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    Question About UPS Tracking

    UPS gave me my tracking info today for an amp I ordered, and their tracking states a delivery for Monday the 16th, which would mean my package would sit at the UPS facility in my hometown for Friday, Saturday and Sunday and then they would deliver Monday. My question is this: Since my...
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    I can't stand cops who abuse their power!!!

    So my brother bought a 03 Volvo last week. He bought it at a dealership and they got all his ducks in a row registration wise, meaning the dealership filled out all the proper paperwork and gave it to my brother when he left. Flash forward to this morning. My brother was on his way to work...
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    Hard Drive Problems

    I have two Maxtor 80Gb Diamondmax 9s with 8mb cache. My main drive seemed to be a bit sluggish at times lately, so I decided to test it with the speed test that comes with Nvidia's ATA controller on the NF2. Anyhow, everything seemed normal except for the Sustained Speed Test, which was very...
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    Cannot Get Opera To Startup Instead Of IE

    When I start up Bluelight, (yes, I know dialup blows), IE always starts up instead of Opera. I have it set in Opera to check whether it is the default browser, and unchecked to do so in IE, but still, no matter what I try, IE always seems to default. Anyone know any tricks or have any idea what...
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    Suggested Monitor Resolutions and Refresh Rates

    My monitors resolution at 1280x1040 is supposed to max out at 80MHz, which I run at 85MHz. Also, I run 1600x1200@85MHz refresh also. I guess my question is, will it harm my monitor by running the refresh higher than recommended, or is it one of those things where if it will do it, than there is...
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    How Do I Change The Default Browser In XP

    Well, I just got my computer out of hock, and found that the people at the pawn shop must have been screwing with my setup in the three weeks it was there, because IE6 is now the default browser. I cannot seem to get opera to start up instead of IE6. I am using bluelight internet service, and...
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    I Could Not Leave Well Enough Alone!! Broke Capacitor Off Of My Hyperx BH5!!!

    I have two sticks of 512 HyperX with what I am now positive is bh5. Too bad I broke a little resistor or whatever it is on one of them, after taking off the heatspreaders to make sure they were indeed PC3500 chips with bh5 on them. After putting the hs back on, I put them back in my rig and...
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    Opera 7.23 Problems

    Opera 7.23 is causing my computer to blue screen just about every time I use it. I uninstalled it and reverted back to a previous version of Opera and the problem goes away. Is anyone else experiencing this issue with Opera 7.23?
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    How can I tell how many platters my hard drive has?

    I have two Maxtor 80 Gig 7200 RPM HDs, and I read that there are three versions of the plus 9 series drives. There are some that shipped with 60,66, and 80 gig platters on the drives, and apparently there is no way to tell until you get it out of the box what type you got. Even now I don't know...
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    Help! MX700 Needs To Be Reset After Every Restart.

    If I restart my computer, the cursur will be frozen in the middle of the screen, and in order to get it to work, I have to press the connect button on the base, and then press the reset button on the mouse. The batteries are charged up, so that shouldn't be a problem, unless they are just old...
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    Man, CompUSA's workers are something else!!!

    Gotta love those CompUSA pukes(not meant for all that work there, just those that have no decency, or common sense for that matter). I was exchanging a camera I had a slight issue with, and decided that when they asked if I wanted the TAP plan(2 year repair or replacement plan), that I would...
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    Ouch, I dropped My A70 On Teh Cement!!

    From about 3 1/2 feet up. It seems to be okay, so I guess that says something for build quality. I have dropped numerous brand digicams and the only one that wouldn't work afterwards was a Sipix 3200, may it rest in pieces. Have any of you ever dropped your digital cameras?
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    Canon A70 Camera.....Almost impossible to get locally, even after 3 months.

    This camera is almost impossible to get if you want it immediately, at least without getting on a list and waiting a few weeks. I just bought one today at a local CompUSA, and they just happened to have it in stock, but I was looking on the web to see what stores had it in stock, and who was...
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    Need good free place to host pictures

    Is there anywhere i can host some pictures, where the guest viewing the pictures doesn't need to create an account to login?
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    PNY Compact Flash, Any Good?

    I just bought a 64mb PNY Compact Flash Card, and was just wondering if they make decent memory, at least as far as compact flash memory goes.
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    Can this be right?

    I just went to defrag my hard drive, and Norton said my hard drive was 65% fragmented. Now, that wouldn't be totally unbelievable, but for the fact the drive is only a week old. I will say though that I believe I had a virus and think I got rid of it earlier today. Also, my computer was slowing...
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    Anyone ever hear of HeaD.exe? Virus?

    I am pretty sure this is a virus. I know it's not hardware related, but I don't know where else to put this. I have not been able to get rid of this program, and think it might be residing in one of my downloaded apps, but have no way to tell, and don't want to lose gigs and gigs of apps if you...
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    How does price matching work?

    I bought a printer almost two weeks ago(20th June), and I paid $150 for it. This is at CompUSA BTW. Now I see that that not only the place I bought it from but all other places have dropped the price by twenty dollars, and Staples also has the printer on sale with a $30 rebate. Now I am sure I...
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    Which hard drive as boot?

    I recently bought a new 120GB Maxtor w/8mb cache. I already had a 80GB Maxtor w/8mb cache. What I was wondering is should I now use the 120Gig I just purchased as the drive I boot from and run Winblows XP from. Will it increase my performance at all, or should I just keep booting from the 80Gig?
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    BestBuy isn't that bad after all. At least not to me.

    Last week, I went to BB to buy a pair of Logitech z640s, when I found them, I noticed they had a sticker on them that said $20 rebate". They were on the same endcap as a pair of logitech speakers that happened to be on sale with a $20 rebate also. Come to find out when I got home that the...
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    Fortissimo 3, Turtle Beach Santa Cruise or Audigy?

