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Startup Pause.. Please read opinions requested: by
The Me
System
AMD 2000+
A7M266 MB
1 GB PC 2100 Ram
Geforce 4 ti4600 128 Meg Video Card.
SB Live 5.1 Plat
Western Digital HD 100 GB 8mg Buffer
I just installed the new HD. I did a clean install of the Windows XP home
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July 27th 03 05:14 PM
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Games PC Upgrade - suggestions wanted by
trappeduser
"Brian" wrote in message
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I use my computer mainly for games and the internet, but recently it
clearly isn't fast enough for the newer games (it's also been crashing
a lot and I've spent so many hours trying to...
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PC keeps shuttig down/rebooting by
Rich Czuba
I have a Win-XP PC based on a soyo mb and an athlon 1.33 processor. It has
been running fine for about 2 years. This past week, it began doing
stop/system dumps and, at times, just rebooting. The system also is now
prone to freezing up at times throughout the day. Here is what I have
looked...
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xp for dell by
Norm
Not really, unless you buy a Dell. It's a restore cd that OEMer's send with
their systems. Even if you could get it working in another pc you wouldn't
be able to activate it.
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July 27th 03 07:58 AM
by jaster
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New Sound Card: Audigy or Santa Cruz? by
Faustus
Hey!
It's time to retire my SB Live Value...so which card should I get?
Creative Audigy or Turte Beach Santa Cruz? Newegg is offering the
Santa Cruz for 40 bucks right now....Audigy is 60ish.
Faustus
Dave King -- Faustus
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Linux versus Windows by
MrToad
Boba & Ilinka wrote:
For home use (E-mail, surf a net, spread ****, word processing) are there
any sense to switch to Linux?
What is good site to download Linux? On existing hard drive could I add
additional partition without erasing existing data?
Any comment welcome.
Boba...
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July 27th 03 04:37 AM
by Stacey
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inksaver program - any good? by
trappeduser
STRYDENT do an inksaver program
http://www.strydent.com
Has anyone here tried it? My printer isn't all that good
and needs replacing so I can't really test it yet.
I got an E-mail from ACCSEE who send me mails on
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Biostar mini ATX biggest CPU? by
AJ
In the manual for the Biostar M7VKQ. PRO, it doesn't tell what the max
Mhz speed is. The biggest one in a bundle was an XP2100 or 2200+. If
anyones gotten a bigger one working that would be great to know.
Otherwise I'll put a 2100+ in it.
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When your PC gives a little they...
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July 27th 03 03:55 AM
by AJ
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Saving a waterlogged computer by
David Starr
My father in law's pc got drowned during some recent flooding in
Florida. It's a mini-tower & roughly the bottom half of the case was
under water. I'm thinking that taking it apart, washing all the
boards in warm water with a mild detergent, rinsing in distilled water
& letting it air dry for a...
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soundcard problems on p4s8x asus mobo! by
Reepicheep
problem not resolved. :(
here is a re-post (four posts total):
the first post:
hi. my system specs are as follows:
intel p4 2.53ghz
1024mb ram DDR333/PC2700
ati radeon 9700pro (agp)
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First Overclocking Experiments with EP-8RGA+. Advice welcome. by
Wayne Phillips
Sorry to cross post; this ended up in the wrong newsgroup.
I have a AMD Athelon XP 2400+ on an EP-8RGA+ board with Kingston PC2700 RAM
(2 x 256).
When I first assembled the machine I set FBS = 166 and dropped the
multiplier from 14.5 to 11.5 as suggested by Bas Ruiter here to avoid
overclocking...
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July 27th 03 12:31 AM
by rAD
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Simple question about front panel connector labeling by
Alan Meyer
I'm building my first homebuilt PC and having trouble figuring out the
front panel connectors.
The instructions in the ANTEC SLK3700AMB case manual say the reset
switch connector connects to the motherboard with "the label facing
the front of the case, and for all of the following connectors...
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Anybody who has an Aopen HQ45/HQ48 Pro case?! by
Angus Rodgers
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:44:38 +0200, wrote:
Anybody who has an Aopen HQ45 or HQ48 Pro case and could tell if this
case has any airholes in the sidepanels or something. On the picture
here http://www.aopen.com/products/housing/phq45pro.htm it seems there
are no...
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Defrag on a RAID 0 drive? by
Adrian
Does defragging a drive, which actually is a RAID 0 setup consisting
of two HDDs, work? I defragged last week my RAID 0 drive and
basically things got ugly after that - Windows files corrupted, BIOS
changed, etc.
~ Adrian ~
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"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
J....
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July 26th 03 06:45 PM
by Rod
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Intel 875PBZ, anyone? by
Adrian
Has anyone built a PC using this motherboard? I'd just like to compare
specs. and ask a few questions regarding fan selection, out of the
newsgroups if possible. Thanks.
~ Adrian ~
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"A lie gets halfway around the world before
the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Sir Winston Churchill...
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July 26th 03 06:31 PM
by ZOD
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Freaky HD Failure? by
Wheat Muncher
Consumer put me in my place by writing
A while back, I acquired a 10 GB Western Digital harddrive. It
appeared to be functioning very well, but I tried it today and the
BIOS doesn't even identify it! Sometimes I see the light turn on and
I've tried booting ten times (warm and cold). I...
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July 26th 03 03:39 PM
by BigJIm
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CL vid driver problem w/ win XP on Visualize workstation by
Rainer Wiechmann
Hi,
I just purchased a used HP Visualize x550 workstation running 2 Xeon
PIII 550's/512Mb/9.1Gig Cheetah scsi etc.
As this was a used computer it was sold clean, without any OS onboard. I
am using the machine primarily for digital audio/video apps and wish to
use Win XP.
Upon installing XP...
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Biostar M7NCG-Pro - where to buy? by
rAD
"Kevin Weinrich" wrote in message
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Does anyone know who sells the new(?) Biostar M7NCG Pro motherboard?
I've seen reviews, but know of no vendors.
Thanks,
Newegg just lowered the price $5 to $99...
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July 26th 03 05:32 AM
by rAD
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HDD temperature too low?! by
Newt Lives
OK, I just stopped by to ask this... Can a low temperature damage my
HDD?
I have a Maxtor 60GB 7200rpm HDD and, well, its temperature really
tends to get very high, even with an open computer case (you can
barely touch it, it's about 60 C, I guess). Since all my other
components also need a lot of...
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