I am on my seventh PC now, never had a single problem with Windows or hardware before. This new machine is making me mental.
The hardware is as follows: Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe AMD Athlon 6000+ Dual Core 4 GB Ram Matrox Parhelia aPVe video Card. Gigabyte I-Ram 4GB Ram installed (it's actually quite useless and I expect I'll remove it for a real hard drive). I have 5 physical drives installed, 2 as a striped RAID, 2 as a mirrored RAID, and a single SATA drive, plus four external hard drives, one eSata and three USB. Nice rig. I am running WinXP Pro, and have updated all drivers as well as the video card BIOS. The damned thing won't run Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator in 32 bit mode most of the time. Sometimes it will, sometimes (mostly) it won't. I tried running a different game called Red Ace Squadron, and get an alarm message: "could not open video more. Ensure that DirectX is installed and working" DirectX is up to date, and apparently working properly according to the DirectX control panel. I've also had problems where it loses the onboard audio, and gives an alarm "hardware configuration has changed, You need to reinstall SoundMax". A simple reboot generally makes this better. Sometimes it can't find it's way to the router, the connection just sits there trying to aquire an IP address. When this happens, I have to uninstall the ethernet connection, and reboot the computer. I'm thinking it is a fairly simple thing, such as a driver conflict, but it has me quite puzzled. I am almost prepared to dump the Matrox card and try something else, but I hate to flush that much money down the drain on hardware. Any ideas would be appreciated. I have a service call in to Matrox, but so far all they have suggested is to update the card bios and driver, which I have done, to no good effect. In fact, the damned thing is worse with the new drivers and firmware than the old. Thanks William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
