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    Weird video problem

    Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this problem with my laptop video: http://imgur.com/BmytB It doesnt do it all the time and it just started recently. No drops or anything to the computer itself.
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    Can the Anandtech Collective help a no kill animal shelter out?

    My wife and I volunteer at this local no kill animal shelter and they are trying to win this challenge. All you have to do is search for "Blue Chip Farm" in PA and vote. No registration or anything. You can vote once per day until Aug 22. If they win, they get grants and they could REALLY use...
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    Google Wave Invites

    So Google started rolling out invites to wave today/yesterday. If you are invited, you are supposed to get 8 invites with it. If anyone is feeling generous, my gmail is tbutcher [at] gmail [dot] com Thanks Enough public begging. That's what pm's are for. ;) Perknose Senior...
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    AT Effect needed for charity

    Calling on the anandtech swarm for this. If you have a moment go here:http://puppynamer.com/?p=90 and vote for the name Puggles Sanchez in the comments. If I win i'm going to donate the 10 bucks back to the site. Also, for every vote 25 cents is donated to the aspca. No registration is...
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    10 Dogs On Twitter Who Have More Followers Than You

    You know twitter is getting popular when freaking dogs have twitters lol ;-) http://www.buydogbeds.org/10-d...re-followers-than-you/
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    Give me input on this potential build

    Since my old rig crapped out last night I am looking to put together a decent gaming rig for under $1,500. I would like to stay closer to a grand but I also want this to last a little while. Here is what I have put together so far at NewEgg: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L ATX All Solid Capacitor...
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    Help me diagnose a weird video problem

    Little background, my desktop was working fine in games on sunday and on Monday when I tried to play WoW it lets me into the game, then freezes and all I see are green squiggly lines and the mouse pointer. I can exit back into windows. I also tried halflife 2 and Sims2. Both die as well but I...
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    Question about gaming on my laptop

    I currently have a sony VGN-FZ140e core 2 duo with 2 gigs of ram and the intel 965 integrated graphics chip. I recently installed steam and purchased portal, figuring it would run ok on this laptop. Even with everything turned to low and in 800x600 it runs like garbage. I am not expecting...
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    What programs do you keep on a thumb drive?

    Just got a 1 gig thumb drive and was wondering what you guys carry around on them? I am probably going to grab an 8 gig one soon since they are so cheap. I know there are some application loader type programs available but not sure off the top of my head what they are.
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    DIY question

    I have a finished basement with a drop ceiling. The previous owners of the house mixed recessed lighting with fluorescent panels. I would like to remove all the fluorescent panels and replace them with recessed lights. The fluorescent lights are too bright to have on and the basement really...
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    Help me enable audio on my Sony Laptop

    As the summary states, I recently removed vista on my Sony Vaio VGN-FZ-140E laptop in favor of xp pro SP2. Everything works other than my sound. I believe the onboard audio is Sigmatel High Def Audio. I have tried various drivers after hunting around online but they all state that there is no...
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    Does anyone know anything about pool filters?

    I recently moved into a house with a pool. This is the first pool I have ever owned so I am learning as I go. The old owner came over and helped me open the pool and showed me how to set things up. Everything was going fine until just recently. For some reason I am having problems with the...
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    Problem with external usb hd

    I have a regular 250 gig ide drive in a nexxtech nc2 external enclosure. Its usb and has always worked just fine. Recently I disconnected the enclosure for a bit. Now whenever I plug it back into my comp, windows detects it and wants to install drivers for it. I can't get it to just...
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    Question about radon

    I am currently in the process of buying my first home. I just had a home inspection done on it this week and being the nervous person I am paid for just about every package the inspector offered. The inspection went well with only a couple minor problems that the current owner has been more...
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    Problem with Forceware and video playback

    I just recently formatted my box with a clean copy of windows xp. I installed all the windows updates that are available and the latest version of nvidia forceware. The problem is when I have the drivers installed and I try to play back any video in windows media player the computers slows...
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    Windows audio service keeps shutting off

    I am having problems with my laptop. Its running windows xp home and about a week ago or so the windows audio service started shutting off. I can get the audio back by restarting the serivce through the control panel, but it will shut itself off again seemingly randomly. The service is...
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    Problem with an external raid

    I have a 3TB external scsi raid which contains two xfs filesystems from an SGI system. It has some very serious file corruption i suspect and the two file systems were no longer able to be mounted. The sgi wouldn't even see them at all as a matter of fact. I hooked the raid up to a pc...
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    Dual core windows patches

    Hey guys, I just got my first dual core processor. Its an AMD X2 4200+. I am just wondering exactly what patches I need to get so my games run correctly and xp is stable. I want to collect them before I build tonight. Thanks
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    Removing windows updates

    Just wondering if there is a way or a program to remove windows updates if they don't show up in add remove programs. I didn't use IE to install them. I used firefox with the site http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/. I think there is one that might be causing some problems and I would like to get...
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    Computer crashing in games

    First here is my basic setup: Asus A7v333 Motherboard Athlon XP 2100+ GeForce 4 TI 4200 1.5 gigs of Crucial xms PC2700 (3x512) Windows XP Pro This has been something that has been off and on but lately has gotten much worse. Basically, when I try to load a game, I lose video. Monitor...
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    Bootable usb drive

