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Finally.

For anyone wanting to use Hercules' GameTheaterXP with Windows XP, they finally posted the new 3.01 drivers up at their site ( <a href="http://us.hercules.com/"...

The answer depends on which OS you're using.

You can find the answers you want at http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html (forgive me, but I'm too lazy to dig through and look up the individual...

I'm at least 90% certain this computer has some sort of flaky hardware problem, but I want to be absolutely certain I'm getting my install order correct before operating under that assumption...

Boy, does this ever bring back memories.

MacDrive is a good one. It lets you examine/work with Mac formatted disks on a Windows computer.

Of course, Macs can already read and work with...

I'm using NTBackup on NT4 Server (SP6) with a Conner CTT8000-A (uses TR-4 cartridges), and I'm getting an error any time I try to catalog following a full backup. The error is:

"Tape device...

No, 42 was the answer to a rather particular question. :)

Good point, Grover. It might be a good idea to check for macro activity, intentional or otherwise. :)

First of all, if there's no wind resistance, there's no terminal velocity (unless you count the speed of light). Secondly (I assume you mean mass not weight) we don't have to take mass into...

Heck, I toss up plenty of questions, and not just here. At this job and my last job I have a wide-ranging set of responsibilities and there's always something I'm poking my nose into I've never...

Your system might be picky about which slots you put PCI cards in. Find out which slots share resources with which other devices.

Make sure you get the latest 4-in-1 and USB Filters from VIA...

Yeah, I think a lot of things contributed to the hoopla and lots of unrelated problems got misinterpereted as being related to the 686b problem.

For example, it took VIA and Microsoft a while to...

There is a way.

Get one of those wierd software packages that lets Windows computers yap away on AppleTalk networks like PC MacLAN ( http://www.miramar.com ). This will let you happily connect to...

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Check out the post by "WaltH" for another interesting trick regarding flashes gone bad.
http://bbs.pcstats.com/viahardware/messageview.cfm?catid=18&threadid=830

VIA says not their fault

To whom it may concern:

During the past few weeks, problems were reported on several web sites stating that one of VIA’s chipset has compatibility issue with Creative...

Well, if you do drink and drive, remember to drive really fast so the cops can't catch you! ;)

Now that was quite possibly the most irresponsible thing I've said in a while.

Ok, the Userese Dictionary is hosted on a site I lost the account for looooooong ago. :)

I finally got around to minor cosmetic/wording changes and more importantly, an email address that...

How do you uninstall Windows 2000?

Here's an excerpt from a song parody written by Nightowl from http://www.ulster.net/~nightowl/ that I think gives you your uninstall instructions well...

If you check out http://www.viahardware.com/ , it seems that Windows XP clears up the VIA 686b "bugs" and thus points to software (OS, drivers) as the source of the problem rather than any hardware....

Actually, Microsoft itself recommends disabling "Plug 'n play OS" in the BIOS settings of your computer because Win2k cannot rebalance resources after a change like Win98 can.

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Sorry.

I used to be a hardcore Intel supporter, as I and others have had bad experiences with clones in the past. The Athlon/Duron is clearly different, though. The new AMD chips are not only...

"Your computer just needed a temporary user upgrade."

Thankfully, I don't do support anymore, but when I did, the absolute most common question was:

User: "@$#%! Why the @$#$ did you change my $%@ password? I need to get some &@*# work done here!"
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Ok, I admit I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to Win NT/2000.

Anyway, we have a sort of "scanning station" computer that everyone uses when the want to scan something. Each person generally uses...

Long, long ago (before I got my first copy of Windows 3.1), I got sick and tired of seeing "That directory is not empty" errors and wrote my own DOS app to remove entire directories and all their...

I dunno, the last time I used Zone Alarm, it worked great, was stable, blocked unwanted access, but it also seemed to have the habit of blocking things I didn't want blocked. :)