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    SMTP only works while logged into webmail

    Hello all I have a little strange of a problem and I am hoping to get some opinions from others on this. A company I do some IT work for has their own domain name which they use their mail server for POP3 incoming server, however they use pacbell.net account to send emails out through SMTP...
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    Slideshow Screensaver for Windows XP

    I am trying to find a screensaver that will allow me to display my photos in specific directory but also one that has some cool transitions. I know that My Picture Viewer is built into XP but that comes with couple boring transitions. Any ideas? The few I found on the web are old. Thanx
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    Cordless Vantage Headset and Bluetooth 2.0

    I was not sure where to post this questions, so I picked the general section. I am wondering if anyone out there has this mic/headset, I am trying to find out, since they are bluetooth, if they would work on a regular notebook that had bluetooth built in. I have an Alienware notebook that I...
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    Bluetooth PC microphone/headphone?

    I am wondering if there is such a thing as bluetooth microphone for PC? maybe even Microphone/Headphone. I do decent amount of gaming on my notebook and am looking for capability of using Teamspeak with game, but I dont want to have to carry my Logitech Headphone/Microphone USB version all the...
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    Wha could cause network slowdown?

    as it turned out, it was the Broadcom Dell drivers. Thank you all.
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    Wha could cause network slowdown?

    Hello all I am wondering if someone could help me with this. I have a Dell Poweredge server, when I have it connected to DSL modem I have no issues with speeds. When I connect it to a SMC Router/Cable modem on Cable modem service I have slow speeds (less then a meg). At the same time when I...
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    HD formated from FAT32 to NTFS question

    I did run the Ontrack, no results. I tried Active@File Recovery and couple more apps. All with no results.
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    HD formated from FAT32 to NTFS question

    Fantastic, I appreciate the answer. This is exactly what I thought. It appears my client is dead in the water. (this is what happens when you take a PC to FireDog (Circuit City) for PC repair, they sold her XP Pro and installed it over everything without any backups). Once again, thank you all.
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    HD formated from FAT32 to NTFS question

    OK, perhaps I did not explain this correctly. The HD that originally had ME installed with FAT32 was formatted during Windows XP Pro install, and that is when it was converted (via format) from FAT32 onto NTFS.
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    HD formated from FAT32 to NTFS question

    Hello I am pretty sure I know the answer to this but I figured I would reach out to all the great people at Anandtech. I am trying to find it if there is a way to recover any data on a Hard Drive that was formatted FAT32 running Windows Millenium, and then reformatted into NTFS and had XP Pro...
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    System crash while playing game - power OUT

    The CPU is actually 2.4 (need to change my signature he he) I am NOT overclocking anything I am looking at the 750W Thermaltake PS, will pick it up this weekend.
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    System crash while playing game - power OUT

    The powersupply is not dead, as a matter of fact it powered right back up, after I pressed the power button. The reason why it pushed me to think it was a power supply was the fact that is just went flat dead, no power. Not a BSOD, not any errors. I will also look at my EVGA Motherboard and...
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    System crash while playing game - power OUT

    Well that is true, it does not say that it is SLI certified but it does say SLI ready, which would mean it has the connectors for two video cards power. I will look into getting the Toughpower one. Thanx
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    System crash while playing game - power OUT

    Hello I am wondering if perhaps I do not have a high enough power supply for the setup I have. I was playing "Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions" on DX10 Vista Ultimate, and during one of the fight scenes (pretty graphically intensive scene) my system just powered off, it was like BAM and I had...
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    More then 2gb - Not worth it?

    Hello I am hoping that someone can correct me (only if I am wrong) but is it just me or is it really not worth upgrading to more then 2GB of RAM on either XP Pro or Vista Ultimate. Since either one of those only see 2.56GB on my setup (see my specs below). Mark Intel Core2Quad 2.4 4...
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    Formatted HD, recovered JPG, unable to open

    Hello I am wondering if someone could help me with a dilema. I have a HD that had been "restored" from the HP cds, which had some pictures on there that I would like to recover. I had ran recovery software on it & I was able to find almost all the photos, however I noticed that some I am...
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    Proteck content on CD

    I am wondering if there is a software that would allow you to protect a content on a CD where you would have to enter a password to be able to open the document/xls/txt file etc. Thank you
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    AMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 problem possibly?

    Fantastic I will be changing drivers the moment I get home. I wonder, why would they "not hear people complain" about this and fix the problem. Oh well, if this will work I will stay with those drivers until I hear otherwise. Thank you again Will keep up on the updates to this forum...
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    AMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 problem possibly?

    My screensaver? I have it set to simply display photos I have in "My Pictures" As for the power management in BIOS, I am not sure, however it is default to whatever ASUS has as default, I have not change a thing (other then turning off 'Cool'N'Quiet)
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    AMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 problem possibly?

