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  1. abbadaba

    Help! Laptop wont power on!

    I have an ASUS K52F, a little over two years old. It was used last night with no issues. This morning it wont power up. When plugged in the corresponding LED on the front lights up. When the power button is pressed the LED on the power button lights up, the "lightbulb" LED on the front...
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    Help! My son nuked my computer :(

    He took a usb cable that was attached to the rear of the motherboard and plugged it into an oversized power outlet designed for an AC unit. The outlet was partially obscured by my desk and I never used it, totally forgot it was there. I'm very lucky my son didn't get hurt. A big spark and...
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    Digital signal problems

    I'm having a problem receiving digital channels on my HDTV. On digital channels the picture freeze/pixellates/stutters with what looks like classic weak signal to me. The TV's menu is showing that the channel signal is erratic. Everything else on the TV works perfectly. Problem is I've...
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    Dual display issues

    I'm using an ATI 4850 with VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. My monitor is an older VGA only LCD. I would like to use my HDTV as a second display. (All I want is a cloned display, don't care about desktop stretching.) I had this setup working fine with an 8800gt using a component output to the tv...
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    4850 w/GDDR5

    I recently purchased this card, I'm interested in benchmarking it to see where if falls between a standard 4850 and a 4870. Can anybody suggest a benchmark that isn't CPU limited and can give me an apples to apples comparison? and/or let me know what type of scores I should be looking for...
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    Dead 8800gt?

    I need some help diagnosing a problem with my eVGA 8800GT dual slot videocard. The first symptoms were a few random crashes/lockups while playing SC2. Now I am getting a BSOD referencing nvlddmkm.sys when booting into Windows 7. Safe mode worked fine, and so long as I uninstall the graphics...