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    What video card should my friend get for his new (old) system?

    I'm guessing the upper limit would be about $175
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    What video card should my friend get for his new (old) system?

    I think it would probably be most accurate to say he's a casual gamer. He'd like to play some of the newer games, but definitely doesn't need to run them at 1600x1200 with 4x AA. The system doesn't have a video card with it at all, but I believe he could get his hands on a 7600GS for very...
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    What video card should my friend get for his new (old) system?

    A friend of mine is going to be receiving a hand-me-down system in a week or two, and he's asked me for advice on what sort of video card to buy. The system has an athlon 64 3200+ and a gig of RAM, and it will need an AGP video card. I just want to make sure he doesn't spend too much money on a...
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    Windows XP Audio Question

    My question is pretty simple: I just bought some new speakers, but the cord lengths are all messed up and I have to have the left on the right and vice versa. Is there any way to--through windows--reverse the stereo?
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    My hard drive won't delete things?

    Thank you everyone for your responses! I'll do this as soon as I get home.
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    My hard drive won't delete things?

    So the other day I was running norton speeddisk to try to optimize my 120gb hard drive. I was using that because the windows defrag program often left tons of my files fragmented. If I remember correctly, I let the program run for a while, then I stopped it to play a game or something, and later...
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    Mobile XP overheating woes

    So I recently got my 35 watt 2400+ from newegg, and of course decided to see how far I could go with it. System: NF7-S rev 2.0 1 Gigabyte pc3200 corsair value RAM Athlon mobile xp 2400+ (35 watt version) Antec 350 watt PSU with 2 fans AX-7 HSF with an 80mm high performance panaflo fan 4 80mm...
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    Big difference between idle/load temps normal?

    Well, I just started overclocking an old xp 1700+, and it idles around 40-41 and gets up to 49 when doing a prime95 stress test. This is using an AX-7, I think, and an 80mm panaflo fan. It seems pretty normal to me.
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    Windows won't load

    Just in case anyone's curious, I think I found out where the problem was. It was the motherboard. The only reason I know this is because I took everything out of my broken computer, put it on a different mobo and it works fine. Good bye, $100 motherboard : ( Looks like I'll be getting a new one...
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    Windows won't load

    Is this a hard drive thing? I tried doing the windows installation once with only one of my hard drives connected and the second time with the other, and both times it didn't work. Damn this is annoying.
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    Windows won't load

    I found that same information. Like I said, EVERYTHING except cpu, ram, hard drive and video card were disconnected. The problem with disabling mup.sys with the recovery console is that the windows set up doesn't go far enough to let me select that option. It loads all the files it needs, says...
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    Windows won't load

    Ahh, computer woes. This is what happened: while I was gone, my brother was using my computer, apparently not doing anything specific. He leaves it on over night, and the next morning the thing's frozen. He resets it, but windows won't load. When you try to start windows in safe mode, it gets...
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    problem installing XP

    I didn't leave the 30 gig as a master. It was the slave before. And I switched the jumper on the 30 gig to the 'master/single drive' setting, so it doesn't seem like there's a specific one for just single drive. Maybe I should try it on cable select? Although that seems like something that so...
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    Where can I order computer parts in Europe?

    Just in case anyone's in a similar situation as me and wants to order things in Austria, check out the website www.geizhals.at. It's pretty much the same idea as pricewatch and resellerratings put into one. There are also customer reviews of the product you're buying. Really great site.
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    Where can I order computer parts in Europe?

    Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I hope if I buy from some of those stores that shipping won't be too much. I'm currently in Austria as a part of exchange program my high school has with the Gymnasium here. A sort of study abroad thing. 6 came from America to Austria, and I'm not sure how...
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    Where can I order computer parts in Europe?

