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    How does vista handle 2 sound cards?

    long story short - havent been able to get spdif and headphone out to work at the same time after installing vista 64. I have a realtek onboard solution (p5k-e) that has spdif Just wanted to know if I can get a workaround by getting another sound card and therefore vista will output...
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    Does this excel formula exist?

    Hey, I'm trying to find something that can help me collaborate two excel colums into some meaningful data. Only problem is that my name list is not exactly the same so is there a formula that searches partial matches? eg. I know about the "MATCH" and "VLOOKUP" function but that only works...
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    Asus AI suite sucks crap

    Ive always been reading that the hardcore overclockers never touch software tools that do the same and always stick to the bios. but for those that want to save power / lower noise wouldnt it be useful to have the cpu underclocked for general use and then overclocked when gaming / tasking...
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    killawatt

    im interested in getting a killawatt device problem is that Im in australia according to the specifications of the killawatt device - it only supports 115v? just want to know if i'll blow the thing up if I plug a 240v device in it the next problem is where to buy one or if there are...
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    socket 479 upgrade

    got a ibm r50e and using cpuz checked that it has a 1.4ghz celeron M socket 479 cpu. however after checking on ebay 99% of potential upgrade cpu's are socket 478 (according to the intel spec finder site (after putting in the code) what gives? were there really few socket 479 cpu's around...
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    Celeron Core 2 available?

    just spotted this down under (australia) http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/default.php?page=1&cPath=27_28 Celeron D420 1.6 ghz 800fsb 512kb cache (ouch! or does it matter?) thought it might be a good option for overclocking at least until the july price drops when it will be cheap to...
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    killer usb ports?

    is this even possible? running a s939 athlon with an abit av8 mobo 1st mouse turns on and off whenever it feels like it (microsoft intellimouse 5button) 2nd mouse same thing (intellimouse v4.0) 3rd mouse totally dead (intellimouse v1.1) 4th mouse just died - totally off (generic laptop...
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    software able to rewrite or recompile a haywire MBR on a usb HDD?

    Acronis director suite among others is able to do it but only for fixed drives i think. I have an ipod that for some reason has decided to "downgrade" itself to 16gb when in fact it is a 40gb drive. Haven't been able to find anything that is able to correct the MBR error
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    tool for corectly formatting a usb disk? (corrupted MBR)

    my ipod somehow got incorrectly reformatted as 15.9gb instead of the actual 40gb been trawling the net for ages in trying to find a tool that can delete all partitions on a usb drive and recreate it again most of the tools found dont support usb disks
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    Formatting problem

    well long story short ipod crapped itself (no surprise there) I think it overheated cause I had it in my car anyways - it wouldnt even turn on for 2 days but now it does but on windows and itunes it says it needs to be formatted I griped at that cause I had to restore all my music but I...
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    Ipod connection issue

    I got a 4g 40gig ipod and for some reason the damn thing no longer detects in windows usually it detects and then I can run itunes or winamp or whatever to add songs -- cant do that anymore however it still charges, what the hell is wrong? btw I have a dual firewire/usb type cable...
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    albratron AGP -PCI-E adapter

    http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/news/news_detail.asp?news_id=167 if there was no performance leak and didnt cost more than $15 it could prove useful
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    Limits of AGP/PCI bus??

    Anybody know of the highest stable AGP/PCI bus configuration I have someone that claims 82mhz agp 41mhz PCI .... stable -- edit: just checked 41 not 40 :| water cooling / x800pro sounds a bit suss to me since mine wont boot past 70mhz or so for the AGP (9800)
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    Possible SLI combinations

    I did a quick read back at anands article on possible SLI combinations -- it stated that identical GPU's must be used -- eg. 6600gt + 6800 = no go but can a 6800gt + 6800 ultra be combo'ed together??? the performance of the ultra will be throttled to GT speeds? what about a 6800NU +...
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    custom ramsinks -- how to?

    I was thinking of getting some ramsinks for my ddr ram but they all look so puny and useless I was thinking of making some of my own with some flat aluminium bars that I have -- they are about 1cm thick -- think of aluminium rulers the question is, all the ram sinks that I see use "thermal...
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    Abit Av8 owners

    I asked in the general hardware section and someone who had an asus board told me to 1) enable cool & quiet in bios --- done 2) enable acpi 2.0 --- where is this? cant find it in the abit bios 3) install the cool& quiet driver -- which one? the one from abit (v1.101) or from AMD...
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    AMD cool n' quiet FAQ

    I've got the abit av8 s939 withe the latest v17 bios I've read on the amd site on how to enable cool&quiet but it doesn't seem to work for me the steps were 1) enable in bios -- done 2) install driver -- v 1.1.0.14? done 3) enable minimum power requirement in control panel --- done...
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    Main rig dead -- please help -- updated + pics

    Today, just got a new cpu fan so I thought I'd clean the case of dust too... took out the vid card to blow with air.... reassembled everything and it doesn't post anymore :( sometimes it powers on but doesn't show anything on screen -- no noises though eg. no bios beep sometimes it doesn't...
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    PSU modding?

    I see plenty of hot swap PSU's on ebay from compaq / ibm servers that are 500w+ rated these are old skool and should be reliable no? only problem being the connector is not std ATX so would it be possible to hack one open and then change over the wires with an existing psu? Dangerous? I...
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    Testing how many watts my sytem is using?

    In a couple of the new reviews that are here I see that there are power requirement graphs that show how much wattage a compter is pulling; eg. confirms that precotts pull the most power i was wondering how this can be tested and if I could do the same to my system are these tests software...
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    Is this a viable network setup?

    I would like to ask if it's possible to connect 2 pc's downstairs to 2 pc's upstairs via a wireless network The catch is that I hope not to use any switches or access points At the moment upstairs and downstairs are not linked but each floor is already hardwired with crossover 100mbps ** If I...