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Well I can't seem to find it in an AGP version anywhere (no one seems to be carrying it). Anyway, anyone know if the X1950GT will work with my Antec Earthwatts 500 Watt Power Supply? I read some recommendations of 550+ Watts. :confused: -cephalalgia

I thought the ATI x1950 used the PCI Express x16 interface, but after checking I found the Sapphire 100209L Radeon X1950GT (256MB). I'm guessing that is the card you are referring to? :confused: The X1950XT looks to be a PCI Express x16 interface. Being that I have read that Team Fortess 2 and...

Hi, I currently have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128 MB) on a MSI PM8M-V mobo (AGP 8X). I know a lot of new cards are fitted for PCI Express, but I'm not in the market for a new mobo at the moment. What I would like to do is find a card that will be my last AGP card before I upgrade to a new box...

I have an ATI Radeon™ 9800 PRO 128MB. When I go into advanced video options in Counter Strike: Source it states that my hardware support DirectX 8 but my software is DirectX 9. I have put -dxlevel 80 command into my pre launch options but it does not change it. The game runs, but runs like a...

My video card only supports up to DirectX 8 but Counter Strike auto installed DirectX 9. This makes the game unplayable. How can I uninstall DirectX 9 and where can I find an install for DirectX 8 for Windows XP 64-Bit?

I looked up SPTD.sys and from what I can find it is part of Daemon Tools, which I do have installed. I found this: http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-53739-Another-guy-with-inexplicable-crashes.html which looks like it could be my problem. I tried the following: and while it no longer...

I had thought F8 was safe mode but it was not working. After your post I mashed it repeatedly and evenly got the option to pick my boot device (I picked the hard drive) and then mashed F8 repeatedly again and got the boot options. Their was an option for disable auto restart on system failure...

To add more detail, it auto reboots when it would normally go to the windows login screen. When I take out my graphics card I don’t get the BIOS start beep over and over, but I cant see if it makes it to the login screen either. I tried swapping in another card in its place, but face the same...

XP 64 Pro is not booting. When I boot my computer it gets to the Windows loading screen then all the sudden cycles back to the BIOS start screen. I get no error messages or error beeps. What I would like to know is 1) How can I boot in safe mode, stepped boot, and/or a control prompt in XP 64...

Yes, I just recently started having performance issues; then I got the BSOD. Some of the other issues I have encountered are random bloches of color at the black screen right before login, large slowdown in FPS in games such as CS: Source. I have cleaned my registry, defragged my hard drive...

Ah overlooked the obvious. Sorry didn’t realize I had a windows update tools. Did some digging and found the CD and installed the utility. It seems to have worked. Thanks for the tip. ;)

Yesterday I got the blue screen of death with an error message that Windows must shutdown to prevent damage to my hardware, if this problem persists contact your hardware manufacture or something to that extent… So the first thing I did was check the ASUS website for a BIOS update. My Mobo is an...