Recent content by jakethemuss

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    P4B266/ 1.6a boot much slower after nic installed

    This page shows how you can assign a static IP address on your system. I had the same prob of long boot time after installing nic, and the following the instructions on this page fixed the problem. Good luck
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    Simple questions about a Athlon Slot A 750

    Hi Mitzi, This is the Via site that tells you a bit about the kx133. Looks like it takes PC133 ram. I'm not sure about the ps sorry, I suspect 230 would be boarderline though.
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    What Upgrade Option Should I Choose?

    That's hilarious millsy
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    Help me with death!

    I pick yasser arafat (spelling, whatever)
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    Is CIV3 hard to learn?

    I haven't played that type of game before (I've played a couple of RTS's but civ is different right?). Do you have to read a phonebook sized manual to get into it? Also I only have 256MB ram, is this enough? Thanks for any help.
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    Questions about Golden sample?

    Is a golden sample anything like a golden shower?
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    3dfx Glide Question

    Maybe he wants to play Grand Prix Legends, in which case he already appears to be a very wise young man. GPL was written with only Glide support (and Rendition) but since then a Direct3D patch has been written to allow non-3DFX users to enjoy this fine historical motor racing simulation. Perhaps...
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    Simple adsl setup question

    I recently did a Norton Ghost restore of my system and now my adsl connection is really sticky ie anything I click on over the net pauses for a few seconds before opening. I remember that after I did my Norton backup a few months ago, I found a tip that showed me something about adjusting packet...
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    How do you get the "Squared" symbol in Excel?

    Sheesh, it's easy when ya know how. I've been poking around for ages trying to find that. Thanks alot.
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    How do you get the "Squared" symbol in Excel?

    ie E=MC squared In Word, you go...Format->Font->Superscript, but I'll be buggered if I can find it in Excel. Thanks :)
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    How do you get the "Squared" symbol in Excel?

    ie E=MC squared In Word, you go...Format->Font->Superscript, but I'll be buggered if I can find it in Excel. Thanks :)
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    Best Software DVD Decoder?

    See Anandtech FAQ's FAQ's
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    I think I buggered up my nic install

    It worked, thanks Josh
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    I think I buggered up my nic install

    You are a legend SocrPlyr, thx alot. How did you know where they were?? You smart cookie. I will try them in windows system folder, that couldn't ah heck anything up, surely
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    I think I buggered up my nic install

    Just got ADSL (yippee), and the 'cable guy' didn't really know what he was doing, neither did I by the way, so between us we managed to upset win98se. When I boot up I get the following warnings that these device drivers aren't being loaded... vnetsup.vxd vredir.vxd dfs.vxd (These messages in...