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    Recover Hard Drive Partitions

    Hello all: Does anyone know of a way to recover hard drive partitions with the following scenario: A USB drive repartitioned into two partitions. No data has been written to it yet but now all the data seems to be lost. Is there a way to get the data back? Thanks. John
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    Quad SLI from NVidia

    Did you guys see the video of the unveiling over at c|net? The most interesting thing I got out of that is the speed comparison between this machine and the top supercomputers. With its rated teraflop (5.2 :Q) output Jen-Hsun Huang said it would rank number 70 on that list. Now I know that...
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    DVI Cables Help

    Hello all: I know now what type of cable I need to purchase, namely DVD-D. However, I was wondering if some people can give me some recommendations on brands. I have seen some Belkin, TrippLite, Cables To Go, Startech, AVLink, and Dayton cables but am unsure which is a good brand to go...
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    Can't Find the Right DVI Cable

    Hello all: I'm trying to find a 10'+ DVI cable for some Dell 2005fwp monitors that we have here at work. However, in my search I have found varying types of cables. In fact I purchased a Belkin Single Link cable that had some extra pins. The Dual Link cable does not have these same pins...
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    Sound card drivers cause freeze

    Wouldn't hurt to try. And you could also look to see if there are any issues with this card and SP2. Perhaps you need to disable the firewall during installation.
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    Backup solutions

    I think it depends on how much needs to be backed up. We are a small business but we do not backup each individual machine, we simply backup the server where all our files reside. The workstations simply act as an interface to the servers that way a failed workstation does not affect the...
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    Sound card drivers cause freeze

    Have you tried a different PCI slot?
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    Sound card drivers cause freeze

    Right-click->Uninstall?
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    Sound card drivers cause freeze

    You could try uninstalling the nVidia drivers as you have pointed out. I recommend Driver Cleaner to do this. First reenable the onboard audio then: 1. Uninstall the drivers from the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs applet. 2. Restart in Safe Mode, run DC and select the nVidia audio...
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    Sound card drivers cause freeze

    Did you try disabling onboard audio?
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    Backup solutions

    Hard drives are prone to failure so if that is your only line of defense I would not feel very comfortable. You may want to check eBay for a cheap tape backup that a company may be getting rid of as they are upgrading their equipment. We have had both Quantum and Sony drives here at work and...
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    Crashing to a Black Screen

    Well if you replaced the video card and the issues seem to have gone away (for the most part - one lockup after 3 hours can happen to anyone), then I would venture to guess you made the right decision.
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    please help!!!!

    You may want to do a driver cleaning. Ever used Driver Cleaner? If not here is the general procedure: 1. Download Driver Cleaner and install. 2. Remove the current drivers using the Control Panel->Add Remove Programs applet. 3. Reboot and go into safe mode (to get to safe mode hit F8...
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    *Need help with MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum*

    Have you tried to clear the CMOS on the motherboard? There should be a jumper on the board to do this, and if not then you can take out the battery and then re-insert.
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    winxp boot problem

    Have you changed anything recently? How old is the hard drive? First thing you could try is to try the Last Known Good Configuration option. You could also try to go through the windows recovery console process. Last resort is to reinstall, and it should not delete your data (just don't format).