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    is this a good deal?

    this is a BenQ joybook 5000 that i am getting imported outside of the US. intel centrino 1.5 ghz 15" LCD screen 512mb ram 60gb hard drive ati radeon 9700 w/ 64mb 4x dvd burner BenQ is not available in America but I think they make pretty good LCD screens... i am getting it for...
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    really odd monitor problem

    well i dont know what happened but i think while my computer was still running someone unplugged my dell LCD monitor and plugged it into their own computer. this happened while i was out and when i got back to my computer and plugged my LCd monitor back into my computer it tells me "Cannot...
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    wireless constantly disconnecting

    hey i have a linksys wireless router setup in my apartment. the problem is, every 30min or so the wireless connection will cut off but the cat5 connections still work. i have a wireless card, and i think the wireless is 801.11g, the connection is 54mbps. to get my connection back, i have to go...
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    got infected with virus... bootup to windows=auto reboot

    hey i got infected with the bloodhound virus recently. at first norton antivirus told me it was unable to clean the virus, so i rebooted my computer and did a full scan... norton then told me that the virus was quarantined and deleted. up until today the computer was OK, running a little slow...
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    having problems booting into windows 2000

    my parents were messing around with my computer, and i dunno what happened, but now i get this error on the startup of windows 2000 "STOP 0x0000006F SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED ive run memtest , and the results were 0 errors after an hour. ive also tried to run the computer in safe mode...
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    urgent, 200gb hard drive is unreadable

    hey i just switched from windows xp to windows 2000 with sp3 , and now my 200gb hard drive is unreadable under windows2000. i also switched the disk from primary to secondary ide before the windows 2000 installation, because i realized i had it on the wrong channel. please help, i can't afford...
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    please help, disk 2 is unreadable in windows 2000

    hey i just switched from windows xp to windows 2000 with sp3 , and now my 200gb hard drive is unreadable under windows2000. i also switched the disk from primary to secondary ide before the windows 2000 installation, because i realized i had it on the wrong channel. please help, i really do not...
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    need a quick critique of this system

    hey i'm building my parents a computer for their bedrooms, so it's gotta be quiet. they only use it for burning cd's, dvd's, checking email, microsoft office. case: antec sonata 380W motherboard: shuttle MN31N with onboard video processor: athlon xp 1800+ ram: kingston valueram 256mb ddr...
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    mounting fat32 in RH 9

    hey i've been trying to mount a fat32 partition in RH 9, but have had no luck. first thing i did was make a directory in /mnt named windows. then i did mount -t vfat................... something i forget what it said, but i just need to mount it so i can access drivers that i downloaded for RH 9
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    do i need all 3 cd's for installation of rh9?

    what are all these 3 cd's for?
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    linux partition

    im gonna do a basic installation of redhat 9, how big of an empty partition should i make for it. i only plan on installing a couple additional applications in linux.
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    need some help buying a used car.

    im looking at a 2000 subaru rs 2.5, it's got 60,000 miles on it already. so.. in 4 years, it put an average of 15,000/a year. the average mileage for a car is 12,000. should i be worried with buying a car with so much mileage? people been telling me that modern cars are really reliable and i...
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    window games on linux

    i was thinking about installing some linux , but was concerned with not being able to play my PC games! i play warcraft 3, CS and some other games. how do i go about playing those in linux?
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    windows xp pro optomization

    hey i am looking for a website that has a whole bunch of tips and tricks for windows xp pro. anyone help me out please ?
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    when i delete files in windows 2000...

    hey for some reason when i delete these 4 gb files, i don't get anymore free hard drive space. the file is no where to be found, but nothing is being freed up. has this bug occurred to anyone else before, and knows how to fix it?
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    how to turn a router into a hub

    i have a linksys router and i need to turn it into a hub. anyone know how to do this?
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    windows 2000 bootup screen

    hey, i somehow messed up installing windows 2000, and now whenever I bootup my computer, I have a screen that asks me which Windows 2000 Professional i want to run. I can bootup and get into windows 2000 fine, but it's just annoying to see that screen
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    please critique my sn41g2 system

    hey i am about ready to purchase all my items for my new system. *256MB Crucial DDR PC2100 ? CL=2.5 ? Unbuffered ? Non-parity ? 2.5V ? 32Meg x 64 (from my ECS K7S5A system) *SHUTTLE SN41G2 BARE SYSTEM (Retail) *AMD ATHLON XP 1700+ 1.47GHZ (AXDA1700DLT3C) OEM W/O COOLING FAN (1 YEAR WARRANTY)...
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    sn41g2 later models without video?

    hey, will there be a later model of the shuttle nforce 2 without the integrated video card?
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    shipping computers through mail

    hey, how expensive, and how safe is it to ship a mini-tower computer case+all components in case? if its able to be done, what kind of box do i use to send it in, and what type of packaging? also. this is going about 1000 miles away thx