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    Failed reinstallations of Vista from HP OEM recovery partition

    I've been searching for quite a while across the Web but can't figure out how to resolve this. My uncle has a ~3-year-old Compaq running Vista Home Premium on which I've just upgraded the memory (2x512MB to 1x2GB). I'm also trying to reinstall Vista from the recovery partition (no DVD...
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    Stupid annoyance after reinstalling WinXP (Fixed)

    After doing a complete format and reinstallation of XP, when starting up, the BIOS (rev. "A03", hasn't been flashed since first obtained in 3/2002; the latest is "A09," 10/2002) prompts me to choose one of two startup choices that both say XP Home. The top one boots, the bottom one yields a...
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    Tentative rig

    I can spend up to $1150, including taxes (though I'd prefer to be safely under that), and already have a case, keyboard, and monitor. I'd like to be able to run most newer games acceptably (around 45-50 fps) at 11x8 to 12x10 at mid-to-high details as inexpensively as possible. Overclocking's...