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    Old Hi-Fi

    Before computers, back in the early (80 -83) eighties, I was an audiophile. A company called hafler marketed power amp and preamp kits. Over a period of 24 hours I built a hafler DH - 200 amp and a DH - 101 preamp. Built a system with a Yamaha PF -800 turntable, a Yamaha T-300 Am-FM tuner...
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    Stealth Computer Grabbing

    I just ran across a thread about used/unused ports on routers that brings clarity to something that has been bothering me since the failed debut in cyberspace of the ACA. In an age when just about every retailer has an internet presence that can ship anything to you and charge you a dozen...
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    only in safe mode

    I upgraded win 7 to win 8 pro to win 8.1 pro and everything seemed to run smoothly. I run a biostar hi-fi 77 motherboard and I not leaving well enough alone went on Biostar's web page to see if maybe the motherboard drivers had been tweaked to win 8.1. Not long after this I suddenly got a...
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    WEBSHOTS Snafu on WIN8

    My dear 96 year old mother-in-law trashed her vista computer some way or another and went out and bought an HP Desktop with WIN8. After the initial issues with WIN8 for folks raised on previous windows versions, things seemed to be going OK. A day or two ago she called me (mother-in-law...
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    Strange goings on-----

    I recently purchased and installed a Dragon Naturally Home program. A few days later the program opened and warned me I was running a single processor CPU and the program may not operate efficiently. My response initially was ---what??? I'm running a quad core I5 processor. Rebooted and...
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    What will happen????

    I have an Ivy Bridge (I Think) i5 processor on a Z77 Biostar board. I'm running an upgraded win7 to win8 operating system. Because I want to ( holler if I have nothing to gain from it) I'm thinking about simply lifting out the Z77 board and processor, and dropping in an haswell board and i5...
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    Page 2

    On 8 December, I posted a glowing praise of my upgrade from WIN 7 Home Premium to WIN 8 Pro. It was glowing because it went slick as can be and I seemed to have everything I had in WIN 7 immediately available on metro through metro or through the metro jump to my WIN7 desktop. Thrilled I...
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    that wasn't so hard!

    After much forum searching, and listening to (reading) the lamentations of many about the woes of WIN 8, This evening I bit the bullet and put the WIN8 Pro 64 DVD in my drive. About 15 to 20 minutes later I was a windows 8 user and back to my desktop with the photo of a red, white and blue MIG...
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    USB powered speakers

    Inexpensive desktop speakers powered from a USB port ----how does it access your analog/digital sound signals? Does it matter if you are using on-board sound or a sound card?
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    image at 64 to receiving OS at 32?

    I am starting a new machine that runs win7 32. I would like to restore a system image stored on an external drive to the new machine that runs win7 32. The system image comes from a win7 64 machine. Will this work?
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    What does VIRTU do technically?

    I'm running an i5-3570K on an intel DH67BL mobo. I have the latest drivers from NVIDIA working an MSI GTX-460 card and the latest intel IGP drivers for the 4000 series IGP. I also have the latest VIRTU second level drivers installed. It took some finagling to get these guys working together...
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    Will the switdh kill WIN7

    I'm about to pop out a i5-2500k and pop in an i5- 3570K in an Intel DH67BL mobo. I've crossed all the "t's" and dotted all the "i's" as far as mobo compatibility bios and otherwise as far as the board is concerned. Question - will the operating system survive this change or am I looking at...
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    Explain z77 and p67 interghangeability with generation 2 and 3 i5 and i7 processors

    From reading advertising copy I get the impression a z77 board will work with either a generation 2 or a generation 3 processor. I'm not clear if a P67 board willk work with either processor. I'm asking because i would like to upgrade my H67 board with a 3rd generation I5 for now and get a...
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    good info about my snafu

    Read over on operating systems about my buying a new motherboard/CPU etc. because of problems I encountered that were primarily about video appearing and disappearing. After loads of troubleshooting that culminated in my deciding my DP55SB intel board was dying, and replacing it with a new...
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    W7 image restored to a new and different MB

    As short as possible - my DP55SB motherboard went south. It had been acting up for almost a month and about 4 times I was able to get it going again. Two of those times I used a system image from an external HDD backed up using Win7 Home Premium backup system. Once, and again a second time...
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    A good computer for a lot of video editing

    While I'm waiting for help with the sleep problem (hibernation) I have some questions about a good system for video editing. An individual had espressed interest in such a computer and I have no firm idea on budget but I suspect 5 - 6 hundred bucks would be cool for and amateur video person...
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    went to sleep, can't wake up, please hurry help

    My computer went to sleep as it normally does, but when I attempted to use it again I got the message that the last state was not saved and I was given the option of retrying the state resume or erasing the last state and rebooting as usual. Problem - I am using a logitech wireless keyboard and...
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    Is 8.866 volts on a 12 volt line a problem?

