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    Urgent Request- Original Leadtek 250LE Ti4200 BIOS

    Hi all, I am most humbly requesting anyone who has the original .rom file for the Leadtek Winfast 250LE (64MB) Geforce4Ti4200 to please send it to me if at all possible. I would be extremely grateful. My e-mail address is below. For those of you who aren't sick of me yet, you probably...
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    Is Winfast Ti 4200/ BIOS still salvagable??

    Hi all, I've got a graphics card bios question. It specifically deals with the Leadtek winfast 250LE GeForce 4 Ti4200 that just arrived. To get to the point, the drivers were a pain to install from the CD, although I was finally successful. Up to this point the card was functioning fine. I...
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    Asus A7V333 fried my power supply?

    I recently purchased a all the components necessary to build a new computer. The pertinent parts to this question are a A7V333 motherboard, AMD Athlon XP 1.73, and an Antech Truepower 430watt power supply. I installed all the parts and tried powering it up. Nothing happened. No fans, no...
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    Advice with Setting up CPU please

    Hi all, This is a relatively quick and simple question that I should know the answer to, but wanted to verify with all of the much more experienced visitors to tom's world. I recently purchased a P3-850 boxed retail version CPU and it came with heat sink and fan. My question has to do with...
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    Request BEST MB for transition to new P3 please

    Hi all, Here's my situation. I have an HP 8570C with the Asus/HP P2B-VE modified OEM board. I recently received a P3 850 which would give my comp a much needed speed boost over it's current P3 450. The only problem is that the board I have currently does not support the low...
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    Help with new P3 Motherboard, please

    Hi all, I just have a quick one. I recently received a P3 850 and I want to put it in my system in place of my Katmai 450 P3 on my Asus-HP 440 BX board. I am aware that this MB does not supply a low enough voltage for the Coppermine P3 and so I am looking for a new relatively low cost, yet...
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    Best MB for P3 Upgrade

    Hi all, I just have a quick one. I recently received a P3 850 and I want to put it in my system in place of my Katmai 450 P3 on my Asus-HP 440 BX board. I am aware that this MB does not supply a low enough voltage for the Coppermine P3 and so I am looking for a new relatively low cost...
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    Is THIS even at all possible??

    Hi all, I've got a quick few questions. First off I just received some logitech z560's to replace my FPS 2000. The 560's are a definite improvement although my FPS 2000 served me very well and I still consider to be a great speaker system. Rather than relegate these to the back of the dusty...
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    MB and processor upgrade dilemma - advice please

    Hi all, I am really in a tough bind here trying to decide how to maximize my upgrade dollars. I'll try to make this as lucid and concise as possible. I have an HP 8570c (I can explain; I bought it at the beginnning of college when I wasn't into computers much, but times have changed...
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    Home theater experts - advice needed please

    Hi all, I have a quick question about DVD/CD-RW combo drives, the HP 9900Ci that I am thinking of purchasing. My question doesn't have to do with this drive in particular but rather with DVD drives in general as well as sound system setups. I am excited about finally being able to watch DVD's...
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    Computer Home Theater Experts...advice needed

    Hi all, I have a quick question about DVD/CD-RW combo drives, the HP 9900Ci that I am thinking of purchasing. My question doesn't have to do with this drive in particular but rather with DVD drives in general. I am excited about finally being able to watch DVD's for the first time on my comp...
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    Start up difficulty with X gamer

    Thanks for all the info Riz. Unfortunately, I have had no luck. I hope that I am not being too persistant, but I would really like to get the splash screen working. To me, it's half the reason to buy a soundblaster card in the first place. For like the fourth time, I...
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    Start up difficulty with X gamer

    Thanks for all the info amdchuck. The only difficulty I have now is that I can't seem to find the EAX animation anywhere in my Creative Soundblaster Live folder. I tried reinstalling both liveware 3 and playcenter 2 and still have had no luck. I know this may sound like a lot to go through...
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    Start up difficulty with X gamer

    Hi all. I just have a quick question. I recently purchased an X-gamer and am pretty pleased with its performance when hooked up to FPS 2000 speakers. Recently when I went over to my friends house, who has a similar setup, I noticed that upon startup he had this cool EAX intro flash across the...
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    Determining MoBO support voltage

    I am trying to upgrade from my katmai 450 to a coppermine 800 mhz. I need to know if the lower voltage is supported for my mobo becasue I think that is the determining factor. I have a modified asus - hp P2BVE board and neither says they know anything about its specs. My question is...