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    Need Help - Putting in a laptop BD/DVD drive into a Desktop

    So I bought this really nice HTPC case, but it only takes a slim Optical drive. No biggie I thought. I bought an LG CT10N BD drive meant for notebooks. It's a SATA drive. It fits into the case beautifully, however, I can't hook it up to a power cable. The SATA cable fits fine, but the power...
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    Having serious problems with video playback using 6600GT

    I have an NVidia 6600GT vid card in my PC with the latest drivers off of NVidia's website. it's connected to a 42" Westinghouse 1080p monitor via DVI cable. Here's the problem. When watching a video file or DVD movie using any video playback program (PowerDVD and WMP9 is what I use) the video...
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    I need help with the booting part of my comuter

    Hi, I have a question regarding the way my Windows boots up. When my computer starts and it goes to boot up windows, it gives me an option to boot which OS I choose to. Howver the first option, I guess default option, is a dead path, the computer won't boot due to some missing file. The...
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    I'm trying to install WIndows XP onto a new hard drive

    I recently purchased a brand ne WD 320 GB hard drive SATA150 and installed it into my computer to become the new primary HDD. My motherboard detects the HD and the size of it perfect, however when I do a fresh install of Windows XP it only sees 137 GB of it. I have a Chaintech VNF4 Ultra mobo...
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    Chaintech VNF4/Ultra, need S/PDIF coax out

    Hi, I want to hook the sound from this motherboard up to my surround sound reciever, but I need the coax output for the digital audio. I haven't had any luck finding where to get one, can anyone point me in the right direction? After browsking through Chaintech's website I found that this...
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    Hello! New guy needs some light shed on system purchase

    Hi guys, I'm upgrading an old system that I just inherited from a friend who was giving one away. She left me an AMD 800 Duron. The only thing that this computer has that is new is a brand spankin new 80 GB HDD 7200 RPM with 8/MB cache. Well I kinda want to turn this thing into a gaming...