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| Thread ID: 59439 | 2005-07-02 22:45:00 | Why my new 64-bit PC sucks - Any chance of helping fix it? | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 368756 | 2005-07-02 22:45:00 | Greets all. This week after having my car broken into and a lot of stuff stolen, I decided some retail therapy might help and bought parts to build a 64-Bit PC. I sold my laptop so I had the spare $$, so I figured why not :) The Athlon 3000+ appears to be pretty fast in comparison to my previous 800Mhz P3, Im liking it. Ive not yet had a chance to install Gentoo Linux on it, that'll be coming later on during the week one night. Basically though, Ive got some issues with WinXP-x64. Namely drivers. The Beta drivers for my Emu10k1-based SB!Live 5.1 Channel soundcard dont detect the soundcard is even in the PC so they dont install. Ive had a ton of trouble trying to find drivers for my ATi 9250 (Which installation for in Linux was the easiest driver setup by comparison to nVidia when it was in my 800Mhz earlier this week!), Ive managed to get the software utilities installed, but no actual drivers other than the stock (and sucky) MS ones. Any ideas here? I even downloaded something called DNA Drivers, which appear to have given me the Utility that is installed for TV-Out config etc. My Philips saa7134 chipset-based TV-Tuner card wont work, lack of drivers..... No wonder people appear to be slow on the uptake of x64, with Windows there's no drivers, nothing! Native applications? Not really...... I dont see Win64 versions of applications when I click on Download links at all. Other than that, My old Nero copy installed fine, VideoLAN Client installs/plays perfect..... I'd just like 5.1 Channel sound to go with it ya know ;) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 368757 | 2005-07-02 23:24:00 | Other than suggesting a move back to 32-bit XP... no sorry Install Linux, as its already 64-bit (for some distros anyway) all drivers etc should already be taken care of |
Myth (110) | ||
| 368758 | 2005-07-02 23:47:00 | Driver shortage is a massive problem for 64bit XP, right now anyway. Although I can't see why your soundcard isn't even detected - have you tried taking it out of the slot, turning the PC on, then off, then putting it back in? | Growly (6) | ||
| 368759 | 2005-07-03 00:58:00 | Yup, mucked about with disabling the onboard etc Fear not, Ive made up my mind to sort it all out tonight by installing Gentoo Linux, which im _positive_ will have all the drivers etc, but... enough of me blowing me own horn. Ideally Id still like to get this sorted, it'd be useful to keep a working WinXP x64 installation for testing software etc. What about Anti-Virus? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 368760 | 2005-07-03 01:24:00 | This happened when XP first came out too. Its always the case with a new O/S. Do you really need it? My 32bit XP is happily installed on my 64bit hardware. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 368761 | 2005-07-03 02:03:00 | Well, what bugs me is that I know within the next 8 hours I'll have a fully functional Gentoo 64-bit optimised system, with precious little worries about drivers etc. I know that my SB!Live which is OLD is going to be supported. I also know the saa7134 tuner will be, same for the ATi 9250. Ah well, you win some and you loose some. Im still keen to resolve these issues however. |
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| 368762 | 2005-07-03 15:55:00 | Anti Virus => Nod | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 368763 | 2005-07-03 23:57:00 | Does Nod have a 64 bit version? Presuming Nod32 relates to a 32 bit system we would be looking for Nod64 perhaps? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 368764 | 2005-07-04 01:30:00 | I got an email in May, looks as it is still in beta. www.nod32.com |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 368765 | 2005-07-04 03:19:00 | Sweet, I'll check it out and get back to you all. In the mean time, Im compiling Gentoo :) Any word on the SB!Live & ATi Drivers? Thanks guys Chill. |
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