Recent content by jmandel

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    ebates.com + Crucial = 6% discount

    The website ebates.com offers 6% cash back on purchases from crucial.com. Once you've created an ebates.com account, you can visit http://www.ebates.com/mall.go?merchant_id=2851&navigation_id=8 to place an order through Crucial's website. I'm not sure of the details of payment, or whether...
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    Sporadic machine freezes

    I hate to be a bad citizen and bump my own message... but I need to figure out what's wrong in the next couple of days before 30-day guarantees expire... thanks!
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    Can't format above 32GB NTFS on my Maxtor 60GB Drive

    While the solution of creating several partitions might be easy and technically sound, it still doesn't answer your question; it's just a workaround. I had no problem fdisking and format c:'ing my 40gig IBM drive from a DOS boot disk... but if this doesn't work for you or if you already have a...
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    Sporadic machine freezes

    I?m running windows 2000 on a KK266-R motherboard + 1.33ghz thunderbird (my first home-built pc). Over the course of one month, I have been afflicted with unpredictable periodic freezes (screen frozen in place with no response to mouse or keyboard input). There does not seem to be any...
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    Toshiba digital camera PDR-M4 $269.99 at TARGET B& M

    This is a good camera for the price, but I'm probably a tad biased, considering I bought mine 1.5 years ago for $550. It comes with a good rechargable li-on battery, and it uses USB (which wasn't terribly common when the camera was introduced, although it's to be expected expected these days)...
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    To DDR, 'R Not?

    I've just ordered the parts for a new PC from newegg.com, based on the iWill KT133A (RAID) motherboard. I decided to go with an SDRAM system because the motherboard was (marginally) cheaper, and my limited investigation seemed to suggest that there wasn't much of a performance difference...