Recent content by rubisco

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    5.1 Surround Sound Speakers for my CPU

    Ok, bought some 5.1 surround sound speakers for my computer a little bit ago. My motherboard supports 5.1 speakers and when I use the software for the mobo sound card, I can hear all 5 channels (and subwoofer) very clearly. So I try to play some mp3's using Windows Media Player and I can't...
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    Hard drive help!

    wow... thanks!
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    Hard drive help!

    One of my drives that has been working and has all my MP3's suddenly stopped working. I ran chkdsk on it and the error message was Corrupt master file table. CHKDSK aborted. Any way to fix it without formatting the hard drive?
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    Boot Up Help

    jumpers are good. cables are good. bios is set properly (to ensure hard drive is a bootable device).
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    Boot Up Help

    Ok, here's the issue. Yesterday, everything was fine... hunky-dory. I get a new hard drive and take out an older, much smaller hdd. I put in the new one, and when i go to reboot, i get a "Failed to load Operating System". Not that big of a problem, so I put in my XP install disc and do a...
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    College Students Turn Away From Landlines

    When I went to college, we had HALL phones. No personal phones in our rooms and definitely no cell phones at that time. Man i'm old.
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    Well, it looks like I'm giving up smoking....

    a bunch of cry babies in this thread. in any case, good luck OP.
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    Well, it looks like I'm giving up smoking....

    jesus, relax it's not like i raped his mom. he's not gonna succeed or fail due to some posting on the internet. i'm sure (hopefully) he has a real life support system to help him out.
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    Well, it looks like I'm giving up smoking....

    ok, enough ribbing. seriously though. i had the same situation. smoking for ~8 years. got pretty sick and in bed for a couple days. throat and chest was pretty f-ed up and couldn't smoke during that time. decided that i would quit smoking. haven't had one in over a year. it's possible...
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    Well, it looks like I'm giving up smoking....

    you'll be smoking again within the next 3 months.
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    Well, it looks like I'm giving up smoking....

    aww, is someone having a nic fit?
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    Well, it looks like I'm giving up smoking....

    no one likes quitters
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    Tara Reid Looking for a Boyfriend

    she's nasty.. but i'd still hit it.
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    Is this Brooke Burke?

    yes