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    possible HDD access problem

    k, so i got a 500g HDD. was working great since i got it. but now recently, i think i'm having issues with it. i can open winamp and play music and when i try to open a video file from my 500g HD, the music being played becomes srsly distorted. it will play fine for a second or two but...
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    How do you ident a dead mobo?

    kk, i've never rly dealt with a dead mobo before. i've had components fail. problem: won't post. all fans including CPU fan spin up. no video signal. removed everything but cpu, no beeps. i know the case speaker is working, it beeped at me a couple of weeks ago when i forgot to...
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    Unwanted Quick Format

    ya, goofed and did a quick format on a HDD that i didn't want too. i haven't written anything new to that drive yet. anybody know of a good program to help recover the data (mainly my music collection). brandon
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    computer won't post

    kk, so was watching a movie on my computer. had to go to class so i left the movie player on pause and left. come back and the computer if froozen (won't come out of the screen saver). reset and computer won't start. computer won't even post. i get absolutly no output. Hard drive spins...
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    Computer not turning on

    turned the computer off last night, turn it back on today and no go. everything powers up, fans, HDD's, and cd-roms. board gets power (green led light and a red led indicating power to ram is on). HDD turns on, but i get no HDD activity (front LED not blinking or turning on other then...
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    Stuck yet again in HL2...

    Open Sesaeme! :disgust: it won't open. i cleared out the upper right all the way to the valve... the vavle is busted. this game is starting to annoy me. i'm thinking they may have made it so the walkthru book is REQUIRED! i've never had this much trouble with any game before...
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    Bluetooh headset

    ok, i got an interesting question. is it possible to use a bluetooth headset that i use with my cell phone with my computer? i'd like to use it as a headset for voice chat. i realize i'll need a bluetooth dongle for the computer. any software that will let me do this? brandon
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    Firewall settings and Secure website

    ok, this was annoying. got my new mobo (DFI lanparty) that has hardware firewall a week ago. for the last week, i've tried accesing one of my credit card companys, but kept getting "We could not find blah.com" in IE. payment due today, call them, oh, its hasn't been down, its just my firewall...
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    Converting Power Supply Adapters

    ok, i have Antec 400w PS. i only have 2 4-pin floppy connectors. i need a third one for my floppy drive (one is used by my graphics card and the second is used by a PATA to SATA dongle). how can i convert a normal HDD type cable into a floppy style end? brandon EDIT: also, i have a...
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    Connecting 2 XP's & a 98se

    hey, trying to set up my 3 computers to talk to each other. its 2 xp's and 1 98se. also want to share a printer connected to XP-1 i have all three connected to a 10/100 5 port hub (yes, just a hub). my cable moderm is also connected to the hub. --Cable modem --------| ------HUB...
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    New CPU: Newcastle or Clawhammer

    Newcastle cheaper but only come with 512 cache. is the meg cache worth the extra money? will be paired up with DFI's nForce3 250 board and Corsiar PC2700 and is primarly used for gaming. brandon
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    Academic OS versions

    aite, in a differant thread, i explain how i screwed myself. now i'm looking for new copy of XP home/pro (cheaper=better). i notice newegg.com is selling academic versions of home for decent price. i am a student at local college. do i need to do anything special to order or to be able to...
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    Lost XP CD Key

    aite, got 2 computers (mine and my roomates). searched for CD key, found it, reformated my computer. realized the CD key i found was for my roommates computer. i can't find my CD key. just to confirm it, i'm screwed, right? brandon
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    Snapped HDD PATA pin... death of HDD?

    Hey, tryin to connect cable to a pata HDD upside down or backwards or what not, snapped a pin. startup is horribly slow, game performance unplayable, winxp creeps. here's the catch, i also just did a fresh install of winxp. what i'm wondering if its just bad IDE drivers (asus a7n8x deluxe)...
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    80 pin IDE cables

    are there more then one type of parrallel IDE cables? i know ther are 80pin's, but whats less then that? also, what are the differences? i ask cause i just replaced the ones i had with 80 pin because on every boot up, i would get no 80 pin IDE cable's present. whats the real difference? brandon
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    ignore

    solved brandon
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    Diablo II in window

    how do i play Diablo II in a window instead of fullscreen? brandon
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    Spy/Adware Problem

    aite, i got Ad-Aware and ran it a few times, removes everything. they just come right back next time i restart. why are they coming back and how can i permentaly remove them. for what its worth, i have norton internet security 2003. brandon
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    WinFast Q's

    aite, just got that leadtek winfast from newegg.com. firstly, picture isn't as good as i thought. its about average antenna quality and when i change to full screen, a good chunk of channels starts showing lines across'em. not that impressed at all. :-/ the same feed on my TV is very good...
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    XP Startup

    two questions; 1) how can i edit my started up programs? (and not the start folder) 2) what programs out there find and remove spy and adware programs? brandon
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    Tivo with Leadtek Q.

    planning on getting a Leadtek from newegg.com and an extra HDD. i'm wondering if the rpm and disk cach will play any role in recording. would and "older" 5200rpm with a 2meg cache work just fine? figured i could pick up some of those "older" drives used a lot cheaper. brandon
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    Aim

