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    Moving mouse while USB is active causes Windows freeze

    Mouse: Logitech MX518 Windows: XP Pro SP3 Motherboard: EPoX 9NPA+ Whenever there is high activity over USB - mainly reading or writing files to USB storage - and I move my mouse, Windows freezes completely. The only recovery is a hard reboot. This has been consistent over three installs...
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    My PSU sounds like a cricket

    When I run ATITool to determine the max core/mem clock for my x800gto2, my PSU starts chirping like a cricket. It sounds just like one, a sort of alternating buzz. I'm wondering if it's a symptom of anything bad, like an overload. PSU: Antec 430w that comes with the P150 GPU: X800GTO2...
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    P3V4X + FX5500 = no go

    The fan on my GeForce 256 was going, so I figured I may as well just get a whole new video card, since even a cheap one should be better than the 256. So I got a cheap FX5500. I should meet all the requirements; the P3V4X I have is supposedly AGP2.0/4X compatible, which is the minimum for the...
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    Older PC, possible vcore or freq issues

    I have a 5+ year old computer with a P3V4X MB and a 1300mhz Celeron slocket. I've had minimal problems until recently, when it began giving me nothing but trouble. IDE devices stop responding occasionally or Windows freezes when I try to access them. This includes any of my three hard drives...
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    BSOD after ANY driver

    This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever encountered. I just had to reinstall Windows XP because it's a piece of crap and the /SYSTEM file got corrupted. I previously had a fully updated XP with SP2, so what follows makes no sense to me. Whenever I try to install ANY driver, whether sound...
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    Silent fans

    It's apparently spring, because it's 70 degrees outside all of a sudden. This house has no AC, so it's up to fans to keep me alive. I have two Honeywells right now, and they move a lot of air, haven't broken down in the two years I've had them, and make less noise than the average cheap fan...
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    O&O Fragged My Harddrive

    Last night, I started a defrag of my storage drive in O&O defrag pro. It's an 80GB maxtor, NTFS. I haven't done one in months - naughty, I know. It was really a mess, something like 70% fragged. I burned/deleted about 25GB of stuff off right before I started the defrag. When I woke up, I...
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    Is a 300W PSU good enough for a loaded P4 2.4?

    I was thiking of getting this Evercase w/300W Enhance PSU for a system I'm building for my little sister. She likes to play games (not just The Sims, but Unreal too :) ). I'm planning to get a P4 2.4 533, 512MB PC3200 ram, and a GeForce Ti4200. Would the 300W PSU be good enough to run these...