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    No beep, no video, no boot, upon installing new PSU

    The wiring was beginning to get frayed on a few of them, and i was having hard drives / fans start to cut out randomly, causing alot of BSOD's (or at least thats what i thought was causing it) but i tested the shit out of this yesterday, cleared cmos, brought out the mobo on the table, booted...
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    No beep, no video, no boot, upon installing new PSU

    I just upgraded from an old alienware 500w power supply, to a Tuniq Ripper 1000w upon installing, I now get no beep, no video, everything is spinning away though just fine...but no boot...I even have the green light on the mobo on, im just getting no feedback at all i reset ram, cmos, vid...
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    Strange Wireless issue on Laptop...

    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...&lang=en&cc=us - Laptop in question Ok so basically one day I woke up and tried browsing the internet on my laptop and it wasn't working. I looked at my wireless switch on the side of my laptop and the switch was on, but the wireless light was amber -...
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    Help with a Router/Modem combo...

    hmm...well, as long as im here, one more question... speakeasy's speedtest will be the reference for these speeds but sometimes, not matter how i position the antenna back there, i cant get more than .4Mb speeds or so, i play around with it, find the PERFECT spot, and itll hop back up to...
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    Help with a Router/Modem combo...

    How is 5-6Mb out of 10Mb a decent speed for something that should be able to handle 54Mb? So to actually get 10Mb speeds wirelessly, the line would actually have to be spittin out around 15Mb speeds? I mean what is that about...?
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    Help with a Router/Modem combo...

    Alright, ill try to break it down. 10Mb connection, Cable 3 linksys wireless G pci cards, 54Mbps each... 1 SMC Router/Cable combo (free with this signup), 54Mbps... Wired...were getting good speeds, around 9.4Mb speeds, fine. Wireless...cant grab anything over 5-6Mb speeds...even with...
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    Uh oh, corrupt hard drive? help :(

    Jim, what do you suggest I do?
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    Uh oh, corrupt hard drive? help :(

    Another user on a forum elsewhere suggested this...think its worth a shot? "Install a linux OS on the partition. Once inside gain access to you're files you should be able to play them/open them with a distro like Ubuntu (which is also very easy to use for beginners in Linux) Then start...
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    Uh oh, corrupt hard drive? help :(

    Honestly, I dont know why I told you all the backstory, thought it would help. And my 500mhz like I said was my last resort temp pc that I built outta junk because i was between dead pc's. Let me just ask simply this. What would cause random files to point to different files, aka, I open a...
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    Uh oh, corrupt hard drive? help :(

    Well, im running my new pc I just got the parts for yesterday, I was hoping it was something jittery on that old pos, but yea im still having problems... what will unplugging it do? i need this fixed, or i guess ill have to salvage what isnt corrupt and format...but thats a LAST resort...
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    Uh oh, corrupt hard drive? help :(

    Well it all started when my temporary college pc died on me, cpu fried... So had to run on a 500mhz P.O.S. for a week or two till I ordered some new parts... So i scrapped up some parts and built this pos, windows 2000, and well, my 200gb is my baby...its got everything, all my music, lots...
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    Crazy fast internet college campus question...

    Dark Cupcake, as stated in the original post I already tried that. :)
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    Crazy fast internet college campus question...

    Hi, new to the boards, didnt see a software section, so guess ill ask here...quick question. Alright, heres the scoop. I go to EIU, and our college internet sucks. Gotta log in to this "Cisco clean access" crap that scans our comp, makes sure were up to date, blablala BS. I get around...