Recent content by donjonson

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    photos lost on sdcard help please

    well that sounds like a poor design to me. leaves room for errors to occur. I cant imagine what would have to be written for a read operation. Not that I know what I am talking about or anything. and BTW thanks for the image rescue software I downloaded image rescue 4 and it seems to be...
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    photos lost on sdcard help please

    I haven't written anything to the card since this happened a few hours ago. and I never told it to delete the files. So I am not quite sure how they would be marked ready for delete. But I will give that software you recomended a try. My best guess is that the files because corrupt somehow...
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    photos lost on sdcard help please

    I just dont understand how reading a file from the card can delete it. even it I take it out while it is being read. All picasa does is scan it to see what can be imported. How could they be completely wiped out?
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    photos lost on sdcard help please

    Hello So today I put my sd card in my computers card reader and started scanning with picasa. It was talking literally forever so I hit the cancel button and took out the sdcard. So when I put the card back in the camera it only appeard to have one photo on it. This scared me so I downloaded...
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    building a low budget gaming pc for nephew

    budget is 500 or less including monitor :( I want most bang for buck (goes without saying I guess ) he wants to play things like crysis and the new batman etc.. I see CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra 2019 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883229129 from newegg for 399 shipped. Will...
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    problem with my 4850 x2

    I just set up my machine: Cori7 920 HD4850X2 (2G) 6G ram ASUS P6T mobo corsair TX650W here is my problem. I run 3D mark vantage (came with card) and I get the following problems. the water is going crazy meaning the waves peak so high that the go through the roof and eventually...
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    trouble with my 4850 X2 can someone help?

    That is a good point but I guess what I am worried about is that there might be some intermittent or specific problem with my gfx card that vantage happens to expose but dawn of war 2 doesn't. If there is something wrong with my card I want to know now so I can go through the RMA process...
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    trouble with my 4850 X2 can someone help?

    Well I updated the bios and the artifacts seem to be back. I dont see the artifacts in Dawn of war II. I can play that at full graphics settings without a problem. What benchmark should I get to determin weather my system is performing as it should?
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    trouble with my 4850 X2 can someone help?

    Im using a corsair TX650W. mobo is ASUS P6T Ill try updating the bios and see what happens. thanks!
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    trouble with my 4850 X2 can someone help?

    I intially downloaded the most recent and the problem existed. Then I did some web searching and and saw that someone said to use the drivers from sapphire's website. so I did a clean install of the sapphire provided drivers and had the same problem. when I turned off the CCC AI, the...
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    trouble with my 4850 X2 can someone help?

    specs Core i7 920 6Gb ram 3X2Gb sapphire radeon HD 4850 X2 ASUS P6T mobo vista home premium 64 bit. I have not overclocked anything I just set up my stystem and everythign seems to be running ok until I do a 3dmark vantage. The first time I ran it there were all kinds of artifact...
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    with your help this is what I came up with

    Here is what I came up with from your suggestions. I am concerned about the mobo. Do you think it is worth spending a little extra for a better one. I am planning to overclock the cpu. If so which mobo do you recommend? Thanks I appreciate your comments! also .. am I forgetting anything? what...
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    gaming system for 1000$

    Should I get vista or XP? I hear a lot of horror stories with vista. also That motherboard (MSI X58 Pro) sorta scares me( cheap + bad reviews). does anyone think i should spend a little more and get a better mobo? if so which one would be good and stable for overclocking with possible SLI...
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    gaming system for 1000$

    was this latency problem due to chipsets or certain ram chips? If it was due to Ram chips how do I make sure that I dont by a set of matched ram sticks that have this latency problem?
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    gaming system for 1000$

    why is the use of DDR2 concidered a better than DDR3?