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    The ATI 4850 Hates Me.

    I tried the new drivers, older drivers, even older drivers, with the CCC, without CCC. I uninstalled the WDDM drivers that win7 tried to put there (which failed and caused no boot) in device manager, cleaned old drivers, rebooted into reg. mode, tried installing the numerous driver versions and...
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    The ATI 4850 Hates Me.

    GPU-z won't tell me anything. I'm guessing because I don't have the drivers installed, which was my problem to begin with.
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    The ATI 4850 Hates Me.

    Specs are: MSI p45 board (not sure exactly which one) e8400 3x SATA hard drives 1 optical drive 4GB Patriot extreme memory hec x-power pro 650w I find it weird that when windows did boot that one time, I had 5 hours of continuous gameplay with no artifacts or problems whatsoever. Which makes...
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    The ATI 4850 Hates Me.

    Cleaned all drivers, no luck. Cables well plugged in. I would assume temperatures wouldn't be a problem since while installing the drivers the computer hadn't been on long and is in a ~70 deg. F environment...
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    The ATI 4850 Hates Me.

    I recently got an ATI 4850 to upgrade one of my pcs and I just can't get it to work. All of the issues seem to be driver related. I first tried booting with win7, it installed the WDDM drivers and then refused to boot. It would either freeze or show me a bluescreen that said something about...
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    Suing the makers of Final Fantasy?

    I want to know why Jason Voorhees isn't dead yet. Someone should sue New Line Cinema.
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    E7500 vs E8400 -- I am buying 100-130 systems

    Honestly I could see the e7500s lasting 5 years with no problem. I would think of it this way: Even for basic tasks like running MS office, if you throw a p4 next to an e7500 there will be a huge difference (especially if you have stuff running in the background). But if you run those same apps...
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    Speaker recommendation request

    I had some promedia 2.1 speakers a few years ago and I sold them to buy some z-5500s. Before the promedias I had a set of logitech z-540s which were good but nowhere near as good as the promedia's (I used the z-540s in 2.1 all the time, and those may actually be the same ones you had). Also...
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    Is it even worth having a paypal account?

    Yeah, I use facecard.com which gives me a prepaid card number and Routing/acct number for the bank verification and that usually has little to no money in it just in case Paypal decides to work their magic and screw me over.
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    Is it even worth having a paypal account?

    About 4 years ago, I sold an xbox360 on ebay, and I was a few days late shipping it out. I explained everything to the guy but he was still a bit pissed. So I shipped it off via USPS priority w/ delivery conf. but about a week later he cried to paypal that he never got it. I loaded the delivery...
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    Pentium MMX 200 - Any use?

    DOS gaming rig maybe? Most of the games are abandonware now.
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    Acer 22" LCD Died - 2nd Time

    weird... I've had 2 of those exact models running for over 2 years and still no problems, and I bought one of them used from AT.
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    Windows 7 games resolutions

    I'm running an e8400 with a x1900 xt and every time I try to change the resolution in a game (it has done the same with every game I've tried so far), it just makes the viewable screen smaller. I'm stucking playing whatever is used by default. I've tried the WDM and the ATI driver, both do the...
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    Paypal balance pending... what the hell does this mean?

    Well that's scary as hell. I stopped using paypal for two years because of a bullshit dispute I had with a buyer on ebay. He didn't get his xbox 360 quick enough and he was mad so he said "hey, I never got it" and apparently USPS delivery confirmation isn't good enough so they refunded the guy...
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    Paypal balance pending... what the hell does this mean?

    So there's a pending balance on a paypal transaction I've received, it says: "The money for this payment is being temporarily held in your pending balance. It will be held for up to 20 days. While it's being held, it won't be available for withdrawal. We'll move the money to your available...
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    *****Official 2k9 Secret Santa Thread!!!*****

    Man... it seems like alot of people already have babies, I wish I would've known that before I shipped mine off today. Oh well, delivery confirmation number sent via email.
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    Need your opinions: Phenom 9600 or E7300

    Alright, my friend is into audio engineering/editing/production and he needs me to build him a new pc since the one he has now is an older single core AMD. I'm fairly sure what the answer to this is but I thought I'd get a few outside opinions before placing the order. I'm wondering if it...
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    Name some movies so bad.....

