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    '95 Celicas Rock

    I've had my '95 Celica for a very long time. Bought it from a bank with 30k miles, I'm currently at 291k. The other day I saw one in Sam's parking lot and checked out the odometer, 302k. Still running strong, needs new tires.
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    There are about a dozen coyote outside

    Right across the street. You don't see them but they all yelp when the train goes by. My neighbor suggested there are more, just kinda freaked me out to hear them all at once. Don't know how they can survive on the slim pickins around here but I noticed I need to put my garbage out later if...
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    On phone with a scam?

    Wants me to install the file aa_v3.exe. It shows in Google as a trojan, is this legit? It's a company called CyberWizard. EDIT: Yeah, bad idea.Just says from there, no credentials.
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    Richard III Remains Found

    http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/04/16832540-verdict-issued-on-skeleton-found-under-parking-lot-its-king-richard-iii?lite Sorry if I missed this on a search. "Experts say DNA analysis supports their claim that the bones dug up last year under a parking lot in the English city of...
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    Death from Cheetos

    http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/336577/3/Bag-of-Cheetos-leads-to-deadly-stabbing-on-Washington-Avenue St. Louis (KSDK) - Homicide detectives are investigating a fatal stabbing. The incident happened shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday night at Washington Avenue and 6th Street. Police say the...
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    I REALLY hate Lotus notes

    I didn't used to, but since 8.5 there's no documentation I can find on how to do simple things. I really don't use email much at work, but when I try to find a source to do something different it's always either too basic or too much info on what you can do that I don't want to do. Can anyone...
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    Man accused of killing 7 kittens with a BB Gun

    Link A southwestern Illinois man is accused of killing seven kittens with a BB gun before the animals' bodies were found by a dog walker in a park. St. Clair County prosecutors on Friday charged Terry Roy, 46, of Belleville with a felony count of aggravated cruelty to animals, the...
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    Where to go for laptop repair?

    A friend's laptop needs some work. I think I've isolated it to the power switch, and with my inexperience with laptop repair recommended they have it repaired by a shop. Any recommendations for finding a shop? I've done the standard Google search, not a lot of local mom/pops that work on laptops.
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    Question on repair options

    EDIT: Thread answered. A friend's laptop turned non-responsive, they asked me to look at it. Read through things, did the full power down, memory 1 stick at a time. Lights are on both power supply and laptop, even had a dying period where you could raise or lower the screen to make it turn on...
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    MicroSD Restrictions for my Iconia A500?

    I was looking to get one of these: AData 32GB Class 4 MicroSDHC I tried Google but the only thing listed is "MicroSD", no specifics. Sorry if this is a really stupid question. TIA.
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    Video converter for the Iconia?

    I've been using the trial version of ******* and am mostly happy with it. Should I just get the full version for $35 or is there better software for that purpose. TIA for any advice. EDIT: Why did it block the software name?
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    SB Build

    I'm looking to upgrade in about 3 weeks. BluRay paly back, HD videos, light to mid level gaming. I'm more interested in future proofing (my current rig is 2003 tech) and am not overly concerned with sound (my stereo makes most computers noiseless). I'm still in the era of a 5.1 digital system so...
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    Upgrade from an old system

    It's been a LONG time (MoBo put in system 5/03). This is what I have: Asus P4P800-DLX (865PE) P4 3.0C (Zalman 7000CU cooler) 2x256MB+2x512MB Kingston HyperX PC3500 @ 2.5-3-3-6-8, 2.8V Radeon x850Pro AGP 2x36GB WD Raptor RAID0 (Primary HDD) 1x200GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 DVD/RW Lite-On LH...
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    Cheap, effective USB WiFi?