    Is it possible to use an external usb hard drive as the primary system drive. Meaning boot from it, install windows on it as well as all programs. Would this just require the bios being configured to see the drive?
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    Problem with new computer and raid controller

    I just built a brand new Athlon 64 based system but I am having some issues. The mother board is an MSI Neo 4 platinum and I installed a promise fast track serial ata pci raid controller so I could do raid 5. I didn't think the onboard could. Anyway, the raid detects at boot, windows install...
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    Please help me with my nightmare system build.... :( UPDATED

    Hey guys, I just bought components for a new sytem through NewEgg. This thing so far has been nothing short of a nightmare for me. I am in dire need of help. Here are the specs and everything that is happening: -AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor -DFI LANPARTY...
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    Need help installing DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI....

    Hey guys, It has been a while since I built a system, and these new boards have a ton of options. I just got the DFI Lanparty nf4 SLI and have a few questions about hooking up power to it. From what I've read, this board is power hungry. So I got a nice big juicy PS. I plugged in the 24...
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    Please review my system build

    Hi, My computer recently died on me so its that time again! Please check out my specs I put together, I built this with the possibility of getting another 6800gt in a few months. AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Socket 939 NVIDIA...
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    RAID questions

    I am trying to figure out the best RAID level to go with. Specifically for laying out dvds. I have been using RAID level 3 but now I am reading that it doesn't do so well with writing multiple files at once. Would 5 be a better choice for this? Also, with regard to striping since I am moving...
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    Software to read/view files on a dlt tape

    Just wondering what the best software to view/read the contents of a dlt tape is in windows. The tape just contains files, not a special backup archive or anything. Thanks
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    Opinions on a system build for my work place

    I work for a Compression/Authoring facility and we are thinking of switching to panasonic authoring software running on PC's and getting rid of our SGI's. We are also thinking of building the systems ourselves...or at least one to test. Here is what we have come up with so far. Most important...
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    SCSI Problem

    We have new SGI Tezro machines running IRIX here at work. They contain an Ultra 320 scsi card and are hooked up to a serial ATA to SCSI Jetstore RAID. No matter what, the OS doubles all the partitions and you have to go in and delete the "fake" partitions it finds and use the others. Thats...
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    Help with a small unix script

    I'll try to explain this as best I can. Its fairly simple (I think) but I am not sure how to go about doing this. I am writing a script that launches another program/daemon at the command line. The problem is that the program it launches waits for user input. It basically overtakes my...
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    Opinions on a system build

    I am trying to build a decent gaming system for around $1000 or less. I don't have a ton of cash to spend but I think I have hit on something decent. Let me know what you think, changes I should make, cheaper parts that might be better that I have overlooked etc... CHAINTECH VNF4/Ultra...
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    Raid suggestions needed

    I work in a multimedia production environment and basically we are looking for some new external raid devices. Our budget to spend on the raid is between $10,000 and $12,000. Really not looking to go above 12 grand since our purchase dept will flip :) Here are the limitations Has to work...
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    Problems with computer hitching

    For some reason, my computer will do this thing that I can only describe as a hitch. Basically, it locks up for a second or less every now and then. Completely random as far as I can tell. I don't have many apps running and I Have done virus/spyware scans out the ass so I don't believe that...
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    Problem with wireless connection

    For some reason since I formatted my computer, everytime I boot I have to disable and enable my wireless connection to get an ip addy from my router. It does connect when I boot, but won't let me get online for some reason. I know that a while ago I did something to fix this but for the life...
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    Does anyone invest through Vanguard?

    I started a Roth IRA over the summer with Edward Jones and to be quite honest, the advisor there annoys the hell out of me. He seems more like a used car salesman. I see that Vanguard has an easy way to transfer a Roth IRA. Just looking for opinions and experiences of anyone here who might...
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    Help with some economics research

    I am taking an economics class, really an intro class. Its one of the few business courses I have actually taken. We have to write a paper on some aspect of the economy. Basically how the economy is going to be influenced by something. I chose to do it on how the economics of the computer...
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    Quick question about pci express

    Just a quick question. If I buy a pci express motherboard, will an agp graphics card work with the larger pci express port. I am specifically talking about the asus P5GDC-V DELUXE if it helps at all. I am not that familiar with pci express. Thanks.
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    Computer keeps shutting off

    I am having a weird problem with one of my computers. It keeps shutting off. Then when I boot back up, the bios setting page is up with the cpu frequency multiplier highlighted. It just started doing this. It isn't heat as far as I can tell. The cpu fan is still spinning and i have tried...
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    Need a theme song

    Just wondering if anyone has a recording of this theme they could send me or tell me where I might be able to locate it. Thanks
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    Cleaned computer...now it won't boot

    So I finally decided to install my new dvd rw drive tonight. My case was a mess with dust and whatnot so I figured this would be a good chance to clean it. Got the old compressed air and cleaned out all the intakes and fan vents and hsfans and whatnot. Well, long story short, it now won't...