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    What to do with T61 parts?

    So last week I woke up to find out that my Lenovo T61 had bitten the dust. The video card, which is soldered to the motherboard, had died, and they wanted $600 to replace it (damn thing just went off of warranty 2 months ago). Naturally i figured i'd just buy a new laptop for that price, so I...
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    HD video encoding

    I am currently ripping my HD-DVD collection to WMV pro in 720p, and throwing them all on a huge external hard drive to play on my xbox 360. It is a complicated process, but I finally have the ripping, demuxing, audio splitting etc. down. When I am done I feed the VC-1 or AVC video to Windows...
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    X1800XT PE bios flash

    I have a sapphire X1800XT 512MB card and yesterday i flashed it to the XT PE bios with clocks of 700/800. everything seemed to be working fine - 3dmark06 ran with no artifacts at all. except that after about 2 hours of gameplay i started getting a messed up display - a noisy checkerboard...
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    Projector Screen Help

    I just bought a sanyo plv-z4 LCD projector and I'm currently looking for an inexpensive way to build a screen. right now i'm projecting on my wall, and while it works fine at night, there is simply too much ambient light in the daytime. the walls in my living room are off-white and there are...
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    Slow superpi times with e6400

    Today i got my pc parts in the mail; an e6400, a ga-965p-ds3, and OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 ram. The OCZ was a no-go; i kept getting BSOD all over the place, even after i loosened the timings and upped the VDIMM to 2.2V. So i tried the cheap 512MB stick of DDR2-533 i had laying around. I managed to...
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    ATI DVD Decoder

    Okay, so here's the situation: I bought a TV Wonder pro a while ago, and at the time i had an nvidia video card. ATI's software bitched and moaned so much about it that i just started using a cracked copy of windvr instead. I didnt really like it though, and now that I have a new video card...
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    X-Fi with Logitech Z-5500s

    Well, i recently bought an X-Fi extrememusic card, thinking that the integrated audio on my motherboard was what was messed up about the sound on my PC. Well, it wasn't. The X-Fi sounds great, so I'm keeping it, but it turns out my 6 year old Klipsch Promedia 4.1's are just getting ready to...
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    broken SATA connector

    So I have a Hitachi T7K250, and I've had it for a while. While replacing my motherboard today, i unplugged it and then tried to plug it in with one of the new style cords with the new mobo. anyways, I realized that somehow the 'L' shaped piece of black plastic under the pins of the HD had...
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    Overclocking issue in XP x64?

    I installed XP x64 back at the end of november, right after it came out. It went great, and I had zero issues, other than the lack of daemon tools support and ATI WDM drivers. It ran rock stable at my current overclocked 3000+, running at 2.55GHz, 1.45V vcore. All of a sudden, last week, it...
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    New AMD processor Drivers

    Well, apparently there are some new drivers released today for both the Athlon 64 and the X2, designed to work on Windows XP x64. According to the website, it deals with dynamic clockspeed/voltage adjustment. Do the drivers do anything else? I read someone's comment that there is some...
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    Best nforce4 drivers for win XP x64?

    Does anybody know if there are any non-beta drivers for nforce mobos right now on x64? I am currently using the 6.39 betas, and for the most part they are okay, but a few days ago i was experiencing some sytem instability (skipping in empire earth 2, and one time i got a BSOD) and i've heard...
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    Best way to get dual monitor support on a SFF?

    Okay, so our company decided to get new computers for everybody, and we have a contract with HP, so they decided on the HP DC7100 small form factor. It's got a P4 3.2E, 915 chipset, and a tiny little case with mini-pci/pcie slots. So my boss in the IT dept decided we could get dual monitors...
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    Ageia's new PPU

    Allright, I thought people might like to debate whether this new add in card technology is totally awesome or totally stupid. For anybody who doesn't know, Ageia is developing an add in card (PCIe x1 i believe, at least initially) that will be dedicated entirely to physics calculations, and...
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    Is the Winchester mem controller $#%@ed up?

    Okay, so I bought an 3000+ winchester and I just can't get it to run stable at a 1T command rate. I tried underclocking memory, relaxing timings, and even using multiple different modules, but to no avail. I am currently using Crucial Ballistix PC4000, so i doubt that's the problem. I suppose...
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    Weird memory issues in new system

    Well, I've been trying to get my new system up and running for weeks now, and it's finally working, kinda. I used to have PQI DDR500 (1GB Dual Channel) and it worked on my old mobo, the A8N-SLI, but i returned that and with the new mobo, windows kept crashing with memory errors. So I emailed...
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    My new PC is totally *&#@'d up

    So i built a new PC a few weeks ago, and everything worked fine. The contents were as follows: A64 3000+ (939) Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe 2x512MB PQI PC4000 DDR Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300GB Vantec VAN-520 TDK DVD-R/W Anyways, after a few days, the hard drive stopped showing up. If i plugged it...
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    NF4/ Diamodmax 10 compatibility issues?

    Okay, so i recently bought an A8N-SLI mobo and a 300GB SATA Diamondmax 10 hard drive, and when i first set it up, it worked. However, after restarting a few times, the DM10 no longer showed up in the bios, nor could windows detect it. After fiddling around with it, it finally recognized the...
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    NF4/Diamondmax 10 compatibility issues?

    Okay, so i recently bought an A8N-SLI mobo and a 300GB SATA Diamondmax 10 hard drive, and when i first set it up, it worked. However, after restarting a few times, the DM10 no longer showed up in the bios, nor could windows detect it. After fiddling around with it, it finally recognized the...
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    Are NF4 and Diamondmax 10 incompatible?

    Okay, so i recently bought an A8N-SLI mobo and a 300GB SATA Diamondmax 10 hard drive, and when i first set it up, it worked. However, after restarting a few times, the DM10 no longer showed up in the bios, nor could windows detect it. After fiddling around with it, it finally recognized the...
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    PQI PC4000 DDR?

    Okay, so i just bought the stuff for my new PC: A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo A64 3000+ Diamondmax 10 300GB HDD 16MB buffer Vantec VAN-520A 24-pin PSU 2x512MB PQI PC4000 The PQI PC4000 was $180 on newegg, quite a bit cheaper than any other DDR500 i've seen from a decent brand. However, there were...
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    Good 24-pin PSU for under $100?

    So apparently, my new mobo, the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe, requires a 24-pin PSU. The cheapest one i can find is the Vantec 520W for $99, with the Antec 550W for $115 or so. Is there anything cheaper than that, or will one of those 20 -> 24-pin adaptors do the trick? I realize it's less than ideal...