    Does anyone know a few good European websites that I could use to order computer parts? I'm thinking something along the lines of newegg, or even something like pricewatch, except based in Europe. See, I'm spending a year here in Austria, and my host brother recently brought home a computer...
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    problem installing XP

    Thanks for the post, alm4rr, but none of those methods worked. It doesn't even seem like it's hanging up at varifying dmi pool data, but directly after it, when it should be booting from the hard drive. Windows 2000 was on the machine before, but on a different hard drive (the broken one)...
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    problem installing XP

    The system wasn't working fine before, according to my brother. He didn't give specifics, but the computer was acting bad enough that he went out and bought a new one. If the CD I'm using is bootable, it's doing a pretty good job of pretending it isn't. Unfortunately I've only got a burned...
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    problem installing XP

    See, it's the damndest thing, when I restart it doesn't say ANYTHING. It just hangs up when it gets to "Varifying DMI Pool Data........." and doesn't even pretend to try to read the hard drive. For the record, there's 256 megs of ram. My boot sequence depends on what I'm trying to do. It seems...
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    problem installing XP

    This will be really short for now, because I have to get to class, but I'm trying to install XP on an old 500 mhz celeron, and it's not working. The first part of the setup runs, but after it tells me to take out the CD or any floppy and I reboot, it doesn't load into the setup program. I had to...
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    Everything is going to hell (things randomly stop working)

    Well, it seems like I might've been making a lot out of nothing. Stupidly, I hadn't put any anti-virus software on this new hard drive and new install of windows, but when I swapped the hard drive into my brother's computer, Norton went wild. Apparently I had a virus called PINF, or something...
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    Everything is going to hell (things randomly stop working)

    I'm really baffled about what's going on with my computer. A few weeks ago, my lone hard drive (I had a second, but it crashed), started making overly loud noises, and around the same time, a few things stopped working. For example, I couldn't join any Internet quake3 game without windows...
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    Problem with a lite-on burner

    What's an ASPI layer?
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    Problem with a lite-on burner

    My 52x24x52 lite-on burner can burn just fine, but it doesn't seem to be able to read CDs very well. It spins up, reads for a little bit, and then it tries to spin up again. It won't stay spinning it seems. Does anyone know why it could be doing this or how I would fix it?
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    Problem with AGP on brand new 8RDA+

    I really don't know if this would help out at all, but could having 8x agp enabled in the bios make older cards not work? I mean, it's worth a shot to try turning it off.
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    Recommend a good budget motherboard

    I've already got a 256Mb stick of DDR ram for that computer, so a motherboard that supports it would be necessary.
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    Recommend a good budget motherboard

    I need to replace a motherboard in my parents' computer, but I certainly don't want anything too fancy. They do not game, don't do any intensive stuff, and certainly don't plan on overclocking it. If any of you know of some good, stable (must be very stable) motherboards for an athlon xp, then...
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    I have two dead computers, and I'm looking for help

    It doesn't seem like the PSU is dead, unless the fans would start up and a light on the motherboard would light up with a dead power supply. I guess I'll just have to get a new motherboard, which really isn't too big of a deal.
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    I have two dead computers, and I'm looking for help

    The pattern is just beep pause beep pause over and over again.
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    I have two dead computers, and I'm looking for help

    I never used their power supply for my computer. Also, my computer only started failing directly after I jammed that stick of ram in there too hard. Is there any chance all my ram got fried somehow, instead of it being the motherboard's fault (or maybe as a result of what I did to the motherboard)?
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    I have two dead computers, and I'm looking for help

    I built my parents' computer, and it has (had) very similar specs to mine. Athlon xp 1700, my old geforce 2, sblive, and 256 megs of pc2100 ram from crucial. I doubt I could've installed the ram backwards, as it's DDR. At this point I just want some way to know what exactly is broken so I can...
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    I have two dead computers, and I'm looking for help

    It seems like my motherboard just has one beep code: it's one long beep, pause, one long beep, pause over and over again. I really hope the motherboard is the only thing broken, as I hate it.
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    I have two dead computers, and I'm looking for help

    My parents' computer stopped working out of the blue, so I decided to swap out some parts (from my computer) to figure out what was wrong with it. Eventually I decided it was most likely the motherboard. That's the first dead computer. The second one, mine, died shortly after the testing, and...
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    Help! My shuttle ak31 motherboard is broken!

    About a week ago, the computer my parents uses just stopped working. My mom turned it on, and instead of the nice bootup screen, the monitor remained black and after a pause there was a long beeping sound. The sound repeats itself periodically. I've tried lots of stuff already. I disconnected...