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    Beginner help on what to use and how to start database

    I am new to database programming/management. I was appointed to put together a contact database for our company. We've been in business for a long time with no real standard for record keeping, so names and companies are all over the place. I would need to able to query for different categories...
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    Looking to travel and work

    I'm currently living in Vancouver, but I want to get out and live elsewhere for a while. As lame as it sounds, I want to go on one of those "find yourself" trips. I've gotten recommendations to go to Europe for backpacking. I've also been told Australia is very easy to get into, how true...
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    help deciding budget motherboard

    hey, deciding between these two boards: Gigabyte GA-770TA-UD3 http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...e&promoid=1046 MSI 790X-G45 http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...r&promoid=1046 the Gigabyte one has USB3.0, the MSI one has the ability the crossfire/sli. i don't know how useful...
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    problem while formatting

    I have a reasonably old computer, and I decided to format since I haven't for years and there's a lot of junk. I've done the whole process before and everything was working fine, installed just like it should...up until this one point. Before I formatted I transferred some pictures and...
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    windows partition error?

    My cousin asks me to format her Acer laptop, which has just one drive but split into two partitions. She has important files on her D: drive and I tell her it's okay to just format the C: and make it bootable. She has Vista. So I boot up a Windows XP CD and go to the select partition part...
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    Reinstall question

    My cousin asks me to format her Acer laptop, which has just one drive but split into two partitions. She has important files on her D: drive and I tell her it's okay to just format the C: and make it bootable. She has Vista. So I boot up a Windows XP CD and go to the select partition part...
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    laptop problem

    Trying to fix my mother's laptop.. Acer 5102WLMi. When it starts up, it gets the blue screen right after the Windows loading splash screen. I ran a memtest and got 2 Passes and 29 Errors after 2 hours...so I figured it was the RAM. I just bought new ones and put them in, only to...
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    Motherboard/CPU dead?

    I helped my cousin install a fresh copy of Windows XP on his computer, everything was working fine. Then he plugged in his USB flash drive and the whole system crashed. It was from Japan, and it has only the slot for data and none for the ground...so it is super thin. Now after booting up...
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    Motherboard/CPU dead?

    I helped my cousin install a fresh copy of Windows XP on his computer, everything was working fine. Then he plugged in his USB flash drive and the whole system crashed. It was from Japan, and it has only the slot for data and none for the ground...so it is super thin. Now after booting up...
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    weird problem

    When I tried to fire up my computer today it froze on the Windows loading screen with the blue bar. I went into safe mode, which only worked after the 3rd time...managed to the a System restore back to a few days ago when I'm sure it was working fine. I restarted and tried going back to...
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    is it bricked?

    I'm trying to fix my little brothers router WRT54G version 6. He is just a kid so I don't think he was fiddling around with updating firmware or anything. I don't know exactly if it's bricked because there are no red led's but what is happening now is the power light is blinking green and...
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    upgrading to vista

    My mother bought me halo 2 for vista, and I currently have windows xp. I tried to look around for patches but they don't allow you to play online, so I am going to upgrade. My concern is that I don't want to lose certain programs on my current system, so if I upgrade can I still use some of...
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    XP Boot Problem

    My brother was using my computer the other day, and he said it froze so he tried to restart it. He pressed the power supply switch in the back to turn it off, and now everytime it turns on it freezes at the Windows XP loading screen with the moving blue bar. I've tried chkdsk /r but it says...
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    boot error

    I was using Partition Magic to make one of my partitions primary and one logical, and somewhere along it messed up. So when I tried to boot it would say BOOT DISK FAILURE.... I used Ultimate Boot CD and played around with the filesystem tools, and now when I try to boot it says " a disk read...
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    where can i find a motherboard?

    my motherboard died recently, socket 939 and AGP vid card. i dont have the funds to shell out for a new everything, and i have looked everywhere but cannot find a s939 motherboard that still has an AGP slot. any clues? thanks
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    computer not turning on

    my old power supply recently died and my computer wouldn't turn on, so i bought a new one. i plugged it in to everything to see if it would run,and it did, so i turned it back off to plug my peripherals in. after that my computer would not turn on at all, no beeps or any noises at all. i...
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    windows freezes at logo

    everytime i boot up windows, it freezes at the loading screen where the blue bar moves across and has the xp logo. i tried safe mode, last known good and none of them work. safe mode just doesnt load up after the words are shown. i have the ultimate boot cd but im not sure which tools to...
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    cant login

    I really dont know what I did to make this change, but now its doing this: when I restart the Windows it asks me to activate the Windows product before I can login. I clicked "Yes", and it says that my Windows is already activated. It asked me to click "Exit". I click on the "Exit" and it...
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    windows login help

    I really dont know what I did to make this change, but now its doing this: when I restart the Windows it asks me to activate the Windows product before I can login. I clicked "Yes", and it says that my Windows is already activated. It asked me to click "Exit". I click on the "Exit" and it...
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    windows login help

    I really dont know what I did to make this change, but now its doing this: when I restart the Windows it asks me to activate the Windows product before I can login. I clicked "Yes", and it says that my Windows is already activated. It asked me to click "Exit". I click on the "Exit" and it...
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    battlefront 2 help

    i recently bought battlefront 2, installed it and everything was working well. my brother wanted to borrow it so i made an image using alcohol120 with dpm at high thinking i could still play with that. well it didnt work when i mounted it on dtools, so i tried many other methods by reading...
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    video driver help

    i have a nvidia 6600 gt video card i uninstalled my 77.72 drivers, ran drivercleaner, and now i cant instal ANY drivers. i must have tried about 8 different versions. everytime i run a setup it says the nvidia program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current...
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    display driver help

    i have a nvidia 6600 gt video card i uninstalled my 77.72 drivers, ran drivercleaner, and now i cant instal ANY drivers. i must have tried about 8 different versions. everytime i run a setup it says the nvidia program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current...
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    wrt54g help!

    hi, i need some help with my wrt54g v5 =( ive been goin hours and nothing is working first of all its in spanish and i cant change language even if i reset to default settings, and i cant connect to internet through it, but i can connect directly through just the modem. i can access the router...
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    setting up a lan

    me and 5 other buddies are tryin to set up a lan we have 2 linksys routers, each with 4 ports, but there are six of us last time we attempted this it was a mess and only 4 computers were able to play. is there any way to connect router to router? or will i have to buy a 6+ port ? thanks
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    internet connection problem

    i have 2 computers connected to my router, this one works fine but the other one has a wierd problem that just started happening. the internet connection will start going off and on, it will say Local Area Connection 2 the network cable is unplugged, then right away will say local area...
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    windows taskbar

    pardon me, i didnt know where to post anyways i have windows taskbar on auto-hide mode, but when ever i recieve a message from msn messenger, the taskbar pops back up. it is pretty annoying, wondering if anyone knows a solution or a program?
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    led fan without the fan

    is it possible to just turn the led on without the fan running? i've got a coolermaster like this http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?...pn=TLF-R82-ER&manufacture=COOLERMASTER thanks
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    cant boot computer!

    my old computer wont boot into bios. i bought a 6600gt for my old computer, then realized performance was bottlenecked so got a whole new computer. now i also took out the ram and my hard drive from old computer to put it in my new computer, but then put those items back. i had my new...
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    cant boot computer!

    my old computer wont boot into bios. i bought a 6600gt for my old computer, then realized performance was bottlenecked so got a whole new computer. now i also took out the ram and my hard drive from old computer to put it in my new computer, but then put those items back. i had my new...