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No nVidia GART in PCIe systems and never nVidia IDE
DFI Forums – NF4 SLI-D – tweaking windows (video for NF4 LanParty) *mirror added*. _OK, this clears up the myths about what to do about when you need the various nVidia drivers, it is confusing because in fact, on modern systems, you don’t want any of it but the video drivers…._ In a PCI-Express system,…
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DiamondMax 10 not recognized fixed with Autodetect NONE
DFI Forums – [Resolved] resolution for disappearing Maxtor drives? (post #12). _The old fix was to update the firmware, but you need to actually buy a vanilla SATA drive card so I just instead spent another $120 and got a later Maxtor, but now I see there is a simpler fix, what is happening is…
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MP4 Files without Quicktime
Previously, I’d only been able to use Quicktime to playback .MP4 files. These are the newest sort of encoding that use H.264 encoding and AAC for the audio track. Turns out that it isn’t well documented, but the easiest way to use Windows Media Player or any DirectShow compatible player is to: # Install ffdshow…
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Using DirectShow Manager 0.5 back to defaults
Free-Codecs.com :: Download DirectShow Filter Manager 0.5 : DirectShow Filter Manager helps you to list, sort, find, add or remove DirectShow filters. If you are like me, you install all kinds of video products, the problem is they can really screw up video output. For instance, I reinstalled Nova Development’s Video Explosion. It installs a…
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Oscar Wu BIOS
DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI/ULTRA Bios. For those of you who like living dangeriously, in addition to the stock BIOS that comes from DFI, you can also have a special set of BIOS that Oscar Wu, one of the geniuses on the web, he has actually tuned them for different memory and different CPUs. For instance,…
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Errata 123 Option
Adrian’s Rojak Pot – Where The Best In Technology Gather. Now talk about obscure! This is a BIOS entry in my DFI LanParty. It refers to the 123rd bug found in Dual Core Opteron and Athlon 64 X2 (socket 939)s. BAsically, at low frequencies, DRAM data gets there too early and the processor hangs sinc…
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nVidia IDE Drivers
DFI Forums – NF4 Expert – Random BSOD. Well, I just got another Stop 0x0A, I’m wondering if it might not be the IDE driver. That is usually the first thing folks say to uninstall from nVidia. Or maybe a later video driver. Seems like I have two problems, some driver is bad and also…
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DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D no boot 3 LEDs lit temporarily
DFI Forums – NO BOOT 3 LEDs LIT. OK, here is a strange problem that has just cropped up. The DFI LanParty nf4 Ultra D seems stable, but when you turn it off and then back on immediately, the system hangs with 3 LED lights on and the speaker beeping. This means that no ram…
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Stan on Marketing
Mobile Podcasting: Back to Basics. Stan is a super smart guy and he’s right about thinking about what marketing is all about.
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Sony Phone and Mouse
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