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  • I was playing EVE yesterday and my card died on me. I had to put in my old 6800GS to get back up and running. Been emailing tech support since yesterday trouble shooting the problem, but it looks like they are going to let me RMA the card. … 3×2GB OCZ Gold [1640MHz], Graphics Card VisionTek HD5850 [900/1200] + Galaxy GT240. Hard Drive OCZ 60GB Agility + 3xRAID0 500GB 7200.12, Sound Card X-Fi XtremeMusic, Power Supply Antec Truepower New 750W, Case …
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  • I have a ATI X700 and the same problem. I found this link :( ATI Support It’s sad actually… WhirmWhood. July 11th, 2007 at 3:11 pm. 30. I bought my pc on 06-25-07 brand new and updated it with a better vid card (geforce 8600 gts) and just started getting the …… Turns out after some troubleshooting i found that 2 RAM DIMMs where broken. Luckely i have 2 more, so i can still use my computer. But i do belive these DIMMs where ok when i first started to get the problem. …
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  • Subsequent debugging indicates that the machine is misidentifying its NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT card as the MacBook’s Intel X3100 card. This issue is known to affect at least 50 people – a group of affected users has formed a Google Spreadsheet in order …… The Genius quickly agreed that I had a video problem (horizontal lines around cursor – can only boot in safe mode) and gave me no grief in terms of steps I’d taken to troubleshoot (wiped drive and complete reinstall). …
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  • 5.6 is my lowest and its the vid card that i haven’t replaced =D. May 27, 2008 9:23 pm. brad. Processor = 5.1 (intel Core 2 Duo 2.1ghz) Memory = 5.0 (3GB DDR2) Desktop Graphics 5.9 (Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT) …… Intel DP43TF iP43 Socket 775 6 channel audio ATX Motherboard. Intel E8400 Core 2 Duo Processor – 3.00 GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1333MHz FSB, Socket LGA775, 45 nm, 3 Year Warranty, Retail Boxed……… soon to be q9650. X-Galaxy Bubble Light Gaming Case With 400 Watt …
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  • 3×2GB OCZ Gold [1640MHz], Graphics Card VisionTek HD5850 [900/1200] + Galaxy GT240. Hard Drive OCZ 60GB Agility + 3xRAID0 500GB 7200.12, Sound Card X-Fi XtremeMusic, Power Supply Antec Truepower New 750W, Case Li Lian PC-V2100 [10x120mm fans] …. Like some of you have stated, I’m sure that it may work fine without reinstalling Windows but I don’t want to have to troubleshoot and take a longer amount of time then just doing a brand new reinstall which takes about 20 mins. …
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  • So, here is my question, it seems to be a common thought that the place ATOMs start to fail in performance is in graphics / video. So, it is better to try a PCI video card like the HD2400 or 8400gs/gt or to use a PCIeX1-PCIeX16 adapter http ://www.orbitmicro.com/global/pex…-1-p-1648.html to use a larger PCIeX16 card (could be expensive) …. But the GeForce 9400m on the Atom powered Ion board will do 1080p no problem. atlas_nathan is offline …
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  • If you do not see the controller under SCSI Storage do not continue past this point until you troubleshoot your issue(s) and are able to see your RAID controller in Device manager. Shutdown your computer and boot into your …. 3×2GB OCZ Gold [1640MHz], Graphics Card VisionTek HD5850 [900/1200] + Galaxy GT240. Hard Drive OCZ 60GB Agility + 3xRAID0 500GB 7200.12, Sound Card X-Fi XtremeMusic, Power Supply Antec Truepower New 750W, Case Li Lian PC-V2100 [10x120mm fans] …
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  • GeForce 6800 GT or greater. Hard Drive 12 GB Sound Card DirectX 9.0c compatible. Note: There are known issues with certain video cards, we hope to have these issues resolved as soon as possible: (In Windows Vista) Radeon HD 2400 Pro PCI Express …… 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 Memory Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit. Raptor Serial ATA 10000 RPM 150 GB HDD PLEXTOR 18X DVD±R Super Multi DVD Burner Black SATA …… So I went back to the basics of troubleshooting. …
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  • Hard Drive: 10.5 GB or more free space. Video: Shader Model 3.0 support with 512 Ram (Nvidia(R) Geforce(R) 7900 GT or better) Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card. Input: Dual-analog gamepad. 1.4 DirectX ———– …. Some older machines that have AMD dual core processors may experience problems running the game. If you have such a system, you should first visit the AMD website and obtain the latest processor drivers. You should only install this driver if …
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