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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?

    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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    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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    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

    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)

    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

    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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    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

    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...