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    Weird computer shutdown/restart problem

    Yesterday my PC has started to instantly power off when going into 3d games / playing some movies. After it has powered of, after about 5 seconds it will power on. It has not BSOD'ed, but instantly powered off. My gut says it's either the PSU or the GFX card. I've checked fans on both to make...
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    ATI 4890 vs Geforce 275

    I'm trying to weigh up getting one of these cards. I know now is not the best time to get one, but my current 8800 GT just went up to GFX card heaven so I need another ASAP. As far as I can tell performance wise they are pretty similar. Feature wise the ATI card has DX 10.1 on it's side, and...
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    P35 or 680i

    Hi, I am trying to spec out a new box and was wondering if anyone could answer a few questions on the pro's and cons of P35 vs 680i. My understanding is that the P35 is stable but has less features, and the 680i is obviously SLI ready, but is less stable. I've wittled down my choices to...
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    AGP or PCI-e

    Are there any good articles on the arguments for PCI-e? I'm currently looking to upgrade my PC and am wondering if I should go for AGP and keep my existing card (GF 4400ti), or go PCI-e and get a new GFX card. A year or so down the road, will AGP be that much slower, that being forced into...
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    Hard Disk question

    Hi, I think my hard disk has just packed it in so I'm looking for a replacement ASAP. Looking at reviews I think i'll either go for a WD Caviar WD2000BB/JB, or a IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 . I was wondering if anyone could answer a couple of questions about them. Firstly do HD manufacturers no...
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    Windows 2k domain / networking issue

    Hi, I've got two servers on a domain which for various reasons are on a DMZ (packets need to go through the firewall to get to the PDC/BDC). For some reason every so often (about 4 monthly intervals) one of them will seem to drop off the domain. When the other server on the same subnet tries...
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    Linux Service Help

    Hi, I've got a RH 7.something linux box that i've just installed apache 2 on, and an updated version of SSH. Both are in new locations compaired to the old versions. Can anyone point me in the direction of a guide which explains how you can get these to run at start up? Do you simply make a...
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    HP driver's

    Does anyone know where I can download some drivers for the HP 7200i CD writer? I've tried on the HP site but they are not there. Thanks.
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    RJ45 ethernet wiring.

    Hi, Could someone point me in the direction of a guide about how to correctly wire wall boxes for rj45 ethernet connections? More specifically how to attach the wires to the pins in side. I have some extentions already, but a few need to be added and changed, so I need to know both how to make...
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    Wireless Cable Internet.

    Hi, I'm getting a 512k (NTL) Cable Internet connection in a few weeks for my house. I can't lay cables everywhere so unfortunatly i'm having to bite the wireless bullet. The two Wireless AP / Cable devices I have been eyeing are the: Linksys BEFW11S4 - "EtherFast® Wireless AP + Cable/DSL...
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    'My Pictures' thumbnails

    My 'My Pictures' directory has started to behave a little strangely. When I scroll down a few lines of pictures, they all become black images (even though they load fine in IE, PSP, etc..). Does anyone know what might be going wrong? There are quite a few images in there, but I wouldn't say it...
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    task manager for win98.

    Does anyone know of a good NT typle task manager style for win 98? I need to know how much memory each app is using. Thanks.
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    Abit KR7-RAID / 1800+ problem.

    I'm still got two problems with my newly installed Abit KR7-RAID system. KR7-RAID, 1800+, 256MB DDR Cruical, Taisol 760 cooler, SB Live, 2 NIC's, etc.. In the first boot of the day within about 5-10 mins I get a BSOD in win2000 which varies from message to message (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL...
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    Radeon 8500, GF3 ti200, etc...

    Its come to the stage where my Geforce 1 DDR seems to be giving up the ghost (crashes and whatnot - probably heat related). I've been wading through the forums and reviews for some time and I think I?ve managed to get some basis of what pro's and cons are of all the cards, however there are...
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    Memory testing.

    Is there a good util avaiable for testing RAM? Mine passes the bootup tests, but I have a feeling it could be still broken. Is there a further test I can do? Thanks.
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    BSOD on bootup in Win2k

    Hi, I recently bought myself a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and did a clean install of Win2000. I used all up-to-date drivers for all the hardware (listed at the bottom), and for some reason I am getting various types of BSOD very soon after booting up for the first time in the morning. It...
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    Athlon XP 1800 install / heatsink questions.

    Hi, I've just bought an Athlon XP 1800 and a Taisol Cooler to use with it. I know the cooler is only just up to the job which is why I also got some Artic Silver II to use with it. However after looking at the heatsink I see its got a little strip to be used as the conductive material. Should I...
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    Power usage.

    I remember a while back there were a few threads about how much power the avgerage computer uses if it's left on all day. I've got a little firewall box that i'd like to leave on all the time, but I was wondering how much it would cost me. Does anyone know how much power a 145W PSU (Celeron 450)...
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    Ascend Pipeline 50 ISDN router problem.

    I have a Ascend Pipeline 50 ISDN router which has been working fine for a few years with out a problem. A few weeks ago it started not disconnecting from it's idle timeout (it was on for about a week straight before I noticed). I tried turning off all computers on the network (bar one), and it...
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    Web Server Advice...

    I'm currently using IIS 5 on my Windows 2000 Prof machine to build various web sites. The main grumble I have with it is that it only supports one virtual host (so if I want to swap to viewing another of my sites i need to go into the config, etc..). Does anyone know another (free) web server...
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    Mac OS X Aqua font...

