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Missing Drivers?

July 15, 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 [...]

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Enable ITC Processing with ATI CCC?

June 19, 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 [...]

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Find $10,000 with Microsoft IE8

June 18, 2009

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In a refreshingly to the point Internet Explorer 8 promotional stunt, Microsoft has buried $10,000 somewhere on the internet.  Be the first to find it and you keep it. How? Visit the IE8 $10,000 competition website and follow tengrand_ie8 on Twitter: To enter the competition, the entrant must follow clues released by @Tengrand_IE8 on Twitter [...]

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Dolby Digital (AC3) and DTS over ATI HDMI XP

May 19, 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 on the Windows Vista OS only [...]

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Convert a gpt protective partition

April 18, 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 the [...]

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