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    Different Drive Geometries?

    I got a 40gig seagate from my friend recently and have it hooked up through a PCI IDE card. I got some of his data off of it and now I would like to reformat it and make it my own. It came from a compaq so the drive has two partitions, the system_sav partition and then everything else. I...
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    Hard Drive Won't Show Up In 'My Computer'

    I brought my hard drive with all my media on it back from school for break. First i tried to put it in an external case, but found out that since i formatted it as dynamic it won't work from an enclosure. So i threw it into my machine and now I still can't navigate to it; it shows up under the...
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    PCI Diagnostic Cards

    My dad does a lot of family computer tech stuff and I think for christmas I will get him a PCI Diagnostic card, unfourtunatly i have no idea about them. Anyone have any reccomendations or advice?
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    External Drive Not Mounting

    I took my seagate 120gb hard drive out of one of my computers, which it was working normally in, and put it into an external hard drive case, which was working normally with the hard drive that was previously in it. I then hooked it up to my machine and it recognizes it, says found new hardware...
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    pay no mind

    i'm a poor human being and realize now i operate google terribly. i'm punching out now
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    Creating a Personal Server Box

    I would like to make a server type rig to organize all my media more efficiently. I've never done this before or really looked into it and such so i got a couple questions. I want to have it store my music/movies and such and I want to be able to access it quickly to play them on my main...
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    Bootable Linux with Writing Capabilites

    Is there a CD-bootable version of linux that will allow writing to hard drives and what file format should the hard drives be in?
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    Advanced Screensavers

    I want to have a my pictures slideshow thing as my screensaver, except i would like it to change pictures at random intervals, not a set amount of time. Is there a program which will allow me to do this?
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    What kind of jobs does a Software Engineer get?

    My major is SE but i have absolutly no idea what a SE does now that i think about it. What types of jobs do they get?
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    DVD files to avi/mpeg

    I just ripped a dvd to my hard drive wtih DVD shrink, but i can't for the life of me find a program to convert the files into an .avi or .mpeg. I've heard Nero Recode and something like PDXE but i can't find these near me. Any other programs to do this, free would be a plus to the max
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    Does beer freeze?

    I'm having a debate about wheter beer freezes and instead of risking a glass bottle ruining my day i'll just see what you folks have to say. Also, we were wondering why beer coems in glass bottles and soda coems in plastic bottles, other than aesthetic reasons
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    Wikipedia hillarity

    Hillarity
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    Winfast 2000 Tv Tuner card problem with input

    This tv tuner card has been nothing but trouble since i got it. I had it working fine until one day I couldn't switch the input source. I click the button and nothing happens. I don't recall doing anything that would have affected it. I looked in all the menu's and such and can't figure out...
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    What's the deal with Matrox?

    Every time I browse through one of the threads about multi-monitors matrox cards are always talked very highly of. I've looked at the specs of some of the cards and personally i'm not too impressed, what's the deal?
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    Can't use TV Tuner On Second Monitor

    I have my main monitor running off a Radeon 9600XT and two other monitors (one extended, one cloned) running of a 9200se. I can use my leadtek pvr2000 tv tuner on my main monitor, but when I try and drag the window across to my other monitor it goes black and the program stops responding...
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    Anyone hack a Motorola V300

    I just got a cable to connect my phone to my computer and 'Mobile Phone Tools' as the software. I can't find anywhere to do anything cool to it. Am i just missing it or do i need a different program?
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    Alternative to WinFast PVR?

    I have a Leadtek tv2000XP and it works fine but the software sucks horribly in my eyes. Is there any alternative program to use? I tried to get a winamp plug-in but i couldn't get it to work
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    No Sound out of TV Tuner Card

    I got the Leadtek 2000TVXP TV Tuner card and it works good except for the fact that there is no sound from it. When i start the program it mutes my master volume for soem reason and i have to turn it back on to get sound from other programs. Anyone know what the trick is?
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    Is There a way To Reset All Services To Default?

    I was messing with me services before (run: services.msc) and now i can't install a piece of software becasue of it. Is there any way to reset them all to default? I have a windows XP disk if that helps Windows XP Pro with SP2
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    RPC Server Unavailable with Leadtek TV2000

    I got the Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP TV Tuner card hooked up and everything but i can't use it because the software won't install. It extracts all the files and such and then stops with an error: "RPC Server Unavailable". Any ideas what causes this and how to fix it?
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    A Way To Turn Off Sound In FireFox?

