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    Time to call upon AT for help

    Ok, my friends got a new Asus P4V8X-X that I put in for him thats been running fine for a couple months, then, the other day, it all goes to shit. First he couldnt get windows booted up, it would freeze on the loading screen. When it finally got up, things seemed deceptively all right, until...
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    Note To Self:

    so there i was, 10 mins till closing time (im a cashier at lowes) and a woman walks up with a water heater on a cart. right when she walked up she made a quip about wondering if she would get a senior citizen discount for it. so i thought i would try to be nice and suggest that she looked much...
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    That video where the guy steals the tank

    You know that video of the guy that steals a tank from a national guard armory and drives it through a city (LA i think)?? I told a friend of mine about it but hes never seen it and thinks im making it up. Ive looked all over for it but i cant find it. Its on Craziest Police Videos or...
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    Problem with soundmax onboard sound

    Ive got an asus a7v600 and im trying to run surround sound out of the coax digital out. It runs into a surround reciever. I selected 5.1 in all the relevant places, and i am using a surround audio file (from microsoft wmp 10 site). However, im only getting the front channels. When i select...
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    Sun Sparc

    Just wondering what the performance difference is between an ultra sparc and an x86 proc are. How does Sun get away with putting 550 mhz ultra sparcs in their entry level servers? Are they just much more efficient or what? Yes i know clock speed isnt everything, but im still curious about...
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    Mustang Tranny Problems

    I tried a car forum but no ones paying attention.... Ok, ive got a '94 Mustang v6/auto and ive been having some problems with the transmission (i believe). For a while (couple years) its always had a little trouble at the shift point into overdrive. If im driving right at the point where it...
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    Just dropped a Zalman 7000 on my 2600+

    Hell yea.
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    Can the hardware monitor be wrong?

    Ive got an XP 2600 on an asus a7v600 that isnt reporting consistant temps. MBM and asus's own utility (pc probe) tell me one temp for the cpu, but if i immediatly reboot and check the bios hardware monitor, it shows one that is about 10 degrees higher. Which one is more likely wrong? Odd...
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    S@H Results?

    Check this out...
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    System Perfomance option in Bios

    According to the book this adjusts the DRAM SPD timing, choices of Optimal and Turbo. Default is optimal. Does anyone run this at turbo? Is it ok to do so? Does it help at all?
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    Asus Wifi?

    Ive got an asus k7v600 mobo that has their special wifi slot....but all i can find for sale are the 802.11b cards. They list on their website that there is a 802.11g card but i havent seen one. Has anyone else seen one ever?
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    I cant read this anymore

    Is anyone else tired of seeing nothing but screaming libs with no concept of reality pointing all of america's supposed problems without offering any solutions of their own? All of those who have been blinded by the leftist media and dont really understand the world around them? I am. Im...
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    Why dont a lot of peoples rig links in their sigs work?

    ^^^^ pretty self explanatory
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    Which one?

    Ok heres a hypothetical: Given the choice between 1.5 GB of PC2700 ram and 1GB of PC3200, which would be better?
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    How many other people run more than one machine?

    I was sitting one day and realized I had enough spare parts to make 2 whole computers. So I did and I networked them, put one on a kvm switch and get to the other one through remote desktop. The kvm one is running fedora core and my main comp and the remote one are win xp pro. I run seti@home...
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    A7V600 Cold Hard Boot Problems

    OK.....I built this computer about 6 months ago and its worked fine until just recently. All of a sudden, it wont boot while its cold, i have to either continuously reboot it for about 10 mins or so, or boot it and let it sit for 10 mins. On the first boot it posts fine and then the SATA bios...