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Old 14-04-2005, 22:58   #421
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ther isnt a mute on somewhere in control panel is there ?????
Mute is not ticked

.......onboard sound is set to 'auto'...I'll try disabling it.....
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Have you disabled your on board sound in the bios? as windows is probably using the on board as default
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Have you disabled the onboard sound in the Bios ?
May be responsible for it.

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Old 14-04-2005, 23:36   #422
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No they don't.
On my board (Asus A8V Deluxe) it has to run off the VIA RAID controller so I have to do the same as Ramrod.

Yeah they do, you just disable the raid bios in your normal bios, rendering the ports as standard SATA controllers
Can't dude, I won't have any SATA ports then. (I tried last year)
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Old 15-04-2005, 00:08   #423
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Download CPUZ from here:
http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-128.zip
Extract the ZIP, run the EXE and click on the RAM tab - this will tell you how many channels you are running at.
It appears to be running in 'dual channel'
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Old 15-04-2005, 01:02   #424
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Download CPUZ from here:
http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-128.zip
Extract the ZIP, run the EXE and click on the RAM tab - this will tell you how many channels you are running at.
It appears to be running in 'dual channel'
.........Thanks Rich
Excellent.
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Old 15-04-2005, 15:41   #425
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Excellent.
I'll see you on CoD on Friday night then Sergeant!
Just installed and patched CoD
Doubt if I'll get as far as getting MOHAA:SH on today though....
........anyone remember how to place an IE shortcut onto the desktop?
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Old 15-04-2005, 15:43   #426
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Just installed and patched CoD
Doubt if I'll get as far as getting MOHAA:SH on today though....
........anyone remember how to place an IE shortcut onto the desktop?
Just drag it from the start bar?
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Drag it from the Start men, or quick task bar, but press and hold ctrl and shift while you do it.

(ctrl copies, shift moves, and ctrl-shift makes shortcut).

OR right click, goto New Shortcut, and point it at c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe

But using IE.. tsk tsk tsk....
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Or right click on Desktop and select properties. Then select desktop tab. And choose Customise Desktop from the bottom of the window.

That way you get more than a shortcut, you can right click it and acccess the internet properties etc...
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How about Firefox ?

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Old 15-04-2005, 16:14   #430
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Or right click on Desktop and select properties. Then select desktop tab. And choose Customise Desktop from the bottom of the window.

That way you get more than a shortcut, you can right click it and acccess the internet properties etc...
Thats the one!--Thanks!
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And if you want a shortcut to a specific page, say, Cableforum for instance, just right click on the Desktop, select "New Shortcut" and type the address (say http://www.cableforum.co.uk ).

Anything that saves those extra couple of milliseconds so you can build up your postcount at Cableforum even more..
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Disregard what I said about the noise levels.........it's 'cos it was next to me......now that the PC is in it's normal location I can hardly hear it
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Old 16-04-2005, 13:04   #433
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132683 DMarks in 3DMark 03............any good?
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132683 DMarks in 3DMark 03............any good?
Um...you made a typo.
I don't think any machine will get that much until about 2030.
Take a screenshot of the score window by pressing ALT + Prt Scr then post it here.
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Old 16-04-2005, 13:38   #435
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Um...you made a typo.
I don't think any machine will get that much until about 2030.
Take a screenshot of the score window by pressing ALT + Prt Scr then post it here.
lol 13268 in 3dmark03 .......I didn't put a space inbetween the score and the rest of what I typed
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