Recent content by mikem69981

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    help with brand new home built PC

    From the ground up, a little present to myself after 6 years from the last time I built one (think I may be a little rusty) Did not dry test outside the case first Did use the motherboards standoffs but did not use the paper washers The power supply fans work and the computer turns on...
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    help with brand new home built PC

    I need help with trying to troubleshoot a new computer. I started to put the copmputer together, put the power supply (apevia 500w) and motherboard (MSI K9AGM2) in, plugged all the case connections to the motherboard, plugged the power supply (20 pin ATX and 4 pin CPU) and placed the CPU (AMD...
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    Display problem

    I have a computer that the choices on the desktop tab on display properties are frozen and I am not able to select anything. The screen saver tab and everything else works fine it is just the desktop tab. There is no group policy implemented and this is a home computer.
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    SLOOOOOOOOOOOW Computer

    That's what I thought too, but I ran the latest verision of Symantec and SpySweeper it came up with nothing significant.
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    SLOOOOOOOOOOOW Computer

    I need help with an extremly slow computer. It is a Dell D800, only about a year and a half old. I have done everything, cleared out TEMP Files, Defraged, Ran speed-disk and it is only at 20% utilization of disk space and I am at my wits end with how to fix this computer without totally wiping...
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    bubef

    Has anyone ended up with this program bubef.exe. I have deleted it from the registry, and the system 32 folder but it still keeps coming back. Can someone help with how to get rid of it
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    Pentium M vs Athlon 64

    Someone please help me make the best decision as to which laptop to buy; Battalion 101 E-turbo Series [1] $1,374.00 $1,374.00 Operation System ( MS Windows XP Home Edition ) Processor ( Intel® Centrino Mobile 1.6GHz CPU with 1M Cache ) Memory ( 512MB DDR-333 PC-2700 [Notebook...
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    mobility x300 vs mobility 9600

    I need help deciding on video cards between two laptops. One is an Averatec laptop with a mobility radeon 9600 (64mb) and the other is a Compaq x6000 with a mobility radeon x300 (64mb). All other hardware is exactly the same. My question is if the performance boost would be enough to spend 150...