Recent content by marmotsack

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    Printing Really Big

    Well, sorta looks like there's no solution for this one. "Wallace" over at the HP "Chat with a technician" thing Wasn't able to offer much help. I can't decide if Wallace was an Indian fella or an ELIZA script with a human monitor to respond when I asked if the humans were home.
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    Printing Really Big

    I've created a document to be printed rather large. 7.3 inches by 28 inches. I want it to be on a single sheet of cardstock (which i have all prepared). The problem is that my printer seems to offer no way to print a document of this size. The paper will fit just fine, I just can't figure...
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    Well, I broke it again.

    memtest... right... uh... what is that? can i just fire that off from a command prompt?
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    Well, I broke it again.

    ok, so i just installed a new stick of RAM (1 GHz, DDR 400), and surprise surprise, the computer doesn't work. I can get windows to boot up in Safe Mode. If i try to boot normally, windows seems to be trying to start, i get my background picture, and then nothing after that. I just have this...
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    Help! I'm an idiot!

    haha, Victory! Redtransistor, we tried your suggestion about just sticking a jumper on the pins, and it worked, so we just pulled the individual wires from the jack, and took a guess at which ones to stick on those pins. First guess, bingo. his computer now seems to work perfectly. thank...
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    Help! I'm an idiot!

    ok, so I have a vague idea what i'm doing here, hopefully someone smart can help me out. My friend's old motherboard fried, so he got a new one, and asked me to help me install it, because i've done a couple before. now, we have everything plugged in, and hit the power switch, nothing...