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    Question about 3-monitor setup

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    Question about 3-monitor setup

    Hi, Is it possible to use my video card (8800GT) and my mobo's onboard video simultaneously so I can have 3 displays running? Two LCDs connected to the 8800, and the third display that's connected to the onboard video is my TV. All I plan to do with it is watch divxes so it's not anything too...
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    Problem with Maxtor Onetouch II external HD - help!

    Hi, Earlier today I backed up all my data to my external Maxtor Onetouch II 250GB drive, then swapped out my old system (XP) and hooked it up to a new system (Vista). The drive wasn't recognized in Vista - when I looked in disk management, it detected the drive, but its status was...
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    CPU fan header broke on K8N Neo Platinum

    I was sitting here today content with my newly built and stable comp, when suddenly my computer shuts off. I go wtf and I try turning it on again, it comes on for a few seconds, then shuts off again. I rip off the side panel and see if there's anything wrong inside. Turn it on again, and then...
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    annoying pauses during games with 6800GT OC

    Apparently other people have been having the same problem, check out this thread: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=32759&page=1&pp=15 Per the suggestions in that thread, I tried turning off fast writes in the bios, which seemed to have fixed it for the most part - except it...
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    problem flashing bios on MSI K8N Neo Platinum

    It worked! My problems are gone! Thanks a bunch!
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    problem flashing bios on MSI K8N Neo Platinum

    Thanks, trying it now, will report results.
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    annoying pauses during games with 6800GT OC

    Installed them, still doesn't fix the problems... :(
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    problem flashing bios on MSI K8N Neo Platinum

    bump for a guy in desparate need of help :confused:
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    annoying pauses during games with 6800GT OC

    weird...why are the 61.77 drivers the most recent ones posted on nvidia.com?
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    annoying pauses during games with 6800GT OC

    I did reformat actually. Just did that earlier today. The annoying pauses are still there. At the moment I'm struggling with how to correctly flash the BIOS...see my other thread here: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=804382
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    problem flashing bios on MSI K8N Neo Platinum

    addendum #2: the aforementioned "DON'T FLASH FROM A FLOPPY DISK" is not in the instructions linked above, it's in the readme file that came in the BIOS zip file. Help!
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    annoying pauses during games with 6800GT OC

    ForceWare 61.77 nForce 4.27 WinXP Pro w/SP2 I'm starting to think it might be a power issue. I'm using the 380W Truepower that came with the Antec Sonata. Thoughts?
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    problem flashing bios on MSI K8N Neo Platinum

    addendum: the link to the BIOS flashing instructions on MSI's site are here: http://www.msicomputer.com/support/BIOS_award.asp
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    problem flashing bios on MSI K8N Neo Platinum

    Hey all, So I'm trying to flash the BIOS on my new MSI K8N Neo Platinum but I've come to a bit of a wall. The directions on MSI's site are as follows: 1. extract the files to c:\test 2. make an ms-dos boot disk 3. boot off the boot disk, takes you to the a:\> prompt 4. go to c: 5. cd...
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