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    Keyboard problems

    Hi I have just purchased a Mionex Sibal 60 keyboard, and it is great. One problem, I cannot get into the bios as the del. key does not appear to work until windows has loaded. it appears to me that for some reason the keyboard is not recognised at load up, my old G15 and in fact all my other...
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    Word 2007 Problem

    Hi again I recently had to reinstall XP Home on my wifes laptop. I installed Word 2007 as before, but a strange thing has happened, and hopefully someone can throw some light on it. When typing a new document, and you come to the end of the first page, it does not automatically flow onto the...
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    Advice on upgrade of old pc

    Hi again I have been given an old "broken" pc, which I have now got working by getting a new AGP graphics card for £16..lol. I am intrigued to see how quick I can get it to run. It currently has an Intel P4 1.8GHz socket 478. The mobo is an MSI 6398(845 Ultra AR), with a max listed bus speed of...
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    Crossfire dilemma!

    Hi all, I have always been an nVidia man until the delay upon delay of Fermi, hence I was forced to go ATI, and very glad I did.The two VaporX HD5870's I have in crossfire are superbly fast, cool and quiet. Anyway I digress, I had two bridges connecting the cards, and have had no problems(for...
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    Asus P6T DeLuxe dilemma

    Appologies if this is not the right section to post my question...ah well here goes. There are 6 SATA connectors on the mobo and 2 SAS connectors. Can you connect a SATA device to the SAS connectors, I have used the up the SATA connectors and need to attach another HDD. Thanks in advance.
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    SSD lets down Windows 7 Performance index

    I have been told before that the Windows performance index is not important, this may be the case, but I am curious as to why my Crucial M225 SSD lets down the side so badly. The figures are as follows: Processor 7.5 RAM 7.5 Graphics...
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    SSD and Defrag.

    Just a quicky, Any thoughts on if its necessary or harmful to defrag SSDs. Cheers NoM8s
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    Windows 7 cannot compute your performance index

    Hi all, This is not of earth shattering importance but a fairly big niggle. I cannot get the index score for windows 7, as it stops a short way through with the above message. before I'm deluged with people saying that its a" useless piece of info. anyway", I am just curious why it should...
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    Formatting Vista in Windows 7

    I have been running Windows 7 on a clean install on a Crucial 128GB SSD ( as a Dual Boot), now that I am happy with Win7 I want to format the HDD that Vista is on. I have tried through Disc Management but it will not allow me to format the Vista drive. When I disconnected the Vista drive the...
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    monitor problem

    I have just bought an Iiyama 24" screen Prolite B2409HDS. It will only work with a DVI to VGA adaptor connected to my graphics card( as it only has DVI connectors). and connecting to the VGA socket on the monitor. If I connect the DVI cable it boots up to the desktop then goes to black and...
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    Dual Monitors In Game

    Hi I wanted to set up a dual monitor so I can have RCon in the second monitor while gaming, to save coming out of game to kick someone. I've gaot it all up and running and the second monitor works fine, however once in game the mouse refuses to go to the second screen. Can anyone shed some...
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    CPUZ jumpy clock speeds

    On my 3.6 overclock CPUZ doesn't show the same core speeds, is there a way to stabalise the values. Folow the links for screenies.Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Text Text
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    Core i7 920 O/C results

    The link below shows the settings and readings for various stages of overclocking my Core i7 920. I am happy with all the overclocks except for the 3.96GHz as I feel the auto chosen CPU voltage could be harmful to the CPU, hence I took the readings but did not do a stress test. I lowered the...
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    Overclocking the e8400

    I warned you all of the possibly silly questions....here is maybe one of them. I have a second rig I built to tinker with, the spec is as follows : E8400 @ 3.0GHz stock (running @ 3.45GHZ) Asus P5N32-E SLI Mobo 4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 PC 6400 (4-4-4-12) OCZ Stealth Xtreme 600W PSU Zalman...
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    Newbie o/c Core i7

    Hi This is my first post so please go easy on me. I'm a 57 year old noob overclocker. I have just built my first rig and have decided to overclock it, after reading lots of forums. I have got a stable overclock of 3.6GHz on i7 920, ran prime95 for two hours and the temps were as follows(max...