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    Selling(or trading) my desktop for a laptop? Read this

    i just bought the monitor a couple months ago, it works great. wow if it's really $250 for the whole thing it's not even worth selling.
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    Selling(or trading) my desktop for a laptop? Read this

    what? The monitor alone is worth $250 though.
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    Selling(or trading) my desktop for a laptop? Read this

    Hey, I was wondering if you guys knew how much I could get if I sell my desktop, which is a dell I've added some upgrades to: P4 2.8ghz 512 mb ram 40gb hd 16X DVD Burner drive, CD drive FX5200 256mb PCI graphics card Samsung 710N Flat Panel Monitor It can play games pretty well, it runs...
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    Something wrong with my LCD monitor

    I have a Samsung 710n. When ever it has been turned off for a while and I turn it on again, the screen shows up for half a second and then it goes all black. I have to turn it off then on, then quickly press auto adjust for it to work. Is it broken?
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    Help, New DVD Burner so slooooow

    Alright in Device Manager I put in DMA if Available, but it stays in PIO mode
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    Help, New DVD Burner so slooooow

    OK I just found something. In Nero Info Tool it says DMA is off but I have it turn on in the device manager . So it is still using PIO, should I just take out my old cd rom drive? Or switch it to slave and make the burner master?
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    Help, New DVD Burner so slooooow

    it should have taken 10 seconds then??! wtf stupid burner
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    Nec 3520A dvd burner is slow.

    I'm having the same problem with my NEC 3540A oh and where did you download the firmware? I can't find the download link
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    Help, New DVD Burner so slooooow

    Ok I don't think it worked , I just burned an audio CD and it took me 6 minutes. It said it was burning at 48x but isn't 6 minutes a long time for 48x?
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    Help, New DVD Burner so slooooow

    How do I check the PIO mode?
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    Help, New DVD Burner so slooooow

    The blank DVD-R is 8x, and I can't find out where the download for the firmware is
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    Help, New DVD Burner so slooooow

    I just got an NEC burner and it took me 30 minutes to burn a dvd, it supposed to be 16x. And I'm running Nero CD-DVD speed and its only getting 2X Read!
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    Wierd Video Problems

    Hey this is driving me crazy Whenever I disable the onboard from device manager I restart and it says found new hardware and it enables onboard again PLEASE ANYONE HELP
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    Wierd Video Problems

    Hey I tried to turn it off in the BIOS and I couldn't find anything there to turn it off , what do I do?
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    Wierd Video Problems

    Here is a picture of what I see in device manager if that helps. And I have tried uninstalling the driver from add/remove programs, still reinstalls itself.
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    Wierd Video Problems

    Hi, I'm having trouble with my drivers or something. I have a Dimension 3000, and I just installed a FX5200 pci. Its slower than expected, I'm only getting 20FPS in Call of Duty, this was what I was getting before the card. Anyway, for some reason, I can't uninstall the onboard video drivers...
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    Which of these two pci video cards are better?

    Alright so I found another 9200, it has 256mb of memory. Its the VisionTek Xtasy 9200 256MB PCI , would this one be better than the ATI 9200 with 128mb
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    Which of these two pci video cards are better?

    Ati 9200: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de...332105?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846 or the Geforce FX5200? I don't have a lot of options as I can only buy from Amazon.com
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    I need helping choosing a video card

    well..the 160 is in the form of a webcertificate, which I got for free. So I have to waste it on something and the computer I also got for free, lol. I get lots of free things, got me a free sony 27" wega, 4G 20 gb ipod, iRiver H320, Archos AV420 video player. Yup thats pretty much it so...
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    I need helping choosing a video card

    Hi I just got a dell 3000, and unfortunatly it has no agp slot. I need to buy a 256mb stick of ram for it and also a PCI video card. I have a budget of exactly $160 so please factor in the cost of the ram if you help me. Should I go for the 9200se or the FX5200?? Or something else?
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    What Video Card Should I Get For This System?

    what do you mean it wont have enough power? also whats the minimum psu wattage i should have?
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    What Video Card Should I Get For This System?

    i think it has sdram, i dont know the specifics about the comp cuz its not mine. if its sdram, is that bad?
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    What Video Card Should I Get For This System?

    its an xp2000+ 384mb ram im thinking 9800 pro but i hear that you should have a fast processor for it, so what should i get?
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    CRT Problem

    I turn on my monitor, the green light comes on, but the screen stays black. also it makes a wierd buzzing noise? anyone know whats wrong and about how much it will cost to fix it. this originally cost me $250
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    Help!! Harddrive/partition problem!

    *head explodes*
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    Help!! Harddrive/partition problem!

    Ok the bios is seeing it as 6.5 gb, but i still have only c: and its 2 gb. please help
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    Help!! Harddrive/partition problem!

    oh come on!!
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    Help!! Harddrive/partition problem!

    also in "my computer" where it should say c:/ it says ms-dos_6 C:/
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    Help!! Harddrive/partition problem!

    Ok so my friend gave me his old computer, but he reformatted before he gave it to me. I dont have windows so I had to give it to another friend to install windows for me. But before I did that I checked bios, and it said the HD was ~6Gb. So today I got the computer from the friend with...
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    What Do You Think of This Case?

    Enermax w/300w psu yay or nay?
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    Is this a good moniter?

    Here is a moniter i've been looking at. Comments? Suggestions?
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    Please recommend a moniter for around $150

    it looks better
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    Please recommend a moniter for around $150

    yeah but they're max res is only 1280, dont i need 1600x1200 moniter to play that on games?
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    Please recommend a moniter for around $150

    I have a question. If the moniters max resolution is only 1280x1100 or whatever, does that mean games can't run at 1600x1200? I need more recommendations also
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    Please recommend a moniter for around $150

    My 17inch viewsonic just died :(
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    Crap! what just happened to my moniter!!

    so what's the best one I can buy for under 150 dollars?
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    Crap! what just happened to my moniter!!

    *sigh* now i need to buy a new one, i dont know anything about moniters. recommend me one damn i feel like crap right now