NVIDIA does not support officially support nForce2 based motherboard with drivers for Windows Vista. Although this no Vista support decision has disappointed many owners with mobo with nForce2 chipset such as Abit NF7-S, ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, Chaintech Zenith CT-7NJS, EPoX 8RDA+, Leadtek K7NCR18D-Pro, Biostar M7NCG, Albatron KM18G PRO, Gigabyte 7NNXP and MSI K7N2, however, Windows Vista can be installed and ran properly on these nForce 2 motherboard, even without purpose made Vista drivers.

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MP3 Players are quite common nowadays. But how many come with Bluetooth facility? Well, Insignia 4GB player – the first MP3 players that offer built-in Bluetooth is available now! The new MP3 player can transmit stereo MP3 music and video soundtracks to a pair of headphones over a wireless Bluetooth connection.

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GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers have gotten smaller and smaller in the recent years, and BlueSky Positioning looks set to have taken advantage of the trend to announce in SIMposium conference a technology which could really be a killer application: a complete GPS system embedded on a SIM card. In simply words, Blue Sky Positioning has developed a complete GPS system, including the antenna, which physically fits in a tiny mobile phone SIM slot, thus making possible each and every cellphone users to have a GPS on their hand too.

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Some people might keep away from Sony MP3 network Walkman because of the dreaded SonicStage software that is required to transfer music to and from their portable devices. Anyway, Sony is soon to debut a new flash-based Walkman, the B100 series which supports drag ‘n drop music transfer with no SonicStage software required to assist in moving music onto the device.

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Creative MultiSpeaker Surround (CMSS) is a feature in Sound Blaster audio cards as part of EAX technology which allows stereo upmix from various sources such as MP3, WMA, or Wav to become 4.1, 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1 channels surround sound, depending on speaker setup and sound card model. CMSS works regardless of whether the typical stereo sources are Dolby Surround encoded or not, and works well with Dolby Pro Logic, WAVE, AVI and MIDI program material. Unfortunately, with latest Windows Vista driver from Creative for Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External sound card, CMSS is not supported. Here’s a little trick that allows SB Live! 24-bit External to support CMSS.

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While waiting on the ATI’s new line of Radeon graphics cards based on the company’s R600 architecture, DailyTech have already tested the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT (320 stream processors, 512MB GDDR3 clocked at 1650MHz running across a 512-bit wide memory interface which results in a 105.6GB/s memory bandwidth) against the NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 640MB (128 stream processors, 640MB GDDR3 clocked at 1600MHz, 320-bit wide memory interface with only a 64GB/s memory bandwidth).

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The electronics manufacturer, Hitachi has announced three new speedy hard drives recently including the Ultrastar 15K300 (up to 300GB) running at 15,000rpm, the Ultrastar C10K147 (up to 147GB) spinning at 10,000rpm in a 2.5 enclosure and as well as a version of its high capacity terabyte hard drive, the Ultrastar A7K1000.

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When you log on to Microsoft Windows, the folder C:\windows\system32 is opened automatically in a Windows Explorer window every time. This is quite a common problem encountered by computer users. Technically, when this System32 folder window opens by itself each time the computer starts up, it is due to the a leftover piece of an uninstalled program which causes problems in the Windows Registry or in the computer’s startup process, or any a null, incomplete, or damaged entry exists in the registry.

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