    I found a Wireless router for a friend at a yard sale, I'd like to find him a cheap USB WiFi adapter to connect his PC or laptop to his main PC for internet sharing and networking. The router is a Dell, the model # escapes me but I'm going by there tonight so I can post back. He doesn't need...
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    PC won't post

    When I hit the power button, the CPU fan will start to spin but it almost immediately powers down (no beeps). It's an older SFF system (Asus Pundit-R) that belongs to a friend. He was having some issues with thermal runaway that seemed related to the PSU fan. The PSU fan for these systems is...
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    Is it worth replacing the battery

    A friend has an older laptop (Athlon 1400+, puts it in the 2001-2003 era). It's an old thing, but it plays multimedia well. It will play a DVD for 20 minutes then shut down from a low battery. Watching the battery go down it seems fast (based on the rate on drop, I'd have estimated he had an...
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    Speaker recommendations for laptop

    Can anyone recommend some speakers for a laptop? Looking for something sub-$100 that runs on batteries and can handle being cooped up in the laptop backpack. Primarily for music, maybe some movie work. TIA for any help.
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    Problems installing Win2k with Promise IDE controller

    So, my friend has a very old PC I'm having troubles reinstalling Windows onto. It's a Pentium 3, Asus P3B-F board. I'm trying to install onto a drive on a Promise ultra 100 tx2 controller. I have the drivers on floppy, but there's where I'm having problems. I have a USB floppy and a regular...
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    Inexpensive, low profile, analog tuner?

    Looking for recommendations for a friend. He has a Pundit-R system (3GHz, 512MB) he's looking to use as a PVR. It's a very space restricted case. He's not looking to do anything advanced (he already has TiVo on DSS), but wants to record tv from his DSS and transfer to DVD for STB playback. Any...
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    System advice for a friend

    My friend has an OLD PC. Not a lot of salvage from it, except Win XP Home, an 80GB IDE drive (WD Caviar SE), mouse, keyboard, and monitor. I was wanting to get him something upgradeable, but he doesn't have a lot of money (using the tax return). His goals are to do legal backups of his DVDs (his...
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    Anyone else having probs with ATI tech support?

    It's been 3 weeks, I bought the card (x850 pro vivo) early August and have had severe software issues. I've taken to submitting more tickets in an attempt to get them to respond. I tried calling their tech support number, but it says I need to register (which I already did). Is anyone else...
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    HTPC Forum?

    I noticed there are a lot of HTPC threads floating around (gen hardware, video, OT) and thought it might be a good idea to make an HTPC forum. Even things like people wanting to buy receivers or speakers, I get tired of linking AVS. Feel free to ignore, just a suggestion. EDIT: You do have...
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    Worth upgrading video?

    I guess this started when I d/l'd 3dmark06, scored 430-something. So, with all the new standards (Conroe, AM2, 939) I'm thinking that anything from here on in my system is dead end, so I'm reluctant to upgrade my video despite an apparant need. Actually, I use my computer more for HTPC than...
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    Gaming laptop in the $1000-1500 range

    My boss is looking to buy a laptop soon (bouses came out this week). What he wants is something for a long airplane flight to Asia so he can watch DVDs and some 3-D gaming (not high end titles, but still 3-D). I wish I was knowledgable about laptops to give him better advice, so I wanted to...
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    Case and PSU recommendations on the cheap

    I'm working on an upgrade for a friend and am debating on how low I can go on the PSU/case. He's building a socket 939 3200+ system as early as next weekend (current system's fubar'd). I was looking at this case: Antec 380W Case He's not running a lot of peripherals (even running onboard...
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    What's the cheapest upgradable PC option?

    My friend doesn't have a lot of money (ca $250) to spend on (effectively) a new PC. He's been seeing an increase in problems that are getting worse and worse. It survived a reinstall (Win98) but the problems continued. This is what he can transfer to a new system: WD 80GB Caviar SE (IDE, ATA...
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    Impending RAM upgrade?

