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    Antec SuperLanboy 12" lights?

    ya 12" will fit, it's almost the entire length of the case and you may hit the HDD bays if it's too thick though. along the bottom of my window I run a 6" sound reactive blacklight, for the switch what TYPE of switch is it?
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    Favorite Case

    Antec Super LANBOY :)
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    Video data corruption when starting computer

    Nothing on my PC is overclocked...video and motherboard are all stock settings
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    Help!!! Dvd Shrink Problem From Hell!

    What DVD is it that you are having problems with? see if DVD Shrinks inbuilt decrypter is able to bypass the encryption, as I've said before I prefer AnyDVD its decryption tends to be more up to date
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    Help!!! Dvd Shrink Problem From Hell!

    Have you got any DVD decryption installed on your computer?
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    when burning dvds comp is really slow, need more RAM?

    reg is fine...though personally for decrypting DVDs I use AnyDVD DVD Decrypter
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    when burning dvds comp is really slow, need more RAM?

    have you tried increasing the amount of harddrive space the program is allowed to use to buffer ? or allocate it more memory?
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    when burning dvds comp is really slow, need more RAM?

    Also what type of harddrive are you using? specifically what sort of cache and seek rate does it have? It may not be able to pass information to the DVD Burner fast enough.
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    when burning dvds comp is really slow, need more RAM?

    Checked in task manager to see the CPU usage? Also is there much disk activity?
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    Any good lists of XP Install error codes?

    Found some stuff on google Link from MS
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    Video data corruption when starting computer

    it's time to upgrade anyway, the vid card is the main bottleneck on my PC for modern games now. As for why a corrupt AGP port would be worse, Ive only had the new PC for a month or two..the video card I've had for years.. it sinks the heart when a new piece of hardware dies
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    Are single SATA drives are hot pluggable on XP?

    Just to prove my drive is hot pluggable Link to WD website for my drive
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    why dont americans like sports which are liked globally

    I always loved that...America has a "world series" baseball game and they're the only competitors ;) At least with cricket and Australia we play games like "Australia v Rest of the world" (aka World XI team, collection of the best players around the world)
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    Wondering if my 350w PSU is sufficient??

    LOL, finally bothered to look up the A on the 12v, it's 16A :) And the PSU is a smartblue (so it has a blue LED in it o0o0o0o0o!) lol my PC is in my room..when I turn the TV off it makes no difference to the light level in the room because of the case and all its lights :P Specs for PSU
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    why dont americans like sports which are liked globally

    urm, you seen the size of some of those guys? I would want body armour as well!
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    why dont americans like sports which are liked globally

    Referring to cricket or baseball there czar? :P
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    why dont americans like sports which are liked globally

    Such a shame that Australia 0wns you all at cricket :)
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    Why does Windows 98 "break down" over time?

    people assume free = some catch or the person doesn't know what they're doing If it costs money then they HAVE to be getting the job done properly :)
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    GPU temp monitoring program?

    nTune SpeedFan Just two pieces of software out there that can monitor your GPU Temp
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    Not able to get second IDE channel happening >:(

    Nope, this mobo is SATA free I'm going to get her a PCI IDE controller card and in the next month or so get her a new mobo/CPU
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    Wondering if my 350w PSU is sufficient??

    If it's not enough will my system just stop working when it goes under load???
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    GF needs a new CPU/Mobo..any advice?

    Sweet, well I'm in Australia...the CPU is approx $210, the motherboard is another story... the one you mentioned is $300 (deluxe model) Would a Gigabyte K8VT800 be ok ? (these are only $154)
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    Wondering if my 350w PSU is sufficient??

    Ya AGP, my mobo doesnt support PCIx
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    Wondering if my 350w PSU is sufficient??

    You'll have to excuse my stupidity, but A's on the 12v rail? I'm assuming you mean amps?
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    GF needs a new CPU/Mobo..any advice?

    She wants to upgrade the CPU though, and no arguing with her is not an option ... The sempron sounds like a good idea..she already has 512 mb RAM (tho it's only PC2100)
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    GF needs a new CPU/Mobo..any advice?

    Sorry guys, should have mentioned...she's giving the old CPU to her father (he's using a 486!)
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    GF needs a new CPU/Mobo..any advice?

    Girlfriend is currently running a Pentium 4 2.66ghz however we need to replace her motherboard (another issue with the second IDE port not working) and I'm convincing her to move away from Intel to AMD. Wondering what motherboard/CPU combos you can recommend in the AMD range? I currently...
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    Video data corruption when starting computer

    No RMA available, it's quite old (2 years) lol so I'm just going to go for a 6600GT or 6800 depending on how the finances look :) Eventually bit the bullet and put my gf's 440MX in the PC ....works beautifully :) Could have been worse...I could have had a corrupt AGP port.
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    Video and/or audio capture card

    Why are you going for a hardware option? Why don't you just use a software based solution, there's plenty of options out there.
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    Not able to get second IDE channel happening >:(

    not able to get either 1 or 2 devices working on the chain, devices work on the primary ide chain is there any software to test the functionality of on board ports? (grasping at straws but you never know)
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    Not able to get second IDE channel happening >:(

    I'm trying to install a CD Burner in my GF's PC and I'm not able to get the second IDE channel working :( It's enabled in the BIOS and I can see no reason for it not working, the CD burner is on the IDE chain by itself and I have tried multiple IDE cables and multiple jumper configs on the...
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    Why the hell do all movies in WMP10 play in slo-mo?

    ALL movies? What codec are they encoded in? have you tried to play anything off the net? Porn aside, try watching a movie trailer.
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    How to setup: 2 hard drives, 1 dvdrom, 1 cdrw

    Sorry, but I always put my slower drives on the one chain and the faster harddrives on the other. Got corroborating evidence :) link #1 Link #2 Link #3 Link #4 Link #5 Nuff said :)
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    can't format HD....

    I prefer format c: /s /q |y That way it does a quick format, loads system files and does not prompt you to accept the format. Lol bastard of a mate put that in one of my batch files back when I was running Windows 98 (I used to have a d.bat to list directories in DOS and he edited it when...
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    Help please..hard drive issue

    Main thing that I can think of is that Windows XP is very hardware specific with its installs. ie you can't just go and change the motherboard and expect it to work, especially if the chipset has changed... What type of motherboard did you replace the old one with? was it the same...
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    Wondering if my 350w PSU is sufficient??

    Well as the title says, I'm looking to find out if the 350w PSU I have is sufficient since I am upgrading my video card soon and it is recommended to have a minimum 300w PSU: Antec Smartpower SL350w PSU Drives: WD 120gb SATA Pioneer DVR-108 DVD/RW CPU: AMD A64 3200+ (no OC)...
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    Need help installing new HD

    Click on your start button, go to run and type "diskmgmt.msc" In re to your registry question, when you install the new drive and have it set to master, none of your old registry settings are carried across....
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    Are single SATA drives are hot pluggable on XP?

    yup....but only if I have it as a non-system drive, otherwise it won't let me stop it
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    Are single SATA drives are hot pluggable on XP?

    Hot pluggable as far as I can tell, I will let you know when I get my 200gb SATA.