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Odd behavior of dialog boxes

I have recently had several small utility programs I use become unusuable because the window for their display only shows a small portion of the upper left corner. Most of the programs/applications I use are unaffected. I have these same programs on other computers with the same operating system...
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- Jan 19, 2002
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Computer Building
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WinDVD and Windows 2000

Good catch! I've been using Windows 2000 for about a year now, but I still have trouble finding things. I had looked everywhere I could think of to enable DMA, but couldn't find anything except the BIOS ... never thought to look there! Anyhow, it works and the playback is now similiar to Win98...
- Jingle
- Post #3
- Dec 21, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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WinDVD and Windows 2000

I recently installed a Pioneer DVD 106S DVD-ROM. I have downloaded and activated WinDVD on my Windows 2000 boot partition. The operation is usuable, but slightly "choppy" (dropped frames, I suppose). I have just installed the latest video drivers with no effect. I tried using my Windows 98SE...
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- Dec 21, 2001
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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Msi k7 pro Help!!

From other discussions I've seen, it appears that there is a problem sensing CPU fan speed properly. When this happens, the BIOS thinks there is no fan and shuts things down. A quick check is to connect the CPU fan to the "system fan" connector. Also, there is a BIOS upgrade that may...
- Jingle
- Post #7
- Mar 9, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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anyone heard of Chaintech motheboards?

I have a Chaintech 7AJA with a Thunderbird 900 assembled in December. No problems. Jingles
- Jingle
- Post #3
- Mar 9, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Lucky Star K7VAT Motherboard: Any knowledge of or experience with it?

A little more background. I have an Enlight 7101 mid-tower case. This is a small mid- tower 15? high x 17? deep x 9? wide. The power supply is turned 90 degrees from customary position so it is parallel to the motherboard. With the case 1.5? wider than typical cases, there is plenty of space...
- Jingle
- Post #2
- Jan 28, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Lucky Star K7VAT Motherboard: Any knowledge of or experience with it?

The Lucky Star K7VAT Socket A motherboard appears to exactly meet my space and feature requirements. Unfortunately, I have found no discussions or reviews of it and am uneasy about buying one without benefit of some insight to its performance. Lucky Star?s web site is very primitive with...
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- Jan 27, 2001
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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Unreliable Windows bootup w/ Duron 700 & Epox 8KTA+. Hardware problem or other? I'm really stumped.

Sounds like you guys are well past the problem I had, but just in case... I bought a retail Athlon 900 and installed it on a 8KTA+. Had all kinds of crashes. Couldn't install Windows 98, wouldn't get through device recognition of a pre-installed drive with Win98, etc. I did finally get a...
- Jingle
- Post #6
- Jan 14, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Black-screen crashes with MSI KT7Pro2A and Athlon 900

For what it's worth, I'm having nearly the same experience with an Epox 8KTA+ motherboard and 900 MHz Athlon. I've had all sorts of mysterious crashes, even when trying to load Windows on a clean hard drive. Using a hard drive set up with Windows 2000 on another machine, everything was...
- Jingle
- Post #17
- Dec 26, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Sending a motherboard back for RMA.

Depending on the vendor's policies, you may have to pay for all shipping. Further, some of them will charge you to test the returned part and a restocking charge if it is found to be OK. Be sure you haven't done something in the BIOS setup that turns off the floppy port. I have found that it's...
- Jingle
- Post #3
- Dec 26, 2000
- Forum: Motherboards
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Defective Epox 8KTA+ Motherboard?

Thanks for the response. I had already tried the latest BIOS, as well as the BIOS 2 generations back with no positive effects. At the Epox Newsgroup it was suggested to raise the IO voltage and I tried that as well with no improvement up to +0.2v increase over specs. I had been running with all...
- Jingle
- Post #3
- Dec 26, 2000
- Forum: Motherboards
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Defective Epox 8KTA+ Motherboard?

I just purchased an Epox 8KTA+ motherboard, retail boxed Athlon 900 CPU and a mid-tower Hydraulic case with a 300 watt Fortron Source power supply for a major upgrade of my wife's computer. Unfortunately, after a 3 day marathon of trial and error struggles with it, the results are not...
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- Dec 25, 2000
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Motherboards
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Experience with Gigabyte GA-6VA7+ Socket 370 AT Motherboard?

Anyone?
- Jingle
- Post #2
- Nov 22, 2000
- Forum: Motherboards
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Experience with Gigabyte GA-6VA7+ Socket 370 AT Motherboard?

I am about to buy a Gigabyte GA-6VA7+ Socket 370 AT motherboard to upgrade a computer using an AT case that I like and want to keep using. This appears to be the only available AT motherboard that supports either Pentium III FC-PGA or Thunderbird CPUs. I have not found any reviews of this...
- Jingle
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- Nov 20, 2000
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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ATX Cases

Take a look at the Enlight 7105. I bought mine after a lot of research. It has the most external drive bays (3x5 & 2x3) for its height of anything I looked at. It does this by mounting the power supply on edge above the motherboard. This is possible since 1) the case is 8.5 inches wide, and...
- Jingle
- Post #7
- Oct 24, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Ideal Backup Solution

Answer: a big hard drive! It's the cheapest, fastest, most reliable way to go. I studied the problem for some time before I found my solution to backing up my 2 computers. I equipped both with removable drive trays for about $15 each and have a $100 Western Digital 45GB hard drive in a tray...
- Jingle
- Post #7
- Oct 23, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Windows 2k vs. W98SE

I have Windows 2000 and Windows 98 Second Edition on two separate hard drives. I keep trying to get W2K to operate as well as W98SE, but so far it has a long way to go. W98SE loads faster, has faster video, recognizes my modem properly and therefore has faster internet connections and shuts down...
- Jingle
- Post #4
- Oct 23, 2000
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Cloning a hard drive in Windows 2000?

My question is ?How can I clone my present Windows 2000 hard drive to a new drive and have it work properly?? Has anyone successfully done this ? preferably without having to buy third party software? I have not been able to do this I just bought a new hard drive and want to use it as my boot...
- Jingle
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- Oct 9, 2000
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Which K6-3 is equal to a K6-2 500?

The K6-III was only sold in speeds of 400 MHz and 450 MHz. Jingles
- Jingle
- Post #4
- Sep 15, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Win 2K: Register or Else!

Now that Windows 2000 has a few miles on it, I am starting to seriously consider upgrading from Win 98SE. One of the stories now circulating is that Microsoft has applied a registration requirement that, if you don?t register the installation by the 50th bootup, the computer refuses to launch...
- Jingle
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- Sep 10, 2000
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Operating Systems

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