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Oh ok, thanks.

Well, some reading on the ATI website prompted me to update the motherboard AGP drivers. So I headed over to the Asus site and grabbed the latest ones and installed them. Problem solved. The speed in the settings is now set to 8x. Only thing is fast write is off, which the board is also supposed to support... *shrug*. Thanks for the insight.

Really, I wasn't aware of that. I was using version 6.14.10.6444 then I saw that a newer one was released just this past day so I installed that; same problem. But no, I don't really see any performance issues. Odd thing though that it would say off.

Well, I RMA'd my card and got it back (was shipped back overnight FedEx at no cost to me!) and it's all good, but now I have another issue. I was just looking at the driver settings for the card, and noticed that the AGP speed setting (choices of Off, 4x, 8x) is set to Off. If I turn it on and reboot, the driver sets it back to Off. The board supports it; I checked the BIOS and the option is set to 8x there. Is this connected in any way with my RAM speed? it's PC2100 DDR. CPU is P4 2.26GHz 533 bus. Any ideas here? Thanks.

I have a Radeon 9600 Pro and recently the fan started making a weird noise, so I popped off the case and took a look inside, and the fan is actually turning quite slow but I guess the motor is grinding on it and hence the weird sound. So it's like the motor is not tight enough on the actual fan part. If I tap it, it catches again and spins faster, but doesn't last long and goes back to turning slow again. Anything I can do to fix it or will I have to send it in to ATI? P.S. The card is only some months old, I don't even think I had it for a year.

Sid: that link appears to be a driver for an nForce chipset on your motherboard...

Hmm, that's interesting, because it's worked before, but I think ever since I formatted it last, and reinstalled windows, it's been throwing that error :-\

Hi, I've got a machine with Windows 98 on it, and a SoundBlaster Ensoniq soundcard, but the driver says it can't load the MIDI waveset. I've tried reinstalling them. And, these are the newest drivers I could get for this card for Win98 from Creative. Anything else I can do or is this something wrong with the card itself?

Have you done any hardware upgrades recently, excaliber? Replacing my MB and CPU messed up BF1942 for me, among other things. I've since done a format and it's fine.

Or you can use the Disk Management console program in Computer management (control panel -> admin tools), as long as the disk is in the same computer but is not the one currently booted to.

I also haven't had any problems with it, using a GeForce4 Ti4200 or a Radeon 9600 Pro. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your card. and I don't think you necessarily have to have a DX9 card unless you have a game that utilizes it, because DX is backward compatible.

The HDs were in seperate machines, but I did a little swicthing around and now only 1 of those systems are active, and what I did was format one of them, and I kept the other one in here with my files on it so I can access them easily.

Firewall. I have a router and none of the computers behind it have gotten infected so far, to my knowledge. What the blasterworm does is connect on some certain ports. but if you have those blocked, it can't happen. So you could get a router or some such hardware device or download and run a program like ZoneAlarm.

My current user on here is already Andrew... heh. But anyway, problem is solved. I booted to the other install (which the \Andrew folder belonged to) and went to the folder's properties and sharing tab, unchecked "make this private" or whatever. I just happened to come across it. I had forgotten it was there.

OK, I have an install of Windows XP on one hard drive (I'll call it HD1) and then I have another HD (HD2) that I've done a clean install of XP on. It is the master drive on the primary IDE channel and it's 1 and only partition is set to active (drive C). HD1 (the existing install; drive D) is the slave drive and I have it in here so I can get files off of it. However, I can't access a certain folder on HD1. I use windows explorer and go to "D:\Documents and Settings" but then I try to open my folder "\Andrew" I get access denied. What is going on? By the way, I am using the Admin account. There must be some way I can access this, and the reason as to why I'm only denied access on this folder is a puzzle.