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| 39841 | 2002-03-20 04:57:00 | The Audigy newsgroup is posting that another motherboard chipset has been seen to cause the infamous squeal of death. The newsgroup recommends the following fix until a bios fix is released: Information received from ALi recommends that the AGP aperture size be set to 4MB on systems using the MAGiK1 chipsets, if you are encountering system lockups that include a tone in the soundbuffer being retried constantly (looping, emitting a high pitched sound). The particular motherboard tested was an Iwill KA 266 V1.3, using a M1647 Northbridge, however this information should be applicable to all systems using MAGiK 1 chip sets that may encounter this problem Tom's Hardware have posted up an 18 way i845 DDR Pentium 4 motherboard comparison. This is a huge comparo with the big guns, once again coming to the fore. Check it out here. <www.tomshardware.com TBreak has put the Plextor and LiteOn 40X/12X CDRW drives against each other to see if the new powerhouse on the block can usurp the king Plextor from it's throne. Check it here. <www.tbreak.com For all you Linux devotees out there, Mandrake 8.2 has been released. The new version features the 2.4.18 kernel, KDE2.2.2 and Star Office 6.0 and is definitely an Operating System for every different type of Linux user.<www.linux-mandrake.com please send me a copy ;-) LimeWire v2.3.0 beta has been released, no word on what's new from the company, but you can get it here.<www9.limewire.com Roxio has released an update for Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum, to bring it up to version 5.1 like it's slimmer cousin. The update will install on all OS's and adds new drive support and some fixes. This update will install Windows XP specific drivers and make the necessary registry entries allow Easy CD Creator to operate correctly in Windows XP. Grab the update here. This update will uninstall Take Two if it is present due to stability concerns.<softwareupdates.roxio.com There are some ATI Radeon Beta 6.13.10.6052 leaked Windows XP Drivers available at Maxreboot. The drivers support the following cards and contain these fixes: Radeon 7000 / Radeon VE Radeon 7200 / Radeon Radeon Mobility Radeon Mobility 7500 Radeon Mobility 7500 GL Radeon 7500 Radeon 8500 Radeon 8500 DV Edition Additional details: D3D core file version: 3250 (up from 3232 in the 6043 set) OpenGL core file version: 3031 (up from 3008 in the 6043 set) Desktop Version: 6.13.10.2535 (same as the 6043 set) Theatre Mode box back in the Overlay tab Rotation tab present by default General revision number 7.69 A complete uninstall of any previous drivers is recommended and you can grab em here. <www.warp2search.net There are new nForce WinXP WHQL drivers out which contain the following components: - Gpu Driver 27.70 (WHQL) - Audio Driver 2.26 (WHQL) - Audio Utlilities 2.26 - Network Driver 2.17 (WHQL) - Gart Driver 2.17 (WHQL) - SMBus Driver 2.17 (WHQL) - Memory Controller Driver 2.26 (WHQL) - Installer 2.28+ Get then here. <www.fsc-pc.de WinRAR 3.00 Beta 5 has been released for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP. The new beta offers the following new stuff: - Cascaded context menus' option did not work properly - Removed unnecessary second password prompt issued by WinRAR when adding files to archive with encrypted file names; - Switch -p encrypted contents of archive comment, so it was not visible without a password, though normally it should be encrypted only by -hp switch, not -p Get it from the links below: - Mirror 1<216.40.248.4 - Mirror 2<ftp://pubftp.slovenska.sk/pub/rarsoft/rar/wrar30b5.exe> Here's a case of the spoilt brat syndrome. ZDnet UK is reporting that Microsoft has forced Sony to be kicked out of CeBit because they were letting visitors play on their PS2 console system, when apparently there's a rule against that sort of thing. CeBit is supposed to be a demo trade show only and when Microsoft saw what Sony was doing, they went crying all the way to the organisers to demand that Sony be removed from the show (Oh boo hoo, just because they didn't get to let people play their Xbox). Here's the beef on the beef: Microsoft complained to the show organizers, Hannover Messe AG, that Sony was breaching show rules by letting people play on Sony PlayStation 2 game consoles. Technically, this was right and the Messe was forced to act on the complaint. Sony approached Microsoft to find a compromise and entered into protracted discussions with the Messe for a deal acceptable for all parties, but none could be found. On Sunday morning Sony started packing up its 27 PS2s. The show, in Hannover, Germany, officially finishes on Wednesday. denied that the company had complained to the Messe. But the show organizers confirmed that Richard Roy, vice president, corporate strategy, had complained. Sony has shown PlayStation consoles for the past three years without any problem, and the Messe said it would not have worried about the situation if no one had complained.<zdnet.com.com nVidia has officially unveiled it's new nForce chipsets at CeBit. As reorted last week, the new chipsets are the nForce 420 and nForce 415-D with DDR333 support. Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz versus Athlon XP 2000+ CPU shoot-out on NeoSeeker. <www.neoseeker.com VIA's C3 Ezra CPU on The Tech Report.<www.tech-report.com |
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| 39842 | 2002-03-20 05:53:00 | Naff off Micro$oft you bunch of tight arsed, slimy, american [no offence to the narmal citizens of that democratic state], globalized, corporate ******s! Whew! sorry about that, but I'm glad it's out now. G P |
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