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How's this computer look for Mom?? by
rferoni
Here's the list of products I want to build my Mom and Grandma's computer
with. Please tell me if you think I should change anything. I posted a few
days back about building computers for them. I went to new egg and picked
out what I thought was decent stuff, not real cheap but not...
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December 6th 03 09:53 PM
by JAD
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compaq 5000US question by
Mike0000
I have a heavily modified 5000US (replaced drive, filled ram, replaced
chip, replaced videocard, etc) and would like to keep it for a while,
but the power supply noise is killing me. It has this horrible whine to
it. A quick look at it suggests its ATX sized, but can anyone confirm
this? Yeah, I...
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December 6th 03 07:59 PM
by Guido
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Cleaning the CPU dye and HS? by
J. Burns
Hey there, would it be safe to use Mineralised Methylated Spirits and a lens
cleaning cloth to clean my CPU dye and HS? I've read its something like:
"MMS is a mixture of 90 parts by volume of spirits, 9.5 parts by
volume of wood naphtha and 0.5 part by volume of crude
pyridine, to each 1000...
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help! Only the LED on mobo is on but could not boot by
rc
Hi guys,
I am building a new pc by my own. It is ASUS p4p8000 motherboard and PIV
2.6 FSB 800 CPU, Two 512MB RAM. Now I am facing a problem. When I power
on the PC, only the LED on the motherboard is light but there is nother
else happened. The CPU and chassis fans are not running, no display...
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December 6th 03 07:02 PM
by Bob M
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Recomendations for an athlon motherboard by
Savoir_Faire
I am building a new system for my kids and I don't want to put too many
cards in a mid tower case. I want onboard sound, modem, network connector,
and if possible a super vga connector with the full compliment of usb ports
maybe firewire ports is there a motherboard that suits my needs
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SDRAM 128 MB (sichtbar 64 MB) by
Jacek Zuber
Hallo.
Ich habe auf mein Board AN430TX (ALDI-Rechner) einen 128 MB SDRAM (128MB PC133 DIMM CL2) Kingstone Bausten gesteckt, es werden aber NUR 64 MB gesehen.
Im Manual vom Board wird ua. aufgelistet:
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December 6th 03 05:13 PM
by Shep©
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Graphics cards again. by
Mike
I want to upgrade my 32mb nVIDIA TNT2 M64 on my old
P111 700mhz machine. Just for game play no TV.
I don't want to spend over £70 and I have seen 3
cards on sale below this price. .
ATI 128MB 9200 RADEON
PNY GEFORCE FX 5200 128Mb
Hercules 3D Prophet 128Mb
Are any of them better than the other ?
Or...
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December 6th 03 04:04 PM
by Shep©
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Network cables and remote access by
Mark
Hi all.
A few questions:
1---- Can someone just confirm that it is safe to unplug Cat 5 a network
cable without turning off the system on both notebooks and desktop systems.
2--- I want to build a server that runs Windows 2000 Professional. Once
set-up this system will not have a monitor connected...
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Hard Drive Recovery - HELP!!! by
Leon Pender
Can anyone tell me what's the best Hard Drive Recovery software available.
I've tried 'Winternal's ERD Commander 2003' and it could not find any files
on the corrupted partition.
Is there any better software out there?
Thanks
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CD-burner and CPU usage by
Maintane
I have a P4 2.26, Intel 850E motherboard with 512mb rambus mem, 2 ea Promise
controllers a 120g WD, 160g WD, 2 ea 80g WD, 30g maxtor USB, DVD, CD-RW,
DVD-RW runnung Win XP Pro. Most devices are master on their own IDE channel.
I believe the DVD is slaved off of system drive.
Initially, I was able...
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December 6th 03 02:56 PM
by Shep©
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Upgrading memory by
Mini Me
I have a Biostar motherboard with an Athlon XP 2700+ in it and 1 GB of
PC2700 memory (two 512 meg sticks).
I promised my wife I'd upgrade her computer from 256MB and add a 512MB
stick.
She's running an XP 1600+, so PC2700 is fine.
My question is... Can I buy a PC3200 stick of 512MB, put it in...
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December 6th 03 02:37 PM
by Chris
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Best bang for the buck.. mem or cpu? by
Clive
"Brian Link" wrote in message
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Just bought an Abit KD7A, and a new Seagate 7200rpm 60g HD. I used the
1gig Athlon from my old mainboard, and put a 512M PC2700 memory module
in.
I'd like to boost the performance of the...
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December 6th 03 02:35 PM
by Chris
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Confusing HardDisk Problem by
Dean
I recently put my old HD back in as a second hard disk, for storage and
to run Linux every now and then. There are no problems with the disk
(F:) and its installed physically correct and tightly.
When running under windows xp, after approximately 35 minutes of using
the computer, the computer...
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December 6th 03 02:34 PM
by Chris
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what are the latest zip drives like?? by
Andrew Crook
When I last used a zip drive it was a parallel port one 100Mb
these were to small for me and I moved over to tape.
latter I heard of the click of death problems.
a friend of mine has had some problems setting up one of these old zip
drives recently. it just refuses to work with is printer and has...
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December 6th 03 02:21 PM
by Chris
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How good are ext. HD's? by
John Wilson
Hi all,
I am looking for a relatively inexpensive backup solution for, at least
as of right now, about 8 gigs of data. I've been doing the CD-R deal
for the better part of three years, but as the amount of data that
needs to be backed up is always increasing, I'm looking for cost...
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Blind dailing with PCTEL 2304 WT V.92 MDC modem in w2k by
Steven
Modem works fine in NOT blind dailing mode under w2k.
However when ticking off the wait for dailtone before dailing
(under startControl PanelPhone and modems optionsModemsPCTEL 2304
WT V.92 MDC PropertiesGeneral)
and inserting x0 (blind dailing AT command...
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December 6th 03 04:26 AM
by philo
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FS: "New" AMD Athlon XP 2100+ CPU w/ CoolerMaster by
rick osborn
Bought Tuesday from NewEgg (receipt available). Incompatible with
system board.
Now shipping conditions restrict getting RMA. Includes new, unused
CoolerMaster fan and heatsink.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3445818827
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December 6th 03 02:37 AM
by kony
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Hard drive problem - help! by
user
All right, so I have become a victim of my own negligence. I thought only
other people's hard drives die. Wrong. However, I am hoping there is a
chance I can fix my malfunctioning hard drive. Here's the problem: recently,
I tried to turn on my computer and it wouldn't. For several seconds...
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FS: GEFORCE FX 5200 8X 3D VIDEO CARD by
^Doc^
GEFORCE FX 5200 8X 3D VIDEO CARD
S-VIDEO TV OUT, 256 DDR RAM, MINT CONDITION
LEFT OVER PARTS FROM ANOTHER SYSTEM.
$50.00
PC133 ram
256 & 128 meg sticks (best offer)
remove NOSPAM to reply
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December 6th 03 12:27 AM
by ^Doc^
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