muckshifter said:are you dual-booting XP & Win7 ?
if so, why?
Yea i was. Well the story is, at first it was a XP machine. Loved Win7 but my first run was 64bit and my 2gb limit held it back and WinXP felt faster. Then i tried 32 bit Win7, but didn't wanna lose what i had setup in WinXP, i just wanted to test it. It was fast but i had horrible gaming lag that i couldnt nail down at first. Long story short i got it ironed out and slowly moved to my Win7 install. But not before it got hosed and i realized having a dual boot system ca make things just a bit easier in that situation. But at this point i realize that a lve linux cd will do just as good, so im gonna go that route. I been meaning to blow out XP, this just was the reason i needed.'
On a final side note. i had another computer i was working on for a friend, i took the card and put it in there as the primary display and im still getting those lines like i posted a bit back, i didn't let it BSOD cause its not my PC and i think i have had enough BSOD issues in the last few days with my own PC. So at this point it has to be the card right ? I cant think of a way to fix or reset anything, i didn't find anything about it in google, so this all had to kill the card right ? Maybe it was all a coincidence or the rebooting so much was the final straw on a dieting card ?
If no one has a idea ill probably by a friends 9800 he said he would sell me for 60 bucks. Seems like a fair price and a fair increase ein gaming power too. Looking around i ihave learned just how far behind this 7900 is anyway. Just a shame to have spend money right now. Oh well.
Well either way, thanks so much to all. I have leanred a lot. Some i new and forgot, but some things i didn't. Like i never knew you could clear the CMOS when things get weird or that driver sweeper is legit, or the importance of a memory dump.
Makes me miss working with this stuff. Was so much fun.
