Recent content by dashdoc

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    Car audio question - help please.

    The JL "W3" line of woofers are designed to work in anything from small sealed enclosures all the way to large vented enclosures, the installation method you are describing is called an "infinite baffel" JL makes drivers designed to be used in just such a situation, the IB...
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    PS/2 mouse and USB mouse, conflict?

    I was helping a friend set up his new HP 810 based PC. He also bought a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer, but we left the HP(Logitech) PS/2 connected. Everything worked fine until I unplugged the power(to connect a surge suppresor), then the machine would not post, after an hour or so of basic...
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    Favourite Pink Floyd song?

    Pigs on the Wing
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    Any car head unit suggestions?

    Stay away from Legacy, Profile and the like, buy a brand name with less power, Pioneer, Sony, Etc. The problem is that there are no rules or regulations on car audio amps, the manf. can print anything they want to, truth or not. It is all a numbers game, you can any amp and get outrageous...
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    Any car head unit suggestions?

    Genocide, I will have to admit that a good amp will make more of a difference than just about any other single upgrade you can make. On a related note I just finished the system in my new 2001 Blazer, Alpine 7965, MB Quart 3 way Comp. up front, Coax in the rear, 3 JL Audio 10W6s in custom...
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    Any car head unit suggestions?

    I have been a professional car audio installer for 18 years, and I have to say that there are NO unimportant parts, I hate to use a cliche', but a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. The Mp3 decoding decks are still pretty new, first revisions, I have been a fan of Alpine's car audio...
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    Motherboard for AMD Athalon

    I have built several Intel boxes for myself, and I have always used ASUS boards, but know I want to build an AMD machine and I need some imput on the best board to use for an Athalon 1G.
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    Plextor questions.

    Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32S w/ BurnProof technology, Ultra Narrow SCSI, 12x write / 10x re-write / 32x read, 4 MB cache buffer, supports disc-at-once and packet writing, power tray loading, bare drive, 1-year warranty. HYPERMICRO
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    Plextor questions.

    But mine is the internal version.
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    Plextor questions.

    Yes, the following is from Plextor's site.Plextor's hottest 12/10/32S Ultra SCSI CD-RW is now available as an external drive! Includes the same BURN-Proof* technology as the award-winning internal drive, assuring the highest quality and stability while recording at even the fastest speeds
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    Plextor questions.

    No, mine is the 1210s scsi with burn proof, got it from hypermicro and 50 TDK cd fo $285, and from what I can tell from the Clone CD site it is supported
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    Plextor questions.

    hanpan, I just got the 12/10/32 scsi burner, the ultra plex 40 reader and Adaptec2930 scsi card, now I am not sure about the Clone cd issue, but I just burned an MP3 compilation disc with nero, WHILE I scaned the mp3 dir. with my virus scanner, copied 100 megs of files from one hard drive to...
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    How fast is your line speed?

    Your line speed: 1511.1 Kbps 185.2 K bytes/sec
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    AndrewR has hit upon something..........

    When I bought my 3d Prophet DDR and Iiyama Pro 450 several months back I have terrible image quality, and I could not run any refresh rate above 70 Hz., After trying everything , I picked up a BNC monitor cable....wham!, problem solved, with the evolution of the Nvidia drivers and the BNC cable...
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    Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Sometimes Crash...

    "If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash and the double-clicking...