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    Going from Audigy 2 to X-FI

    I believe Driver Cleaner Pro (free) will remove creative drivers as well
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    Switching OS & APPS to SATA Drive/Help?

    if you connect the SATA drive to the NVRaid ports (black ones usually) you should have no issue as they should be recognized as regular ports and not require any special drivers. Putting it on the Promise controller will become a headache and will the the ports you want to have your data drives...
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    multiple pc's for WoW?

    the only thing you can't do is log in at the same time
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    MCE... no discs to install

    The majority of top-tier retail PC manufacturers do restore partitions and do not provide cd's in the box. That part has not changed
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    MCE... no discs to install

    have your model, serial, and part numbers handy and call (800) 227-8164 between 5 AM and 5 PM Pacific Time, Monday thru Friday. cost is usually under $20 for the restore CD kit. Can't get too mad at them, HP buyers have the option of creating their own recovery media set when it's first...
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    Way to tell if your WoW accnt is online?

    phone?
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    Where is the cheapest place to buy retail full xp pro?

    licensing/activation/support details are different for OEM and retail versions.
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    Booting off a USB Floppy

    you may also want to download the Ultimate Boot CD and just do it that way. It has all the major HDD manufacturer's tools on it for you plus a lot of other handy stuff.
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    Upgrading Win98 to XP

    no, but there are other options such as running troublesome apps in compatibility mode as well as a dual-boot setup
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    UT2007 being released for PC first (at least a demo)

    not really, the Sony hype machine strikes again. source
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    It's OFFICAL, Nintendo's Revolution will be Less than $299!

    Nintendo has never sold a console at a loss and the Revolution will be no exception I'm sure
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    Worth putting a Raptor on a 66mhz bus?

    not recommended due to the heat the raptors can generate, especially in the passively-cooled cube. Put a 5400rpm drive in there (if they still exisit).
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    I can't believe the PS2 is capable of this...

    Nowhere did it say it was PS2. It's more likely that was Xbox footage since the trailer site is claiming it's HD and for that to happen, it'd need to be played on an Xbox
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    what is the difference in nfs most wanted, and it black ed. ?

    From EA: 2 Exclusive Vehicles - Get behind the wheel of a '67 Camaro, the only American classic in Need for Speed Most Wanted, and a specially-tuned BMW M3 GTR street machine right out of the box in Quick Race and Online modes. 8 Custom Rides - Eight specially-tuned rides with...
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    Any Funny Games Out There?

    Bard's Tale is great and very clever. If you have an Xbox, give it a rent.
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    Get XBOX to output 480p over component and 480i over SVideo...

    interesting... I think you're stuck unless your projector has a pass-thru video option and even then, I don't know if it would be able to do the down-conversion.
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    Is this the best around 30 inch LCD monitor I can get?

    It's meant to be used as an HDTV. and as dman stated, sitting 4-6 feet away from it the TV is beautiful (I own one and love it) It's a 32", btw.
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    Get XBOX to output 480p over component and 480i over SVideo...

    cannot be done since they're two completely different cables. You looking to put picture on two screens at the same time?
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    Windows Media Center Questions

    I don't know about the raw input, but I'm sure it's possible The recorded shows are in ms-dvr format which is just an mpg in a wrapper. They can be burned to DVD very easily, but as a data file; if you looking for something to just put in a regular DVD player to watch, you'll have to do some...
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    What are the best PS2 2 player CO-OP games...

    The Adventures of Cookie & Cream
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    Slipstream CD w/SATA Drivers and SATA ODD

    usually as long as the drive isn't on a RAID controller, just regular SATA, you should be ok.
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    Top 5 games of 2005

    Well, since it's a Games of 2005 list, BG2 doesn't qualify :)
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    Looking for small USB gamepad for laptop

    No, technically it's the Nostromo Speedpad n52 Belkin site Awesome accessory and works great for all games. All the keys can be programmed with regular keystrokes or set up to run macros.
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    *HTPC*

    the evga nvtv dual-tuner card is awesome and only takes up one slot
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    Sound card for HTPC

    That'll work perfectly :)
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    Sound card for HTPC

    I opted to buy a motherboard with digital out to make things easier. Depending on your processor, they can be had from ~$60 and up. The first HTPC I built in a mid tower case had a via chipset mobo that cost me about $60. When I decided to make a component style one for the living room...
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    POLL: XBOX360 People...

    720p>1080i
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    Xbox 360 - Window Media Center

    Text And it makes sense in a way, would probably be some licensing issues even though most have free licenses to be bundled in with the 360... like it or not, those are competitors to wmv format
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    Xbox 360 - Window Media Center

    360 will not play divx, xvid.
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    World of Warcraft backup question

    probably, there's been over 500mb of patches
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    World of Warcraft backup question

    Yep
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    what is the lowest price for nano now?

    Apple is pretty strict about price controls. 2GB are $199 and 4GB are $249. The closest thing you'll ever find in way of a deal is bundled goodies (free case, downloads, etc)
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    WoW Enchanting Question

    no
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    Question about WoW..

    no
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    Best "Create your own XP install CD" program...

    In the WinPE environment that OEM's use, there is a point in the process of creating the install image to make an answer file to preload Office and a couple of other MS-supported software programs that you dump on the cd's $OEM$ dir. It's a labor intensive process that you can see outlined...
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    Windows Repair Disk (CD or DVD)

    Text
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    Replace MOBO and do not reinstall the OS?

    If it's a replacement motherboard, then you should be ok. If it's an upgrade, you could always try a repair install, but that always seems to leave ghosts and isn't recommended
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    Need advice about Office OEM version

    OEM will still qualify for future upgrades. As far as I know, only the Student/Teacher edition does not qualify for future upgrades.
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    wow disconnection problem!

    Are you running any type of quest mod? I had that problem while running and old version of Cosmos. The tech support forums would say that you should enable full duplex on your NIC to try to help things out. Also deleting your WTF files would help for a while So it's either the mod or...
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    Help with new setup

    if you're going to be running 1GB+ of RAM, you'll be fine