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    About the ports

    I read everyone ranting and raving about the UAE controlling our ports and how dangerous this is for America!!! Well I am afraid the media has once again been greatly misinforming the public. The UAE Company, DP World is not taking control of our ports but rather terminals within the port...
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    I hate power supplies

    My aspire power supply is starting to die on me. Whenever I'm in a game or the PC is working double time the computer will usually turn off within 15 mins. I then need to turn the power supply off then turn it back on to get the system to boot. So, I' ve decided I'm not go cheap anymore. From...
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    Computer randomly restarts

    Out of the blue, since last week, my computer radomly decides to restart itself. This mostly happens when I'm playing a game but the computer has restarted when the it isn't doing anything. When windows loads back up I get no error screens, the computer loads up like normal. Therefore I'm...
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    Google Rocks

    I hope Google kicks Microsoft in the teeth. I'm tired of no company really challenging Microsoft and with Google being in the news headlines 24/7 this past week it looks like somone finally will. Anyone have any clue what Google is going to try to compete against that Microsoft sells?
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    DirectX 10

    According to Microsoft DirectX 10 will be realeased when Vista comes out. Does this mean that the next line of graphics card will support DirectX 10 and shader model 4.0?
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    Age of Empries Demo!!!

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/...8-4e13-96c6-3da92e8f0c62/aoe3trial.exe Go and download the demo! Sorry, but this is not General Hardware related. AnandTech Moderator
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    EVGA 6800 Ultra Graphics/Picture Corruption

    this has been going on for a while now. During gameplay in World Of Warcraft and Battlefield 2 and lots of other games, the graphics become horrible, spots appear all over the place and stretched out triangle shapes appear all over the screen. sometime to the point when i cant see anything and...
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    videos messed up

    Whenever I go to play a mpeg or an avi the picture is displayed very bright and the colors are all washed out. This happens in windows media player and creative player. When I play mov file or a mpeg or avi in quicktime the picture is fine. What could be causing this problem? Any help would be...
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    Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW

    For people that have this moniter is it worth $436? I'm thinking of buying it today.
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    Laptop memory question

    I have a IBM Thinkpad T21 and I want to upgrade the memory. According to the specs it takes 144-pin SODIMM PC-100 memory. The problem is the PC-100 memory is $140 for a 256mb stick compared to the PC-133 memory which is $40. Could the laptop run with the faster memory? I would think so...
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    psu question

    On the power supply it gives you a chart with AC input and DC output. On my +12v rail it can hold 34A is that good and what does it mean?
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    RMA's suck

    I hate RMAing hardware that doesn't work! From now on I'm buying from Fry's where you can return a motherboard even if its cracked in half!
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    I'm a believer

    I bought this cheap crap 450 watt power supply ($30) and plug it into my machine. The computer turns on for a second and then nothing. End result, motherboard fried. I just bought a new $70 power supply and motherboard and everthing is working great! So buy a good power supply!!!!
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    quick memory question

    I have 1gb of memory or two 512mb sticks and I have run into a recent problem since I changed motherboards (long story). My first stick of memory boots up great in the new system but when I add the second stick the computer hangs at the bios. The second stick was working in my old motherboard...
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    Virus question

    My computer has been really screwed up lately so I thought I would reformat the hard drive to fix it. Well that didn't work and now the problem has gotten worse. When I was in windows xp a blue screen poped up and stated that something went wrong with so and so file and windows needs to restart...
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    I bought from Monarch...

    I bought a motherboard combo from monarch and it turns out they sent me dead motherboard. I talked to the tech department and they offered to repair it. At the time it seemed like a good idea but now I'm wondering how long is it going to take them to "repair" it along with shipping. Anyway I...
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    early chipset initialization error..?

    When I go to boot the computer nothing shows up on the moniter but according to the error lights on the board I have an early chipset initialization error. What is this and does anyone know how to fix it? I tried taking the cmos battery out for 5 minutes and still had the same problem.
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    no video

    I just got a MSI K8T Neo2 and a evga 6800gt and when I press the power button I get no display the moniter stays black, even though all fans spin and hard drive starts. I've tried replugging everything and still have same problem. I also tried a known working video card and no display either...
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    New system, have a problem

    I have an MSI K8T Neo2 and when I press the power button nothing lights up, no fans spin. When the cmos jumper is set to clear setting and I press the power button everything turns on but obviously the computer won't boot with clear cmos. When the jumper is set back to save data no power. What...
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    AMD 64 processors

    I just bought a AMD 64 3000 skt 939 from monarch computers and was wondering if the processors only excepts ECC memory. I hope not becuase I have 1.5gb of regular memory.
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    Quick question

    Should I buy the evga 6800gt 256mb for $395 on newegg or the leadtek 6800gt 256mb for $405?
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    WMA Pro

    Does anyone know where I can find a coverter so I can convert my wma's into pro. I have creative media source but it says format coversion not supported.
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    PC Boot problem

    After my pc has been off for the night and I go to turn it on in the morning it won't boot. I go through post succesfully and the windows loaded screen pops up and starts to load windows then the monitor goes blank. I find that when I go into the bios and load basic defaults my computer will...
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    quick question

    What type of battery would an ATX form motherboard use?
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    I've got an annoying problem

    My computer was working fine a few weeks ago and then all of a sudden it decides not to boot into winows. The computer will past post then right before or during the windows loading screen the computer screen goes blank even thought all the fans in the computer are spinning as if the computer...
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    X850 pro

    What is ATI thinking the card is $50 more then the x800xl and is outperformed. Or is this because Anandtech doesn't have the set clock speeds? I was somewhat confused by the article.:confused: Also which card should I get? The BFG 6800gt or the x800xl or x850 pro if its any good.
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    AOpen 6800 GT

    I haven't had any expierence with the AOpen cards. Are the reliable and do you recommend?
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    time to upgrade

    I want to upgrade my computer but I'm looking for suggestions on what to upgrade. The processor I have is an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ with an nForce 2 motherboard and the videocard I have is a 5900xt. I have 1.5 gb of memory so I don't need to upgrade there. Should I upgrade the processor to a Athlon...