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    Video card woes

    Old card: MSI Radeon RX9800 Pro (AGP) New card: BFG 6800 OC 128MB (AGP) OK, so here's what happened. I got the 6800 and installed it, booted up Windows fine and everything, but my PC was crashing in BF2 and now Black and White 2, with weird texture errors. I talked to BFG a few times and...
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    RAID disappeared from Windows

    I updated my motherboard's BIOS to 1.09 and now when I log on to Windows, I'm asked to install drivers for my RAID controller and my G: (RAID 1) doesn't show up in My Computer. I went to Disk Management and the drives aren't even there. When booting, the RAID screen shows up and seems to...
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    Thread 50,000

    Well this is the 50,000th thread in this forum...just want to say thanks to all the people who have helped me out here with random stuff. This is a great site.
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    Vonage + Apache

    So I run Apache on my PC. Since I got Vonage, and my internet connection goes through my new Linksys VoIP router, it's not working. I get 401 errors. How can I set up my router (which I know how to log in to) so that it will let Apache through and let people download from me via HTTP? Thanks.
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    X-Fi XM rear speakers sound funny

    So I just got an X-Fi XtremeMusic and hooked it up to my Dell 5.1 (from woot.com, I don't have a Dell) speakers. When playing music, the sound coming out of the rear speakers sounds distorted, almost like it is getting the signal for the subwoofer. If I switch the 3.5mm jacks for the center/sw...
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    Is my video card dead?

    So I'm in safe mode right now...I was playing BF2 earlier and all of a sudden, my screen went all screwed-up looking. I don't know a better way to explain it, but maybe this screenshot will help. My first thought was, Oh crap, my video card. So I rebooted and Windows was fine, so I thought...
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    HDDs + GPU etc. on one PSU chain

    I have an X-Connect 400W, and afaik it has only one 12V rail (I don't really know what that means but I read it somewhere, ha). So anyway, I am trying to work out how to make the cabling in my case more organized, since recently adding two SATA drives. My question is this: does it make a...
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    HDD jumper settings

    Manual for my HDD (Samsung SP1614N) I just looked, and there's only one jumper, set to GH. The drive had previously been IDE 1 (as opposed to IDE 0) master with a slave HDD but I removed the slave HDD from my system and it still works fine. I want to put the drive as IDE 0 slave (with DVD...
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    New RAID array doesn't show up in Windows

    I just set up a RAID 1 array of 2 80gb Seagates. It doesn't show up in Windows though. I'm presuming this is because I have GRUB installed and it isn't mounting the array when I boot Windows. The first thing I need to do with the RAID array is back up stuff from my IDE C: drive so that I...
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    Is my RAM underclocked?

    At POST my monitor says: ...... DEFAULT . ACTUAL (might say something other than actual) RAM 400 Mhz / 333 Mhz Does that mean it's underclocked? If so, what impact would that be having on my system? I have 2x512 Corsair ValueSelect PC3200.
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    RAM temperature

    My mainboard has three DIMM slots. When I first built my PC, I got random IRQL_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL crashing which turned out to be from memory overheating. I fixed it by leaving an empty slot between the two sticks. Since then I've improved airflow in my case and added fans etc; I've also now...
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    IDE RAID

    I've tried looking this up but all the articles seem years old. I have a Samsung 160GB ATA 133 drive. If I purchase an identical drive, can I RAID 1 them or are modern RAID arrays only SATA? Also, do I need to buy a hardware controller for IDE RAID 1, or, for that matter, buy anything other...
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    Case pressure

    Maybe this is a stupid question, but how can I tell if my case has negative or positive pressure inside? Right now it has two intake fans at the front and two exhaust at the back (all 80mm) as well as my 400W X-Connect, although the X-Connect's fans barely move. Oh, and a slot fan under the...
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    Hard drive arrangment questions

    Here's my current setup: IDE 2 master: 160 GB Samsung IDE 2 slave: 12.6 GB whatever from an old Dell No SATA drives I'm thinking of setting up a RAID array (mirror, is that RAID 1?). What I am trying to work out is whether it makes sense to get two small-ish SATA drives, maybe 80 GB...
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    Continuous beeping - weird

    OK, I have a pair of Kinyo KY-100 headphones, and they're great but the amp they come with emits a continuous beep. Beep...beep...beep...and so on. Rougly every 1 - 1.5 seconds. What's weird is I've realized that my PC does the same thing, albeit at a much lower and harder to notice volume...
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    Mic just stopped working...?