    I don't really game much, and I have RAID0 raptors so disk access hasn't been a problem, but with the new WME coming out soon and the possibility (or even probability) of Vista in the not-so-distant future it seems 512MB memory will obsolete my PC. I primarily stress it with multimedia (ffdshow...
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    RAM Config Question

    Well, I broke down and bought a pair of these guys from NewEgg: OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Gold I hate buying things that won't move to a new computer, but I was waiting on a $100 price point to upgrade my current 2x256MB Kingston HyperX PC3500. My MoBo is a P4P800-DLX, an 865 board (basic HT). I...
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    PC for Mom Build

    Well, after a few hours shopping for PC deals I decided to just build one for my mom. I ran a little over on price. I'm hoping for critique before I commit, and I'd like to order tonight if possible to make sure I can put it together next weekend. ASUS A8N-VM CSM Micro ATX AMD Motherboard...
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    PC for Mom

    Well, my mom finally decided she wants a computer upgrade. Her current system is a 200MHz MMX from a time when building a PC was a lot easier. Still runs no problem but can't do anything multimedia and I just gave her my old 19" LCD when I upgraded. She's not a big user at all, but I could set...
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    Turniing Off ICS in XP SP2

    I've been getting these IPNATHLP errors (EventID 32003). I did the Google thing and read that turning off Internet Connection Sharing solved the problem for most people. It's probably something in my configuration that I cannot figure where to turn it off. Currently, the windows firewall is...
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    PC to TV using VGA?

    My friend is looking to upgrade his current display. He has an old junk computer monitor and wants both a television and computer display for his living room. The video card is pretty old, a Rage Fury Pro 32MB with VGA and S-Video outs, and currently runs it as his DVD player and jukebox. After...
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    PC800-45ns, is it worth building on this memory?

    My friend has a horribly old and slow computer (PII-300, 128MB, On-board video - Dell) but has this memory that he got from a friend who's a technician. It's PC800 45ns ECC mf'd by NEC, 2X512MB. From my understanding, he'd be limited to 400MHz based processors but considering his current set up...
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    Earthlink troubles?

    Kind of an interesting story. Around last November I was looking for a new ISP. After going through some googling I came up with Earthlink at 19.95 for 1 year. I signed up, got a call from a rep who assured me of the pricing and that there was no early termination. After 3 months they started...
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    CDBOOT: Cannot boot from CD - Code: 4

    I'm trying to install a new HD and controller for a friend, but I get the above listed error when I try to install my OS from the CD. He has 2 optical drives, it did it on both. This is running on a UW SCSI controller (Adaptec, ca 2-3 years old). Also, it's not registering his old HD through the...
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    P3B-F Upgrades

    My friend needs a high capacity HD for my old system. The MB is the P3B-F which has a PCI bus master UDMA/33 controller on-board (BIOS 1008 IIRC). He doesn't currently have a controller card, though I suppose they're cheap enough if he needs it (currently running UW SCSI, but the drives are...
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    Not another DVD burner thread

    I wanted to ask before I buy. My friend's CD-ROM is going, I thought it'd be a good time to upgrade to a DVD-RAM and give him my LG CD burner (which is still great). I am interested in the Toshiba SD-R5372 as seen here. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-130-036&depa=1...
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    Modem will not disconnect

    My friend has an older Dell system (GXa PII-300) and had some problems on installing a USR 56k Fax modem in Win98. The modem does not seem to hang up on disconnection. The network closes OK, and there does not seem to be any connection present, but to hang up the phone you have to physically...
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    How do I delete my user account?

    I searched the forum, looked through faqs and help, but I didn't see anything. I know I could simply delete all connection to this place, but I'd like to leave a clean account. Any moderator who sees this and has the authority may rightly view this as a request to delete my account. EDIT: I...
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    HT Problem or Is my CPU dying?

    It all started when I upgraded to the 3.8 catalyst. I started getting BSODs. I was still stable to 2XPrime95, 1XPrime95+1X3dMark03, and memtest so I diidn't think my CPU was dying. I tried reinstalling windows, but I got errors and it would only install after a couple of reboots and then it was...