Recent content by aplefka

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    How much has ATOT activity increased today (8/31/14)?

    And countless hours wasted talking on Ventrilo while playing that ridiculous drawing game. Almost a decade ago. (I had to do the forgot password process just to log in and write this post :))
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    Windows 7 Wireless Card Issue(s)

    Moved it from my second PCI slot to my first and that somehow fixed it, for now at least. Thanks for the help.
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    Windows 7 Wireless Card Issue(s)

    Thanks a lot! Through my hours of Googling only once did F8 come into a thread but I didn't understand the context. Annoying, but it'll work for now until I can afford a new card. Edit: Now I have a different problem. Code 12: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. If...
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    Windows 7 Wireless Card Issue(s)

    Finally upgraded to Win7 the other day and I must say it has been a complete and total nightmare so far. I'm running Home Premium 64-bit and I've got a Linksys WMP54GS v1.1 wireless card. For the first day and a half the internet worked fine, then after a reboot suddenly the card would no longer...
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    Games like Chart Wars

    Did anyone play the game Chart Wars in any of its incarnations? I remember it was a fairly fun game to play despite its many flaws and was wondering if there was anything out there similar to it these days. A Google search just brought up a failed attempt at creating a new one a little over a...
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    Windows Vista default programs

    I've done that at least 50x. Thanks though.
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    Windows Vista default programs

    Mods: Not sure if this belongs in OS or Software, so feel free to move if necessary. This problem just started popping up within the past 2 months. For some reason my MP3s no longer open with iTunes. For a while they opened with this other program that I used for transcribing files, but I...
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    Random Powering Off

    Out of the blue. System is approximately a year and a half old. I ran Memtest86 and it found nothing wrong. I might try downloading Mobo Monitor and see if I can get some accurate temp readings from that. Any other suggestions?
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    Random Powering Off

    Bought a new PSU today, even jumped from 430w to 500w and went back to the Antec brand. I noticed on my old PSU that one of the molex connectors seemed like it had been shorted out since there was black around one of the pins. I thought all would be fine, wanted to test it out so I went in the...
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    Random Powering Off

    I was fine for another couple weeks and now it's acting up again. I think it's time to do things the right way instead of the cheap way unfortunately. When you say a PSU checker, do you mean something that I wouldn't have to remove the connectors for? Cuz for $20 that'd be awesome.
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    Asus Customer service

    I had an ASUS board a while back that was faulty. Terrible customer service and I will never buy one of their products again.
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    Random Powering Off

    Bumping this since I was fine for the past month and a half then two days ago this problem jumped up again. The only additional information I can provide is that the majority of the time it shuts down while using just iTunes/Firefox, but it has powered down a couple times while playing a game...
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    AnandTech not what it used to be?

    It's funny this was posted today. I had to post in one of the help forums and thought about how long it'd been since I really participated in OT. Looked it up and since Jan 09, I made 108 posts. Crazy to think how much time I spent on the site and on here 5 years ago. I agree with TallBill...
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    Random Powering Off

    I'd be surprised if it was overheating. I rarely find myself at CPU 100%; mostly when SETI is running at full throttle. Each time it has shut off little to no programs/operations have been running. SETI would only be running off of the GPU. This morning all I had running was Firefox and...
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    Random Powering Off

    I've noticed within just the past couple days that my computer randomly powers off. I've never been in the room to see it happen (just now I was taking out the garbage and came back to find it off). It's done this 3 times in the past 20ish hours. I'm only inferring here, but I'm fairly sure that...