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    That'll buff right out!

    Today was a great day. For the first time in months, I slept in. Got up, did a little work through the ol' VPN, played some C&C 3, chatted with some buddies. All that slumping in my chair brought about a mighty rumble in my tummy that only a late night run to Taco Bell could slay. Alas, I...
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    Need AOpen AK89 Max BIOS Chip Info

    Hey all, I'm looking to purchase the AOpen AK89 Max for use with the A64 mobile processor, but the board will only boot the processor on the latest revision of the BIOS (not on the BIOS that ships with it). Since I obviously won't be able to boot the board with the mobile processor to flash...
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    What to do? (Problem with dishonest auctioneer)

    I finished an auction about a month ago on ebay for a laptop, as seen here. When I received it, there was a yellow vertical line on the screen, only 64MB RAM (rather than the 128MB promised), no ethernet, no carrying case, and the battery would not hold a charge. I wrote the seller, politely...
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    What's it mean when an LCD has a vertical yellow line of pixels?

    I recently purchased a laptop on eBay for one of my friends. Its LCD has a one pixel thick yellow line up and down it around 3/4 of the way across. It's not a driver issue, as it's always present when a display is (BIOS to shutdown, except when there's no signal because the LCD is in the...
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    Anyone here a shrink? My CDs are having an identity crisis...

    I don't know if this is hardware or software related, so I'm gonna post here. Mods, if you feel it's software instead, please move it. This problem's been bugging me forever, but it's now finally reached the point where I'm fed up enough to ask about it. I've seen this problem on other...
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    PDA Screen Issue - Suggestions Needed

    I just got an @migo PD-600C PDA and (as much as I like it), it's got one glaring issue that must've formed in shipping. The upper-right corner of the screen is distorted and has an "oil-on-water" rainbow effect. The screen beneath the effect is still visible, just distorted because of the...
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    Can electrical tape be used in the place of solder?

    I know, weird question, but I'm no soldering expert and I really don't have the cash to spend on professional service. I have a wire that I have to use to connect two points on a motherboard. Though the instructions say to solder the wire to both points, I don't really want to risk screwing...
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    Need help upgrading an old notebook

    I just picked up a 486/33 notebook and am looking to boost the performance on it. My question is do socketed notebooks use the same processors as desktops? I know that you can't pop a slot processor into a lappy, but do notebooks use the same processor as desktops in sockets? What socket...
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    Constant BSOD with Acoustic Edge + Win2K?

    I just picked up an edge and have popped it in my system. The driver installation went flawlessly and, after finishing, I went online and updated them to the latest. In the first version of the drivers, I couldn't even play a sound without my system going to a BSOD. On the latest drivers, the...
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    What word processor for a slow system?

    I'm just picked up a slow laptop (486/33 with 12MB RAM and 240MB HDD) for working on text documents on the road. I've only been around the computer scene for the last 4 years or so and started with a 486/66 with more RAM than that and Win95, however, I don't think this one would handle 95 well...
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    Does Yamaha 8x8x24 have BURN-Proof?

    I got a Yamaha 8x8x24 drive for Christmas, so I really didn't have a chance to do any research on it before I got it. As I've been burning discs over the last few days, I've noticed that the buffer will sometimes drop to 0%, the CD burning LED will go off, the CD will continue to spin, and then...
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    Best Book to Teach Win2K?

    After learning just about everything I need to know to tweak my system in the 9x MS OSes, I've decided to move to 2000 Professional. Does anyone have a suggestion of a good book that'll teach me everything I need to know to get a system running and to tweak it? I don't need to know minute...
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    200 Pack Samsung 700MB 12X CD-R $50 + tax at Staples B&M

    My local Staples has Samsung 12X, 80 minute CD-R media 200 packs (2 sealed spindles of 100 in a box) for $50. When I went up to the register, it was still in the computer as $100, but I showed the cashier the sticker on the shelf and, typing in the # on the sticker, it was indeed 50. I don't...
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    Problems Burning in Nero

    I just got a Yamaha 8832 and have been testing it out in various programs over the last few days. It works fine in CDRWin and Easy CD Creator, but I can't seem to burn anything in Nero. In both simulations and real burns, the program will work perfectly fine until it's burned 7%-8% of the disk...
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    Can laptop drives be used in a desktop?

    Looking on auctions, I've noticed that notebook drives are far cheapter than PC drives. Is there some kind of adapter that'll let me use these (for example, notebook LS120 drives) in my desktop system? Thanks in advance
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    Need help networking Whistler and Millennium

    Until this week, I've been using Windows 2000 Professional on my computer and have used NetBEUI to network my two computers (the other of which is running Millennium), however Whistler does not include NetBEUI as a protocol (by default install, and I can't find it on the CD). What protocol...
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    Need suggestions on Visual Basic books for new student

    I just started to take a Visual Basic course at school and am looking for a good book that I could use to learn it myself at home (my school doesn't provide books for the course, it's going too slow for my liking, and my teacher doesn't mind if I get ahead of the rest of the class). Though I'm...
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    Can my cdrw drive be fixed?

    I just purchased a HP 8100 internal ide cd-rw (it's exactly the same as the sony crx100e) drive on that auction site that starts with an e (please don't kill me). The auction description stated that he knew that it was broken, so I knew what I was getting myself into, buy I bought it anyway with...
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    Can my cdrw drive be fixed? Help!

    I moved the thread to the general hardware forum so that it would get more exposure. Here it is: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=200698 Thanks for any help you can give, Shawn
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    Can my Cdrw drive be fixed?

    I moved the thread to the general hardware forum where it would get more exposure. You can see it here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=200698 Thanks for your interest.