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    Stangest Problem I have Ever Seen

    This one has me puzzled, and I'd appreciate any light you folks can shed on it. Yesterday, my computer froze while I was attempting to unzip too many .rar archives at the same time (stupid work zips one pdf at a time into one archive...each pdf is one page...nice). So I manually shut down...
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    Computer won't load an OS unless it's on a CD

    Have. After running memtest, I've decided to RMA the mobo and the RAM, and hope it isn't the CPU (which it shouldn't be, but there's no telling). Hopefully this will lick the problem.
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    Computer won't load an OS unless it's on a CD

    I ran memtest with 4 different sticks of memory (2 from the initial machine, 2 older sticks I have) and it came bcak with a "Unexpected Interrupt - Halting" error each and every time, regardless of teh configuration. Can you give me any guidance as to what I should test next? I don't have the...
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    Computer won't load an OS unless it's on a CD

    I downloaded RC2 Vista with the intent of installing it and running it as my primary OS (now that there are Creative drivers for it). Prior to that, my BIOS had been having some strange problems with maintaining Boot Order. I would restart, and the system would return a "Cannot find NTLDR." I...
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    Trouble Installing Vista

    The kicker is, I've had Vista up on this machine already with complete success, and there is no new hardware. I have added nothing since then. I will try this solution, however, and report back.
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    Trouble Installing Vista

    Here's the sitch. Installing Vista RC1/2 (tried both) onto clean partition, first primary partition of a two partition drive. Initially it was one of five connected to the system (4 SATA and 1 PATA), however I eventually disconnected all others but the one. First run through in the...
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    Overclocking Performance Downgrade with A8N32SLI-DLX BIOS 1303?

    Thanks for the reply Ridsey. I downgraded to 1205, and am getting better OC performance with the new watercooling rig than I did before (at a higher bus).
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    Overclocking Performance Downgrade with A8N32SLI-DLX BIOS 1303?

    I just installed a new Watercooling system on my compute,r and took the opportunity to do a little housecleaning. I noticed a new BIOS on the ASUS site, and downloaded it to get everything up-to-date. This BIOS file has since disappeared from the ASUS site, which makes me wonder if I didn't...
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    "NTLDR is Missing" Error Message - Can't Solve Please Help

    Hey, sorry guys, thanks for your help. Just wanted to keep you interested ones in the loop, it was a bad stick of RAM from OCZ. RMA to the egg and we're set to jet. Great system and now paired with a Dell 2005FPW. I'm in heaven.
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    I DESPISE Apple

    Of all the things that suck, and that I absolutely abhor, (regarding computers), the greatest has to be when I want to do something, but I have to accept an evil to do it. If I want to run my game at 1680x1050, I have to disable 6xAA, if I want to overclock my processor, I have to cut down the...
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    "NTLDR is Missing" Error Message - Can't Solve Please Help

    I finished assembling my latest rig today. Specs: Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2GB OCZ Gold DDR500 Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe Powercolor X1900XT Aspire Dark Side 600W PSU MaxLine III 300GB SATA II Pioneer DVR-110D I put everything together, linkup keyboard, monitor and press the round button...
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    Wireless Network Connection Dropping

    Hey, I'm running XP SP2 and my wireless connection behaves in the following way: Connected (Signal Low) 11.0mb Connected (Low) 5.5mb Connected (Low) 2.0mb Connected (Low) 1.0mb Not Connected Acquiring Network Address Limited or No Connectivity Connected (Low) 11.0Mb (repeat) I...
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    Wireless Problem in XP - TCP/IP Bug?!?!?!?!

    OK, here's the deal - I had this same problem about a year ago on another system, and I talked to a friend about it and he burned me a disc that had an app on it that resolved the issue - only I don't have the disc anymore, I forgot what exactly was the problem/bug that caused this trouble, and...
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    Wireless Network Help

    Alright, one more try here.
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    Wireless Network Help

    TTT - anyone?
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    Wireless Network Help

    TTP - any ideas?
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    Wireless Network Help

    You guys know how it is...visit that parents house for the Father's Day weekend spend your last day doing what? - That's right, troubleshooting networks. Here's the deal: We've got a Cisco Aironet 1200 Series AP upstairs with three systems connected to the network. Last night one of...
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    GENERAL AIW problems!

    Did you make sure the ATIRW process was running? In order for the reomote to work the application has to be running - it doesn't operate automatically.
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    NEC FE991SB Thoughts ...

    Just as an update, I did pick it up and I just got it up and running and WOW...NEC monitors consistantly blow me away. Great buy. I recommend this monitor, even at the asking price of around 260.
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    NEC FE991SB Thoughts ...

