Recent content by Laogeodritt

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    PCI TV Tuner suggestions?

    Well, er, thanks to those who offered on-topic advice. X3 I'm not sure if Canada has taken a similar decision for a digital changeover... anyone? @erwos:Although we're somewhere around parity with the US dollar, our prices haven't changed. Québec's merchandise in brick-and-mortars...
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    PCI TV Tuner suggestions?

    Hello, I'm looking to buy a new TV Tuner to replace my current one, the quality of which is rather unsatisfactory. I'm not really sure where to start looking; the only name I know anything about is Hauppauge. And from the few reviews I just read, apparently the analog TV Tuner gives a...
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    Advice on a minor upgrade - which of these should I choose?

    Personally, I think that upgrading the sound card would be pretty useless?do you really have a need for anything the X-Fi has that the Audigy ZS doesn't? For people who don't work with music, recordings, etc., I've never seen anything past having a relatively recent non-integrated card very...
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    What browser do you use?

    Mozilla Firefox. I hear Opera is faster and less large (in RAM usage) than Firefox. But does it have the customizability of Firefox? Reasons for my choosing Fx over IE: - Popup blocker. With help from NoScript, I've had absolutely no popups get past; without it, I get relatively little...
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    Simple Javascript Question

    top.location.href = "./dir/file.html"; Perhaps?
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    Free PC Games

    Doesn't look like this one was added... http://www.wesnoth.org]Wesnoth[/url] - Open-source turn-based strategy game. Music is its weakest point, IMO. Sounds rather synthesized (IMO) and not really appropriate for war or battle...
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    High-pitched whine from monitor?

    Hello, I had noticed a high-pitched whine from my monitor while playing the Beta version of a certain game (since the official release, the Refresh rate was lowered). More recently, I had increased my screen resolution from 1024*768 to 1152*864. Since then, I've had a problem with a...
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    Long recovery from Hibernation and momentary strange noise

    Pardon? No, I put my computer in hibernation during the night if I can't shut it down. I meant the noise that was coming from the computer during the time that Windows was recovering from hibernation which ceased afterwards.
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    Long recovery from Hibernation and momentary strange noise

    Ah, okay. Thanks. But as for the noise? Nothing to be worried about?
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    Long recovery from Hibernation and momentary strange noise

    Er, I usually shut down the computer every second day rather than hibernate, depending on what I was doing. Still, how does that relate to my query? As I said, when I got back to the computer (I'd turned it on a few second prior before going to get something), the hibernation recovery bar was...
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    Long recovery from Hibernation and momentary strange noise

    Hello, Just an hour or so ago, when I started my computer (which I'd put into hibernation the night before), when the recovery progress bar got to the end (I was away while it was loading by the way) it took a tremendously longer amount of time to get into Windows than usual (around 5 minutes...
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    PC died and/or dying...any ideas?

    I'll have to agree with montag. It could just be that your PSU is not capable to deliver the required electricity to all the components. Was the other PSU a higher-wattage PSU than the first? I suppose if the PSU was damaged or otherwise defective if could have fried the motherboard or...
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    buzzing monitor?

    For the overclocking, unless this computer's intergrated video card came overclocked, it isn't. 0_o Whoa, the game runs at 100 Hz. I wonder if it's possible to modify that...
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    buzzing monitor?

    Okaay... well, like I said, this doesn't happen in Windows, just when I'm playing this specific game. In Windows, I usually run it at 1024x768 pixel resolution, at 70 Hz (I made a mistake earlier in my post). The game I am referring to runs at 800x600 resolution, and I do not know the refresh...
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    buzzing monitor?

    I recently went to play a game after around 3 weeks of not playing it and suddenly the monitor starts buzzing. In Windows I use a 1024x768 resolution at 75 Hz; the game is 800x600 resolution. This has only started happening now. The game is the free MMORPG called "MapleStory". I do not know if...