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    No display with new graphics card

    I recently purchased the Sapphire 5850 Xtreme from Newegg. The installation was easy enough, but i am receiving no display when booting up the machine. Everything else seems to be working fine and i can hear the computer booting into windows. System specs: Intel E8500 GIGABYTE...
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    CPU temps w/ Xigmatech 1283

    Hi all, I recently built a new system and would like to try overclocking it a bit. As the title states, I went with an E8500. A few friends said the Xigmatech 1283 was a great silent CPU cooler so I went with that. I also bought the retention bracket to put less stress on the motherboard...
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    Dual Channel Ram Kills My Computer

    Overview of the problem I cannot get my system to run at all when trying to run my ram in dual channel mode. I have 4 sticks of 512mb DDR1 ram. Crucial 512mb (x2) CL3 400mhz ram Corsair 512mb (x2) CL2 400mhz ram I am able to put two sticks of ram (the brands can be the same or...
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    Upgrading to a 9600GSO from a 7800GT

    Hi all, I recently bought the PNY Verto GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB on a deal for $30 (it is now up to $43 after rebate). My current card is a 7800GT 256mb. I was wondering if you thought it is even worth the upgrade. The only reason why I jumped on the deal was because it was so cheap. I have...
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    Windows XP boot issue

    I purchased the new 640GB western digital hard drive not too long ago to replace an old 200GB ATA drive. Today I decided to install XP Pro on a 20GB partition of the 640GB drive. Everything was going well, and the computer rebooted so that XP could continue the installation process...
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    Desktop color settings for VX2025

    Ive recently been tinkering around with both the desktop color settings and the color correction settings for the VX2025, but it feels like im not seeing much improvement. For those that own this monitor, i was wondering what you have the settings on. Im using the nvidia control panel, so im...
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    Problems with Viewsonic VX2025

    Yesterday i installed a WD SATA II HD, turned on my computer, and somehow lost any singal i had to my VX2025. This has happened before, and i ended up using another monitor to go into safe mode and uninstall any display drivers i had, and went ahead and installed the extreme-G drivers. It...
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    Problems with the viewsonic VX2025

    I finally got enough money saved up and purchased a nice new widescreen monitor for my computer. Since its just a plug and play monitor, i just tried switching my old monitor for this while the comp was still on, and i ended up getting a "no signal" from the new monitor. I know it has to...
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    XP reformatting problem

    My college has a deal with MSDN academic alliance where any business student can obtain a one use version of Windows XP professional for free. I thought this was a great idea so i downloaded the ISO on their website and obtained my CD key. I burnt the ISO to a CD and went ahead and reformatted...
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    Case fans

    Ive recently been getting tired of how loud my computer is, so ive been searching around for some quiet case fans. Im looking for a 120mm fan and 2 80mm fans. Also, it would be nice to get a quiet cooling fan/heatsink for my CPU. Any recommendations would be much appreciated.
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    hooking up a PS2 to my computer

    im thinking of getting some component cables for my PS2 so i can play the games on my comp in great resolution, but i just have a few questions. I have an evga geforce 7800GT. It comes with component inputs, but when i look at cables, and then the plug ins on the 7800, it only seems like...
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    new computer problems

    I recently built a computer. Everything was working fine until i tried downloading something. Everytime i would download something, specifically in Firefox, it would give me the NSIS error saying that the file is either corrupted or incomplete. When i would download something in IE, it would...