Recent content by Ducati

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    Fair Price on 5 month old Dell Dimension inquiry

    Thanks guys..didn't know that... What about the CD? Do I just call Dell and have them send a replacement?
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    Fair Price on 5 month old Dell Dimension inquiry

    A friend is selling his computer. It's a P4 2.8Ghz, 80GB HD, 512 ram, 15" monitor, DVD/CD-RW. He says he paid $400. I'm thinking $150. What's a fair price? This is my first computer in 6 years. Also, I have to reinstall XP since his machine is heavily corrupted with spyware but he...
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    USB vs Firewire

    nevermind...i found this: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1966390&enterthread=y moderators: pls delete this post. thx.
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    USB vs Firewire

    Just curious to know which would be faster in this situation: two harddrives, one with firewire/usb2.0 and the other usb2.0 only. I want to copy one harddrive to the other one via a laptop. Is it faster to copy firewire to usb or usb to usb? i know that usb has a higher max speed but maybe...
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    Koss In Ear Headphones- $8.88 no more, now $12.88 delivered from Amazon

    I hope you're right. I just bought the Creative Labs b/c of the different plug sizes...
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    Costco 32" LCD Deal ........In and out of stock

    It's just digital TV not HD.
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    Format ext. HD problem w/ Dell Inspiron 8000 w/ W2K USB 1.1

    Thank you LiLithTecH and Flying Penguin... when i was reading about fat32 vs ntfs, it didn't mention the limit of formatting capabilities. It only said that i would have to use ntfs when dealing with HDs larger than 137GB. http://cquirke.mvps.org/ntfs.htm thanks again guys...
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    Format ext. HD problem w/ Dell Inspiron 8000 w/ W2K USB 1.1

    I was running service pack 3
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    UPDATED -- Gone for now : Pansonic's 42" SD Plasma Display - TH42PWD7UY - $1599 including ground

    great find...just had a friend pay $1,800 a few days ago...oh well... one thing though...what do you mean no 42" has true HD??? explain. There are plenty of 42" that are true HD.
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    Format ext. HD problem w/ Dell Inspiron 8000 w/ W2K USB 1.1

    I just put together a Western Digital 40GB 2.5" 5400rpm HD and a usb 2.0 no-frills external case. I couldn't format the drive as FAT32 in Computer Management in W2K while connected to my usb 1.1 port. It kept receiving an error message at the end of the formatting - "Volume size too big."...
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    DEAD; HIJACKED

    ^^^ thanks; i'll try
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    DEAD; HIJACKED

    which drive and enclosure do you recommend? i checked the site and some of the enclosures do not have measurements..
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    DEAD; HIJACKED

    which drive and enclosure do you recommend? i checked the site and some of the enclosures do not have measurements..
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    Sound gone after trying to install IE 6

    winamp freezes when i try to play a song...the slider doesn't move, no graphics...nothing happens....as if there was no song....
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    Sound gone after trying to install IE 6

    i don't even have the volume control in windows...no icon....nothing is muted or unmuted...damn this sucks...i have to reformat and i don't know what to do with all of my data...mostly mp3's that i DON'T want to redownload...damn it...