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    Inspiron 8600 laptop HDD issues

    Had a HDD appear to crap out on me in my girlfriends laptop several months back.. Booted it up one day and got "Primary Hard Disk Drive 0 Failure. No bootable device available" Threw a brand new IDE drive in and after a month or so of use, same thing happened.. it's been sitting...
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    screen flashing every couple of seconds, then getting "USB Device not recognized" error

    The other day I started having a problem where whenever I would leave my machine running long enough idle, when I came back my screen was all messed up.. Kind of beige, and the icons from the taskbar (XP) had moved to the upper corner and where kind of ghosted... I couldn't really interact with...
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    ok. i dont know anything about laptops, but i just built this... any good?

    1 222-4756 XPS M1210, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7200 (2GHz/667MHz/4MB) $1856 1 320-4787 12 inch Wide-screen WXGA Display with TrueLife, Camera,WW Ant, Ear Buds, for XPS M1210 $0.00 1 311-5989 2GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm for XPS M1210 $0.00 1 320-4790 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 TurboCache...
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    uh oh... machine wont boot, no beeps

    A8N Deluxe with an Athlon 64 3000+ .. When you turn the machine on, it displays the following. Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally Copyright (C) 1984-2006, Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1805 Main Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor...
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    ati HDTV wonder

    does this thing really have to use the antenna to pick up HD feeds? i see no method of picking them up through my normal cable subscription
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    ati hdtv wonder

    how can i use this to pickup HD channels thru my existing cable subscription?
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    WTF.. 8 pin atx connector?

    bought a FSP550-60PLG PSU for my new A8N motherboard and just hit a roadblock... its 24+8, and the A8N is 24+4 on the ATX connectors... what the hell am i gonna do now?
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    939 3000 vs 939 3200

    ok.. i cant find a 3200 anywhere around here (locally) but i CAN find a 3000... should i wait? or should i pick up the 3000... right now im thinking the 3000.. its cheaper, and im not sure what, if any, significant performance decrease there would be thoughts?
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    XP64 RC2 or XP32bit.. or both?

    putting my AMD64 machine together tonight and curious which i should install.. i'm interested in checking XP64 out, though im not certain i want to do it while im "new" to the 64 bit and nforce thing.. sugestions?
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    A8N SLI Deluxe + FSP550-60PLG PSU

    FSP550-60PLG made by Sparkle Power Inc (its a varation of the Fortron FSP5500 PSU) ... will i need any kind of special connectors for this combo? i had heard the PSU is 20pin and the board requires 12pin. going shopping later today so any help would be $$ :)
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    3200+ 939.. BI process?

    whats the difference between the BI process and the older one?
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    ripped off? other advice?

    just finished ordering the parts for my new PC (ive posted for suggestions and the like previously) ... this is what i went with cpu: AMD Athlon 64 939 3200+ board: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe ram: 1GB (2x512) Corsair Value Select PC3200 gpu: Geforce 6800GT 256MB PCI-E sound: SBLive...
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    alright.. one more question

    ok... i've read up on the DFI LanParty NF4 SLI solution.. though my brand-loyalty is leaning me towards an A8N (i have no real interest in overclocking at this point or the DFI would win hands down) so my question is.. lets say i go with this particular PC... cpu: AMD Athlon 64 939 3200+...
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    any recommendations?

    so i'm building a new PC.. got a few parts in today (case and video card) but still have a few components to put in... here's the build i have now Case: generic case with a couple 120mm fans and a 350wt PS. CPU: 939 Ath64 3200+ (BI process) Ram: 2x 512mb Crucial Ballistix PC3200's...