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    Strange instability problems - what's going on?

    Hi all... Following on from this thread in the PSU forum... http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2218815 I'm no longer sure it's a PSU problem so I'm moving the discussion here. If you haven't read it, basically I've had some (assumed) power problems, in which the machine turned itself...
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    Am I drawing too much power or something?

    Okay so this is my brand new machine - 2500k, 8GB, SSDs, etc etc... and a way too expensive 750W Corsair power supply. It seems to have decided to turn itself off at random intervals of about 12-24 hours. Nothing else happens. The surge protector (replacing this tomorrow just in case) does not...
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    Any Magento programmers here? I'm in serious need of help!

    Hi all, I have a Magento theme originally designed for 1.4, but we're moving to 1.6 - most of the theme loads fine but there's no CSS! It's not that the CSS is referenced and doesn't exist, or any kind of permissions issue etc, it's just the <link rel...> tag is simply not there. I know my...
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    Reinstalling Win7 without reinstalling Steam games?

    Hi all, Background... I recently spent a _lot_ of money on my gaming rig. Sandy bridge, 6970s, SSDs, etc... much of it heavily modified... it rips. Due to the modifictions I wanted to do a test install first - just to see how it goes under Prime95 at stock and all that. Found a few problems...
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    Can I get a temperature monitor _without_ fan control?

    Hi all, So I want a physical temp reading on my new machine - I plan to go watercooling on a new Sandy Bridge system, and I'd like to know of any temp out of range from a reliable bit of hardware rather than software monitoring. Also I want to keep an eye on the GPU. BUT... I still want my...
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    Reinstalling Windows and Steam

    Hi all, Feel free to skip the intro paragraph and just look at my questions below if you want :) I'm about to reinstall Windows 7. It's a new install on a new machine bought a couple of weeks ago, but since I then I've upgraded the SSD firmware, switched to AHCI on the SATA controllers...
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    Brand new build just bluescreened and failed to boot...

    I just rebuilt my machine from the case up. Sandy Bridge with all the extras - SSDs, 6950 graphics, etc etc. Only the highest quality components. For the last three days it has been running stock speeds without a single problem, power has been steady as a rock, temps have been cool and...
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    Can you help me knock £100 off my build budget

    Hi all, If you're not interested feel free to skip this paragraph... I intend to build my new setup in three stages: 1 - some new hardware in my existing case run at stock speeds to keep the old 650W PSU happy. 2 - new watercooled case build with new PSU, fancy stuff with copper pipes and a...
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    Which Z68 board for me?

    Hi all, Looking to build a 2500k-on-Z68 system very shortly. Like this week. And I need a board... Priorities: - B3 revision chipset. Must be well cooled and use good surrounding components. - Durable and overclockable processor-related components. Solid state power caps and all that. I love...
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    So my graphics card just decided to have some kind of mental issue...

    Hi all - in the last week or so I have noticed a game crashing out with artifacts after 30-45 mins, so assuming it was just the summer heat I i turned all my fans up and ignored the problem. However just now I booted up and there were random non-ASCII characters filling my POST screen. Right...
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    Page files and caching SSDs (NOW URGENT!)

    Hi all :) Might be rebuild season here again - serious storage system this time. I'm fairly sure my OS and a handful of carefuly chosen apps will be running off a Vertex 3 120GB SSD drive hooked up to a Z68 mobo for a start. I know the Z68 can do some... magic type caching thing... via an...
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    Regarding z68 boards and SSDs

    Hi all. Been out of the loop for a while... So are we using these built-in SSD connectors in the Z68 boards on their own with a old school mechanical HHD, or are we running them with a secondary larger, slower SSD? Or are the enthusiast community not using it at all? Seems to me the...
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    PCI-E stuck at x1

    Hi all, Recently been having problems with games running extremely slow - benchmarks show the system stable and temps okay but anything 3D is running at a fraction of the normal framerate. GPU-Z confirms my x16 PCI-E 2.0 slot is stuck at x1 1.1 speed. It might be some change in the BIOS I...
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    Security Essentials picking up Windows Live Mesh as a virus!?

    Installed Live Mesh yesterday on Win 7 - now I'm getting popups telling me it's some kind of trojan... infected files are supposedly as follows... file:C:\Users\John\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live...
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    Can someone explain Chinese girls to me?

    Well, she's not Chinese she's English, but her parents are Chinese and she refers to herself as Chinese. Is it normal for Chinese families to have a problem with their kids/siblings going out with non-Chinese guys? She mentioned it was a shock to her parents when her sister went out with a...
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    Magento vs scratch build?

    I have a site build which seems to suit Magento up to a point, but the client doesn't actually want to sell anything - at the end of the process of choosing a product the user would simply be redirected to another site to complete the transaction (or not). I would like to avoid just hacking...
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    Please recommend me a PHP framework!

    Hi all, Recently I've been trying to make Wordpress or Drupal fit whatever site I'm building as having those core elements already in place makes things so much easier, but now I have a site to build which is totally unsuitable for WP or Drupal. It's more of a web-based application which...
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    Thunderbird sync between installations?

