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    asus p4b533 with maxtor 300gb

    I am having this same problem, can you please tell me what you used to repartition your disk I downloaded that patch and everything already and am still screwed.
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    Micro ATX Nforce Motherboards

    From what I have gathered the Foxconn NF4K8MC-ERS Motherboard is the only one out right now that is Micro ATX and uses the NVIDIA nForce 4 chipset. Anyone know of any other boards or if any are comming out from bigger name companies soon in the future? I am looking to build a micro atx ssf...
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    Need some Memory Advice

    Another quick question, from what I am reading dual channel isn't going to give me any siginfigant improvment from a single stick of 512 instead of 2x256, but if where to get 2x256 instead and run them dual channel, does the memory have to be dual channel optimized or is that just a marketing...
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    Need some Memory Advice

    Hello, I am going to be buying 512mb of PC3200 memory very soon to go along with a XP 2500+ which I am going to try to overclock, anyway I understand some things about memory but my questions are as follows: These are the three sticks I am looking at from new egg Geil Stick 1 Geil Stick 2...
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    Mp3 Players

    Anyone know what the best mp3 player is that is 100 bucks or less, looking around it seems like for this price 128mb of memory is the most I could get. I don't need a usb pen drive, but I don't know if those are better than a player that might take memory sticks. Anyway I basicly am new to...
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    my newest computer problem I HAVE 2 WITH THIS PROBLEM....PLEASE TONIGHT

    Recently I had a ECS K7AMA mobo do very similar things all my other components worked though so I was pretty sure it was the motherboard. It would turn on all fans but no video, and it wouldn't turn off for some reason only on. Anyway I ended up replacing it with a newer Albatron board and...
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    2500+ and Heatsinks

    I am thinking of buying a 2500+ barton cpu soon, however I am unsure about whether to get a OEM one and a good heatsink fan or just get the retail one for 90 bucks and use stock fan. I am going to be trying to overclock it to 3200+ as everyone seems to be doing. What do you think about buying...
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    Sound card problem

    Yes it was stable and now it isnt. I have tried updating drivers for the card but there isnt any on the web site, so I only have the ones on the cd it came with.
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    Sound card problem

    I have a soundbalster Audigy LS and ever since I installed the card and the drivers, when I start winamp 5 it will play a song for a little while then shut down my computer entirely. I use windows XP and have tried the older versions of winamp. It seems to do it more often now than before...
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    Looking to find the best amd mobo uner 100 bucks

    Recently, I bought this Albatron Board so far its been great, its a dollar less than the Shuttle board, but to me seems to have more features and over clocking options.
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    Hard Drive problem

    After it formated and two differnt windows cd's later It works, thanks for all your help, the computer is runing fine now. Now alls I need is to get all my data back... oh well.
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    Hard Drive problem

    I managed to figure out what you said before you said it and yes I had two options to and one said quick and the other did not I did the non quick one which seemed to be what it was defaulting me to do. Right now its formating I'll keep you posted on the outcome. Thanks for your help
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    Hard Drive problem

    Anyone still here? Well if no one has any awnsers I am going to order a new 80 gig from new egg tonight and if I am lucky i might get it on friday. I still don't understand the manifest prase error? Thanks again
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    Hard Drive problem

    Ok so I got a copy of Windows XP and tried it, it installs everything then reboots and goes into the windows XP start up installattion guide or whatever not hte blue screen one but the next one after, then has a fatal error called Manidest Praise error : invaild at the top level of the...
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    Hard Drive problem

    The OS was already installed on the Hard Drive from before I got the new motherboard the new one is a differnt chip set and brand. I haven't tryed to boot it off a floppy or a CD yet. If I put in the windows cd and start the computer up will it auto go into a install of windows? I don't see...