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    Can't install win 7 64 bit on new drive

    Wow! after trying several scenarios of swapping sata ports I found when I connected my blu ray drive to sata 1 then the 2tb hdd on 2 and the vista drive on 3 I finally got it to boot into win 7 disk and loaded it onto my drive and got what I needed.
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    Can't install win 7 64 bit on new drive

    Sata has been in both and still can't get anywhere
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    Can't install win 7 64 bit on new drive

    I am currently running on a seagate 320 gb drive with vista 32bit and all is well. I wanted more storage and also wanted to move up to win 7 so I bought a seagate 2tb drive and a win 7 64bit (full version) disk to install on the new drive. I hooked up the new drive on sata 4 while my drive with...
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    Weird boot up after oc

    Hi I am a noob at oc and recently built a system with the following: p5be mb rev. 1.01G intel e6300 cpu bfg 7600gt oce vid card 2 - 1gb sticks of Corsair xms2 twin2x1024a-6400 memory According to reviews the components of this system are supposed to be great for overclocking. I was told one...
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    Help with usb pen drive

    Running win xp pro, wiring is all good, all drivers up to date
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    Help with usb pen drive

    This issue happens most of the time with my pc which is running win xp pro, P4 1.7ghz, 1gb ram. By most of the time I mean every once in a while it works fine. I'll plug the sandisk 512mb pen drive into the any usb port and I get the message "the disk in drive ? is not formatted would you like...
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    Any suggestions on knowledgable/reliable custom system builders?

    I guess if I was to build myself I would like to know what would be a reliable/fast and future upgradability mb. Of all the reviews on hardware I have read it gets very confusing when I'm just about to decide on a mb then read some negative comments. Would it be wise to purchase an SLI board if...
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    Any suggestions on knowledgable/reliable custom system builders?

    I am looking to have someone build a custom system. Any suggestions? Looking to spend about $1500 for system that is upgradeable for future, reliable and fast. Will run xp pro. Thanks
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    access to files and folders

    I know there is a way to allow access to all folders and files on my pc but have forgotten where to go to do it. I'm running Win xp pro. My virus scanner found a virus and I need to delete a file in C:\system volume information. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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    Backup file corrupted. Help!

    I was wondering if anyone has heard of a program that would "uncorrupt" a corrupted file on a floppy disk. Here's the problem, after reformating my hard drive and reloading all my apps I went to reload ms money 2003 and restore my backup file (about 4 years worth) from the floppy I had backed up...
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    Bad hard drive?

    I went into the bios again and just desperate to try anything I went to the IDE config and set a delay for the hdd. After it booted everything came back up. After a couple more reboots to make sure all data was there I went back into the bios and disabled the delay, booted and hdd came back up...
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    Bad hard drive?

    Just for the heck of it I tried a different power supply but same problem. Even though the os is win 2k and it won't let me boot from cd I tried booting from a win98 boot disk it wouldn't even try to access the floppy drive, but when I boot with my western digital lifeguard utility disk it will...
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    Bad hard drive?

    Okay here goes, I tried a different cable same results. I switched the cable to the secondary controller same results. I used my western digital utility on floppy and tested the hard drive the report indicated there were no errors on the drive and the drive was fine. I tried booting with the Win...
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    Bad hard drive?

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    Bad hard drive?

    My kids have a PC, P3 450 that they said was acting up so when I went to boot up I got a message during the boot process that no OS was found. I booted again and now all I get after the boot screen (showing the hard drive and 2 cd rom drives) is a black screen with a blinking cursor. I tried a...
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    directplay voice setup?

    The version of Direct X is 9.0 and yes the component is listed.
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    directplay voice setup?

    I have also updated my sound card drivers and updated my version of direct x, but still no change.
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    directplay voice setup?

    Thanks for the article, but still no progress. The article states: "This problem occurs because when you change the Audio Hardware Acceleration setting to None this removes the hardware-accelerated device from the list of possible devices. However, DSound continues to try and map to the device"...
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    directplay voice setup?

    On trying to set up voice recognition on win xp, within the sound audio devices properties I hit the voice tab and then the test hardware tab under voice recognition and get this message " An error occurred during directplay voice setup. The error code is 0x80004005." When I click ok I get...
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    Win xp pro boot disk

    Noggin it worked great thanks
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    Win xp pro boot disk

    Instead, open My Computer, right click the A: drive, select Format... and check "Create an MS-DOS startup disk." So this is the boot disk I would need to flash bios?
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    Win xp pro boot disk

    I want to flash my bios but need to make a boot disk for winxp pro. I've gone to different sites for info and some say I need to copy onto the floppy "ntdetect.com, ntldr, boot.ini". Some say use blank floppy right click A drive, format, click create startup disk (when viewing which files are...
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    HELP!!

    I am not able to even log on with the admin account. It won't take my password for some reason. Looks like I will have to reformat
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    HELP!!

    No, I tried logging on under my name that was already set up with admin rights and never had a problem before until I set up the extra limited user accounts.
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    HELP!!

    I recently built a pc for myself and gave my old one to my kids. From the kids pc (os is xp) I kept my administrator login the same and added 4 additional limited user accounts no problem. I then added passwords for the 4 limited user accounts. Once I did this I was unable to login as...
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    Can you install one copy of office on 2 pc's?

    I just built my second pc and tried installing office 2000 premium (which I paid a lot of $$$$$$ for) on it. When I went to activate it wouldn't allow saying it had already been registered on another pc (my first one). Are there any work arounds to this or am I stuck having to buy another copy...
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    Anyone purchase an ASUS P4S8X yet?

    I know this question has been asked numerous times on many different forums but there seems to be so many different opinions, If I return my P4s8X what is the best high end board (features, speed, reliability) out there?
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    Anyone purchase an ASUS P4S8X yet?

    I am building a pc using this board. I have read a lot of positive reviews on it until I read this article on extreme tech www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,582960,00.asp I would appreciate any feedback from people who have actually used the board and any comments you have on it. Thanks
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    Need help choosing a mb

    I've posted my questions to a few other forums also and after reading all the replies I will be making 2 changes. I'll be going with the P4S8X mb instead of the MSI KT4 and with the P4 2.53 mhz instead of the xp2400+. The review at motherboards.org on the P4S8X was pretty impressive along with...
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    Need help choosing a mb

    Great idea on the dedicated hdd. Thanks
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    Need help choosing a mb

    This is what I'm planning to purchase. I am still unsure about the mb. I've read some pretty negative articles about the KT400. Most articles I've read say to stay with the KT333. Am I wrong going with this board? Is there a faster and more stable board out there? Am I doing the right thing...