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Game Theater XP and Vista

Actually had some time this evening, so I took out my TV Tuner (Couldn't get rid of my firewire card, so tv tuner it was). I can confirm that the Game Theater XP drivers installed in Vista Home Premium without any difficulties. In all, installation took probably about 45 seconds. Glad to see...
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- Post #8
- Apr 3, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Game Theater XP and Vista

I am as surprised as you are. I just installed it to an old computer and had gone to the site to download the drivers when I saw the newly released Vista drivers. Hopefully they work well. I'll probably test it out this weekend on my Vista computer. Only thing is, I have 2 PCI slots, so have...
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- Post #7
- Apr 3, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Game Theater XP and Vista

Looks like Hercules released a Vista driver on 3/22. Anyone have a chance to try it out yet?
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- Post #5
- Apr 3, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

Well...I tried clearing the CMOS again, but still same problem. But just to be safe, I did it a 3rd time, but this time kept it there for around 20 min before switching it back and everything seems to work fine now! Hopefully it doesn't go back to the problems it was having before! I guess I...
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- Post #26
- Mar 3, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

Well, I tried out different combinations between the 2 different IDE cables and the different power connectors and it appears that the only times when this "garbled screen" and difficulty booting occurs is when the WD 120 GB hard drive is plugged in, either by itself or in combination with the...
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- Post #24
- Mar 1, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

I currently have the following drives on my computer: Maxtor 30GB Western Digital 120GB Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD Writer (NEC-1300A) The problems with booting only appear to occur when the WD 120 GB hard drive is plugged in. Any combination of the other 3 appear to boot up normally, except...
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- Post #22
- Feb 28, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

I've seen to find something else out. It seems that if I unplug both my hard drives and both my dvd drives, then the computer will start up fine. If I plug them back in, I'll get the boot-up problems again. Does this pretty much point to a power supply problem?
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- Post #20
- Feb 28, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

Yea, I was reading up the link that you provided and it seems that the problem that person had was with corruption/garbled graphics upon moving the mouse, which was present all the time. It seems that now, my problem just happens when I cold boot the computer, which after about 2 minutes of...
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- Post #19
- Feb 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

Hmm...I'm going to see if I can test one of my friend's video cards on my computer and see what happens. The cap issue might make some sense. It seems that if I boot the computer cold....it's freeze and won't boot up, with the access light on. If i leave it like that, i can hear it restarting...
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- Post #17
- Feb 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

Wow....this is quite a jam....Don't know if I should go and get a new motherboard or video card. I knew I should never have given my spare computer away!!! It would be useful to use it to test some components....
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- Post #15
- Feb 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

Hmmm....never realized that my board has had some history with bad capacitors, thanks for letting me know about that. I checked them out though and they all seem okay. The video card seems okay, nothing unusual with it and the fan on it works perfectly. It seems that whenever I completely...
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- Post #12
- Feb 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

Hmm...I've been having this problem again this morning, but it seems to be different now. I went to restart my computer and right at the boot-up screen, all the text was scrambled. So I turned off the computer and turned it back on, but this time, before even posting, the computer seemed to...
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- Post #10
- Feb 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

Thanks, I reinstalled the drivers and everything seems to be fine now. let's hope it stays that way!
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- Post #8
- Feb 25, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

Just wanted to thank you for the help. I tried pulling our the card and reseating it earlier this morning. Just now, however, I had the same garbled screen and reboot happen, but its been fine again since then. Do you think its a vid card prob or motherboard one? Kinda wierd how it does this...
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- Post #5
- Feb 23, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Garbled screen on boot-up?

Yea, the fan seems to be clean and spinning fine. I haven't had the problem yet today...kinda makes me wonder what was up last night with it.
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- Post #3
- Feb 22, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building

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