Recent content by JasonS55

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    Charging an Ipod mini through usb?

    Hi, I've been looking for a while now and can't find an answe to my question. Can an Ipod Mini be charged just by pluging it into a usb port? Thanks Damn..nevermind. I found my answer. I can charge it thorugh USB
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    Is installing ghost needed to make backups?

    Title says it all. Thanks
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    Apps for Linux to replace common win apps?

    I'm going to install linux soon, but was wondering what programs to use inplace of the ones I use in windows. I need ones to replace winamp, wmp, msn?, email client, office suite, cd burning, firewall and virus scanner. Also any other usfull programs would be nice to know about, Thanks.
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    Adding drives to Raid5?

    Is it possible to add another drive to a already built raid5 array without rebuilding it? Thanks.
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    is my beloved mobo dead?

    Damnit. Thats a lot of work. =P thanks though, I never thought of that.
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    is my beloved mobo dead?

    When i went to turn my computer on today, I could hear everything inside, but i had no picture and it didn't beep at me. I've since unplugged everything and have tried a different/better psu. Next will be the ram, but I wanted to get some other ideas. Thanks
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    I've been getting the crappiest spam mail.

    Thanks for the invite. :)
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    Looking for a heatsink comparitive to ALX-800

    Hi, everywhere I've checked in Canada, the ALX-800 is out of stock. So i was wondering what other heatsinks I could get in the same price range that performs the same as the ALX? Thanks
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    Missing ntldr with SATA drive

    I had it set to boot CDROM first, then SATA. I changed it to boot SATA first and now it works....weird but Thanks :)
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    Missing ntldr with SATA drive

    I reinstalled WindowsXP tonight and now when I plug my IDE drives in, I get an error saying that ntldr is missing. I went into windows repair console and it shows my sata drive as drive E and one of the IDE drives as C. Just wondering how i would go about fixing this? Thanks
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    Just a quick question about fans and directions

    I was organizing my case for better airflow and realized that the stock AMD fan blows down on the processor. I also have a fan on the back of my case right beside my cpu fan and have it blowing out and another fan on the side of my case blowing in. Anyways...I would say that the cpu and rear...
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    Couple of questions...

    my motherboard doesn't have optical (DFI NF2 Infinity) It does have the coax though.
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    Couple of questions...

    Thanks. Thats what I figured...thought I would ask anyways. Anyone have any idea on the digital coax cable?
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    Couple of questions...

    damn enter key....lol Ok, number one is for "coax spdif", do i need a special cable? Or will just any rca type cable work? And number two is I have a 400watt Powmax psu that came with my $55 case and a 300 watt Antec psu that I bought at bestbuy. I have 2 optical drives, 3 harddrives, a 9800pro...
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    Missing boot.ini (ignore this, I got it)

    I had to reboot my computer a few mins ago and I got a message saying that boot.ini could not be found. It then said it was going to load C:\Windows, which worked. I checked and boot.ini is actually gone and I'm not sure what it is suppose to look like. So my question is what does a boot.ini...