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    Windows Boot Woes

    I recently wiped out my C:\ partition. Apparently, this is where my two different windows installs (F: and H:) were looking for boot information. Thus, I cannot boot after deleting this partition. I have copied ntldr, ntdetect.com, and my old boot.ini to the root of all my partitions. I...
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    how to print to 32-bit Windows server 2003 from 64-bit XP?

    Seems like you would need 64 bit drivers on the clients and 32 bit drivers on the server. But will they talk to each other? Who knows...
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    HP Printer "Drivers"

    I am sitting here at a customer's house "installing" their hp printer. It took me all of 5 minutes to take it out of the box, connect it, set the date and time, etc. I started their cd install about an hour and a half ago, but it failed, froze, uninstalled itself, and now I started it again...
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    Win2k SCSI boot drive setup

    I did a Win2k install and hit F6 and loaded drivers for the AIC-7890a SCSI card. The drive on it was detected, I formatted it NTFS (ugh no quick format!) and installed windows. It all installed, rebooted to finish installing, then rebooted again. During the boot process, it does the black and...
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    Wake on Lan on A8N-SLI Deluxe?

    I am trying to turn on multiple computers with A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboards from the network. I have enabled wake on PCI device and wake on modem in the bios. I have network cables connected to both the Marvell and Nvidia ethernet controllers to a gigabit switch. When the computers are off...
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    FC3 Boot problem

    I have 2 computers with shuttle AK32V v3.1 motherboards, xp2400 procs, whatever ram. Computer A is a boot server. Computer B is a diskless boot client. I installed FC3 with a PCI trident video card in computer A, but it hung on boot after "Initializing hardware... storage network audio". I...
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    Free Big Mac at McDonalds after 10PM

    I saw a commercial saying that to celebrate McDonalds being open later, they are giving away free Big Macs after 10PM. You have to at least make a purchase. I am not sure on the exact details, but I asked for a #3 and a free big mac and they gave it to me. Hot? :)
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    Doom 3 Expansion does not run on Server 2003

    I am running Windows XP Pro x64 edition which is basically Server 2003. Doom 3 installed with no problems, but the Doom 3 expansion complains that I do not have 2000 or XP. WTF? What can I do?
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    How does this DVI splitter work?

    http://svc.com/dvi-2vgasplit.html
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    Firefox uses floppy to download

    Once upon a time I downloaded a file using "Save as" in firefox and saved it to a floppy. Ever since then, any time I download anything anywhere (defaults to desktop), I get disk access on my floppy (making firefox wait a long time) and firefox refuses to download without a floppy in the floppy...
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    Quick BSOD flash and restart

    This is on Windows XP SP2. After a very puzzling conflict with a bad PCI 1394 card that I have eliminated, I thought that my aggravating troubles were over, but they are not. I occasionally get a quick Blue Screen Of Death that flashes then reboots my computer. Upon restarting, it tells me...
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    Onboard Audio causes crash

    My friend has a computer with the following specs: Power Magic 550W PS (really light, but can power my large computer) Syntax SV400 Mobo (what a piece, you have never heard of it.) AXP2600+ T-bred 512MB Corsair PC2700 Geforce FX5600XT 1x hd 1x cd-rw Soooo the computer reboots randomly...
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    Help! Machine check exception

    WinXP Pro MSI Neo-FSR A64 2800 ClawHammer 2x512 Kingston PC3200 PNY FX5900U PCI 1394 2xPATA HD My computer magically stopped working. Only way of fixing it was by replacing the motherboard with a new one. In the process some of the pins on my processor may have been bent. That is the...
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    Several strange computer issues, will not boot now.

    I turned on my computer this morning. Everything turned on for about 1/4 of a second and turned off. Tried unplugging things but that's all I could get it to do. Same as when I blew a power supply last time. I bought an Aspire 500W PS. Did the same thing. Then I noticed I accidentally...
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    Shadow bugs

    PNY 5900U flashed to 5950 K8T Neo FSR A64 2800+ 2x512 Kingston PC3200 Using the 61.77 drivers, when I installed and ran far cry with default settings, all I got was a world full of blue fog where I could only see things if I was right next to them. I have had this happen to me before with Star...
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    17" CRT Recommendations

    My Dell D1025TM died friday. I went to frys saturday and bought a refurbished ViewSonic A90f+ for $180. That was NOT fun getting up the stairs, and I had to move my desk forward from the wall because it is so big. The image looks blurry, and in the upper left the blue looks like it is not...
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    Laptop / Docking Station with Monitor

    I have a Compaq Armada 7400 with a docking station with a Presario MV700 montor plugged into the VGA port. For some reason, 2 monitors show up in the device manager (LCD and VGA?). I cannot change the refresh rate of either of them. They both show 'use hardware default' as the only refresh...
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    Cricket in my Compaq Armada 7400

    I have a Compaq Armada 7400 with the big old docking station here at work. My coworker decided to run some random spyware removal program from download.com, which actually had reviews saying it destroyed windows 95 computers. He didn't read those reviews, and it destroyed our windows 95...
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    Opening files slow

    I usually download files to the desktop. I expand files to the desktop. I copy files to and from the desktop. So my desktop folder sees a lot of traffic. Does this cause speed problems? At this point, when I open a jpeg from the desktop in IE, it takes about 10 seconds to load it, where it...
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    Dell XP Restore CD

    My sister has some Dell laptop, fairly new. She messed something up and the computer is now FUBAR. She says she talked to Dell and they won't give her a restore CD or fix it for free. A repair place wants to charge $120 to fix it. Was there an XP install cd included with the laptop? She...
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    Noise while scrolling windows

    When I scroll up and down (mainly in IE) i get a sort of clicking noise. It's not from the system speaker, because I disconnected that and I still get the noise. It's not from the speakers because I disconnected them and I still get the noise. What I JUST realized is that there is a speaker...
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    4x? 8x? Whatx?

    My system: MSI K7T266 Pro2-A (4x agp) T-bred 2100+ (133mhz fsb. crashes at 136) 512MB PC2100 ("Legacy electronics," thus above fsb) PNY FX5900U flashed to 5950U (at stock speeds, 475/950) Um. Games don't run as fast as I would have expected. In NFS Underground with full settings I get a...
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    802.11b PCI vs USB reception

    I currently have a D-Link wireless-b PCI card connecting to a 2-Wire router. Unfortunately my room setup makes the antenna face away from the router, as well as having to go through about 4 walls to get to the router. In most cases, the reception is about 67% according to D-Link's utility, and...
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    Issues with (corrupt?) files on an NTFS drive

    I have several files on my backup drive that I believe have become corrupt. They used to be executable installers, but are now DOS programs which do nothing, and are believed to be constantly in use by Windows. Files are: 43.45_win2kxp_english hlsw_1_0_0_setup wrar311 Installers, drivers, etc...
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    Corsair ram in cpu-z

    I just got some of the PC2700 Corsair value memory. It came in the Corsair package with the Corsair sticker on it and its all labelled right. I am just worried because no brand at all shows in CPU-Z. It just shows as 512MB PC2700 (which is what it is supposed to be.) I haven't had time to...
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    CD access causes static

    Whenever there is lots of access to my toshiba SD-R5112 DVD-RW (reading or writing), the sound out from my philips PSC703 sound card gets riddled in static and gets kinda echo-ey. I tried removing the card and using my msi (something pro-2?) motherboard's built-in AC97 sound, but the problem...