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    XFX 7800GT Fan Not Needed?

    So, I've just finished building my new budget dream system which is damn quiet, and I look at new XFX card and notice that the fan only runs intermittently unless the card is under a heavy graphics load. This is new territory for me as I have never seen a top of the line card not need constant...
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    (Please Read) Knowledge of the World

    Ok, I am currently writing what is turning into as much a research paper as a comparison of politial theory in two books and I need some input from the general population. Essentially the two books boil down to differing views on who holds the power in our government. One book written in the...
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    HDD issues

    I've been attempting to replace an old system's hdd with a new western digitial drive. When the drive is in the system, it will not recognize it in bios, no matter if its primary, secondary, or whether or not the jumpers are set to primary, secondary or cable select. The sytem is an old K6 box...
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    New to Overclocking

    Since I've finally finished up my work via telnetting into my job. I can now afford to take some of the kid gloves off when dealing with my system. My system specs are in the sig and I'd like to know where to start when ocing. Any help would be appreciated.
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    Unable to Renew IP address

    After having my neo2 Plat mobo for only a few weeks and having no real issues, now a few have popped up. The one that is really starting to anger me is the nVidia networking port. Originally this was my connection to the outside world since this has the nVidia firewall built in. Then after...
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    NVidia nForce Networking Issue

    As of today, I can no longer connect to the internet with my nVidia nForce network connection on my nForce3 mobo. For the past two weeks or so I have had no issues with it, but when I started my computer up this afternoon, I could not connect to the internet. After rebooting my router and also...
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    FDD issues

    Ok, over Christmas I upgraded to a Athlon64 system. I have the MSI K8N Neo2 Plat mobo and a 3200 proc. What I can't figure out is what's going on with my floppy drive. I hadn't needed to use it until now, but windows cannot find it. I know I used the drive during the install to put the RAID...
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    HDD Crapping Out?

    I have this IBM deskstar drive and it has worked fine for 2-3 years. Recently I was attempting to reinstall windowsXP on the system, and I could not get through the format phase of install. I then took the drive and put it on another system and while it would recognize and allow access to the...
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    Neo2 Platnum included software issue

    Ok, I cannot really compain about any issues with the performance of my system, but there are a few little nagging things that I'd like to get taken care of. Mainly after a restart, my NVidia RAID mananger has had a problem and needs to be shut down. Also on a restart, Core Cell will give me...
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    Lovely Blue Screen of Death on Winders install

    I recently gutted my old athlon system for parts for my new Athlon64 system. The athlon64 is up and running well, but I'm having issues with the old system. Initially I had install issues with the MSI K7N Delta ILSR board, but for the last year and a half or so, i've done half an dozen...
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    Benchmarking on 64 bit system

    I've just upgraded to a 64 bit system and started doing some benchmarking on the default settings. I have the same 9800 pro video card, but the ram, mobo, and processor are all new. I was running the card on a athlon 2600+ system with 167Mhz FSB and 1GB dual channel DDR 333 ram. I am now...