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    Strange Computer Problem

    I built a computer for a friend of my brothers a little over two years ago. He said something was wrong with it and I've had a look at it but I can't figure it out. When you turn it on it runs fine for a little while then hardlocks. Sometimes you can get it to turn on again by restarting but...
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    Almost Had A Heart Attack

    Well I just turned on my computer and I was just looking through the window in the case and suddenly near the end of all the bios stuff loading the cpu fan turned off and stayed off until I got to my windows desktop! I've never noticed this before, is it normal? This shouldn't be a hard one to...
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    Small Computer Problem

    I've had my new computer running now for about a week and a half and after ironing out a few troubles everything seemed to be fine. However I've discovered one problem, nothing serious but still annoying. Using programs like Everest and nTune the computer completely locks up but it runs...
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    What's Going On?

    I've just finished building myself a new computer and I'm having a few troubles. Firstly one of my sticks of ram was faulty but i figured that one out myself and I'm just running with one stick atm. The problem is, whenever I install various apps, mainly virus scanner (coincidence?) and a few...
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    What do you think of my new computer?

    I've been planning this computer for a while now, and I'll probably go ahead with it in a couple of weeks. But before I commit myself I was just wondering if there is anything you guys think I can improve on. I wont be overclocking, at least not until I think the system is too slow :P AMD...
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    Buying A New Laptop

    Hi, I'm looking at buying a laptop for the first time probably before christmas but I can't decide on what to get. I'm looking for something portable, long battery life, definitely a centrino laptop. I'll be using it at university next year. Living in New Zealand the range of laptops i can get...
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    Can this be done?

    I don't really know much at all about networking so I need some help. At the moment at home all our network consists of is two computers linked together with one cable, and one of those computers has an internal adsl modem in it for my internet connection which is shared between the 2. I am...
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    New Computer Playing Up - Need Help

    I have just built up a brand new computer and from the start I've had troubles. When booting from windows XP CD the installation would stop and claim that it could not load systemdd.sys - error code 7 I think from memory. Anyway I moved the ram stick into the next slot and then the installation...
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    Laptop Advice

    I'm looking at buying a laptop sometime soon and i'm not quite sure what to get. I'm looking at something small and portable with a good battery life for sue when im at university next year. Obviously money is a concern though im prepared to pay for something worth getting. A few models im...
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    Problems with new computer!

    I have just built a new computer for my dad and everything seemed to be going fine until I started installing windows. When installing files i sometimes got critical errors and the occasional blue screen of death. After restarting many times during one go of an install it actually managed to...