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    New build not booting, any ideas?

    Video Card?????
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    Staples chair

    My butt thanks you!!!!!!!!! Grumpy
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    IE8 causes only nav bar to load

    same here but not always. Maybe 80 percent.
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    Computer won't turn on

    This has nothing to do with your problem, but the screws that attach the motherboard to the case are missing accross the top of the board.
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    Incredibly Hot Logitech MX 1100 31.99 NEW! Free Shipping!

    It came today. Works well. Thanks
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    AMD Athlon X2 5000+ 2.2GHz Socket AM2+ AMD 785gm motherboard $114.99 free shipping

    I have put together 3 machines with this motherboard and the X2-550, I wanted the extra cash. Two of the machines unlocked and run fine. The third will unlock but is not stable. Blue screens in windows. All three overclock, two hit 3660 and the third will do 3900.
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    windows proablem

    I recieved aDell laptop that was loaded with trojans and spyware. After eliminateing the malware. THE COMPUTER WILL NOT ACCESS ALL SITES. Anand's front page the top banner will not come up and the left ad will not display. The other flash ads are fine. Google is a no go and other pages with...
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    Small personal Seti milestone...

    :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer: DaGrump
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    OT: Nasa's World Wind

    It is a very cool program, but a lot of the data is very outdated. The program did provide my neighbor and I a good laugh though. I printed him a map of his property, while he was examineing the map his wife walked up and said "Oh an aerial photo" at which point "I told her it was a satalite...
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    SETI: Alien Planet on DiscoveryHD

    That looks cool TheGrump
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    OT- Let's all Wish Smoke a Happy 65TH

    happy birthbay smoke :music::music::music: The Grump
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    Cool SETI milestone for me..

    Wahoo The Grump
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    Seti Race Stats and Milestones for 02/25

    Thank you DaGrump
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    A Short DC Survey

    I'm Drained The Grump
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    Cooling

    Try fan speed or Mother Board Monitor The Grump
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    AMD 64 and Seti

    The wife has a 2.4 P4 800FSB it cranks out 12 a day. My unlocked 2500+ running as a 3000+ 8 or 9 a day Dagrump
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    Happy Birthday to J. W. Middleton!!!

    60 been there done that have a good one Dagrump
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    rebooting problem

    Disable fast write under AGP settings in the BIOS, that sometimes helps. The Grump
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    Having crash problem with SETI <solved>

    I had a similar proablem with two of my machines. Both machines would reboot at the same time in the SETI process. Just after sending a WU and starting the next, after the first report of estimated time both machines would reboot. Microsoft most of the time would report a driver proablem usually...
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    Old Hardware

    A 230 MB Fujitsu MO Drive and an 8 year old Gateway Anykey keyboard The Grump:D
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    Post but can't get into BIOS- PLS Help guys

    Whenever I build a new system the first thing I do is test the motherboard. On the workbench power supply motherboard on the antistatic bag it came in, one stick of ram and the video card connected to the monitor. If the board boots and gets to bios then and only then do I mount the board in the...
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    Stupid mistake of the day...

    It is very simple. Heat shrink tume is avalible at radio shack. Very cheap. It is hollow, flexible, plastic tubing and when heated shrinks tightly around what ever it is put around. All you have to do is cut off a piece with scissors slide it over the wire re connect the wire slide the tube over...
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    Stupid mistake of the day...

    Cut the burned wire. slide a piece of heat shrink tubing, a little longer then the exposed wire, over the exposed wire. splice the cut you made, and pull the tubing over the exposed wire and heat the tubing to shrink it in place. As for a new floppy drive I like Teac. What ever brand you use...
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    System is going to have a black case, my CDRW and DVD are beige bezeled

    The Viper is correct Krylon fusion is terrific. It won't peal off glossy plastic . The Grump
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    The day the dually died.

    It's Alive It's alive Dagrump
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    The BX System that simply won't quit! Anyone else?

    Abit BX6 Rev2 running a P3 700MHz @ 966MHz 500MB of RAM & a voodoo 5500. It just sits hear cranking out 4 SETI WU a day. The Grump
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    Decent 19" monitor under $250 shipped?

    Last time I was at Sam's Club, they had a Samsung for under $200. The Grump
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    Is there an convenient adapter to run PCMCIA cards on a desktop?

    I have one I used for an old Kodak digital camera. However it fits in an ISA slot. You can have it for the shipping cost. The Grump PS; Lexar used to make a USB photo card reader that took PCMCIA cards Model GS-UFD-20SA-TP
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    Ah Crap

    I was just testing on the bench. No speaker attached. Did all the usual seating and reseating. The board has a bad conection somewhere if you twist the board a little it will post. I will play with the board tomorrow. Just set up the old BX6 Rev2 700Mhz @ 935. I need to go deworm a couple of...
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    Ah Crap

    Lost two motherboards over the weekend. A Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus running a 2100 Palomino and my spare an Asus A7V333 which was a replacement from Asus for a customers machine. The ^#^%#^% thing seems to boot but no video. So I guess its of to E-Bay to find an el-cheepo motherboard. The Grump
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    SETI: dagrump hit 500 today.

    Thank you - Thank you- Thank you The Grump
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    Need to upgrade my USB to 2.0~~

    $27 bucks and change at Wal-Mart. Four external and one internel. Just upgraded the wifes machine. Her machine uses the same motherboard you have. It works well. DaGrump
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    Need info on Scanners

    I have had two Epson scanners, both with slide adapters and they both have done a fine job. Before the Epson's I had a couple of HP's both crappy on transparencies. My brother has a canon and is OK but not as good as either of my Epson's. The Grump
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    The $8800 desktop (no monitor for this bargain)

    But you get a T-Shirt The Grump
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    Iomega Click of Death - Can I re-use ZIP disks?

    The bad news. The disks are usually toast. The good news. Disk makers have always replaced mine. The Grump
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    17" Lcd for less than $500

    Go to your local Wal-Mart and get the 17" KDS for $399. The Grump