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    Asus Xonar Drivers

    That is strange, I am using a Asus Xonar D1 7.1 PCI Sound Card with the 64bit beta version of Windows 7 and have had no problems, is it the D2 or the PCi-E version that has problems.
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    Cheapest UK Price Windows 7

    I ordered two from Amazon at £49.99 each, but now they are selling them at £79.99 each
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    Corel Paint Shop Pro X FREE!

    Thanks for the link coathanger007, it is a step up from Photoshop Elements 2, which has served me well for years.
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    New OSNN theme / site launched

    I definitely like the new look EP, a testament to the hard work you have done.
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    floppy drive troubles

    It is working now, all it required was to select the 1.44mb option in the standard features. I shall now go and bang my head against a wall.
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    floppy drive troubles

    I have a shuttle which I have just put a floppy drive in, the drive does not power up when it is switched on, but if I turn the ribbon cable the other way round the light on the floppy comes on permantly ( which says that the ribbon cable is in the wrong way.) So by putting the ribbon cable in...
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    Device driver frustration.

    Is this of any help.
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    Device driver frustration.

    I ran chkdsk and it came up clean. I built the machine abot 6 weeks ago and up untill the day before the post it ran perfectly, apart from the right click issue it still does. I don`t know if this has any bearing on the problem, but I have checked everything in device manager and under...
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    Device driver frustration.

    Have checked the drivers and they are the same as you posted and exactly the same date. I tried uninstalling, it would not let me do it on the C drive as it has the OS on it but it did on the D drive and after a reboot it detected it and installed the drivers, so i opened my computer and right...
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    Device driver frustration.

    Have to go to work now, will try your suggestions in the morning when I get home. Thanks for your help. I will get back to you. Regards Alan.
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    Device driver frustration.

    How do I check for ACPI. Have allready checked for updated chipset drivers and have the latest. Have tried safe mode and safe mode with networking. Just going to check the BIOS now. Yes they are showing as SCSI-0 & SCSI-1 Just found ACPI in device manager/system services and it says it is...
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    Device driver frustration.

    I have tried safe mode and the same thing happened. I right clicked the drive to access tools to check if the drive need defragmenting.
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    Device driver frustration.

    If I click on my computer and right click either of my two hard drives the computer reboots. They are both Maxtor 80gb SATA drives. Right clicking on any of the other drives, ( USB 2 external hard drive, ZIP drive, USB2 floppy/card reader), causes no problems. I also tried going in through...
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    MS Word colums?

    Will this help. http://www.rdg.ac.uk/SerDepts/su/Topic/WordProc/WoP2Ktab01/
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