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    What would you say?

    I couldn't log in forever and my request to reset my password to this forum was missed for years I guess. They just reset it for me today and here I am. Wow. This is an old post but I hate to leave stuff unanswered so here is my reply to "Toyota's question" I don't know what the power supply...
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    What would you say?

    Sorry folks. I was in a hurry. The old setup was a Pentium IV 3.0 w/HT. It has the 9600 in it and all I play is UT(99) and UT 2004. The "newer" yet still old system is a Dell Precision T3400 Workstation. It has a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz. It list 4 times in device manager...
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    What would you say?

    I just got my first multi-core desktop. It already has 2 video cards in it. Neither of which are built in. There is no on-board video on this multi-core desktop. I also already have a pretty good video card in my single core desktop so I'm thinking I'd like the best video card in my best...
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    chkdsk e: /r with WIN 7 nuked my drives...

    I'm sorry for the delay in responding back like I said I would to this. Yes, it was the USB adaptor. Not all of the time but certainly most of the time when connected to my Win 7 professional PC it would not be able to show there were files or anything on a hard drive. I resorted to only using...
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    XP chokes but not Windows 7 during install...

    Thank you folks! Yes, the laptop came with XP on it originally. No, I do not have the original disks that came with it and the restore type feature that Dell offers isn't available anymore on the hard drive. I did try different versions of the XP disk being one with SP3, one with SP2 and one...
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    XP chokes but not Windows 7 during install...

    I have been tasked with reworking an old Dell Inspiron1150 laptop. I was putting Windows XP Pro on it but each time, during the intitial setup at 34 minutes remaining during the Installing Drivers portion of the install, the laptop would blue screen. usually with a paging a non page area type...
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    Best processor for my Intel D945GTP mobo?

    Thanks Conroe! I have felt that this PC is pretty fair speed wise. Do you think it is just time for me to man-up and buy something new. Is the new stuff really that much better? At work I use a E4500 Intel Core2 Duo and I don't feel it is any faster than my at home PC with my Pentium IV 3.0 /HT
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    Best processor for my Intel D945GTP mobo?

    I have this Intel D945GTP motherboard running WIN 7 Ultimate 64bit with the maximum of 4gb of ram. I currently have a Pentium IV 3.0Ghz W/HT processor in it. I'd like to upgrade it to the best there is if it isn't cost prohibitive. I checked on the FAQ page for my board to see what it said I...
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    chkdsk e: /r with WIN 7 nuked my drives...

    OK folks. I have to agree. It has to be the USB adaptor or something odd like that. I will plug it in directly tomorrow and try a few things. I'll come back here and let you know what happens. Have a great day folks and thanks again for you replies!
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    chkdsk e: /r with WIN 7 nuked my drives...

    I'm at work. The HR Director's PC started rebooting over and over. All cooling fans are on and the room is cool so I suspect the HDD or the the OS. I took the drive out and hooked it up to my PC through a univeral adaptor that plugs into my PC via a USB port. I started up my PC and I see the...
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    Script for clearing inactive PC accounts?

    I was hoping the script or whatever tool we use can be modified to look at usage or some other data like that and then react based on that. I have scripts now that go into folders and determine how old certain types of files are and then it nukes all of the files that are now to old based on...
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    Script for clearing inactive PC accounts?

    This is work related and I'm sorry for that but this is best place I know of to get the best answers fast. At work we have several inactive computer accounts in our domain. I'm looking for a tool to run through or against our Active Directory that will identify and remove these computer accounts...
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    Outlook 2003 PST to Outlook 2007 PST?

    Bump!
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    Outlook 2003 PST to Outlook 2007 PST?

    I'm sure someone here knows the quick answer so I'll be short with the description of the issue I face. I had Outlook 2000 back then and have always kept all of my email. When I upgraded to Outlook 2003, I simply copied my .PST file from the old install and pointed the new Outlook to it...
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    Game crash, artifacts plus a screeching sound

    I had a PC that did stuff like that. I did read your entire post and did see that you said temps were fine. Did that include the CPU? My pc would get too hot. It would lock up, the video would tear and screw up badly and that awful screech would scream through the speakers. I ended up having...
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    Old School Stuff

    Greetings! I have an old IBM in my garage that I have set up to dual boot WIN 98 SE and WIN XP Pro. The hard drive was only 10gb in size. This worked fine for me for years but after getting updates and adding games my XP partition finally started running out of room. I could see that my...
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    How to lock down my PC for kids to use

    Hello folks. Here is what I'm trying to do exactly: I have a PC that I want my son to be able to use and not destroy. This PC is running Windows XP Professional. I have an administrator account on it and he has a seperate one too. I want my account to continue to have full administrative...
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    Disk testing tools?

    I have a couple of questions about testing hard drives to make sure they are good. There is nothing worse than using a old hard drive from somewhere and installing to it like an operating system just to find out the drive has bad sectors. Windows XP has the Error-checking tool built into it...
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    Not so easy Scandisk question........

    All good ideas and here is what I posted on another forum before I was able to get back to this one. Thanks. I figured it out: Select Start Select Run Type in: chkdsk/r G: In this case, my drive that needed to be checked was drive G: The switch of /r means to not only fix bad...
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    Not so easy Scandisk question........

    Cool! I stumped this forum. I'm shocked nobody knows the answer and for the record, I do not know the answer either. Since I don't, can someone tell me how I can see the results of this scan disk through any other method than having it be the master drive and having to schedule the scandisk at...
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    Vista and Audigy 2 sound...