    I had my mic working fine in the Battlefield 2 demo until I turned on my PC last night...it didn't work. I quit the game and it didn't work in Windows either. I tried Sound Recorder and Audacity and the BF2 mic setup, none worked. I checked nvMixer and my volume properties, the mic was not...
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    Mic doesn't work on sound card

    I had been using my onboard AC'97 sound but when I heard Battlefield 2 would have VoIP I bought a cheap 5.1 soundcard (Chaintech AV-512), so that I could have surround sound and still have room for a mic input. As I'm installing the demo that just came out (finally) I have discovered that the...
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    How to enable dual channel?

    Just checked CPU-Z and it turns out my RAM is running single channel. All three RAM slots on my mobo are the same shade of Gamecube purple, and I have the middle one empty (was getting RAM overheating errors when I first built the PC and had the sticks next to each other). Here is the CPU-Z...
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    New heatsink on A64 3000 - black plastic mounting thingy question

    I just installed a Scythe SCSM-1000 Samurai on my A64 3000 Socket 754. Based on the instruction manual I removed the black plastic thingy that was attached to the backplate, and that my previous heatsink had attached to. So, the 585g or so sink is attached to the backplate by two long...
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    Changing Antec SL400 PSU fan(s)

    Does anyone know anything about changing the fans in this PSU? I think they are thermally controlled (I sure hope so because the one at the back seems to be pushing about 3-4 CFM right now!) so I don't know if they are hardwired to the PSU. If anyone has any experience they can share it would...
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    Sound card drivers cause freeze

    I just got a Chaintech AV-512 sound card. When I try and install the drivers on the CD, rundll32 starts using 95+ CPU cycles and my mouse freezes. When I try and install the latest CMI8738 ones off the web site, my CPU load stays normal but the mouse still freezes. In both cases, the driver...
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    5.1 Headphones question

    OK, so I want to get some nice headphones so I can frag loudly while my roommate is asleep, but I'm not looking to spend a fortune. I don't have a soundcard; however, my motherboard says it supports 5.1 sound. I have an AOpen AK89 Max mobo, which has onboard Realtek AC'97 5.1 Channel sound...
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    Creating C-style array of size zero from pointer

    We are rewriting the Vector class for my C++ class, and I stupidly left my notes at school (home for Easter). I have a T* contents and in the default constructor I need to make it a C-style array of size zero. I think it was something like contents = new Array(0) but I'm not sure, and if...
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    Tips for disconnecting stubborn molexes?

    I have two molex connectors that are inseperable from each other. I have tried wedging them apart with a flathead screwdriver and using pliers to get a grip, but nothing seems to do the trick. There is about 1-2 millimeters of leeway but I can't move it past that. I'm sure this is a common...
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    8-second freezing every 2.5 minutes in BF1942

    A64 3000+ AOpen AK89 Max MSI Radeon 9800 Pro (the one with the r360 core) XP Home SP1 1GB Corsair PC3200 RAM I went a few months without playing Battlefield, and ever since I started again I've been getting random freezing for about 8 seconds roughly every two and a half minutes...
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    How do I work out how my HDD is formatted?

    How can I work out if my IDE master drive (the one with Windows on it) is NTFS or FAT32? Thanks...
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    CPU overheating, why?

    Just recently I have started getting a high-low beeping on my AOpen nForce 3 during games...the first time was on a game demo where I wasn't even there, but my friends were playing it and told me about it. At first I thought they'd done something stupid but now I have started getting the same...
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    How do I send e-mail from my server?

    I am running Apache and PHP (lastest versions of each) on my PC and want to use PHP's mail() function, but I don't know what to configure or install so that I can. I get the following error: Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your...
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    php.ini

    OK, so when I call phpinfo(), it says: Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:\WINDOWS So I edited c:\windows\php.ini and changed extension_dir to c:\php\ext, but phpinfo() still says that extension_dir is c:\php5, so I conclude that I am editing the wrong php.ini. However, that is the...
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    Noob needs some help setting up Apache

    OK, I erased the original post because I solved that problem. I was getting an OS 10048 error but changing Listen 80 to 8080 fixed it. Here's my new problem: my roommate can see my test index.html I created when he enters my IP but my friend who is not on my campus can't. If Georgetown has...
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    Fingerprint scanners

    Hey, I decided a while ago that the golden price for fingerprint scanners would be about $20-$40 bucks, at which point they are worth their cost in convenience and cool factor. They're there now, but still don't seem widely used. I am trying to decide whether to get a Biopod, which I have...
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    New PC crashing, hardly anything on it

    I just built a PC for the first time, and after doing a couple Windows updates (not SP2, yet) and getting updated nVidia and ATI drivers Windows was a bit more stable, but I am still getting semi-frequent generic blue screens and lockups. Also, Ghost Recon came with my video card, which I...