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    dual channel caused instability story

    I just upgraded to 2GB RAM. Everything was going good for a couple hours until I started getting crashes. Hmmm, maybe my new stick of RAM was bad. Tested that, and it was fine in memtest. Could it have been my overclock? What about the DIMM slot? After 2 hours of troubleshooting, I...
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    Some free stuff for you ATI guys

    http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/ FREE STEAM® GAMES FOR ALL ATI RADEON? GRAPHICS CARD OWNERS May 30, 2007 - Valve®, a leading entertainment and technology studio, today announced plans to deliver free games to all owners of ATI RadeonTM graphics cards via Steam, a leading online...
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    Getting a savedump/bugcheck error

    What is this? I was playing cs source today and the system rebooted. I checked event viewer and found this log: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000009c (0x00000004, 0x80545ff0, 0xb2000000, 0x00070f0f). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini022306...
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    *GASP* X1600XT finally sighted in etail

    X1600XT finally made it to etail for US on Dec 6th. This is the Powercolor version and costs $179 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814131317
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    its Dec 1st, where is X1600XT?

    ATI, bad bad bad. Said it would ship the 30th of november, but i've seen nothing on it yet
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    About 128MB cards playing BF2...

    Ok. So i have 1GB RAM, Geforce 6600GT 128 AGP and Sempron 2200+ @ 1.78GHz 396MHz FSB I play on medium settings, 1024 res and get around 40fps average, which i dont mind at all, tho it would be nice to get some more fps. I set my AGP Aperture to 128MB, so now the game takes even more system...
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    trying to overclock, some minor set backs

    Trying to get the most out of my Sempron 2200+ 1.5ghz proc before i do a overhaul. Im using that chip with a Biostar M7NCD motherboard. I set the bios options to auto memory, auto agp, and fsb to 200 from the 166 it was at. Didnt work. The computer keeps running after saving the bios, but the...
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    CD rom drive installation problem

    Hi. I built a pc about 2 months ago with a 52x cdrw drive. I didnt really have any problem installing games or burning to cd, but now im trying to install visual basic .net, with the 6 cds. the installation starts, but after about a minute the cd rom stops spinning and it just stops so the...
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    FX 5500 vid card prob

    I recently installed a 5500 AGP card into my system, but some things are questionable. I uninstalled the ATI drivers and used driver cleaner. I then installed the 66.92 drivers. I benchmaked 3DMark 2001 just fine, and got just about the right numbers for this card (7000+). When i benchmark 2003...
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    Goddamn it, networking prob

    Ok, i used to connect to the internet through a cable modem using USB. I have my new pc built so we have 2 pcs now. Im trying to get the network set up...I installed the NIC, plugged everything in easily. The internet (WAN) is connected as well as the LAN. But when i configure it the WAN has no...
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    Need help connecting IDE cable to CD and Hard Drives

    does it matter which end of the 40 pin cable goes into the mobo and into the drives? Want to connect a HD and CD drive sharing one cable, master and slave. But i can only fit it if i use the longer part of cable, with the connector in middle of cable and connector at end. If not i can move the...
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    Question about connecting w/ IDE

    does it matter which end of the 40 pin cable goes into the mobo and into the drives? Want to connect a HD and CD drive sharing one cable, master and slave. But i can only fit it if i use the longer part of cable, with the connector in middle of cable and connector at end.