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    Dual External Monitors on Laptop

    I've currently got a Dell 9300 that with GeForce 6800. This card has 2 video ports but only supports a total of 2 monitors (but my goal is to get it to support the laptop screen and 2 external monitors). Is it true that the GeForce 6800 Ultra will support 3 total monitors, 2 external...
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    Computer randomly shutting down

    For nearly a year now, my custom p4 3.2 has been shutting down randomly and often makes a strange noise from the case (I believe it's the motherboard fan making the noise). I figured the problem was overheating so I checked all the temperatures and some were as high as 79C. I then replaced...
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    AIM Text Highlighting Problem

    Whenever there is a significant amount of text or a link in an AIM profile, when I begin to highlight any text, the entire profile will scroll down, not letting me highlight the desired text. Also, when I try to click on a link, often only the first few characters of it are clickable! Any...
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    Intellimouse Explorer Sensitivity Problem

    Hello, I'm running Windows XP with default drivers at 1600x1200 with a refresh rate of 85hz. I know refresh rate, Windows sensitivity, and acceleration should be the only factors affecting mouse speed. After joining a Counter-Strike game (this is when I first noticed and is not necessarily...
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    No Constant 100 FPS

    In Counter-Strike, I was able to get a constant 100 FPS on my Sony monitor but can only get 100 FPS on my temporary KDS monitor when there is no action. Does this have anything to do with the monitor (the Sony is higher end and supports well over 100 FPS at the given resolution, but 100 is the...
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    Outlook in Same Window

    Before I reformatted last week, I had an Outlook shortcut in my quick launch that always opened the same Outlook window (I could open it one time, then click on it again to restore the window, not open another instance of it). However, now, it opens a new instance every time. Anyone know how...
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    DVSocket

    I'm running Windows XP, and even after I formatted (and installed a few popular programs like Flash, Dreamweaver, etc. (no viruses)), the restart is taking forever, and a program called "DVSocket" always comes up after a while asking me if I want to end the task, suggesting that it is the...
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    Choppiness in Counter-Strike

    Hello, When I play Half-Life: Counter-Strike, it runs very smoothly at first, but then becomes quite choppy, seemingly at random points. The choppiness goes away and comes back randomly as well, but it never happens in the first, say, 30 minutes. The game was working perfectly a couple...
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    Changing IRQ in Windows 2000

    I don't remember where, but I remember seeing that all of my major cards (video, sound, network) and all of my USB ports were on the same IRQ location. I believe this is why sometimes USB devices stop working, sometimes sound stops working, and sometimes my monitor shuts off or the computer...
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    Windows 2000, ATA/100 Question and Performance Question

    1. When I went to task manager in Windows 2000 (Shift-Ctrl-Esc), I used to have two (maybe three) tabs at the top, but now they have seemed to dissapear. Is there any way for me to get these back? Right now all I have is the main one with the running programs, end task, switch to, and new...
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    Can't Get Digital Sound To Work

    I just got a new Soundblaster Live! MP3+ sound card and am trying to get it to work with my MidiLand S4 8200 speakers. The speakers include a dolby digital receiver. I am plugging in the RCA plugs into the receiver and the digital cable into the digital cable on the computer. The speakers...