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    Broken plastic from SATA connector

    Okay I made a big boo-boo the other day and broke the plastic around the SATA connector of my 1Gb Seagate 7200.12 drive. Luckily the pins were still intact and my motherboard came with latching SATA cables which made the drive still readable. I immediately backed up the drive and am wondering...
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    No sound, ASUS A8N-SLI Premium

    Hey guys, I am getting no sound when my speakers are plugged into the green plug at the back of my board. I have tried both the official nForce4 driver set 6.86 and the latest unofficial drivers from nforcershq.com (nForce4 Fernandos XP 32bit Performance Pack v3.0). The latter includes HD...
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    Is my board bent?

    I'm concerned about possible bending of my Asus P5Q-E motherboard after installation of an OCZ Vendetta 2 CPU cooler. Here are some pics of a northbridge heatsink, I'm worried that it's not making contact with the mosfet chips underneath. Can I remove the spring loaded NB heatsink to make sure...
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    Minimum Vista recommended video card?

    Hey guys, I'm building a budget vista system for my dad and he needs a PCI-E video card but plays no games. What are some recommended video cards I could get him? I'm a bit partial to nvidia so let's stick with the geforce line. Thanks!
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    Which mobo for an E7200?

    Hey y'all! It's time to upgrade my S939 system, so I'm thinking of going for the E7200 with 4GB PC2-6400 ram, but haven't narrowed down the myriad of mobo options yet. I love to overclock, but I'm on a budget so I never want to break the bank on any components. I'll probably get a Cooler...
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    Stable forceware for 7800GT?

    I have an eVGA GeForce 7800 GT CO that is factory overclocked to 470 MHz that is showing some bad video artifacts when playing Lost Via Domus. The artifacts start appearing after 5 mins of play and get progressively worse, causing the program to freeze and eventually crash. It could just be a...
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    Partitions missing in WinXP - help!

    Okay, so I've gotten myself into quite the pickle. My problem is that WinXP SP2 can no longer see 2 out of 3 partitions on my main hard drive. It can see the Windows (C partition just fine, but the D: and E: partitions have both disappeared and now say "unallocated space" in Disk Management. So...
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    Help! OC'd system won't turn on

    Guys the nightmare of my life has come true. Today I woke up and my computer won't turn on! :( I had just finished a 24 hr round of StressPrime 95 on my system after finding my cpu and ram OC ceiling. So I decided to turn on Q-Fan on my Asus mobo and turn one of my outtake fans on low in...
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    Noisy PSU

    Hey guys, I have an Antec Sonata II case whose PSU is starting to sound very noisy. The PSU that came with the case is an 450Watt SmartPower 2.0. I've been able to isolate the noise by unplugging the case fans, and I also recently replaced the cpu cooler with an Artic Cooling Freezer Pro. The...
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    AC Freezer 64 Pro installation trouble

    Hey guys. I picked up a freezer 64 last night to put in my asus a8n-sli premium with opteron 165. I had soem trouble putting it on, tried to do it with the mobo still in the case but that didn't work. Took the mobo out, but my concern is that the clip mechanism seems to be at an angle on the...
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    Tightening memory timings

    hey guys. I've been testing some OCZ DDR Platinum Rev2 1GB(2x512M) PC3200 400MHZ 2-2-2-5 in my system (Asus A8N-SLI Premium with an Opteron 165). I've determined the highest HTT is 277 fsb with vcore 1.4, but the memory under the loosest timings can not go that high. Best I can get is...
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    eVGA 7800 GT CO question

    I just picked up an eVGA 7800 GT CO for the amazing price of $310 CAN. I think it was priced so low because nowhere on the box does it mention this is the CO edition. However the sticker on the back does say P/N: 256-P2-N517-AZ (the sticker on the box and card both match). N517 means CO...