Recent content by Stabgotham

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    Software for Making Youtube Videos

    Hi everyone, My son has fallen in love with Minecraft and also the many "Let's Play" YouTube channels. He wants to start making videos of his adventures in Minecraft as well. I don't know where to begin. What is the best or what are good programs that will allow him to capture his...
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    TOP 10 Programs after format or new build

    With the exception of GFX and audio drivers (which usually happens first), I install these right out of the gate: 7-zip Sumatra PDF Google Chrome Steam BitDefender Evernote Adobe Lightroom 5 Dropbox iTunes MPC-HC (w/ MadVR) MSI Afterburner
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    Disconnecting Google Chrome Sync on a PC I Can't Access Anymore

    Long story short I was abrubtly laid off on a Friday (this was two weeks ago). My PC at work is still logged in however (they apparently havent turned off or picked up my equipment). So on my home PC it still shows the synced tabs and everything on that PC. For my own security I would like to...
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    Viability of A6-5400K in HTPC

    I have only seen one review (Tom's Hardware) of the A6-5400K (Trinity). TH puts the IGP of the A6-5400K a tiny tick behind the A8-3850 (Llano). I initially though the A6-5400K was the most compelling of the new Trinity processors, but having seen those results, I'm now concerned that the...
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    Can't Format HDD

    No go on DBAN. Didn't see the hard drive. I SHALL NEVER GIVE UP! ARG! Okay, I'm just going to drop $90 and get a 1TB hard drive then...dangit!
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    Can't Format HDD

    Okay so GParted saw the drive, but it recognized it as a 23.82GB drive of unallocated space. It was unable to do anything with it, though. Ubuntu also sees the drive, but again, it can't do anything with it. I've tried mounting it through the terminal and it doesn't work. I've checked my...
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    Can't Format HDD

    I noticed during a check of the BIOS that the HDD is not showing up. Weird...it shows in Vista, but not in the BIOS???
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    Can't Format HDD

    So I recently scrapped my old PC. I decided to place the hard drive from that PC into my current rig to use as backup storage. My current rig uses a 250GB SATA hard drive. The one that I have put in this rig from the old rig is an 80GB IDE drive. So, first...Windows shows the 80GB drive...
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    DVD/CD Drives Not Functioning

    They are internal drives.
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    DVD/CD Drives Not Functioning

    Well that worked partially. The drives now show up under My Computer, but upon every reboot, we are prompted that new hardware is found. Oddly enough, the CD drive works even with this prompt coming up, but the DVD drive doesn't work. The DVD drive is acting very strange. In My Computer it...
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    DVD/CD Drives Not Functioning

    My father-in-law has a very strange problem. He has a Samsung CD+R/RW (SW-248F) and a Memorex DVD+-RAM (530L v1). He has been using both for quite sometime without issue. Just this last week, both suddenly were no longer being recognized by Windows XP. In the device manager, both peripherals...
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    Catalyst Control Center - Unable To Open

    Yes, I've actually removed and reinstalled it to make sure.
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    Catalyst Control Center - Unable To Open

    Interesting issue recently. CCC will not open. I see that it has started in my processes, but the actual UI never opens. I have gone so far as to completely remove all ATi drivers and software, used driver cleaner and reinstalled. Still nothing. This only affects XP. It opened before, but...
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    4850 Benchmarks - Something Wrong Here?

    What's even more strange...I'm completely stable in XP 32-bit, but in Vista 64-bit, that's where all the instability is. I have removed and reinstalled all the drivers. No change.
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    4850 Benchmarks - Something Wrong Here?

    To avoid the confusion over whether or not the board is PCI-E 1.1 or 2.0... http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813130136 http://global.msi.com.tw/index...no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no= Hopefully that will answer the questions. I have a PCI-E 2.0 card and board.