Recent content by Vairman

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    512 MB PC133 memory for $34.95 at Fry's

    I bought some this morning at the Houston store and it's working fine here.... I love their prices, but they have the worst service in the world at the stores.
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    High end timex less than $20.

    I have the Ironman DataLink. Its a good watch but when I upgraded my computer I found out that you can't use it with Win NT/2000/XP without an adapter. :disgust:It also won't work with notebooks without the adapter. All in all, I still like the watch, I picked it up at Eckards a couple of...
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    HOT!!! Ralphs in California has GE Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs for $2.99

    The Ikea store in Houston has recentlly had their brand of 60watt compact flouresents for ~$3.49. I asked a salesperson and she said that they run that deal often. I know it is not as good of a deal as you west coast are seeing, but no coupon and not limited to CA. Since we have a power...
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    Windows Protection Error - Win 98SE

    The card is AGP, do I need to load PCI drivers for the card?
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    Windows Protection Error - Win 98SE

    My wife went into my office and not realizing my system was on, downloading through Agent, but the monitor was in hibernation mode, turned my computer off. When she realized what was happening, and tried to turn it on again, she got a windows protection error on boot. Not the blue screen, but...
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    MSI K7T Pro2-A with high density SDRAM (will it work)

    I emailed tech support for the memory chip maker, and was told that it would not not work. MSI never answered. That in mind, 2 people emailed me that they had used it succesfully. I bought Apacer instead for $120.
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    HELP! 1-Win protection Error, 2-Bios died, 3-new hardware not recognized

    ARRGGHHHH!!!!! Sorry in advance for the long post... Saturaday morning, my month old, no problems to date system died!!! For starters here is the system info Win 98SE 7 bay ATX Case w/300w AMD Approved P/S MSI MS 6330 K7T Pro2-A KT-133 Socket-A ATX AMD Duron 700 MHz w/Global Win FHP08...
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    Hot Deal on Warplink Wireless Networking kit $29.88 at Office depot

    Is it just me or did I just get a trial version of sygate? I get promted for a reg number, and I can't find one in any of the docs or CD. As it is I am limited to 100Mb transfered. BTW I did get the net working with telcity, but was having trouble getting file sharing setup (I have no...
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    Hot Deal on Warplink Wireless Networking kit $29.88 at Office depot

    I just bought one, they didn't have them marked down yet at the local store and still had 5 in stock!!! If this works with Telocity, I'm set!!!
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    What are the red washers for? Building my K7T Pro2-A system today!!!.

    It's together, despite finding out that I scratched my Windows ME disk so bad it won't load and had to pull out the WIN 98 disk, then finding out that there are serious compatibility problems with my Rage Fury Pro and Win 98, then having trouble (either from Telocity or ATI) getting through to...
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    DON'T BUY MSI PRO2A

    built my system today, many problems with the Rage Fury Pro and drivers with Win98. Downloaded new driver from ATI and all is well. I must say that I am really happy with the system out of the box, tweaking begins later tonight
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    What are the red washers for? Building my K7T Pro2-A system today!!!.

    Thanks everybody!!! I went ahead and used the washers since it wouldn't hurt anything. I thought that grounding the motherboard was involved in there somewhere. I'm glad that point is moot.
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    What are the red washers for? Building my K7T Pro2-A system today!!!.

    They usually came with the mounting screws, I have gotten them before. I remember one board that had the plastic clips for all point but ONE, and it had a post, screw, and washers. That is the one that makes me think that there MIGHT be a reason for this. Of course since MSI didn't mention...
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    What are the red washers for? Building my K7T Pro2-A system today!!!.

    Well everything finally got here for my system unfortunatlly be fore I assemble, I have to ask a question I used to know the answer to. :o Where do I uses the little red washers when I mount the motherboad to the case? Part of me thinks I that am supposed to use them between the motherboard...