    I hate when my marvelous music is interrupted by annoying sounds from the web pages i am viewing. Is there some type of option in firefox to turn off all sound or soemthing like that?
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    Best PS2 Mod Chip

    What is the best mod chip for the playstation 2? It seems like there are a million choices. Also anyone know how to find out what version playstation you have?
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    One Hot Minute is outstanding

    Just thought i'd let you know what I think...for no reason what so ever except that i am bored. +1
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    Windows 2K Login in Win XP

    I was messing around with my network settings and somehow set my computer to windows 2000 mode or something stupid. It gives me a box to login when i start my computer instead of a welcome screen. It also looks like 2000/NT when i use ctrl+ alt+ delete. My startup times have gone up a...
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    Video Card Issues

    I got a Radeon 7000 PCI for my third monitor. I plugged it in and it was working fine in the beginning but i tried to clone a monitor (they were all extended) and it brought me to a blue screen and had to dump memory and rebooted. I installed the new drivers thinking it would fix it but it got...
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    Seagate RMA shipping

    I gotta send my seagate drive back because it doesn't work. The shipping instructions are quite specific: enclose the static-protected drive in 2-inch thick foam rubber in a corrugated box. Multiple drives in a single box must have foam rubber between each drive. DO NOT USE...
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    Quick, the cheapest PCI card!

    Stumbled upon a new monitor (well, 'new' Apple Multiscan 700) and i need another card to drive it, I have a ATI 9600XT with two monitors off it right now. I wanna see how fast you guys can find me a cheap pci card. Right now i'm looking at this...
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    Whats with all the fuzz this weekend?

    I went down to Rutgers college in new jersey and saw at least 8 cops on my way down, and then about 6 more back up. I have been seeing them all over the place this whole weekend. Anyone know why there are so many of them, cause i can't think of a reason other than someone being like, "hey...
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    ATI and NVidia card in same box

    i have a radeon 9600XT in my rig right now and am looking for a PCI video card for a third monitor. If i get an Nvidia card will they conflict badly?
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    Old PCI card doesn't fit my new PCI slot?

    I broke out my old 3dFX Voodoo 3 2000 PCI video card today. I went to pop it into my rig and it won't fit in my PCI slot. It looks almost as if the short and long portions of the connectors are backwards. Anyone know anything about this?
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    Win XP Activation woes

    I posted here a bit ago about activating windows. I couldn't activate it from my computer because "local scripting has been disbaled" and i couldn't reenable no matter how hard i tried. Now i can't log into windows because it says it hasn't been activated and kicks me out. I just went looking...
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    Old School Voodoo 3 as third output?

    Would an old Voodoo 3 PCI card work well as a driver for a second monitor? I'm not really sure how much performance matters on second cards and such. I mean the box says it can run "The most games, the newest games, the hottest games" can i trust it?!
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    Home Theater people

    i got this big ol 62" ince widescreen tv, and i hooked it all up and it works fine except for a very high pitched very annoying constant hiss. It is almost like a whine. Anyone got any ideas on what it could be or better yet how to fix it?
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    Can't activate windows

    I have one day to activate windows and when i try to it says that local scripting is disabled, and to try again when scripting is enabled. I tried turning off both my firewall and my anti-virus but it still won't go through. Anyone know how to fix this? I think i am gonna get locked out of my...
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    Upgrade from 9600XT

    I feel like doing something to my computer and the video card seems like the best thing to upgrade for me right now. I have a radeon 9600XT right now and this is the rest of my system: AMD64 3000+ MSI K-8 Neo Platinum WD 120GB SB Live 5.1 512 Crucial ram also, i don't want to spend...
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    Seagate Drive Stealing me NTLDR?

    I have a seagate drive that i thought was faulty, but today i figured i would try it again. Before it would work as a slave but have CRC and other such errors all the time. I put it in today as a slave and when i booted up my computer it gave me a dos screen that said that the NTLDR is...
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    Need a video card and Monitor

    I have a Radeon 9600XT with two monitors running off of it. I want to add a third monitor so i need a pci card and a new monitor. Any opinions on a good monitor/pci card combo, i'm trying to keep costs low but i would like a 17" monitor, LCD if possible. I'd say budget of around $350-450
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    Application Windows Start in Weird Sizes

    I was messing around with a bunch of settings on my computer, mostly graphics card driver things and somehow changed the size of new windows. Everytime I open something the size of the window is very odd and i can't figure out how to fix it. I tried reinstalling graphics card drivers and some...
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    Run Third Monitor Off Onboard Video?

    I have a radeon 9600XT with two monitors hooked up, one to DVI and one to VGA. I really want to add a third monitor. Could I run the third monitor off my onboard video, or do I have to get a pci card?
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    That Picture of AIM on a Very Old Computer

    it was a picture of an old computer, i want to say an Apple II or something, and it was Aol instant messanger with a cursor over a name and the tooltip box said somthing like, "Online time: 35423 days" anyone remember this picture? anyone got a link to it better yet?