    Blah, reformated my HD, *thought* i rememberd my DrRawqwi logon password, but don't. can't have it emailed to me cause i put a bogus email in (hate spam)i still have all the old files related to the orignal aim (on a seperate partion), any way i can recover the password thru those? :confused...
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    softmod 9500np, again

    aite, gonna reformat HDD and can't remember how to mod my 9500np. try goin to http://www.maxdownloads.com/~ian/wizzard/, but is down and out. anybody else got any nice linkage? brandon
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    Roger Wilco

    everytime i try to create a channel, i get a 169.xxx.xxx.xx:xxxx ip, i know 169 means someting fubar'ed. running XP, turned off firewall, wats up, anybody? brandon
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    HL problems

    k, i'm having some seriuos problems with Half Life. everytime i play CS, when i get into close quarter combat, it lags up real bad. when i try to leave the game, it locks up hard, can only manually restart. i cant only find CS servers, when i try HL or Team Fortress, nothing. starts...
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    Fan Wires *solved*

    aite, just got my new panaflo fan from TonyH from the board here, but not sure what wire is what. i have red, yellow, and blue. its one of the older panaflos, the aluminum from japan. assuming its power, ground and rpm monitor, but not sure which is which. any help would be great. brandon
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    Real Player & XP

    aite, ever since i update to windows XP, i can not run Real Player. it locks up my computer HARD. only way to get it goin is to do hard restart. anytime i try to play any .rm file or any streaming video, lock up. i have fully updated XP, directx9, Real Player version 2.0, build 6.0.11.853...
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    XP and old fat32 HHD

    k, i have xp on my main rig. i connected my old HDD to it so i could transfer data from it (game images, cd collectoin, programs, etc etc). i see the file structure just fine. when i tried to transfer a few files, it won't. XP mentioned something about the files being corrupted. i restarted...
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    9500np --> 9700pro (softmod), problems with CS *SOLVED*

    well, got a saphire 9500np, ran for awhile, everythign worked, CS ran like a dream. installed the 9700softmod and now when i run CS, it says my video card does not support OpenGL. what the? anybody? winxp, a7n8x del, sapphire 9500np with softmod to 9700 (increased 3dmark by about 2500...
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    Connecting PC's (XP and Win98)

    k, i new how to do this in win98, but haven't a foggiest in XP. i have xp BOJANGLES, and 98 SEALLY. i just hooked both up to hub and searched. bojangles(xp) did not find seally(98), but seally(98) found bojangles(xp). tried to open bojangles up from seally, asked for password. didn't ahve a clue...
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    XP Q's (connecting 2 computers)

    k, i new how to do this in win98, but haven't a foggiest in XP. i have xp BOJANGLES, and 98 SEALLY. i just hooked both up to hub and searched. bojangles(xp) did not find seally(98), but seally(98) found bojangles(xp). tried to open bojangles up from seally, asked for password. didn't ahve a...
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    DMA in Xp

    so, how do i make sure DMA is turned on in XP? how do i make sure the network adapter is set to full duplex in XP? or are they both auto handled? brandon
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    Zalmen HS, CNPS7000-AlCu

    this one, trying to find out if anybody has modded it to fit a AMD tbred. like the look alot, would really like to get one. brandon
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    Case/mobo connections (connecting front panel options to mobo)

    k, tryin to install my mobo in my case, tryin to connect the front panel stuff. i have front mic, speaker, usb, and firewire. now, nothing matches. the case has a 2pin MIC, 3pin EAR (but only has 2 wire, wire in 1pin and 3pin), 2 2pin N.P., 2 1pin GROUND, and 2 1pin +5V. my mobo has seperate...
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    a7n8x deluxe boot problems

    k, had the board in my old case, transfered it to my new case and would not boot. it would load up, state "system fail due to memory" or something like that. tried ever consiberalbe combinations with my two sticks of ram (corsair pc2700 twin sticks, each 256meg) and a friends ram (crucial pc2700...
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    Half/Full Duplex

    k, i recently forgot all aobut this for hubs/switches. how do you turn it on again? :D brandon
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    Pixel Pipeline

    thinking of getting new vid card, can't decide from 9500pro or non-pro. the ram difference doesn't matter to me, but just curious how much of a difference goin from 8 pipes down to 4 does. brandon
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    A7N8X Deluxe & AMD1700+ OC'ed speeds

    So, who has an Asus a7n8x delux with amd1700+ and have OC'ed? just curious what people have been able to do. i can only reach 1837mhz (166x11), but haven't toyed with ram timings yet. Ram is corsair pc2700LLPT twin sticks at stock (2-2-2-5). should i be happy with this speed? i really...
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    nOOb Q: CDRW Ident

    so, how can i determine what burner i just got? its a Pacific Digital, S/N is: p03251534552 (not sure if the zero is letter or number though, it has slash thru it). any help? anybody know the S/N or does anyboyd know of a program to identifiy it for me? brandon
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    AMD1700+ identified as Duron by PCMark

    so, any reason my PC Mark says my amd1700+ OC'ed to 1862 (167x11) is saying its really a duron cpu? WCPUID still knows its 1700+, PCMark just dumb? brandon