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    any program to create a bootable recovery disk?

    where is the option in Norton that includes the bootable program into the data backup media?
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    "Temperature Range" "ramp rate" ASUS BIOS

    I have an Asus Pundit booksize barebone system, which as two BIOS settings that I don't undertsand: Temperature Range and CPUFAN Ramp Rate. Temperature Range goes from 4 celsuis to 80 celsuis and CPUFAN Ramp Rate goes from 35 secs to 0.8 secs What do these mean? Will setting them change...
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    Anonymous communications

    In your two-way encryption example, you are assuming that both parties know that their encryptions are "additive" in the sense that adding one encryption does not change the ability to reverse the other. This assumption needs to be "pre-shared" between the two parties.
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    Is it safe when surge protector says "line fault"

    The PG&E tech pulled out the tinies plug I've seen. put it in and it outputs "open ground." Looks like I'm in a groundless building. F&*k the electrician that installed the whole thing. pardon my french.
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    Is it safe when surge protector says "line fault"

    Thx, guys. PG&E is coming out today to diagnose the problem. They mentioned that it may be too high or too low a volt. But I am inclined to believe that it's what you guys said, wrong polarity or no ground. If they don't see it on their end, I'll bug the hell out of the owner. My property...
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    Is it safe when surge protector says "line fault"

    I have a tripp lite isobar surge protector and just moved to this new apt. EVERY freaking outlet in this new place makes the isobar's "line fault" light on. Yesterday, it has "line fault," and "protection on" lights on and has "line ok" light off. I was wondering whether it simply...
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    NOW WITH VIDEO!!!! LOL, Detroit TV news is fvcking horrible

    is it me or news anchors in general have become more like TV clowns?
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    POLL: Which next-gen console looks the sexiest?

    Some people like them small and flat... :)
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    Programming question for unix regular expression guru

    I need some regular expression programming help. basically I want to be able to search all instances of word X occuring within 100 characters of word Y in a bunch of files. How do I form a regular expression that can do that? I'm using grep in linux. Thx,
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    What IS time?

    Time is women's greatest fear, men's ultimate enemy, and it will race every single human being into madness and ultimate death because it is an unwinnable nemensis to all. But joy and happiness can freez time as perceived by our feeble limited minds. That's the essense of relativity. As Eistein...
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    Tried Kubuntu Linux, now going back to windows

    Poldy, you must have a gigantic Linux half of the brain.
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    Tried Kubuntu Linux, now going back to windows

    Installed ubuntu this morning. Here is my story. Video: Tried to install nvidia own driver for 4 hours and never worked; the kernel source compilation was required and it never recognized my newly installed kernel source code and gcc. (and yes I played with all the settings accordingot...
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    which linux for my a8n-sli

    I just read about Ubuntu, which offers automatic updates. Looks interesting... One question: Ubuntu doesn't offer kernel compilation. Does compiling cutomized kernel offer significant performance on an AMD athlon64? And what's the main difference bet. KDE and GNOME?
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    which linux for my a8n-sli

    Hi, linux gurus. Mind answering a specific but probably an age-old question--which distribution is right for my setup and needs? I am getting bored looking at my bland xp pro desktop, taskbar,..., etc. Hardware: AMD athlon64, Asus A8n-SLI, Maxtor SATAII 300gb, Nvidia Geforce 6600, BenQ...
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    Jesus, water finally set up

    One more concrete example to show the worthlessness of water cooling. Is the danger of leaking destroying thounsands of dollars worth reduction of couple degrees?
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    Post your last 3 video cards, including your current

    ATI RADEON 8500 for 3 good years ASUS RADEON X300 128-bit for 3 good months (sold) GIGABYTE GEFORCE 6600 (non-GT OCed to GT level)
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    Artifact Tester

    just use ATITOOL. The artifact part works w ith any graphcis card including Nvidia cards.
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    Retail boxed XP Pro - to XP 64-bit?

    geezwhiz, can some people stop this obsession of every new OS that comes out of MS's barn door. Ask yourself what will be gained under x64 for YOU! It's the coolness factor, isn't it? What part of xp pro 32-bit is bugging you that will be only solved by x64? My advice is that if you are...
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    Explain this

    that's not right. my 6600 (non-gt) gets 3200 when oc'ed to about gt's core speed but still less memory speed. so, a real 6600gt should get at least 3600.
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    Whats the most demanding game/benchmark for a video card?

    wow. I ran 3dmark05 on my OCed 6600 non-gt and got 3200. I was quite proud. but I saw your 9800p can already pull 2924.. pretty close man. 9800 rocks!
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    x300

    X300SE is slow. X300 128-bit is fine. I played farcry and many other games on the 128-bit card. Recently I upgraded it to 6600, which can be OCed to 6600gt-like performance. I am getting 3dmark05 score around 3200. I see there is quite a bit performance increase from x300. So my advice is...
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    overclocking 6600 (non GT)

    Is there a NVIDIA equivalent of ATITOOL, which can scan artificats and monitor card temperature?
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    overclocking 6600 (non GT)

    yeah, maybe I'm lucky with the memory rate. I'll check out the atitool idea.
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    Asus A8N SLI Deluxe OC Thought

    awesome post. agree with your observations.
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    What's the unknown USB device in A8N-SLI?