    You are kidding right? This sound card isn't too old but now that I think about it, Vista does like to reject lots of stuff like my video camera and scanner. But it did give me some sort of driver for the card. I just went with it. I didn't try to install the proper drivers. You are saying that...
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    Vista and Audigy 2 sound...

    I have a older PC running Vista Business and a SoundBlaster Audigy2 sound card. I played a song on Windows Media Player and the sound is garbled and glithy with tickings ounds too. The song sounded better than worse but not good enough to keep listening to. I tried sevral songs all with the same...
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    I have $500 and a question.

    I never did get around to buying or building this system and I'm glad to be honest because that same money can be put towards the next system next time. Lots of great stuff has come to the PC world since I first started this thread. I'll wait a little longer still and then repost this questions...
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    Not so easy Scandisk question........

    I'm still wondering about this. Nobody figured it out? I may have but forgot the answer if I did ever figure it out.
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    Only sees half of it

    I have a buddy who has an old Pentium III 8mhz system he is using as a backup system while his main box is dead. He said that he has had 512mb of PC100 ram in it before. He said recently when he turned it on, the bios and the OS only 1/2 of the total of ram he has in it. I gave him 2 sticks of...
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    On a server mobo

    Oh yes. That will help. Thanks. I would have done the drivers as you suggested but the rest would have been new to me. I'll let you know what I find and I'll ask what to do next. Later!
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    On a server mobo

    I was given an old Compaq server about a month ago from a guy who upgraded the PC that runs his business. It's from about 1999 as near as I can tell. It has two seperate processors on it and two Scuzzi drives. It has Windows 2000 Server running on it now. I'm thinking about using it as a game...
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    I have $500 and a question.

    OK all. To show that I'm taking your opions seriously here is what I think I'm gonna do but first let me say thank you. No one flamed me for my ignorant questions. Everyone gave good info that directed me in a way that makes me feel good about what I'll be trying to do. Everyone tried to keep me...
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    I have $500 and a question.

    Great answers so far. Thanks. I'll try to give you feedback to questions you asked and provide more info that I failed to mention period. My power supply is a Antec 400 watt power supply. I expect to be using Vista (the one right beneath Ultimate). Sorry my math was off. That is very odd for...
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    I have $500 and a question.

    Money isn't so much the issue here but I want to keep it down if possible to around $500. Here are the givens to this word problem. I already have a case, power supply, sound card, network card, usb bay, floppy drive, DVD player, CD/RW drive and TV tuner card. I need a new mobo that...
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    XP2600 vs Sempron 3000MP vs XP-M 3000+

    Both of you are correct. I was trying to avoid running the test and I am getting sick of running old stuff and am thinking hard about some NEWER stuff. I have a top of the line AGP card so I have been looking at the Asrocks offerings over the years. Later!
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    XP2600 vs Sempron 3000MP vs XP-M 3000+

    I have a ASUS A7V8X mobo. It has the KT400 chipset on it but the FSB runs at 333. I have a Sempron 3000/MP in it right now but I wonder if a XP2600 I have laying would be faster. Any ideas? I also have a XP-M 3000+ that is the 266fsb flavor. How would it do in this comparison against both...
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    Not so easy Scandisk question........

    I did! See? Look: Test this yourself if you have 2 drives in your PC. Open My Computer. Right click on your second drive. Select Properties, Tools, Check Now, put checks in the 2 boxes they offer and click start. One of those boxes I said to put a check in is the one that causes the...
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    Not so easy Scandisk question........

    Wrong. Scandisk will take as much time as needed depending on the size of the drive when the option to "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" is selected. It is a surface test basically which is why it can take a long time on a big drive even if it is empty.
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    Not so easy Scandisk question........

    I'm running Windows XP Pro. I have a single hard drive in the machine and I completely know how to run a chkdsk on it and go into the event viewer and see the results of scandisk whenever I run it. Here is the tricky question. I have another drive that I want to start to use in a different...
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    Multipliers?

    Sounds good. My issue is that even when I set a higher multi it still stays at 16.5 and that makes me wonder if it is locked somehow but being a mobil it can't be locked so I'm wondering what is keeping me from using higher multi's. The ram is Crucial PC133 CAS2. I can run the mobo stable at...
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    Multipliers?

    The question is if my processor is designed to run at full speed using 16.5 as it's multiplier, is it even possible to use a higher one than 16.5 on that processor?
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    Multipliers?

    I have a XP-M 3000+ that I'm running on a ABIT KT7A using a modified BIOS. It is usually running at the default 16.5 X 133FSB = 2200mhz. It is a mobil processor so the multipliers are unlocked. My question is this: Can I use a higher multiplier than it's default highest one being 16.5...
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    XP-M 3000+ on a ABIT KT7A ver 1.3 motherboard?

    Update: I ended up using a modded BIOS from apple_rom called the R10 BIOS in order to run my XP-M 3000+ processor on my KT7A version 1.3 motherboard. It runs at the stock speed of 2200mhz and I can overclock it more by way of adding to the FSB without having to up the voltage any. So far, the...
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    XP-M 3000+ on a ABIT KT7A ver 1.3 motherboard?

    Success! See below: I just wanted you all to be the first to know that I just did it! I know how, can and do run an XP-M 3000+ AMD processor on my ABIT KT7A version 1.3 motherboard! What is really exciting though is that though I have not done it just yet but I'm positive that I can do this...