Recent content by JShelb

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    Gateway laptop w/ Vista -- ???'s

    Yea, I had Office 2003 instead of XP. 2003 worked fine and like Stu said, I had heard rumors/thought Office XP didn't work on Vista. But thanks to this forum, I now know otherwise. I checked out OpenOffice and it looked pretty cool, but since I had 2003, I didn't try it out. Just another...
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    Gateway laptop w/ Vista -- ???'s

    Thanks for the reply Stu. I went home and ripped most of the bloatware out of it and it freed up a decent chunck of resources. It went from about 850MB usage on idle down to around 500ish. I searched on Gateways site for drivers and there were only 2, the hd driver and the memory stick...
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    Gateway laptop w/ Vista -- ???'s

    I just purchased the Gateway MX8734 with Vista Home Premium for my wife. So far it's a great laptop, but I have some questions/concerns I need advice on. I'm fairly knowledgable about XP, Vista is driving me nuts on the otherhand. 850MB of 1GB of Ram while sitting still is goofy. Plus, I...
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    Nice rig for the wife!

    Yes, I'd like to build with new parts. Nothing used or refurbs. I looked around at that ASRock Mobo and it looks like a pretty nice deal. Forgive me though, but will micro ATX fit into a regular ATX case? Would the Stock HS/Fan combo be sufficient for the Sempron 2800+ or should I look...
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    Nice rig for the wife!

    Hello all... My wife's computer took a dump and I can't get it working. Random lock-ups and I have no idea why. I'm thinking the mobo finally took a dump on me. Capacitors with brown tops aren't stock. Anyways, the what I have is: Case 350 Truepower PSU Pioneer DVD/CD...