Forum: General
January 30th 08, 06:52 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 4
Views: 330
Dell raid questions
It is best to create a RAID array using disks with same size empty partitions. Create the array and then install your operating system. The dire warning is for people who have a disk with an OS...
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Forum: General
January 28th 08, 03:27 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 8
Views: 213
Wireless card IP and DNS is getting reset
You need to change the TCP/IP properties on the PC. Set the default gateway to 192.168.1.1 (under the advanced tab). Set the DNS servers to 68.94.156.1 and 69.227.255.30
Instead of specifying the DNS...
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Forum: General
January 26th 08, 07:40 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 4
Views: 322
Sound Card and USB headset
sandy58 wrote:
On Jan 26, 6:35 am, Mike Walsh wrote:
My sister's sound card suddenly stopped working. Nothing is muted and reinstalling the sound card did not fix the...
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Forum: General
January 26th 08, 04:51 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 4
Views: 322
Sound Card and USB headset
kony wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:35:22 -0500, Mike Walsh
wrote:
My sister's sound card suddenly stopped working.
Nothing is muted and reinstalling the...
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Forum: General
January 26th 08, 06:35 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 4
Views: 322
Sound Card and USB headset
My sister's sound card suddenly stopped working. Nothing is muted and reinstalling the sound card did not fix the problem. She tried a different set of speakers and they did not work. She also has a...
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Forum: General
January 18th 08, 04:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 4
Views: 552
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Forum: General
January 17th 08, 04:11 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 1
Views: 215
Question Regarding PC700 & PC800 Memory
It depends on how much memory his OS/applications use. A WinXP Home installation with just a browser, word processor etc. will run fine with 640 MB, and adding slower memory would slow the system,...
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Forum: General
January 14th 08, 02:26 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 17
Views: 646
Grounding
Many people recommend that the PC be unplugged. This is primarily because when the PC is "switched off" there can still be power on the motherboard. It is better to leave the PC plugged in so that it...
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Forum: General
January 13th 08, 05:13 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 3
Views: 345
Removing a dual boot OS from the MBR
Peter Olcott wrote:
I am trying to make my Toshiba Portege 3440 CT laptop boot
from its external CD-ROM drive. I have already tried all of
the obvious things such as configuring BIOS to boot...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 13th 08, 05:13 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 3
Views: 405
Removing a dual boot OS from the MBR
Peter Olcott wrote:
I am trying to make my Toshiba Portege 3440 CT laptop boot
from its external CD-ROM drive. I have already tried all of
the obvious things such as configuring BIOS to boot...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 9th 08, 07:17 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
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Replies: 19
Views: 683
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Forum: General
January 9th 08, 07:17 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
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Replies: 7
Views: 323
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Forum: General
December 26th 07, 03:22 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 1
Views: 298
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Forum: General
December 21st 07, 06:32 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 11
Views: 536
Power supply Wattage
The components with the highest power requirements are the CPU and 3D video cards. In an older computer (before the power hungry Pentium 4) with a 2D video card 250 watts is adequate. In a newer PC...
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Forum: General
December 20th 07, 04:35 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 17
Views: 981
Msdos Boot CD 1.4 MB limit
Using Nero express ver. 5 I can either:
Create a boot CD using a floppy as the boot image. The boot partition will be 1.4 MB and the rest of the CD can be accessed as a normal CD, which require CD...
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Forum: General
December 12th 07, 05:48 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 9
Views: 614
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Forum: General
November 27th 07, 04:33 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 3
Views: 262
ram failure?
Rookie wrote:
richard h wrote in news:daU2j.1332$WJ3.154@newsfe4-
gui.ntli.net:
I have (a friend with) an a60 laptop (toshiba I think) which is only
reporting...
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Forum: General
November 21st 07, 06:15 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 3
Views: 292
seagate HD spindown prevention windows
Disable power saving options in the BIOS.
"news.virgin.net" wrote:
Hi,
I have a old box running Win2000 for data acquisition with an old 20Gb
Seagate ST320423A drive in it 24/7. I've...
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Forum: General
November 12th 07, 04:28 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 4
Views: 490
Sudden Power Off and Reboot
Reboots can be caused by processor overheating, bad memory, bad power supply, even a bad motherboard. Removing case panels can cause the motherboard and disk drives to run hotter because the case...
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Forum: General
November 12th 07, 04:16 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 5
Views: 381
minimum hardware for watching movies
A new video card will not help. Video codecs are processor intensive. If I recall correctly the minimum processor speed for MPEG decoding is about 400 Mhz. You might improve performance by using a...
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Forum: General
November 12th 07, 04:06 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 4
Views: 305
Motherboard change now have two windows XP
Boot from a WinXP CD and do a repair installation on drive C. You might need a retail version CD to do this. If you want to do a clean install you could wipe the C drive clean and do a restore to...
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Forum: General
November 9th 07, 04:46 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 16
Views: 452
Basic question about processor speeds
As others have said, 256 MB memory is barely adequate for WinXP. You need at least 512 MB to do any image editing.
A Core 2 Duo is about 50% faster than a Pentium 4 at the same clock speed so you...
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Forum: General
November 3rd 07, 03:14 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 3
Views: 294
Keeps resetting
How far does it go before it resets? It probably gives an error message, which might not be on the screen long enough for you to read.
Boot from the floppy and run Sys A: C: You should then be able...
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Forum: General
October 27th 07, 03:56 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Replies: 8
Views: 238
USB Speed
Gerard Bok wrote:
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:04:18 -0700, wrote:
500G usb hdd connected to a P3 with USB 1 only is only managing to run
at 1,5M transfer rate, which is...
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Forum: General Hardware
October 25th 07, 06:31 PM Posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.hardware
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,571
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