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    Two stroke oil brand: does it matter?

    So, my ancient electric string trimmer finally gave up the ghost (shorted out I guess and literally caught on fire) so I fixed up this cheapo Homelite 26ss string trimmer I dug out of the trash a couple months ago (rebuilt and cleaned the carb with an ultrasonic cleaner and carb cleaner). Runs...
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    Weird issue with old Core 2 Duo and 965 board.

    I'm working on my brother's computer which was acting weird (probably some spyware/virus or something) and noticed something strange when I ran memtest with 4 DIMMs installed (normally there's just 2; upgrading the RAM because he wants to install win7). Here's it with 2 1GB DIMMs (it passes...
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    Vsync problems with multiple distros with Intel 4600 IGP and i915 driver

    For a variety of reasons I'm migrating away from windows on my PCs. One show-stopping problem I've had on a lot of linux distributions with my hardware is that vsync seems to be broken on the desktop and (much more annoyingly) in games and videos. What's a good distro (would really prefer it to...
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    WTF Gigabyte

    I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NS, and it's a nice board. However, the BIOS is not accepting the options I set. In my BIOS, I have the option of setting the three different boot devices. All three slots also have a "Disabled" selection which I assume means disabled. When I set all three boot devices to...
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    Gigabyte apparentely never anwsers their email.

    I couldn't decide if this thread should go into Motherboards or Technical Support. If a mod thinks it's in the wrong place, feel free to move it. My Gigabyte K8NS kicked the bucket. Can somebody provide a telephone # where I can describe my problems in english to Gigabyte or a website where I...
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    Nforce 3 250 ethernet problems

    I have a Gigabyte K8NS motherboard. I have found that the on-board ethernet port will disconnect at random interverals. I have tried many different drivers, and have seen a slight improvement with later drivers, but they don't completely fix the issue. The fact that later drivers help seems to...
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    How fast are your hard drives?

    I found a neat little program that's easy to use called Quickbench. http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/fclick/fclick.php?fid=199 It's a fast little test that gives sequential read/write performance for a hard drive and random read performance with various block sizes. The default is to test up to 1MB...
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    How well grounded do you need to be when putting a computer together?

    It seems like there's quite a bit of disagreement when this issue pops up from time to time in different places. I was wondering what Anandtech's forum users opinions' and personal experiences on this matter are. Please comment!
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    GA-K8NS Ethernet problems

    I have a K8NS, everything is great and works so far (haven't tried the SATA), but have a very annoying problem with the ethernet. Sometimes, it disconnects and reconnects for no apparent reason. This hapens with any application, even firefox as well as azeurus and mirc. It affects all...