    The sleepaway camp movies, Man with the screaming brain, Chopping mall...
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    The Official ATOT 2K7 Matchup LIST!!!!!

    I would suggest not ordering from amazon. Two years ago, I ordered something early December and even though their site said it would come way before Christmas, it didn't get here until late December.
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    Anyone else have problems with Gamefly?

    I was a member for about 8 months with no problems whatsoever. Then I canceled my account, sent the two games back and they "never got them".
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    What's your favorite movie ?

    Whatever... All the movies after Repost II were poor attempts at a repost that only the first two reposts could manage.
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    Google checkout woes...

    I have accepted money via google checkout and apparently it has charged their credit card, but that was last week and the money is still not in my bank account. Is there something that I am missing about this? Does it take an unusually long amount of time to reach my bank account?
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    Edmunds Full Test: 2008 Dodge Caliber SRT-4

    I hate the neon. Completely forgot about the viper though. Okay, one good product with "srt"
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    2008 BMW M3 4-door Sedan !!

    I'm also stoked about the sedan coming back, but I'm not so stoked that I'd have to wait at least two years before I could afford one.
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    Edmunds Full Test: 2008 Dodge Caliber SRT-4

    I have not seen one good product with the name "srt" so far. The srt-8 charger, for example. It feels like a huge, overpowered, hard-to-handle piece of crap with alot of straight-line power. I honestly haven't seen the point of this yet.
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    Recommend a new compact car

    Don't, don't, don't get the corolla!! It may be reliable but it is an utter piece of crap! It's way too high off the ground, it's not fun to drive at all, and it is one of the most uncomfortable pieces of crap I've ever driven (spend more than 20 minutes with one and you'll know what I mean). I...
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    Looking for a RWD car.

    I would say an e36 bmw as well. I drive a '98 328i sport and it handles great on the corners, especially after I put h&r's on there.
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    OMG bbzzdd.com works for me finally!!!

    In a forum full of thousands of geeks, do any of us really have any room to be judgmental?
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    Post your cell phone brand name

    I have a nokia 8801 and a samsung blackjack. The 8801 is great because not too many people have it and I hate being one of the many in the crowd. BUT, it has poor battery life (a day's worth of charge if I don't talk more than an hour). The blackjack is awesome and I've gone 4 days of excessive...
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    So why does Apple put 'Designed in California' on its products.

    Yeah... like $3000 for a crappy box that's worth about $1500 but since it has mac OS on it it's 10x better...
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    11 Year Old Arrested With Unregistered Firearm

    Wow... it seems like a really crappy news week. First I hear about a girl dying from bengay, then I hear about a 17 year old sentenced to 10 years for having oral sex with a willing 15 year old, everyone is caring way to much about what happens to the Hilton whore, and now this.
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    How much did you pay for your automobile?

    Paid about $7500 for a '97 bimmer 328i last year and it was the best $7500 I ever spent.
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    rockstar's next game coming to wii, ps2, psp

    Yeah... why hasn't anyone made any "the first manhunt sucked and this one will too" comments?
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    Gift suggestion for a 26 year old male

    I'd say something stupid here, but I'd rather not get banned for a week. I don't think you can go wrong with a gift card, though. It's like the ultimate generic gift. ----------------------------------------------------- Smart thinking on your part. See how far common sense takes you:gift...
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    17" lcd monitor $70 + ship after $100 in rebates

    I recently bought a 19" hanns-g widescreen because of all the great reviews on it. Great monitor but the thing that still puzzles me is: who is hanns-g and how did they just pop up out of nowhere and have great products?
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    New PC wont start.

    bump for an UPDATE!! WOO
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    My sister's husband...

    I think you misunderstood what I said... If I hated everyone that was boning my sister, I'd be hating about 86 guys right about now. heh heh heh...
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    My sister's husband...

    No, no, no, you misunderstood! He's not a douche for being ignorant, he's a douche for injecting water into girls' va... nevermind.
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    My sister's husband...

    So I was at my parents' house last week because my nephew was over there and I hadn't seen him for months. Unfortunately, so were my sister and her husband. This guy is a complete douche, he seems like a wife beater and no one really likes him from my family and from the kid's father's family...
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    The definition of selling out...

    It's not like his career was going anywhere spectacular... he was on a disney show for like 5 years.