    Yeah, I checked on the retail price before I even considered buying it (it is a new monitor), I was just wondering if there were any other great deals out there maybe just a little bit more.
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    NEC FE991SB Thoughts ...

    I've got a chance to buy an FE991SB (black) for about 160 bucks (plus tax) with no shipping...I already own a 17in version of this monitor. I know it is a little out-of-date, but in my experience these NEC monitors have been fantastic. Is 160+tax a good deal, or should I look for a better monitor?
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    What do you think of France's Role in the Revolutionary War?

    France, circa 1777. A scrappy little rebellion in the New World can't even get off its feet. France has a long-standing history with the enemy in this conflict, the British Empire. France decides to "help-out" the Rebellious brits at the cost of their traditinal enemy, for what certainly may...
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    Video Card

    If you can wait at all, I'd at least wait until X800XL's are available. All signs point to this card being a new kind of something, and driving prices down on cards like x800 Pro's where available (rumor has it the x800Pro's are to fall to the mainstream market in the place of the x700XT).
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    Mixing RAM Types

    BUMP
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    Mixing RAM Types

    Alright, on one of my "toy" PC's (actually it might be the one in the sig) I'm running 512 (256MBx2) of GeIL Golden Dragon PC3200 RAM in an A7N8X Deluxe mobo (Dual Channel, obviously). I know the nForce 2 was sensitive to mixing of memory types and speeds, and I'm wondering what you guys think...
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    Gmail Error Message...?

    "Oops...the system was unable to perform your operation. Plrease try again in a few second." GMail has been reporting that error to me for about thirty minutes now. Has anyone ever seen it before? (Moreover, is anyone seeing it now)?
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    169 Whales committ Suicide off New Zealand & Australia 11-30-04

    w00t! I'm an oxygen thief! Good work with that open-mindedness, though. I'm glad you're willing to consider all opinions and ideas.
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    169 Whales committ Suicide off New Zealand & Australia 11-30-04

    The whales are just trying to get attention. There is a distinct statistical relationship between positive reinforcement of an activity and the repetition of that activity. If you would quit helping the whales, they would quit beaching themselves. There's only one group to blame for this...
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    UN under Annan embraces sexual abuse

    The UN certainly does.
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    Is it pop or soda, damn it!

    It's called Coke, but I'm drinking Dr. Pepper. West Texas I'm under orders to kill anyone who says "pop."
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    Scratches on Monitor

    You made my day. Hilarious. I've read about using silicon gels/glues whatever that can make it appear as if there are no scratches. What's the score there? Good/Bad?
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    Scratches on Monitor

    Uh-oh. Scratches on Monitor. I have a system at home with a rather nice monitor (identical to the one I use, in fact an NEC Multisync FE791SB) which the children have managed to scratch up. You heard that right, scratch up. The scratches appear to be superficial - the layer that goes on...
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    Help playing a HDTV ".ts" file

    http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=.ts Not sure that's what you're looking for.
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    Dual Core Opteron Question

    I was just thinking about this, and I've currently got a 246 running on a 2P motherboard...and the Dual Core stuff looks *very* exciting, will it be possible to mix Dual Core and single core processors? To get something wicked like three physical cores! Haha! ... I can't think of a reason it...
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    Hard Drive Failure

    >>I did apply SP1a, the drive shows up in Disk Manager as "Unformatted" (or something along those lines). How much does Ontrack Recovery Pro Cost? Are there similar *free* programs avaialble?
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    Hard Drive Failure

    Alright, I am officially nervous. I just completed a clean install of XP Pro. Here is my drive structure: IDE0 Chan 1 - WD1200JB (Sys Drive) IDE0 Chan 2 - Hitachi 160GB Drive SATA0 - 80GB Maxtor The WD drive showed up fine, and I formatted the entire thing because I'm going to change my...
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    Why dual cores and not one single faster one?

    Dual Cores are a solution to every problem that befalls CPU manufacturers today. Process technology, thermal dissipation, gate leakage...it all. At least, that's what the CPU manufacturer's would have you believe. The truth is it's a band-aid, just like Hyperthreading is. It's getting harder...
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    Can this be done??

    >>Not even close. Do you have any idea how many billions of e-mails are sent each day alone? The NSA doesn't have the staff or the resources to intercept them all, and even if they did it's a statistical impossibility that any significant percentage of them will ever be read. Generally to...
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    939 pin processor in 940 pin socket

    One Word: AMPUTATE!!!!:laugh: