My hardware blues are finally through. It appears that Creative Live! cards do not play nice with GeForce2 MX 200's. After I blew up my GeForce4 Ti4200, I had to fall back on my "second" card and it was causing all kinds of havoc. WinAmp would start chirping, squeaking, popping, lagging, or whatever you want to call it, any time something would happen on the screen. At first I thought it was the CPU because it always seemed like it was CPU intensive things that were causing it, but when it happened when I moused over hyper links in the browser, I started to suspect the video. After a couple of hours searching, I found this little gem on google groups. Creative Live! + GeForce2 == Bad.
So, how did I remedy it? GeForce FX 5200. It has Dual VGA so I don't need a second video card anymore. I find that I can no longer work with just a single monitor. I am too dependent upon that extra screen realestate for watching logs and other ancillery windows. I put IntelliJ IDEA's Ant Build window on the second monitor as well. Ahhh more code in view. Weeeeee I am developer heaven now!
Posted by carl at May 12, 2003 11:33 PM
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