    Hi all, I have TB installed on my home PC, my macbook, and my work PC - how can I get the address books to sync with each other automatically? Ultimately, I want my phone to sync with windows contacts (this already happens), and all TBs to sync with windows contacts and each other too, so if I...
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    Upgrading Q6600 rig - need advice

    I'm feeling I want to upgrade my GA-P35-DS3P/Q6600 G0/8800GT rig - my main machine at home, used for a bit of work, and a bit of gaming. I don't need to build some kind of superpowered freak though, since I've recently bought the new macbook pro, and already have my office machine and server for...
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    Wordpress database performance

    Hi all - I'm working on a site which is based on a heavily customised Wordpress install. Dozens of 'deals' (wordpress posts) are added every day and right now we're up to several thousand in total. Each of the posts has an expiry date and a location, among other custom fields. So when you...
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    UK General Election tomorrow

    Greetings America - I thought you might like a little foriegn politics for once, just to pass the time between now and the next gun thread ;) The UK general election is May 6 and it's WIDE wide open - more than it has been in living memory. And it's not just Labour (socialists) and the...
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    Can I retrieve my disconnected SSH session?

    Hi all my SSH (PuTTY) session disconnected halfway through an apt full-upgrade on a debian Etch box. I still have to hit enter and 'y' a few times before the process can complete and I really don't want to just kill the process and start all over again... Any ideas how I can get that...
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    PHP file upload security

    Evening ladies and gents, I'm currently writing an image upload component in PHP, which will unfortunately (not my choice...) have to run on a crappy shared server with PHP safe_mode turned on. I've heard of some major issues with uploads under safe_mode but I can't seem to find much detailed...
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    COD4 suddenly extremely slow

    I just upgraded my video drivers because Steam asked me to. Who knows why; I should know not to listen to that piece of crap software by now. Anyway COD4 (only COD4 nothing else) is now extremely slow, like I'm running about 10, maybe 15 FPS. I updated PB but that didn't help. I also read that...
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    O flower of Scotland!

    :music: O flower of Scotland When will we see your like again That fought and died for Your wee bit hill and glen And stood against him Proud Edward's army And sent him homeward Tae think again Always makes me want to start a fight that song :frown: :laugh: Come on Scotland the...
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    Royal Guardsman collars tourist

    Video pretty funny but doesn't show what happened after he grabbed the guy - article says he 'pushed him with his gun'... fair enough I say... these guys take a lot of crap from tourists and kids who know they're not supposed to interact with people. /edit: actual video link...
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    "Soon we'll have nowhere left to run"

    Fares Akram is an English speaking journalist living in Gaza with his family. I discovered his blog yesterday. It paints a fascinating picture. http://faresakram.livejournal.com/ http://www.independent.co.uk/n...my-father-1225793.html To those who believe all Palestinians are terrorists...
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    Javascript performance in rendering

    Here's a little expermiment I'm doing with javascript rendering: http://www.nicetechnology.co.uk/animate.html IE7 will spit this out so use Firefox. I'd like to know why IE does this but that's not why I posted. I just want to get it working in FF at the moment. You'll notice it takes...
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    Hat?

    Hat?
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    GOD DAMMIT!

    It's 5 in the morning and I just got home. The food was total crap (£50!) - I could cook a better steak than that any day - we got there too late so we couldn't hear shit while we were eating, and then by the time we were done the band had almost finished their set so we had to dance to the crap...
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    When I eat pears my ears itch

    seriously no pearody threads vi edit
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    My volume fluctuates randomly

    It happens in games, in various media players, in everything really - but only sometimes. It just doubles in volume for a few seconds seemingly at random. This is recent. I've had the board for about 6 months. I suspected hardware at first - a loose connection or something - but I gave the...
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    Fascist BNP members list released

    For those who don't know (most of you I expect) the BNP or British Natioanl Party is a far-right UK political party based on racism, hate, and intimidation. They claim to campaign for Britain, but they are no better than the Nazis who tried to destroy our country not so long ago, or the...
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    Secret Obama code names crap?

    For some reason this was in related links on the goat sex man story... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wor...tions_2008/7726453.stm Aren't those pretty dumb code names? Over a distorted radio they would all sound the same right? Isn't this why military units always use the phonetic alphabet...
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    I thought I was 27...

    I realized this yesterday (my birthday) when I recieved a card from a friend advising me to have a happy 26th. I politely informed this person that the card was much appreciated but the age, expertly printed in black fountain pen, was off by a small margin. She politely informed me that I was...
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    Website Logo

    I'm putting up a new website to show off some of the things I've coded in the last year or so - hopefully this is is gonna help drum up some more business for me. I registered www.nicetechnology.co.uk as the domain name so I need the words 'nice technology' in the logo but other than that I...
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    If you got a man who's too fat to walk...

    ... and sat him in the middle of nowhere with only water, would his body consume the fat keeping him alive until he was thin enough to move, or would he die of malnutrition first?
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    Cisco people please help me out

    I'm trying to set up this 857W for WPA pre-shared key wifi, but in the 'wireless application' which opens from the SDM it only shows an option for RADIUS server under WPA, no PSK. Any ideas? IOS 12.4 --- You've been around long enough to know this belongs in the Networking Forum Atheus...
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    Karma owned me

    So last night I was at this gamer convention thing, and my friend asked if I could help out on the door, so i grabbed a staff shirt and started taking names and stamping hands. After the crowd slowed down I noticed this collection box for Children in Need sitting in a corner with no money in it...
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    I'm about to watch my first American Football game on TV

    I've never seen a whole American Football game and neither have any of my friends - AFAIK this is the first time it's been live on terrestial TV here in the UK... so... what am I watching here...? I get the impression it's pretty much rugby in the scoring of touchdowns (tries) and conversions...