Recent content by Lawranch

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    Installing Windows on SATA HD

    Did your motherboard come with a RAID drive floppy or cd?
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    Help on my iPod

    My Ipod was acting up, I was getting clicking sounds, I ran the updater and it would work for a while then freeze up. I was going to order a replacement hard drive, then I read online about a bunch of people who fixed their Ipod drive problems by slamming them in their hands. I figured I had...
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    ***AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME*** PITTSBURGH vs. DENVER

    I'll go with the Steelers The Bus has to play in Superbowl XL
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    Warm XP Pro 79.99

    At least they are honest. Here at eDirectSoftware.com, we take software piracy very seriously! It takes a while for Microsoft to shut down a company, they warn them a few times first. Do you really want some sketchy company to have your credit card number and billing address...
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    Hooking up my Dell 700m to my Advent HDTV

    Does your HDTV have a VGA 15 pin input? That would be a ton better than Svideo.
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    Weird error while installing Windows XP Home *update*

    I would go with the memory theory. I have had it happen many times. DDR will work enough to boot, but the full install of Xp is stressfull enough to cause a failure.
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    Fry's Outpost.com (30" HD Ready LCDTV)

    Reviews I have read have been really good for Olevia, usually 4/5 stars and half the cost of the 5 star models.. TV LCD's are brighter than computer monitor LCD's so don't sit too close to it. It is fairly low resolution compared to to computer monitor 1280x768 30 inches , where...
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    Sparkle 6600GT PCIe $178.00 w/ Free Shipping.

    And the 6600 is a good bit slower than the 6600GT Tons of people make the mistake of buying a card that has more memory that is quite a bit slower than the one with faster memory.
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    2nd HD question

    WD has 2 Master jumper settings Master with a slave and Master without a slave. Make sure you use the correct one.
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    Microsoft Action Pack Subscription: destroy what I just bought?

    Pretty soon Microsoft will start disabling features on unlicensed software. Office will quit working, Control Panel will disappear ect.. They know you have the software, if the fine for downloading some $1 MP3's is a couple of grand what is the fine for having $40,000 in illegal software...
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    XP Profile Corrupt

    You could try System Restore to an earlier date.
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    Media Center 2005 - MCE 2K5 - Symphony

    I built a MCE system last week. I would not upgrade XP to MCE. It is definately different. Tv Tuners get a Hardware Mpeg2 card Hauppauge PVR 250, 150 ect or the ATI ehome wonder FM works fine. (picture quality for the E-home wonder is better in MCE than it was in XP Pro) The ATI HDTV...
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    Differences b/w Aopen EZ65 and EZ65-II?

    Prescott CPU support. The original XC cubes don't take Prescott P4's.
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    Differences b/w Aopen EZ65 and EZ65-II?

    Prescott CPU support. The original XC cubes don't take Prescott P4's.
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    Can't "See" Slave Drive

    What brand is the master? WD has 2 master settings one for master without a slave (no jumper) and another for master with a slave.