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Missing Drivers?

15. July 2009

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Missing Drivers?

Can't find a driver for your PC? You need to find a driver for your graphics card, webcam, sound card, motherboard and cant find it, not only can't you find it, but Google returns page after page of spammy sites offering the download but failing to provide a simple download link! Maybe you have found a driver [...]

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Enable ITC Processing with ATI CCC?

19. June 2009

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ITC Processing ITC Processing has been available on ATI graphics cards since Catalyst 9.2 though it can have a positive or negative impact depending on your display device. Enabling ITC Processing for DTVs ITC processing is a feature that enables display processors to use the appropriate pixel data processing algorithms based on specific content type to ensure [...]

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Dolby Digital (AC3) and DTS over ATI HDMI XP

19. May 2009

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For Windows XP:  If you have been unable to get AC3 or DTS passthrough via your ATI Graphics card with HDMI try this official ATI driver: ATI Catalyst™ 9.4 HDMI Audio Driver for Windows XP Professional/Home Edition The Catalyst™ Software Suite states that the HDMI Audio driver is supported [...]

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Convert a gpt protective partition

18. April 2009

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I recently put a 64 bit Vista formatted Drive into my XP HTPC box and found it was unreadable and could not be formatted.  Computer Management displayed the drive as a GPT Protective Partition. Unfortunately Windows XP cannot read or write this type of filesystem let alone mount the drive. A GPT disk uses [...]

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Ritmo USB Webcam Drivers

3. November 2008

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Ritmo USB Webcam Drivers

Ritmo are another cheap webcam manufacturer who seem to make it hard for us to download simple drivers. Ritmo have some of these drivers on their ftp site when it is working.  If not grab them here.  They are the latest ones I could find.  This one is for my mother, who like most people, need [...]

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Vimicro USB Webcam Driver

22. March 2008

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Vimicro USB Webcam Driver

These Vimicro webcams can be had on ebay for around $15. If you are anything like me, losing drivers for older hardware comes naturally. After scouring google high and low I managed to find these working drivers. Most search engines usually point to various sites who want to charge for this driver download. Here it [...]

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No audio in Soundmax

28. February 2008

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Just recently fixed a computer for someone that was doing my head in for a couple of hours. The system was based on an m2npv-vm Asus motherboard with an onboard Soundmax High Definition audio chip. The problem? Windows xp was not detecting any sound devices, regardless how may times different revisions of [...]

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