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ClearType font smoothing is not working correctly by
Peter Olcott
I bought a new ViewSonic VA2226w monitor and text on the
screen appears more blurry than on my conventional aspect
ratio ViewSonic monitor. Is this because the 1680 x 1050
widescreen aspect ratio?
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Graphics card nightmare by
berthelot samuel
Hi,
I have an Nvidia Geforce FX 5700 Ultra (brand Gigabyte) in the AGP
socket (8x) of a Gigabyte Motherboard. For months it has been running
without any problem.
But for the last 4 days, when I turn on my computer, the screen
appears completely screwed up, multi-coloured with different...
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July 3rd 04 06:10 AM
by Aromus
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Quieting a PC by
Gish
Hi Guys,
My system is:
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Abit NF7-M Motherboard
512mb Kingston DDR2700
60gb WD 7200rpm
160gb Samsung 7200rpm
Recently the noise began bothering me so I bought an Antec Sonata case
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Choosing an ATX case and P4 motherboard by
Mals
I need some help in choosing a case for an ATX motherboard.
I have a Dell Dimension 4550, with 2.53GHz P4 CPU and 512MB of DDR 300
RAM. During a recent storm, it appears that my motherboard has been
knocked out. Instead of getting the replacement motherboard from Dell,
I am planning to get the...
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August 8th 04 06:15 PM
by Mals
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focus problem: monitor or video card? by
Paula
I have a monitor LG FLATRON F700P and a video card AG315E-32 with 32MB
(sorry I don't know the manufacturer, just know that the chip is from
SiS).
I'm used to work in a 1600x1200 resolution. One day, I just started my
PC and the image was out of focus. I noticed that if I downgrade the
resolution...
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Laptop battery question by
Andrew
Hi,
i have two laptops one is new and one is old. The old laptop is a
gateway solo 5300 and the new one is an hp, sorry i dont know the
model number. Anyway, teh gateway has been plugged in at all times,
and now the battery meter is very unreliable as is the charge. My
question is if i use a...
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Hardware upgrade question… by
Chris
I have an old Hewlett Packard 8490 (Pentium III / 500MHz / 440BX
chipset / 100 MHz FSB / ATA66 / 512MB RAM / 120GB HD). I recently
purchased a 8x DVD Recorder for it (I got it on sale :) I can record
with it but only at 2x (barely). I was wondering if it would be a good
idea to upgrade to an Ultra...
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August 23rd 04 07:30 PM
by Chris
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CMOS SETTING WRONG by
Dehbash
Hi guys
I am turning my pc on and it gives me 2 beebs + msg "CMOS SETTING
WRONG" when starting it.
Then it will try to load windows xp proffesional with no success " it
freezes"
I tried to boot it up in "Safe Mode" with its diffrent combination but
still it would not work,
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hot-stuck pixel on Toshiba laptop by
Ray
I have a Toshiba 509 P4 WideScreen laptop and since day one has had a tiny
"red speck" stuck pixel towards the lower left bottom of the screen. While
it is noticible only in black spots that are in that area it still bothers
me none the less. Is this repairable and does anyone have any expereince...
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December 26th 04 05:37 PM
by Ray
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Recovering by restoring Windows registry possible? by
Anonymous Jack
This seems plausible in theory, but I've never tried it and would like
to hear opinions, or better - some success stories.
Many people advocate partitioning a drive, installing the OS on a
smallish partition to contain just the drive, have the Page file on
another smallish partition, installing...
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Bending Light? by
Aaron
I was just looking at the following image at anandtech.com, and
wondered how it planned to bend the light after going through the
lens. Are they just being stupid, or does light bend *after* going
through a...
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PSU watts reading by
Frank
Hi all,
Anyone knows if it's possible to monitor or take a reading of how much watts
the psu is giving out. I have a 400W psu and I would like to know if I'm
running it at full capacity or if it's just giving out 50% of its capacity.
Reason is the fan pulls out air which is 2x hotter that my case...
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What's you highest overclock? by
willah
What's your highest overclock and what was it on? (no BS please)
Mine was 400Mhz on and old athlon 800 (from 800mhz to 1.2Ghz) on an
Asus A7V133, I pushed the stock mutliplier of 8.0x to 12.0x on the
stock FSB of 100Mhz.
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June 6th 04 07:49 PM
by Aaron
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Hard drive full... by
Phoofmeister
The hard disk on my machine came divided into a 15GB (C:) drive & a
100GB (D:) drive.
All system and program files & folders are located on the C: drive,
which is now full. I would like to use the much larger D: drive for
some of these files. Can I move the WINDOWS folder from the C: drive
to...
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Windows won't start with new PCI card by
J
Hi, I'm using WindowsMe, on P3-933 Dell4100. Just installed an Ali M5271
USB2.0 + Firewire PCI card. First issue was windows would hang at the "New
Hardware Found..." box. I happened to touch my printer USB plug to the back
of the card & it then continued loading! Huh? It seemed to load all...
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May 27th 04 03:57 PM
by Pen
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Standby power use - AMD or Intel? by
U. U.
I am getting a new PC and would like to leave it on all my waking hours, so
I am concerned about power consumption when it's just sitting there not
doing anything. AMD XP processors seems to have standby power usage of
only about 5 watts, but what about Intel processors? Can they also be put
into...
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Drive access causes sound distortion by
Amol Khiste
When playing a sound file (e.g. mp3), the sound gets distorted every
time the hard disk or CDROM drive is accessed. The distortion
persists during the entire access time. Is there any way to get
around this problem? This problem is heard on Windows and Linux.
System specs:
AMD K6 550 MHz
320 MB...
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External USB 2.0 CD-RW stuttering by
ECM
I just bought a Pacific Digital 52X24X52 external USB2.0 CD-RW, along
with a CompUSA generic 2-port USB2.0 card. I installed them last
night, and it seemed to work out - the drive is recognized
appropriately, and reads and writes to CD-R. SiSoft Sandra 2004
reports a drive index of ~8000 - a little...
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October 17th 03 04:30 AM
by ECM
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low powered PC by
WenbinChen
Hello all,
I have been a software guy. Dun know much about hardware.
I've been trying to look at comparable low-powered computer.
Something comparable to this:
http://www.compulab.co.il/atxbase-arm.htm
(this company claims under 1 W ??). I've seen comparable ones that run ~15 W
advertised.
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Windows 2K, need help URGENTLY! by
Leonisknovo
I recently bought a new video card.
Now, all went well installing it, installing all the drivers, ect.
It was the right type (AGP), and all that.
Well, my Anti-virus said a 'rundll32.exe' had been modified,
and the only options it gave me where help and repair.
I checked out help, which didn't...
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