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    Netflix versus Blockbuster

    Just curious here. For those that use Netflix, why? I've been a customer of Blockbuster's for several years now and have never had any major issues other than an occasional unreadable/scratched/cracked DVD. With their recent addition of being able to return the movies to a local store to...
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    Kids playing in the street

    OK, I have to get this off my chest. There is a family about 5 houses down my street that lets their kids do everything in the street (playing catch, skateboarding, drawing with chalk, etc.) while they are hanging out in the house. This morning, while driving back to my house, I was just...
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    Windows Server licenses

    OK, I'm so confused with this and no one that I talk to in our company seems to have the same answer. I work in the IT department of a hospital owned by a larger corporation. Our company has a deal with Microsoft that we pay an annual fee for basically free upgrades to the OS on the systems...
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    DVD Drive Question

    Will a standard DVD-ROM drive read Dual-Layer DVD disks? What about a single-layer DVD-RW drive? I need to buy a couple new drives for my systems. I need to replace the CD-RW with a DVD-RW drive on my server, add a DVD-RW drive to my desktop, and add a second drive (probably just a DVD-ROM)...
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    MSI K8N Neo - USB problems

    OK, hopefully this is the last question. I have my K8N NEO working now (thanks to the BIOS recovery and figuring out that the system wanted a PCI video card to accomplish that). Now my only problem at the moment is the internal USB port connections on the motherboard. The USB ports on the...
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    Nforce3 motherboard IDE problems

    I have a MSI K8N NEO that I finally got up and running, but I'm having problems with the IDE now. With a single hard drive in the system it seems to run fine. As soon as I add a second hard drive, it seems to work for a few minutes and then Explorer maxes the CPU usage out at 100%. I tried...
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    Messed up BIOS - any luck???

    OK, I received a RMA for my MSI K8N NEO FSR (MS7030-20) motherboard. Everything finally looked like was working good and everything booted up to Windows. Then their Live Update software said there was an updated BIOS, so I downloaded it, created the backup disks as recommended and ran the . I...
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    MSI K8N Neo

    OK, I'm about to scream here I purchased this motherboard back around Thanksgiving last year. It worked until around March and died (no power, nothing). I sent it for RMA and got another one and had nothing but problems. It would load windows, but I kept getting errors from the video card...
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    HTPC problems - need help

    I thought I would post this here in hopes of getting a larger number of responses to the problem. The original thread was over at htpcnews Basic summary: I've got a XGI Volari V3XT (128 MB version) that has gotten good reviews for it's TV out capabilities. It is running in the following...
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    K8N Neo Network Problems

    OK, I've been fighting this since I installed the system. It appears that the onboard NIC is crap! Trying to use the onboard nic, my network transfers are awful. I'm talking around 5 minutes to transfer a 20 MB file!!! I installed another 10/100 network card in the system and it works...
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    Power supply question

    I have an older case that came with a PII system installed. Will the power supply work with an AMD socket A motherboard? The power supply has a 20 pin power connector but also has the older "small" power connection. I've got a Duron 1.6 and a Soyo KT333 motherboard that I want to set up as my...
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    Abit AA8-Duramax

    I'm looking at building a new rig since my trusty BE6 motherboard and Celeron 1 Ghz crashed and burned. I'm currenlty relying on an old PII 400 system that I had laying around. Unfortunately, with money always on short supply, I am looking at getting to put the system together probably around...