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    HP ZV5320 questions

    Shouldn't the softwares then report them as semptrons. Windows reports it as AMD Athlon XP 3000.
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    HP ZV5320 questions

    bump for answers and pointers.
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    HP ZV5320 questions

    So i have HP ZV5320. Windows says it's AMD XP 3000+ whereas WCPUID/CPUZ/Belarc Advisor say it's AMD 64 Opteron. HP says it's AMD XP-M and Socket A. I think it's Socket 754. My question is 1. Did AMD release a XP-M chip for socket 754 chipset ? 2. Who is right w.r.t. my laptop specs. I...
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    Antec Sonata Frontside USB port

    Got the board from newegg just 2 weeks back. can't figure out what's going on here.
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    Antec Sonata Frontside USB port

    The sonata i had earlier had both usb ports working. This one is a new Sonata. The old one had all the pins seperately hanging. The new one has everything fused into a header. One pin in the header is blocked and i made sure that pin went in to the empty pin slot in the mobo. So basically u...
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    Changed Radeon to GeForce, now Windows keeps blinking randomly every hour or so.

    well hope it's not as bad as what happened to me but this probably is a sign that ur powersupply is just about to go bad. I had the same problem with my Geforce4 Ti4200 and i thought it was the MoBo but finally turned out to be the PS. Before i could find that out i had already spent $200 in...
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    Antec Sonata Frontside USB port

    EPOX 8RDA3+...
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    Antec Sonata Frontside USB port

    Only one of my frontside USB ports work. Anyone else have this problem with the antec sonata. i got it in the Fry's deals lately.
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    100 Sonic 4x DVD-R $22.50

    Some people found that Ritek although branded 4x actually burnt at 8x if u got the R01s. No idea about Sonic though
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    Plextor's new DVD burner PX-716A

    well the DL media is not available cheaply though. So what will u do with DL drives ? I bought a cheapo IO Magic and flashed to DL and HD enabled but no use....
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    Western Digital 80GB 8MB Cache 7200 rpm Hard Drive $49.98 AR w/ free shipping

    Let's make it hot. Add the FAR peachtree accounting 2005 and apply a 30 off 150 coupon.
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    Altec Lansing ATP3 speakers $29.99 or less (staples black friday)

    These guys don't have a jack to plug in your headphones if you don't want to disturb others. That's the drawback. Any comments....
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    Mandrake 9.0 AC97 sound card

    I can hear amsn sounds when someone logs on MSN Messenger. But i don't hear any sound when KDE starts up. I cannot get my kaboodle to play any mp3s nor can i get my CD player play the audio cds. What should i be looking for ?
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    Problems with nvidia and Mandrake 9.0

    After researching a little bit i downloaded all the drivers and rpmed them in to my setup.I downloaded the latest kernel from http://nekropolis.assetdisk.com and i have installed the kernel. Now i get flashes of red and green in my screen. I also see the green NVIDIA symbol for a second or so...
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    Woohoo! Finally got my Nvidia drivers installed in Redhat 8

    I downloaded the latest kernel from http://nekropolis.assetdisk.com and i have installed the kernel. Now i get flashes of red and green in my screen. I also see the green NVIDIA symbol for a second or so and then everything becomes black and all i have is X (mouse pointer) in the screen. I have...