Recent content by PotatoMAN

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    I voted for McCain

    I really wish there wasn't so much hatred on this forum. I think the problem is that people tend to get blinded with the tasks and occurrences at hand and fail to take a step back and look at the situation. Christians/non-christians all have a part in this failure. The problem is America...
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    Best TV Tuner for PC

    I have a Hauppage 1600 that happens to have clear QAM support. Granted, I have a 3 year old Athlon 64 3200+, 2 gigs of RAM, and a 128 meg 6600 GT in my computer the HD content comes in choppy. If anything I would try out any PCIe versions of clear QAM cards - but I don't have such luxuries on...
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    Dell Inspiron 8600 Problem

    Actually, if it has the 9600 it may most likely be the cause. I got a little adventurous with my 8600 and ATi 9600 video card and tried to make better contact with the gpu and gpu cooler by inserting a small copper plate in there. When I powered it on I had the same thing happen. If you dont...
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    XP pro hangs on "Applying computer settings" for an hour or more.

    Given you guys are on a domain you will probably want to contact the domain administrator to take a look. I have no idea how your domain is setup, and given you are probably an end-user you have little or no clue as to how the physical setup of the domain is. Past posts to have someone check...
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    On startup, I have a blank desktop for ~2 min before anything starts up...

    I am not sure about drivers explicitly, but I would try to do the following to see what is up: Open event viewer and look for any error messages Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Event Viewer There are 3 logs in there. Usually the application log is what you are concerned with...
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    e-mail woes

    User is running Outlook 2003, on an Exchange 2003 mail server. She is part of a mailing list, and her machine is on a domain managed PC. Sometimes when she is supposed to recieve mail from another user she will not recieve it, or sometimes recieve it days later. What can be the cause? I...
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    I screwed up Windows, need help please!

    Get on your computer somehow (either "home" account or w/e). Go to control panel->User accounts->change the way users log on and off->disable fast user switching and turn off the welcome screen. Then log off and log on as the administrator and you should have everything back. If not then it...
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    Death to Intel... and AMD?

    I do admit that this is probably marketing hype, but it is nice to know that there are other chip manufacturers willing to kick the mainstream CPU and GPU manufacturers into gear and get something out there better, faster, and cheaper for us.
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    Death to Intel... and AMD?

    ... but I am just wondering what you guys think =P
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    Ok guys, I'm stuck and need help.

    couple of issues - I know that WoW has an issue with nVidia lan's. You should look into it, I can't remember exactly what the problem is, but you have to disable something in the system properties for the networking adapter to get WoW to work properly on some machines affected by the issue...
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    help w/ pc question

    Live with it. Sometimes I encounter little glitches in a computer setup that bug me. In fact, it is hard to find a setup that doesn't live up to my expectations (granted, sometimes those expectations are a little too far fetched). Anyway, I would suggest looking for MBM 5 (google it) since...
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    Looking for cheap Crimpers

    Go to fry's and get the ratcheted crimpers for 30-40 bucks. It may be a little more than what you wanna spend, but they work well. I had some chepo's from there and they broke after making ~20 cables.
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    Where to buy long (50ft+) cat5 cables for cheap?

    Umm... Why is my network so FAST??! I think we know what the different uses for solid and stranded wire are for. OP wanted 100+ feet of cat5 - if you are gonna say we don't know what cat5 is, or that whatever isn't cat 5 please elaborate and explain. As far as I know, this is what cat5 is...
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    IT Question - Multiple boots over a network?

    Thanks cmetz - is there anywhere you can point me to in order to find out more about this stuff? I have messed with linux a little, programmed here and there, but not anywhere enough to fathom a good idea on how to implement something like this. I remember a former employer attempting to use...
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    Strange network problems -- please help.

    sounds kinda like a problem I had when I 1st started making cat-5 for myself. I thought that since it was straight-though cable that it didn't matter what the color cables were in the 8-wire heads, just so long as the cable color order from left to right of the 8 wires were the same on both...