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Any problems with the Radeon 8500 and everquest?

A lot of people on the Rage 3d forums seem to have a lot of problems in general. I've never had any show stopping problems with my 8500(although I've never tried it with everquest) but it seems the vocal minority own those forums and take every opportunity to complain. I really don't have...
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- Post #7
- Feb 3, 2002
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Motherboard for Athlon XP --- argh still can't decide...

Get the dragon+ if you want the features. If installed correctly and assuming you don`t get a doa board(it happens occasionally from all manufacturers) then it is as stable as anything. I`m up almost a month now with absolutely no problems. And a word about asking questions like this on...
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- Post #19
- Dec 18, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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*Soyo Drangon CD-Rom problem ( brains needed)

Enable raid in the BIOS and then when you are booting into windows it should find your extra promise ide controller and ask you for drivers. Go to your Soyo cd and select the windows 2000 ultra family drivers(the path to them is in the manual somewhere and they work fine on win xp) and install...
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- Post #3
- Dec 18, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Soyo Dragon+ Ultra - Can this be the next motherboard

I think he just invented it so don't get your hopes too high. It does sound good though but most of the changes you made are for future proofing the dragon and not really all that important for right now. I'd like to see the dimm voltage adjustable and the 1/5 and 1/6 pci dividers but I'll...
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- Post #4
- Dec 12, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Hardware junkies, this is your time to shine!!!

I second the KT266A chipset but which motherboard completely depends on what features you are looking for. You might just want to do a forum search on 266a or go back a few pages in the motherboard forum and I'm sure you'll find this question asked a couple of times.
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- Post #3
- Dec 12, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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761 or 266A

Well, it's the Asus and therefore the most expensive 266A out there but it seems to perform well(I really wouldn't expect anything less from an asus). If you are looking for a mobo with all of the features that the asus has I'd also recommend looking into the dragon+. It's what I bought and I...
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- Post #6
- Dec 12, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Absolute stability

Well unfortunately in life nothing is absolute. I run my dragon + with a fsb of 140 and the turbo bios settings and it has not crashed on me once since I installed it three weeks ago. Does this mean that if you buy this motherboard it will be the same for you? That is anyone's guess. These...
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- Post #13
- Dec 12, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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!! Dragon Plus & Large HDD !!

I have a 60GB 60GXP and I had absolutely no problems formatting it or installing win 98 SE and win XP. Is it possible that both of the drives you tried previously had issues? If it wasn't for the fact that your latest drive seems to work I'd say you got a bad ide controller but now I'm just...
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- Post #2
- Dec 10, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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poll: best mobo: 8kha+ or dragon or AK31A

Well I'm pretty sure the 8kha+ will win this one because it is the one most people around the forums went out and bought. Your original question was about stability though so all I can tell you is that since I flashed to the new bios on the dragon+ I have never had the computer crash and in...
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- Post #17
- Dec 10, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Dragon Plus and Crucial Memory Problem

Ya that definately sounds like some kind of hardware problem cause I've got two sticks of 256 meg crucial ddr that are in turbo mode and at a 140 fsb and I haven't had any problems at all. Have you tried removing everything but the video card and ram? If you try that and its still no go it...
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- Post #5
- Dec 9, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Soyo Dragon Plus IDE question

Well I know you can use the promise conroller as another at ide controller. You simply have to swich over a jumper(the only one the board has) and then install the ultra 100 drivers instead of the raid ones. I don't see why the promise controller wouldn't allow you to have masters and slaves...
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- Post #2
- Dec 6, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Something very funky going on

Did I miss something? I don't remember him saying what hard drive he had...
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- Post #5
- Dec 3, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Don't buy a Soyo Dragon Plus MB

Well the abit board just came out and there hasn't been much time to find problems with it and from what I've seen not too many people on the boards are jumping at paying the rather heafty price that asus is demanding. Now, I'm far from saying that that the asus or abit boards will be unstable...
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- Post #7
- Dec 3, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Don't buy a Soyo Dragon Plus MB

Yes there is such a thing as bad boards you know. Take a spin around the forums and take a look at all the people who seem to be having no problem and then maybe think of a more constructive title to your thread. If you're having problems(and you haven't been very specific as to what they...
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- Post #5
- Dec 3, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Soyo Dragon Plus - UBS getting disabled ?

Did you set your board into "turbo" mode? Whenever you do that it sets all usb ports to disabled for some reason. If thats the case then its not a big issue just set them back to enabled and enjoy.
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- Post #3
- Nov 30, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards

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