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    Homework question (C++)

    Hey guys. I am new to programming and am taking an introduction class in C++. We have a homework assignment which we are suppose to implement Conway's Game of Life. It's a simple assignment with simple rules but I can't seem to get it to run properly. Most of the framework of the code was...
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    New computer issues (power supply?)

    Hey all, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my rig. I was running a C2D E8400 and Geforce 9800GT. Went ahead and got an ASUS motherboard, an EVGA GTX 570HD, 8GB of RAM and an i-2500k. I went ahead and installed everything fine, reinstalled Windows, got my applications back up and...
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    Computer won't boot

    I am helping a friend build his computer, he has plugged his 24 pin connector in his motherboard and when he does that, the power supply turns on and the CPU heatsink fan spins. When we plugged in the 2x4 power connector the power connector that powers the CPU and try to turn on the power...
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    To sell now or to hold?

    My mom won an iPad from a contest - it's the 64GB model, 3G and wifi. I played around with it a while but I don't really care to have it and my mom doesn't care too heavily either. After I googled and saw the price of it (woooow), we decided selling it would be a good move, eBay would be good...
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    Turn Table hooked to Receiver, volume is light

    My family got a new TV and receiver so I hooked that up for them. My mom has a turn table and wanted me to hook that so she could listen to her records on the speakers. I hook it up but when I play a record.. I didn't hear anything. I kept changing inputs, switching wires, etc, but nothing...
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    Make a shortcut to run in compatiblilty mode?

    Hey guys. I have a game on my USB drive, Red Alert 1. I use it to play at school since we're allowed to during certain times. I do have an account with more rights because I am the school's IT department but I'm not suppose to use it when I'm not working. I noticed that when I plug my USB...
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    Internet dies due to P2P, my end, not routers

    I'm having a problem and it's becoming more and more coming for some reason. I run uTorrent and I always have it open so I can seed. I seed a lot of torrents so I am connected to a lot of peers. It sometimes depends, but normally about 20 minutes after starting up uTorrent, my internet...
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    Getting I/O errors on external HDD

    I have a 320GB Western Digital Elements external hard drive and it seems that when I near full capacity, it gets I/O writing errors. I notice this due to I put what I download via uTorrent and uTorrent reports the error then proceeds to quit writing to the hard drive. When I first bought the...
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    YouTube lags Firefox

    Firefox keeps lagging out when I try and play YouTube videos, it never used to do this... I disabled all plugins, extensions, reinstalled flash, then Firefox, still nothing. I downloaded Chrome and used it, YouTube works fine. I tried IE, works fine. I am on Vista 64-bit, Firefox 3.xx...
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    Outlook 03 address book restore?

    When I built my mom a new computer I forgot to export her address back from Outlook 2003. The Dell she had is pretty torn apart and I really don't feel like trying to hook it back up together just to export her address back... Is there a way I can get her address back from the Application...
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    Constant reboot

    Hey guys... I have a problem. I got a new CPU, RAM, and mobo recently. I swapped them out and they all worked perfectly for a day. Now I got a new hard drive from Fry's and I installed Windows XP on it with SP2 already slipstreamed. I transferred the old hard drive files to my new hard drive...
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    Upgrading, advice wanted

    When bad things happen, good things happen too. My mom's Dell CPU heat sink died a few days ago so she ordered a new one and I'll fix it, but she also wants just a faster computer. Mine is old (in gaming regards) but way better than what she had, so she wants my computer. This means I get to...
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    New comuter will not display

    Edit: See POST 3 I am helping a friend build a computer and we put it together and it will not display. It will power on but it will not give us a display. We've tried two monitors and swapping the two ports the card has... no dice. The Radeon HD 4850 has a red light on it... is that bad...
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    New computer question

    My friend is coming back from camp in a few days and we are talking on MSN, he says he's earned about 600 to burn. At first I thought all he needed was a cpu, mobo, and ram and he'd be good to go but I forgot that his old system is a Dell case and the mobo is gone, the rest would be useless (he...
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    A good capture card?

    Hello. I am wanting to watch TV on my computer and computer monitor. I was told that I needed a Capture Card, not a TV tuner, because the cable wire runs into the Verizon top box then another wire runs out that goes to the TV. This is correct, right? In that I was told that if the cable just...
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    Internet keeps dropping as torrents run

    I am running uTorrent at half my upload and download speed. I have UPNP enabled on my router (Linksys WRT54GX2) but not on uTorrent. I noticed that my internet keeps dropping every 3-5 minutes. I am not on wireless, I am wired. I do not notice it web browser because as soon as the internet...
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    Bad mobo and/or RAM?

    Hello, recently I overclocked my computer and I was using an ASUS A8N-SLI (s939) and instead of setting a RAM divider, I set my frequency to 200MHz. I was going to help a friend overclock his machine since he seemed interested but I ran into a problem. I was going to set the RAM divider to...
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    Way of getting to main menu through console in TF2?

    My friend's ESC key is broken which is the only way I know of to get the say the main menu in TF2 to mute people and change settings while in game. Do you know of any console commands that can allow him to do so?
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    Default voltage?

    I have a s939 AMD Anthlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz and I recently overclocked it to 2.7GHz. It seems pretty stable but sometimes it locks up after some gaming, the guy who helped me overclock it said if it does that I could try upping the voltage two options above the default. Well the motherboard...
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    I/O write errors? External HDD

    http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2258/62004108rj3.png < The error No matter what the torrent client, usually one torrent faills and cannot write. Right now I have about 10 torrents going, but it doesn't matter if I stop all the others, restart the failed one, it will fail again. If I...
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    Wireless drops for ~3secs

    My friend has been experiencing I guess "wireless drops". In game, (BF2, TF2, doesnt matter) his character will "freeze" for about 2-3 seconds before he resumes control of the character again. Another forum told him it might be something called "Wireless Zero Configuration" but even with it...