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    Why do power supplies/mobos still mostly use the 12V rail?

    So if I have my facts straight, PCIe mainly uses 3.3V and CPUs/chipsets/memory use less than 1.5 volts. However, ATX supplies still put most of their power on the 12V rail and then motherboards have to downconvert to the lower voltages using expensive and wasteful voltage regulators. If there...
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    WinXP User and Group policies - help!

    Hello, I'm struggling with setting up a group policy with admin priviledges in XP. Let me explain my situation: At work everyone is part of the company domain. Everyone had local admin rights to their PC until recently IT decided that was too dangerous, so they've started converting...
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    Chipset failure? - please help

    Hi, I've got an acer aspire revo PC, and it has developed a weird problem. When I boot the PC, it does not always detect the hard drive. Sometimes it says that there's no hard drive plugged in. In the cases where it does detect the hard drive, windows will start to boot, but it usually takes...
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    Performance problems using named pipes (embedded C)

    Hello, I'm trying to write an application that uses named pipes to transmit messages from one thread to another, but I'm running into performance issues on the platform I'm using. Here's what I have so far: The initialization thread creates the pipes and registers them with the OS. The...