    Hello The video card drivers are the latest from Nvidias website (91.xx),the platform drivers? Windows XP 32bit? The games I had it happen on is World of Warcraft & Call Of Duty 2 I am not using a mic, so I would not know of the 20db gain. Thanx
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    System Lockups while Gaming

    Hi the system temperatures for most part are around 103F while playing any game, the motherboard temp (as far as the ASUS probe tells me) is around 110F. The video card temp is about 56C when playing games.
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    System Lockups while Gaming

    I am wondering if anyone can help me with this dilema. I have recently made an upgrade from a AthlonXP 64 4000 to AthlonXP64 X2 4800, at that time I had Abit A8N Motherboard. I started to have alot of system lockups. I have tried the Microsoft Hot Fix, AMD Drivers, AMD X2 Optimizing Utility...
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    AMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 problem possibly?

    Hello again. I have replaced the motherboard. I am now using ASUS A8N-SLI Premium. Still using the X2 4800+ and the same ram, same sound card, same video card. And I still get lockups, not as often, so far (in last 3 weeks) it has happened to me twice, both times while playing a video game. I...
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    AMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 problem possibly?

    Here is what I did, I have reinstalled WIndows, installed the AMD Drivers, installed the AMD Optimizer, DID NOT install Cool 'N' Quiet & my system has been running now for 9 days straight with out any issues. Before that I have cleaned things up in WIndows, my temperatures were normal, for the...
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    AMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 problem possibly?

    Hello and thank you for your response. Here is the info you asked The only thing i swapped was the CPU I have cleaned the heatsinc with Electrosolve Contact Cleaner which took ALL the thermal paste off the base of the heatsinc very nicely. I have applied Arctic Silver 5 onto the CPU &...
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    AMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 problem possibly?

    Hello I am hoping someone can shine some light on this. I have recently upgraded a CPU on my PC, went from AMD Athlon 4000+ to AMD Athlon 64 4800+ Dual Core. I had to update bios on my Motherboard (Abit AN8) in order for it to recognize the CPU correctly. I have not reinstalled Windows yet...
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    Wallpaper changer with special effect

    I am wondering if anyone knows of a wallpaper changer that has a picture change effect like the Mac OSX has, where while one image is blending out another one is blending in at the same time, almost like they are replacing pixels while blending in. I noticed alot of screen saver makes have...
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    P4P800 SoundMax Problem

    I have my Logitec speakers connected to the SoundMax soundcard that is part of the mobo. I have a Leadtek TV card that has internal cable going to the sound card CD IN. All ports on the sound card are used by the speakers. Here is my question: Each time I turn on the TV software for some...
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    Going to buy LCD monitor but have some quesitons

    I am wondering if someone could help me with explanation which LCD Flat screen monitor would be better for gaming, video editing etc. I am not really looking for specific name brand (however suggestions are welcome) but i am trying to see what I should look out for while shopping for one. I know...
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    Video Capturing question

    Currently I have one SATA HD where my OS resides, I also have a RAID 0 on IDE built in on the motherboard, this RAID 0 is what I use for capturing video off my tv card. My question is this, would I loose any performance if I was to upgrade my SATA to RAID0 & keep only SATA RAID0 for...
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    ASUS P4P800 mobo temp higher then the CPU

    I am wondering if anyone else is having this problem, I have a LianLi PC-65 case with ASUS P4P800 Deluxe motherboard, P4 2.8Ghz HT processor, i have a WD SATA 80Gb drive & 2xWD 40GB RAID 0 hds, 1GB or COrsair PC3200 memory, 500W power supply, I have a Vantec fans plus my CPU fan is a Vantec...
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    Dual Channel Ram Question

    unless you are using HyperThreating it should not be a problem, I think only when you are using Hyperthreating you should match the memory for best performance.
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    Help, no video when watching dvd

    From the Power DVD message it seems as if you have the video card output set to composite or svideo output, under the video card settings make sure that the monitor is your primary output & maybe even disable the composite/svideo output.
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    RAID 0 question please

    I am trying to find out if having a RAID 0 on a SATA controller & doing video capturing would be find or should I keep the IDE RAID 0 that I have now ( which is seperate from the OS HD ). Simply I am trying to see if I could get away with having only 2 HDs in the case build for RAID 0 on SATA...
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    P4 2.8 - Intel website spec says 38degC??

    the reboots could be temp related, it all depends what the setting in the bios is set to. In bios you can set a security setting for a cpu temp so if it gets to that them it will shot down the system in order for the cpu not ot burn up. I on the other hand am having the same problem with my...
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    Fan filters question

    That is true, however those filters I just added, they were purchased a day ago. The only reason why I am asking is because it seems as the top fan seems to be blowing less then the back fan & I was not sure if it had anything to do with the actual filter.
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    Fan filters question

    I was wondering if having fan filters on the inside of the case on the outtake fans is a good idea or not. Reason why I am asking is it seems that the inside of my case runs hotter then my CPU itself. I have a Lian Li case PC-65 version where the outtake fan is at the top & on the back. It also...
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    Unknown Hard Error d000144

    Hello I have a ASUS P4P800 Deluxe motherboard running Intel P4 2.8 HT processor with 1GB of Corsair Xtreme memory. I also have a wireless USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard & Mouse. Power Supply I have is a Aspire 500W PS from this store. Mu problem is this, when I hit the sleep button on the...
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    TI 4600 vs. FX5700 which one is better?

    I have had the TI 4600 by Visiontek for some time now ( around 2 years ), I have been looking to upgrade, however I am having some trouble deciding. Is the FX5700 by Leadtek any better then my TI4600? Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. Mark