    Does anyone know what the font is called that is used in the Mac OS X Aqua theme? Here's an example of what I mean? Is there anywhere that I could download it for windows? Thanks.
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    Windows 2000 mouse & keyboard problem

    Hi, I've got a major problem with my windows 2000 install. Since I uninstalled IE6 beta when my machine loads up my mouse or keyboard do not work (there is no pointer on the screen and the numlock key on the keyboard won't even toggle). I had givenup, and wanted to try and re-install windows...
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    PSP error when printing

    I get this: PSP caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 014f:bff9a28c. Registers: EAX=c001754c CS=014f EIP=bff9a28c EFLGS=00010212 EBX=00000000 SS=0157 ESP=013efe2c EBP=013f00c8 ECX=00000000 DS=0157 ESI=01a30f80 FS=18c7 EDX=780373c0 ES=0157 EDI=008ab0f0 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP...
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    Help Installing a Blue Orb

    I'm trying to install a Blue Orb on my CL Geforce 1 DDR, but I can't get the old heatsink/fan off. Is there a 'trick' to it? It just seems to be stuck onto the chip with some strong epoxy stuff or something. Could I try cutting it off with a knife? or would that damage the chip? I'm stuck...
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    ISDN Router / MS Exchange / MS Outlook problem.

    Specific arn't I? ;) Seriously though. I've got this problem at work. We recently installed some new networking stuff, and part of this was a ISDN router (which dials automatically), a new server (with MS Exchange on it). The problem is that we've just got out phone bill in and it is MASSIVE...
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    Windows NT - AT Command...

    Does anyone know how to reset the id count in the AT scheduler command?
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    IE6 Beta - Security info...

    Does anyone know if IE6 is safe to use for secure sites and stuff? Ifter using it for a bit i'm fairly impressed (it's faster than IE5), but I'm a little concerned using beta software for doing CC orders, etc... Anyone like to comment?
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    Eicon ISDN TA problem...

    My mum bought a new Dell PC (with Windows ME) a few months ago, and it's had this weird problem where when she shuts it down, the power light go out, but the computer is still "on" (fans on, etc...). A similar thing happens when you try to restart it... it just hangs (keyboard locked...
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    POP3 server software.

    I'm looking for a bit of software that will run on a Win NT 4 server, to download mail (lots of it) from a POP3 box (acording to a predifined schedule), and then feed it into an SMTP server (running on the same machine). Does anyone know if one exists? I've found a few for linux, but non for a...
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    Linux partition / installation questions...

    Win2k is currently my main OS to boot from, but i've got a 13gb disk that I want to use for linux (and for general storage.. to share stuff between the two OS's). So I figured that i'd like about 8Gb for storage, which would leave 5Gb for linux stuff. With taking into account 300Mb for the swap...
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    Mozilla / Netscape.

    I tried NS6 when it came out of beta and I thought it was a really bad bit of software. As far as I was concerned it just didn't work. I was a bit board this weekend so I decided to download the latest Mozilla build (SeaMonkey - 0.7 I think it was). Now although it's not brilliant (yet?), I was...
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    UT Problem

    Does anyone else get this Error Message but with UT not when starting up Windows? Thanks.
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    UT GeForce tweaks.

    After being on the Q3 side of the fence for so long, I decided to finally give UT a go (quite a good deal too.. only £9.99 for the 'Game Of the Year' version). Anyway, i've tried to play it online and offline (with about 7 bots), and it's fairly laggy (not all the time, just at those bits when...
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    SB Live problem

    Well I finally got fedup of waiting for Creative to release a SB16 Win2k driver so I bought a SB Live (with aparent Win2k support). After a lot of fiddling I've finally managed to get it to play through the left speaker. The last problem I have with it is that if I'm playing something with...
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    User Manager

    I recently decided that it'd be best to lower the privlages of my main user acount on my Win2k box to a 'Power User', rather than an 'Administrator' because I didn't like the idea that if I left my computer people could snoop around in other users directories (I know they could start deleteing...
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    Office 97 Mail Mergeing..

    Hi, I work for a school, and the way the reports system works at the moment is that child has their own word file made from a template. I can get the school list in a mailmergeable format so thats not the problem. I can get it to mail merge the data in to one big document with lots of kid's...
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    Sound Blaster problems (again)....

    Hi, I'm having problems with my SB16 PnP ISA sound card on my KT7-RAID running Win2k. Before I was having poping problems which were solved by removing the 16-bit DMA (solution got from the FAQ). However now after about 2-10 mins of a constant sound buffer being open (WinAmp, Quake3, etc..) it...
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    Shutdown problems

    I've got two problems with two new Dell machines that I've setup for my family. Both are running Windows ME. The first one only happends sometimes. When you shut it down the PC's power light, monitor, etc will all turn off, but the fans inside will all be still on. I thought that my sister was...
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    Really ATA-100??

    I've just installed a ATA-100 drive on my KT7-RAID, and I was wondering if there was any way I could check to make sure it's actually running at ATA-100? Before you could just see what the BIOS said it was running at, but the Hipoint listing doesn't include that sort of info. Thanks
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    Good Socket A Fan?

    My FOP-38 is driving me round the bend. I have decided that I really do NEED a new one or I will go stur-crazy. I can't even do any work anymore. I've currently got my eye on the: Thermaltake DUO462 Chrome-Orb CPU Cooler (Socket A) Can anyone tell me if it will be a good replacement for my...