    I recently bought an Audigy, but was wondering if I should return it and maybe get a Fortissimo 3, Turtle Beach Santa Cruise or some other sub $80 card. That's all I have to spend, so please don't suggest anything more than ten dollars out of that range, and it's got to be available at local...
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    DVD drive won't boot from my WinXP disc when installing windows.

    It's an Afreey 40x10, and other than not reading my windows xp disk when I am trying to install xp, it works fine. Is it on it's way out. My cdrw drive reads the disk just fine and installs without a problem. Any ideas or comments?
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    Wrong DMA Mode for hard drives.

    I just installed two hard drives recently, both of which are ata133, and they are both being detected in system devices as DMA Mode 5, when they should register as DMA Mode 6. Does anyone know how to remedy this? Is it an easy fix?
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    Only 30gb detected on 160gb. Please Help!!

    I know this has to do with the large drive thing, but I was under the impression that as long as you were on an ata133 interface, you'd be okay. Why is my drive only showing 30gb. Oh, btw, I do have sp1 installed. The drive is a Maxtor 160, and my mobo is an a7n8x(nforce 2)
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    How much faster are the drives with 8mb cache compared to 2mb?

    Last week I bought one of the 8mb maxtors, and today I decided to get another drive, but since the only one that really had a good deal at local stores was the maxtor 100gb + 20gb free for $79 after rebates and instant savings. What I want to know is should I just take it back and get a drive...
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    Strange sound problem with TVTuner and SB Live 5.1

    Well, I just bought a SB Live 5.1 to replace the crap SoundlessStorm on my A7N8X, and at first I couldn't get the audio to work at all on my tuner. Well, I figured out how to get it to work, although it's a bit of a workaround. I have to start my tvtuner, then go into the soundblasters AudioHQ...
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    Can't get my old tv tuner's audio working with new SB Live 5.1. Help!!

    I recently got tired of dealing with problems with the nforce 2 sound on my a7n8x, so I bought a SB Live 5.1, and it works fine with my z640s, but I can't get any audio out of my tv card. It's working videowise, but just has no audio. It worked before I put this soundcard in. Anyone have any...
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    What are you guys getting on all rails on the Antec 433 True Power?

    I just bought the 1080AMG case, and I was wondering if my rails are a bit low, or if maybe they are calibrated just a tiny bit low. Don't get me wrong, they don't seem to fluctuate, and they are well within 3%(within less than 1%), but they are all slightly lower than the line. My 5v stays at...
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    Wow, talk about surprised!!

    I just came home to my parents house to live because I am having some financial issues and need to get my life together before I can get back on my feet and in my own place again. My parents knew I was coming and they are happy to have me stay with them, or so I thought. Anyhow, I walk into my...
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    What does the state of my credit have to do with insuring my car?

    Just curious, but I am up for the renewal of my car insurance soon, and am looking for quotes. I was asked on numerous applications how I would rate my credit. Now, my credit isn't terrible, but it's not good either, as I have ended up not paying some bills I disputed, but lost. I was under the...
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    Grrr.......I thought 3M Precise Mousepads were supposed to be good for optical mice..er mouses...uhm..meese.?

    Man, there seems to be a lot of conflicting opinions concerning what's good, and what's not as far as optical mice and their tracking surfaces are concerned. I've heard that a solid color is good, and the lighter the better. I've also heard the opposite, that dark colors is good, and patterns...
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    Why did I wait so long to go optical?

    I just bought an MX300 Logitech mouse, and I can't believe how accurate it is. It's even noticably more accurate than the original Logitech Optical mouse. I know this because today I originally bought the older Logitech mouse which wasn't part of the MX series, and after reading some reviews...
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    Dual Monitors using ancient video card

    Well, I dedided to set up a dual monitor setup on my system. The amusing part is that I used a 14" monitor and and s3trio64v to do it. To be honest, I didn't think it would even work being that I used such old components(ten years), but it did. My main video card is a crappy TNT2M64 with a 19"...
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    Anyone planning on getting the A90F+ monitor from Viewsonic, READ THIS!!

    I was just purusing their site yesterday, since I figured I would take a look at some of their other monitors. Well, I went to the page of the A90F+, which is the model I own, and I noticed that they have changed the amount of time on the warranty from three years to one year, and only for this...
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    Is it normal for my taskbar to be slightly hidden until monitor warms up?

    I have had four A90F+ do this and have tried them on different computers, with different vid cards. Also, before this I had an Envision 985e that was off on the sides until warm. This one is stretched by a mm on top and a couple on the bottom until warm. I am tired of taking these things back...
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    Monitor Problem!!

    Hi all. I recently purchased a 19" Viewsonic A90F+, and prior to that I had bought an 19" Envision monitor within the same week due to an issue I thought was the monitors fault, and now I am not sure. The problem I am having is that when I set the osd(on screen display) settings, after I shut...
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    Display shifts as monitor warms up. Please Help!!

    I just bought a new monitor, the Envision EN-985e, which is on sale for $179.99 after rebate for those that may want a decent monitor, besides this slight problem of course. Hopefully it's not a big deal, but I would like to find out before keeping and recommending this monitor. The problem is...
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    Anyone ever hear of Envision monitors?

    I'm thinking of getting one and was wondering if they are any good. The price is right at $179.99 after rebate, and I really want a 19" monitor,as this 15" is blinding me. BTW, it's a 19" Flat Screen CRT monitor, model #EN-985e in case any of you were wondering. Any advice appreciated. Also, I...