    I have an Intel DP55SB board. One external disc hard drive and only SSD's internally with an DVD optical drive. There are 5 fans operating in the system off the motherboard. All of these fans are running slowly but I expect they should because the motherboard temperature as measured by a...
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    Flaky on-board ethernet adapter

    Some time ago (month or so) I was posting about my struggles with the Cisco Valet and ethernet connection to my PC. I sometimes couldn't get on internet at all or it would be so slow that it was unusable. The wireless mode was functioning flawlessly and was used for internet access by my...
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    Debit card Rebates

    I recently recieved as rebate on a Corsair PSU, a Visa debit card worth $10.00. What is the best way to really get my ten bucks worth out of this card without being backdoored into some kind of VISA account i don't want?
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    Help please, ASAP

    Doing a build for brother and will give him ability for external backup. Just took delivery of a Rosewill external enclosure model RX35-AT-SU3. No instructions came with it and I can't even open the unit to put in a HDD. Anybody out there had one of these? How the heck do you get it open?
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    Security Suites and your Ethernet Adapter

    A week or so ago I was posting in regard to the problems I was having with a new Cisco Valet router that worked fine wirelessly but the hardwire to my computer was erratic, nonfunctional, or slow as molasses. I regret that I don't know who to credit but last night I read somewhere on this...
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    Possesed Seasonic X650

    Here is an update-------Hey guys and girls, find important update at the end of my original posting. It's duplicated because i couoldn't figure out how to append the update to this post. Original post goes something like Seasonic X650 dead?
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    New boards and UEFI

    I note that with the latest intel processors and chipsets a lot of board makers are touting UEFI in place of the old traditional BIOS. I'm wondering - what happens if you choose to upgrade to a new CPU and board - to your already installed data and operating system. A lot of folks don't go...
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    W-Fi, wireless networking, bluetooth; same or not?

    Mother-in-law got a Xmas Kindle - she couldn't reach Amazon because no Wi-Fi was available. Wondering if wireless networking routers could serve the purpose, I hooked up a Linksys wireless router for her finagled it's settings and boom she was off and running to get her books and talk with...
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    Seasonic X650 --passed away???

    I'm about to RMA my Seasonic X650 purchased in October - Dead in December. Because Seasonic will charge me $25 bucks if I RMA a unit that proves to be perferctly functional by their tests - I want to run this by the power supply experts to see if I have properly diagnosed the problem. My...
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    Two Very Important Questions

    I've been fooling around with my SSD's and got some weird hacks of 100 meg partitioned out of all my drives - including my external backup. I'm running WIN7 so out of curiosity I told the bios (Intel DP55SB mobo) to do UEFI - I think that lopped off pieces of all my drives. Did clean...
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    ATA, AHCI, Which?,..Dell inspiron Laptop

    My first venture with a laptop. Friend with Dell Inspiron model 1545 had a hard drive failure. Dell sent another hard drive gratis under warranty but offered no warranty service. Young lady said what do I do with this thing they sent me - I volunteered to replace her hard drive. Web gave...
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    Cloud ??????

    O.K. I've been ignoring references to "Cloud computing" as it was some far out experimental thing that some few geeks were trying. Now it's being speculated as a component of the coming Windows 8 - just what the heck is "cloud computing"?
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    SSD Tray /Egg on Face/Kudos Lian Li

    There is so much egg on my face I must loook like an egg. After all my grousing about non-standard screws for attaching 3.5 to 2.5 SSD adapter trays --- today after an awful struggle to get the OCZ Vertex mounted in the PC-B25F case floppy adapter tray I removed the hard drive tray...
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    SSD adapters 2.5 to 3.5 and Lian Li Cases (some)

    Remember my post about the OCZ SSD adapters not having standard size\thread screw holes as those on a HDD - so you couldn't use the adapter on Lian Li HDD cages that used the rubber washer slide-on method of mounting the drives? Well just received an adapter made by Addonics from SVC and have...
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    Heads Up for Lian Li case owners

    Just took delivery of OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. It comes with a 2.5 to 3.5 tray for mounting the SSD - but it uses proprietary screw sizes for mounting to the hard drive cage. If you own a Lian Li case that uses the rubber ring and slide drive mounting system the OCZ adapter won't work because the...
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    Who makes the fans in my Lian Li PC-B25F

    My new case is just a tad too noisy for me. I want to replace two 140mm top fans, two 120mm front fans and a 120mm rear fan. I considered the typhoon fans but we're talking $50 to $60 bucks just for the 120mm fans. I'd like to get less costly replacement fans advertised as being quiet fans...
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    "Y" fan connectors?``

    My new Lian Li case has five (5) fans two each of which are paired, and my motherboard has just 2 fan connectors other than the CPU fan and these are four pin connectors ( not that that matters). I would like the motherboard to control the fan speeds but don't have enough connections for...
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    mixed SSD Brands

    Has anyone experienced or heard of any problems with having different brands of SSD in their system? e.g. an Intel SSD as C drive and another maker, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston or anyone else sitting as drive "D" or "E"? My C drive now is an G2 80GB intel SSD and the next larger size Intel is way...
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    Itunes won't move

    Hope this is the right place for this -----I want to load and use iTunes from my secondary drive as my primary drive is an SSD and my iTunes library is quite large - however - iTunes refuses to load on a secondary drive no matter what i do - and my music backup DVD's always default to C Drive...
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    Think I'm Losing my HD

    My system has been suddenly freezing up completely. Nothing can happen until I do a hard reset using the case button. Reset gets me a message that the bootmgr is missing. hard restarts get me the same result. Turning the system off completely and then repowering will get that missing boot...
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    Adobe Flash Player Update won't go away

    Every couple of minutes I get an update notice from Adobe about installing their flash player 10.1. The first time it happened a few days ago I attempted to carry through with the update. It aked me to to close IE so it could install - did and it gave an indication of completed process...
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    Social Spies. Not secrets, social change!

    I've seen a lot of talk on various forums about the ineptitude of the 10 (11?) "unregistered" agents recently arrested and then traded for four of our own spies imprisoned in Russia. The trend seems to be "what the heck were they spying for?", did they steal government secrets? How about...
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    WIN7 and post-installation of AHCI driver

    Because my hdd seemed to be working itself to a frenzy when running Flight Simulator giving me random stutters that seemed to be drive connected ie flying along and everything stops for a second or two, I decided to see if AHCI would help the situation - well needless to say after a bios change...