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    2500K/Asus P8P67 board - cooler compatibility issues

    is the mugen2 fan hanging above the first memory slot? if it is, then what's the height clearance below the fan? regular ram stick might fit under it. but how about ram stick with a little taller heatsink like the g.skill ripsaw? its heatsink is about 1cm taller than regular ones. do you think...
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    problem solved

    it turned out that the had drive was password protected (i totally forgot about setting the password:p). after i unlock it from my laptop's bios, the drive and data can be seen from usb port now:D
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    problem solved

    hi guys, i have a problem. my laptop currently has a seagate 2.5" 500gb hard drive (model #st9500420as). i wana upgrade to an ssd. so i took the seagate out and tried to convert it to an external usb hard drive. but when i plugged the drive into usb, windows saw it as an unprepared hard drive...
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    Asus P8P67 DOES NOT recognize second Western Digital Passport USB 3.0 Drive

    my system is pretty much the same as yours: 2500k, p8p67, 8gb ram. but i dun have a WD passports to test with. i only have a 16gb usb 3.0 flash drive. it works perfectly on both of the usb 3.0 ports. so maybe it's just your mobo that has a defective port? asus is shipping out replacement...
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    Kingston V100 vs V Series SSD 128GB, huge difference in MHDD scan!

    update: looks like this "brand new" ssd was not "prepared" when shipped to me. after i did some more research about ssd, i decided to do a secure erase on the v series with parted magic. then boom, the speed is up! now mhdd scan takes only 1m9s to finish! altho still a tad slower than the v100...
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    Kingston V100 vs V Series SSD 128GB, huge difference in MHDD scan!

    thx to all for your input. so maybe mhdd use some old dos algorithm that's different? and should not be used on ssd? even so, it still surprised me because the difference in the scans between the two are so big. hans007, mine is the v 425 series. so it has the same controller as the v100? you...
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    Kingston V100 vs V Series SSD 128GB, huge difference in MHDD scan!

    i just received the kingston v series 128gb ssd i ordered from buy.com today. so i went ahead did some scan to make sure it doesn't have any problem. the program i used was the low level hd tool mhdd 4.6. to my surprise, it took much longer than my old v100 128gb to finish the scan: 13m40s vs...
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    Plz Help! Abit F-I90HD and Sata drive problem

    but i use the same ghost in other systems like new am2 (nv6100 chipset), it works fine in native sata mode.
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    Plz Help! Abit F-I90HD and Sata drive problem

    Hi all, I found a very strange problem with my I90HD motherboard. When I set the onchip Sata mode to "Native IDE", some of the natrual DOS based software like "Ghost" will not be able to see my Sata Drive. When I set it to "AHCI" mode then the drive can be seen but the files in the drive cannot...
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    yeah, thx! i have norton run virus check every week, so my computer should be free from virus:)
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    yeah, you guys are right about the overheating. summer is coming, it's getting hot now. and dust has been building up for months but i've never cleaned it before. i just did the clean up on the heatsink and fans. now i also have a house fan blowing on the laptop too. my laptop has been running...
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    yeah, you guys are right about the overheating. summer is coming, it's getting hot now. and dust has been building up for months but i've never cleaned it before. i just did the clean up on the heatsink and fans. now i also have a house fan blowing on the laptop too. my laptop has been running...
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    but my laptop doesnt show temp in the BIOS tho... one question: the P4 throttling down function happens at high temp, rite? but will cpu keep throttling down itself even after it cools down later? if that's true, then maybe the P4 throttling is indeed the causing the problem here:(
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    oic, but i dun think overheating cause the problem tho, cuz after i quit the heavy load program and let my laptop sit there for a long time w/o shutting down the system, even after the extra thermal control fan shuts itself down automatically (which means the laptop is cool enough), but the...
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    thx for ur suggestion, do u think it's the software problem? i have tried different os, even fresh installing the os, still cant solve the problem. and i didnt have this problem before... any idea? thx!
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    i dunno wut virii or spyware is. so i dun think i have those. i'm on 1.5mb adsl.
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    as long as i keep running the heavy load program, the program itself use most of cpu time (more than 95%). after i quit the program, the cpu usage drops down to almost 0%, just like normal. but only everything runs very slow, like a PII computer.
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    u mean to change the paging file size, rite? i've tried that already. it didnt help. any other idea of what might go wrong? thx!
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    i cant check the cpu fan cuz i dun wana open up my laptop to void the warranty, but i could see the three fans on the case still work well. i dun think overheating cause the problem tho, cuz after i quit the heavy load program and let my laptop sit there for a long time w/o shutting down the...
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    hi all, i need some advice here, plz help! my computer: Prostar 5694 notebook, P4 2.4GHz, 512MB DDR, ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 40GB harddrive, with 4 partitions, and still plenty of free space in each partition. Win98/Win2k Pro dual boot. i have had my laptop w/ this setup for about half a...
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    HELP! what's wrong w/ my computer???

    hi all, i need some advice here, plz help! my computer: Prostar 5694 notebook, P4 2.4GHz, 512MB DDR, ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 40GB harddrive, with 4 partitions, and still plenty of free space in each partition. Win98/Win2k Pro dual boot. i have had my laptop w/ this setup for about half a...
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    need (video) advice for setting up computer w/ multiple webcams for surveillance purpose

    thank you all for your helpful info, i'm now searching on the internet for more info on the multi-input video capture cards, i think i'm gona use this kind of card in the system. thank you again. the program i found is call Watcher from http://www.digi-watcher.com/index.html it's pretty cheap...
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    need (video) advice for setting up computer w/ multiple webcams for surveillance purpose

    thx for your info. i've checked out those wireless cameras before. the multi-cam kit they offer only has one PC video input. they take snap shot pix from switching cameras in the preset time period, if you want stream video, you have to select only one camera to view. n' on your PC, it only...
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    need (video) advice for setting up computer w/ multiple webcams for surveillance purpose

    hi all, i'm setting up a new computer in my friend's store for suveillance purpose. he wana be able to monitor his shop at home and other places via internet. i'm planning on building his system w/ the following setup: AMD Athlon XP 2100+ MSI KT3 Ultra ARU MOBO 512MB Crucial PC2700 DDR Ram...
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    win2k sp2 + ata100 = crap?????

    Good point budman! that indeed might be the real problem: win2k cant get ata100 working correctly w/ via chipset, hm... never thought of that before, thx for pointing that out. but too bad now coz i have spent too much time on building this new system already, i dun wana waist any more time to...
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    win2k sp2 + ata100 = crap?????

    hi guys, yeah, i did try the correct via bus master ide driver for the hard drive. after i intalled the driver, win2k correctly showed that it was running ultra dma mode. but you know what, it was still hell of slow, and sandra still wouldn't complete its hard drive benchmark, keep in mind that...
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    win2k sp2 + ata100 = crap?????

    I know that Win2k didn't support ata100 when it first came out. When M$ released service pack 2, they said that it¡¯s supposed to fix this problem. Well, that¡¯s just what they said, they might be just lying! I¡¯ve installed service pack 2 on my Win2k system, but it says my ibm 60gxp ata100...
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    cant see some partitions in DOS after shut down from Win2k

    hi guys, i got a problem here, hope someone could help me out. i have a 40GB HDD, partitioned in five FAT32 drives. C in primary partition for win98, the rest r all logical drives in the extended partition: D for win2k, E for data, F for programs, G for backups. everytime i boot to DOS after...