nvidea cards.
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- Post #7
- Feb 25, 2001
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Card Decisions Voodo 550, Creative 256 DDR Annihilator Pro or ASUS V6600 Geforce Pure/Deluxe?

You shouldn't be afraid of the V5 letting you down on the performance side, and especially not on the visual side. V5 has plenty of power and eye candy for the current generation of games. I can honestly say that I've never seen games look so good as when they were running on my V5. Crossing...
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- Post #4
- Feb 25, 2001
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Hard time installing win98Se

I know what you mean Thor. Those were heady days all right. You had some real bragging rights if you could set up a computer in the days of DOS and Win31. No Plug n Play,you had to set irq's and dma's with jumpers, and god help you if you created a conflict. You had to load all your drivers...
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- Post #13
- Feb 25, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Hard time installing win98Se

Boot from the Win9x floppy disk. Select "start computer with cd-rom support" Place the Win9X cd-rom in the CD drive (if you didn't put it ther already) Format your hard disk and create a directory on c: to hold the install files. Use the MAKE DIRECTORY command ex: a:\>md c:\wincab...
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- Post #9
- Feb 24, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Computer restarts after i disconnect

I think it's time to start looking for a hardware problem.
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- Post #3
- Feb 24, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Hard time installing win98Se

First of all, standard procedure for installing Win9X is to copy the entire contents of the win9x directory on the CD to your Hard disk. You should always run setup from your hard disk. Why is your CD-Rom acting up? It could just be old and tired, your disk could be dirty, the lense for the...
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- Post #4
- Feb 24, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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[b]Asus cusl2 please help[/b]

Dude, don't panic. CUSL2 has a problem with not using the onboard video card. You obviiously got into the bios to shut off the onboard video so you could use your voodoo 3. I've seen this happen to several CUSL2 boards. You have to short out the jumpers that reset the BIOS to default. Connect...
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- Post #14
- Feb 24, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is Soundblaster Live! Value good enough?

SB Live, it could very well be the only sound card you'll ever need.
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- Post #12
- Feb 24, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Networking Question...

the sad fact is that you're sharing your limitted bandwidth with your parrents. The more they use the internet , the less bandwidth is available for you. I have to ask, what the heck are they doing on the internet that is slowing you down so much? You could try upgrading your cheap hub to a...
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- Post #2
- Feb 24, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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3dfx voodoo 5... buy now or wait?

Been a 3dfx fan since the begining. But I gotta question your reasoning. Why would you buy a video card that has no future driver support? I own a V5 5500, bought it last summer. The existing drivers are rock solid in Win98 and Win2 K and the 2D and 3D are top notch. 4X AA is nothing less than...
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- Post #10
- Feb 24, 2001
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Post your 3D video card history

I can't even remember what I had on my 386. 2 meg mach 64 Matrox Mystique 2 meg Verite 1000 4 meg (VQuake was awsome) Matrox Mystique 220 4 Meg + Diamond Monster 3D CL VooDoo 2 8 meg Diamond VooDoo 2 12 Meg...
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- Post #23
- Feb 24, 2001
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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My questions before i do the "big" install this weekend of win2k

1: Win2K indeed does have drivers for your sblive. You'll want to get the real deal from Creative though. Tip, you don't need the full liveware cycle sucking resource pig install, you can dl just the drivers. 2: You can boot up with a 98 statrup disk, but you should use the win2k cd-rom. you'll...
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- Post #3
- Nov 14, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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How do i do this? (Setting up multiple users)

Go into Control Panel, you'll see an icon called "Users". It will allow you to do what you want. Be warned, no security on the file system in Win98, you and your friends will have your own profiles, but you will be able to access all the files on the hard disk. This ain't NT.
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- Post #3
- Jul 21, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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LAN problems, please help!!!

Calm down FL, it's ok. The logon to Microsoft Networks dialogue box is your friend, it's not gonna hurt you. You didn't say if you wanna share files of just death match or both, so lets set you up for both. Just get your Win9"Whatever you're using" CD and put it in the CD-ROM drive...
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- Post #3
- Jul 16, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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A question about ALL scsi systems..

If you're gonna use a Win98 boot disk to detect yout SCSI cd-rom make sure you've got an Adaptec controler card cuz that's all a Win98 boot disk supports. If you want a scsi card that's at least as good as anything Adaptec makes, try somthing based on Symbios Logic chips. Adaptec makes a good...
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- Post #7
- Jul 14, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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How do you think the i815 would perform after a some BIOS updates?!?!

I'm not so sure if the i815e will out perform the BX in the future. When it was launched the BX did not perform that much better than the LX. Most of the games and benchmarks were running in L2 so the slower memory bus of the LX wasn't bottlenecking anything. Today if you benchmark a 667EB...
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- Post #13
- Jul 14, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Bad sectors on a hard drive....low level format?

Sorry about that zip, K. To answer the question. NO LLF WILL NOT REPAIR PHYSICALLY BAD SECTORS. What LLF will do is write an invalid checksum to each physically damadged sector and stick in a pointer to a good sector located on a reserve track. A sector marked in this way is ignored by dos...
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- Post #24
- Jul 14, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Bad sectors on a hard drive....low level format?

Whoa guys, some major missinfo about Low Level Formating going on here. Lets set the record straight. K? 3 steps involved in preparing a hard disk after it leaves the assembly line. 1: Low Level Format LLF is a "real" format, the tracks and sectors info of the disk are outlined...
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- Post #22
- Jul 13, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Which BX board would you buy today

Holy Smokes Lxi, since you're on this site you may want to take a look around and read some articles here. For example: the one that was posted just this week about video cards running on an overclocked BX AGP bus. Guess what, most of them passed the test. Some had to be tweeked a little, like...
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- Post #40
- Jul 13, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Plextor CD Burners

Thanks for the info guys. NOW I KNOW ... WHAT I MUST DO !! Hey Paldo, how does your V3 like that 100 mhz AGP bus? That's a hell of an over clocked system you're running.
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- Post #7
- Jul 12, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Which BX board would you buy today

Personaly, I don't really care if someone comes up with a way to put a 1/2 AGP divider on a BX board. The fact is , most Video cards these days run just fine on a 89 mhz AGP bus. My V3 3500 was rock solid stable on a 98 mhz AGP bus. Dito for my V5 5500 on a 89mhz AGP bus. Which makes me wonder...
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- Post #34
- Jul 12, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Bad sectors on a hard drive....low level format?

Contrary to popular opinion, doing a low level format is not bad for your hard disk, any more than flashing your bios is bad for your bios. All it does is rewrite the cylinder, head, sector info. Just be sure you use the manufacturers LLF utility for your model. LLF will remap any bad sectors to...
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- Post #14
- Jul 12, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Plextor CD Burners

It's time to upgrade my burner, definatly want a Plextor. I understand they can do bit by bit accurate copies. I'm not a software pirate, I'm just getting tired of having to but multiple copies of games for myself and my 3 kids. That's 4 copies and somtimes more if they scratch theirs. Just...
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- Jul 12, 2000
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Computer Building
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creative geforce gts lost screen on reboots

Take the card back. If I remember my error beep codes right, 1 long and 2 short means video card prob.
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- Post #2
- Jul 12, 2000
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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