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    SLI troubles

    So. Whenever I try to play a game with SLI enabled on my machine, the sound starts to stutter/sound robotic, the FPS drops very low, and the entire machine eventually crashes. One time, I got a blue-screen that said "machine_check_exception". Usually when playing a game, I have ventrillo running...
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    HP Printer issue

    I'm a college student that has an HP C5180 mainly to print papers. I've extremely rarely used the color ink in the printer. Somehow, the blue ink has run out. Fine, it still let me print in black and white. A little while ago, however, it suddenly won't let me use ANYTHING ON THE PRINTER until I...
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    Core i7 Memory recognition Problems

    My motherboard fails to recognize all of my RAM. Of the 12 gigs I have, the most I can get to be recognized is 8gb. CPU-Z will see all 12 gigs, and all 6 dimms, but my motherboard will not. I can't find a program to tell me which dimms my motherboard can see, but I would assume it sees them all...
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    Ghosting on LCD HDTV

    I'm having a blur or 'ghosting' problem on my Samsung LN32A330. It's connected to a PS3 through HDMI, which is set to the tv's native resolution of 720p. I've been looking around for a while now and can't seem to find any answers. I have a monster HDMI cable connected from the PS3 to the set, so...
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    Sourround sound issues in Vista

    Well, I have a 5.1 speaker setup. To compliment this I have a Creative Audigy 2 ZS Gamer soundcard. In XP (my old computer as well...) this card and speakers seemed to always work fine in a 5.1 setup. When I brought the card and speakers to my newer computer, on vista, it seems stuck on 2.1...
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    Hard drive problems

    Recently one of my hard drives died (western digital... i know :( ) and ever since I unplugged it, windows refuses to start whenever I have any of my 2 other extras plugged in. I can only use my regular drive, with windows on it, or windows doesn't boot. Any suggestions? *I think this is the...
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    Playing video games and watching DVD's simultaneously?

    First of all, I'm not sure if this is the right spot to post this in, if it's not I apologize. A few days ago I dug up an old LCD monitor and hooked it up to the second port on my ati X800pro. It's working great and playing along with my newer, faster BenQ, but I've only run into one thing I...
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    Is my router shot?

    I've had this thing for about 5 years, it's a Linksys 802.11b wireless router. Since then I've added a g router, and a switch, as my family's computer knowledge has been expanding. After a recent electrical storm, the TV was blown out, as was an entire electrical circuit in my house. When I...
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    SATA hard drive issue

    I've got a raptor 74.4GB hard drive that I run windows off of. Needless to say, this is SATA, and not my only drive. I have another SATA drive, a Seagate 160GB. Also, a 80GB IDE drive. Recently, I've run out of room on pretty much all of them. (total of 5GB left on all of them) Instead of...
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    Sourround sound help...

    I've got 5.1 sourround sound speakers by Logitech and an Audigy 2 ZS sound card from Creative Labs. Both work perfectly fine, except that I can't hear sourround sound. This might be a nubby kinda question, but any ideas? (I've already made sure windows knows I've got 5.1 speakers and all the...
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    Can my 420W PSU survive?

    I've got a: AMD 3500+ (Newcastle, says CPUZ) 2GB Corsair Smart saver RAM (PC3200 DDR) 74.4GB Raptor SATA 2X 80GB IDE drives Audigy 2 ZS gamer sound card ATI X800 pro about 2 or 3 USB2.0/firewire things 4 90MM fans (plus CPU fan, 5 total) 2 90MM LED fans 16XDVD-ROM drive 4X DVD+RW...