Recent content by rumptis

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    New Dell XPS 420 On Sale

    You could build this computer for half the price.
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    Nothing better then a free screw! Thanks
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    msconfig help please

    most things are not in the startup fold most things that start up are in the registry at this location. HKLM\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Run
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    TONIGHT'S WOOT- WOOT OFF!!!!!

    Yes please....SOMEONE BUY THESE THINGS!!!!
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    Video Card Help/ Troubleshooting

    so you have video until it boots all the way into Windows. Try booting into safemode and see if you have video there if you do you might have a driver problem if it doesn't work in safe mode then its probably just going bad. If it is working uninstall all the ATI Stuff and then boot back...
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    ANTEC smartpower 2.0

    I have sold and used alot of these Power Supplies and both fans have always spun just very slowly until the system gets hot then they do speed up. I would contact Antec and get it replaced.
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    RAID QUESTION

    Do you just want to save the data or the windows install also? Tell me about your hardware setup. Do you have an add in Raid Card or is it built in. If its built in how many standard IDE ports do you have? Any info would really be helpful. One more thing do you have any other hard...
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    Need 1gb of RAM to go with my a8n-sli

    Any name brand ram will work just fine for you. I would get what is cheapest that has a known name.
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    Boot from win 98 disk truncates file names

    Windows 98 isn't going to work because you need the long file names plus if its a NTFS drive then 98 won't be able to read it at all. I would build yourself a Bartpe disk and see if you can get what you need off of the drive. Here is a link. BartPE
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    Faulty Power Supply?

    The bad thing about Power Supplies is that they can cause so many strange problems, I had a computer I was working on that would restart every couple of days for no reason while being used...replaced the PS and all has been good since. If the PS has any age on it and is not good quality change...
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    Asus A7N8X2.0 Barton XP2500@2387 upgrade path?

    I have this same setup and my plan is going with a faster video card "I have ATI 9700pro" otherwise you pretty much have to go with new stuff. Your CPU is preforming as good as 3200 is going to so your are pretty much stuck there until you want to do a big upgrade. The new Geforce cards just...
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    Microsoft Service Pack2 Wont let me get to windows

    REINSTALL!!! Good chance you had some Spyware or Drivers that didn't like SP2. Have you tried booting into Safemode? There is also a manual way to uninstall SP2 from the recovery console. You can find the info on Microsofts website. I had a pc that had a peice of spyware on it and didn't...
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    Possible to set up a network of external drives for storage?

    As far as I know there is nothing like that runs off of USB...you would best of just setting up a rackmount server with a bunch of storage. I think you can get 4U cases so you could build your own rackmount unit which will be alot cheaper then using server hardware. Anything else is going to...
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    How do i clone a Dynamic IDE Volume to my new SATA drive

    Ghost works just fine...after the clone though the disks are no longer dynamic.