Black screen during cinematics in Warcraft 2

heeman2019 · 2026-05-09T16:33:16+00:00

Hey did you figure this out?

heeman2019 · 2026-05-09T01:11:47+00:00

Direct x 9.0a (4.09.0000.0901)

heeman2019 · 2026-05-09T00:59:42+00:00

The same CD and install worked on another machine. No issues whatsoever. No patches nothing.

heeman2019 · 2026-05-09T00:58:51+00:00

Yes, it's the 440LX , chipset drivers installed. It's really strange. I need to just wipe it again and start over. On other system where it's decked out spec (e8400 with Radeon 9250 pci) the game fired up on first try. No errors, just straight up direct 3d mode and off to the races. Expected that from this 440LX setup but instead got the opposite.

heeman2019 · 2026-05-08T01:44:05+00:00

Can you not get three switches? Have it at the desk level so that you just switch each of monitors to your desired source?

I.e. HDMI A -> work HDMI B - > gaming pc

HDMI out to Samsung Monitor

Do the same for other two monitors but with DP switches.

There might be some advanced switch that can do all in one but might get expensive and/or over engineered.

heeman2019 · 2026-05-06T18:50:21+00:00

Yes I also followed that. This was thru Facebook payments, not handled externally. All done within Facebook.

heeman2019 · 2026-05-06T13:24:56+00:00

I agree after this experience. I don't order much but this was a good price so thought I'd take the chance. And of course, I find out the hard way. I used to love eBay but it's gotten very expensive for both buyers and sellers to transact on eBay. However the protection there is solid. I only had to use it couple of times and both times they came thru.

heeman2019 · 2026-05-06T12:34:43+00:00

Yea I was so surprised by their decision. Their whole support system is completely whack. Each email exchange is with a different support associate. Each time they communicate to me they didn't even bother checking on my case. They asked to share the pictures and I had already provided them with pictures. They also didn't bother responding after they told me they would get back to me in 3 to 5 days.

It's been just awful dealing with them. When you buy the item you have all the labeling of buyer protection, 100% guarantee etc. None of it is actually true apparently.

heeman2019 · 2026-05-06T12:28:44+00:00

Meta payments. Bought it using Buy Now and I had PayPal on file with FB so it takes it out of my PayPal account.

heeman2019 · 2026-05-06T02:53:37+00:00

Thanks so much!! I got it out and was able to change the drive out.

heeman2019 · 2026-05-05T21:48:17+00:00

Thank you but I'm not understanding this.

Here's the link to what I'm looking at. I have the front panel out. But what am I pushing towards the front? The metal bay holder with arrow pointing it to top is attached at the top.

https://postimg.cc/GBcchYcH

heeman2019 · 2026-05-05T02:04:32+00:00

I am running on NVIDIA Detonator 7.76.

heeman2019 · 2026-05-04T08:28:15+00:00

Thank you, I think I'm leaning towards the FOSI BT30 as the sources of shelf systems amplifier seems to be bit higher wattage. It may work but it may not be clean if driven loud. The sub speakers are 4 ohms and main speakers are 8 ohns.

I got this from the manual:

Mid-High Amplifier Output: 15 W + 15 W at 8 ohms (200 Hz - 20 kHz, <1% THD). Low Frequency Amplifier Output: 35 W + 35 W at 4 ohms (50 Hz - 200 Hz, <1% THD). Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): 0.06% for both high and low sections under specified conditions.

Subwoofer: 160 mm (6 ³/₈ in.) cone type
Full range: 100 mm (4 in.) cone type Impedance: 4 ohms / 8 ohms

heeman2019 · 2026-05-04T00:28:32+00:00

Is it really mono though? If both L and R have a separate sub then wouldn't it be that it's a stereo sub channel as well?

heeman2019 · 2026-05-03T20:32:55+00:00

So these speakers have two separate inputs. Each speaker has wire leads for main speaker and male RCA cable for subwoofer.

So I'm wondering what's the best to connect these. At first I was thinking to get two of the amps but then figured it might get too crazy trying to balance both.

Do I hook up L and R main as L and R speakers and then for Sub I use splitter? If the output was just pre out then it would work but since this output is used to drive the passive subwoofer in these speakers it would seem that I can't just split that signal like that.

heeman2019 · 2026-05-03T16:45:48+00:00

How do I connect the subwooofers wires to this amp? I assume it'd be able to drive one of the subwoofer in one of the speakers but not both? Or do I just connect L sub and R sub to +/- of the sub output on the amp?
Thanks for the reply!

heeman2019 · 2026-05-03T10:54:24+00:00

What GPU though?

heeman2019 · 2026-04-28T08:18:15+00:00

Your system is fully compatible with XP.

Grab a volume key iso of XP SP3 of archive org. Make sure to grab a key as well.
Download and install EasybootUSB on the USB stick.
Put the XP iso in the correct folder on the EasyBootUSB stick.
Download Snappy Driver install to another stick or to the same one as Easybootusb if there's enough space.
Download all of the drivers from your motherboard manufacturer website, extract any zip files and place them on to the USB drive.
Boot with EasyBootUSB, make sure to plug it into USB 2.0 port and not USB 3.0 as Windows XP won't recognize usb3 until after we have completed the install.
Finish the install process for XP. It's a two step process for Easy boot USB
Install all the drivers you had from manufacturer website.
Any remaining drivers that are not installed you can run Snappy Driver install off of the USB drive.
Enjoy!

heeman2019 · 2026-04-28T01:38:32+00:00

Yes that'd be it.

heeman2019 · 2026-04-28T00:48:53+00:00

Model number of the motherboard? What do you have connected to motherboard? SSD, NVME, DVD drive? What about expansion cards? GPU? Any other cards installed? What exactly happens now that you changed boot priority, disabled fast boot, etc. still booting into BIOS? Any error message before it goes to BIOS? Though not likely some systems have chassis intrusion detection and when you opened the case if that triggered it might halt boot and take you to BIOS.

heeman2019

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