    I did that. and it's still not recognized. checked all my cards etc. Still cannot for the life of me figure out what it could refer to.
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    overclocking 6600 (non GT)

    So far, I've gone from 300mhz (core) to 500mhz and 550mhz(memory) to 650 (memory). no detectable artificat after a run of 3dmark03, which gives me >6500 score. The temp sits at about 50C idle and >60C load. How far can I push this thing? I'm afraid to burn it out unintentionally. the...
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    Temp Program?

    This has been covered in many posts and on many forums before. do a search for temperature monitoring and 6600. You need to flash your bios basically. need nvflash and an editor to turn on the temperature sensor bit. very easy. I tried it on my 6600 (non GT) and it works fine.
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    What's the unknown USB device in A8N-SLI?

    For my A8n-sli, I've installed the nforce stand alone driver. But I still get an unrecognized USB device. The only thing I can think of is the USB hub on my Dell 2005fpw. But I see usb hub in my device manager, and I've downloaded and installed the monitor driver from the graphics tab. Has...
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    A8N-SLI-DELUXE and Windows XP

    I am reinstalling Xp on my a8n-sli. I want to keep NViDIA drivers and apps to the minimum. Do you know which devices absolutely needed drivers/apps? Ethernet? Gigabyte Ethernet? Audio? Anything else? AMD athlon64 cpu driver? (is this needed for XP?) I don't need active armor as I...
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    How to clean-up slow windows XP?

    My windows XP is now bloated with hundreds of application, some of which have been uninstalled, reinstalled, blah blah. In short, it groans under the weight of my programs and runs much muc slower than a fresh copy. I'd hate to do an re-install of the entire OS b/c I'd have to load up all...
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    no display at boot but does go to windows

    Okay, I found out that I could see the boot process via D-SUB (VGA) port. My monitor has two ports, DVI + VGA. What I did was switch it to VGA during boot and switch it back to DVI for windows. Interestingly, after doing the switch a few times and several reboots, the system now boots...
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    no display at boot but does go to windows

    Just replaced my asus radeon x300 w/ gigabyte 6600 pci-e. It runs fine in windows. But whenever I boot I get a blank screen until the windows login page. I removed CMOS on the motherbord, asus a8n-sli deluxe, and it would give me a boot logo everything for one time. Then if I hot-boot...
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    A8N-SLI - is it really this bad?

    must be problems at your end. try unload the activearmor and nv firewall stuff. I don't know what else to try. I am running my a8n-sli stable for couple months now. playing IL-2.. no problem whatsoever.... maybe your components have problems. don't blame it on the board yet.
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    a8n-sli OC question, fsb limit?

    Today, I tried a controlled OC on my memory. I upped the HTT to 300 (3x multiplier), and lower the CPU multipler to 6x, giving an effective 1800mhz cpu speed, stock for my athlon64 3000+. Then I put the memory divider to DDR266, therefore roughly making the memory running at 0.61*300 =183mhz...
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    a8n-sli OC question

    intogamer, how do you know that? Any confirmations? And I love DFS too, I wish I had the $ to switch MBs just to get better OCs. :)
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    Dell 2405 FPW ... what am I missing?

    I have no beef about the monitor. But for the price, you can get about 2 2005fpws. From my 2005fpw experience, 2 side by side will give you a total immersive environment, not mentioning double the pixel counts. So, I say if you have aboslutely no concern with $, go for 2004fpw. Otherwise...
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    a8n-sli OC question

    Today, I tried a controlled OC on my memory. I upped the HTT to 300 (3x multiplier), and lower the CPU multipler to 6x, giving an effective 1800mhz cpu speed, stock for my athlon64 3000+. Then I put the memory divider to DDR266, therefore roughly making the memory running at 0.61*300 =183mhz...
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    I'm a believer now.

    THere is also the steel v. aluminum factor. From my expereince in owning both antec and lianli, steel is way better in cutting down the noise..
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    keeping your case clean

    I spray the innards with lysol-mixed water using a wide-open garden hose attached to a high-pressure shower head. A cordless mini vaccum cleaner also works.
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    Orac³

    Can we pipe down on commenting and QUOTING each other's OPINIONS? For God sake, voice your opinion and let others do theirs. To me, the machine looks like an alien's guts. Disgusting, wierd. I appreciate his effort, but as an artisit piece, it fails to impress me. That's my opinion. Don't...