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  1. 1970chag

    Which HD drivers to use.

    Hi Jerry In short, stick with the MS drivers, and yes, you can install them through the usual method. I have found that the busmaster drivers included with most motherboards were usually intended for WIN95 users, as the 95 OS did not necessarily contain busmaster drivers, depending upon...
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    Buying a Hard Drive

    Sorry everyone else, but read the post from kb244. RELIABILITY! Isn't that what you need most in a hard drive? Without question, Western Digital wins my vote for best reliability. I have built somewhere in the area of 50 different systems, and the WD drives seem to have the best overall...
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    YAMAHA OPL3-SAx...what in the hell am I doing wrong?

    With apologies for hurting any feelings for what may or may not be an obvious answer, here goes my 1.5 cents. When allowing the Windows installation program to auto install anything, sometimes the required driver cannot be found on the media, even though it does exist there. The problem is that...
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    System freeze or reboot.....need help

    Everyone came up with good answers, I would also add that reseating the AGP video card might cure this as well. Sometimes the hold-down screw for the video card will cause the card to be seated slightly off center in the slot, especially if it is very tightly screwed in. The pins on an AGP card...
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    Shuttle motherboard destroyed 3 hard drives and CD-RW

    My system: Shuttle AV61, VIA Appolo Pro 133 with UDMA66 Intel PIII 600EB 128Mb PC133 Matrox G400 AGP Sound Blaster Live WIN98 52X CD-ROM 4X4X24 AOpen CD-RW CRW9420 LS-120 120Mb floppy drive 4-in-1 drivers installed (not the Bus mastering drivers, as recommended on the VIA web sight) Latest...

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