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    What happened?

    Last night I took a computer out of my equipment closet so I could install Ubuntu 11.10 on it. I opened it up to make sure that everything was there and used some compressed air to blow out the dust. I plugged it in and sparks flew. There was a series of sparks and loud pops and the smell of...
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    Thermalright Silver Arrow is great

    So now I have two of these on two different macines and I have to say I love them. They really do the job of cooling the CPU and are extremely quiet. Sometimes I have to put my ear to the machine to verify it is running. I can't get over how quite the machine has gotten. The only drawback...
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    Changing from 2 drive RAID 0 to 1 Drive AHCI

    I am making some changes to my system and don't want to reinstall Windows 7 64 bit. So I had Windows running with 2 drives in a RAID 0 set up. Now I want to run with just one drive configured as AHCI. I cloned the RAID drives over to a single SSD and changed the BIOS to AHCI and rebooted but...
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    What is the best Thermal Paste or grease?

    So I need some thermal grease for my CPU Cooler. I have changed it and removed it a few times and need some new grease because now I am out. I used the stuff that came with my Thermalright Venomous X and liked it but what does everyone else like/use? What is the best stuff out there?
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    Rampage III Formula..That did not last long

    Well my Rampage III Formula is now bad.:\ I used it for about ten days before it decided to malfunction. Last night I decided to try my SSD on the Marvel SATA port so I shut it down and moved the SATA cable from the standard SATA port to the Marvel port. That's all I did (besides enabling it in...
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    Can't Boot WD 1TB Drive as ACHI

    I am building a new system for my brother and encountered a weird problem. The MB is a P5E Deluxe with the newest BIOS. I installed a 1TB Western Digital Drive in it and tried to boot the OS that I installed on it from another MB. In the BIOS the drive is configured as AHCI. When I try and...
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    Switching from RAID Configuration to AHCI

    I have my SSD drives configured as RAID 0 so my BIOS is set for RAID. If I switch over to AHCI to temporaily install a single drive (I would disconnect the RAID drives and install a single HD) and then later switch back to RAID in the BIOS will my RAID settings up be okay on my drives? I'd...
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    Dell Adamo Delivery Issues

    Dell stinks! On June 26th I ordered a new Dell Adamo laptop direct from Dell. The expected ship date was supposed to be July 6th. When they confirmed the order the date had moved to July 7th. I went for two day shipping so I was expecting to receive it on July 9th. On July 8th I received an...
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    What happened to the sub-forums for Dell?

    I haven't been here for a while. What happened to the seperate sub-forums for the Dell laptops and netbooks? There used to be one for almost each flavor. Are they here somewhere and I just don't know where to look?