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    identify that sound

    Hey guys, I've been hearing this sound from my computer (work and home) off and on for the past year or two. I haven't been able to narrow it down to a particular program or pattern. Has anyone else heard it? Thanks! ***UPDATED WITH NEW LINK*** Here's the link to the 5 sec wav... link...
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    how does windows measure % battery capacity?

    My old laptop battery was giving up on me, so I purchased an aftermarket one. It's the same specs but 4400mAh instead of 4300mAh. The battery life is great, but check out this graph... Graph GIF link As you can see, the laptop drains at a constant rate down to 7%, where it stays for over...
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    845GV chipset requires 533mhz fsb to run DDR333?

    Just got a foxconn 845GV based motherboard as a replacement for the msi 645 ultra in a computer. It's running a 400mhz fsb (P4 1.8A) and 256mb ddr333 memory, but only at DDR266. Foxconn's tech support rep is telling me that I have to install a 533mhz fsb cpu in order to enable ddr333 ram. He...
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    credit card advice needed - going to get a laptop in the coming months

    Hey guys... I'm looking at getting a new laptop in April/May, probably around 1800-2200 dollars, and my current discover card only has a 1000 limit. I'm a college student and work a lot during summer/winter breaks, very little during school. I've had the card since august, and they can't...
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    First time big budget build - any stuff to watch out for?

    Hey guys and gals, A friend of mine's looking to get a top of the line gaming computer. Basically, the fastest cpu, mobo, video card setup combined with a 21" crt and the 7.1 megaworks sound system. I was thinking about going with the asetek vapochill XE II and an athlon 64 with geforce sli...
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    Need help deciding how to sell my computer stuff

    Hey Guys and Gals, I've got a decent shuttle XPC (SN41G2, 2500+, 512 ram, big hard drive, dvdrw, sorry video card), and a couple of old computers (Antex SX630 case with a 478 pin pentium 4 in it I believe, 256 ram, sorry video card, plus a Antec SX1040B with the remains of a P3 500mhz system...
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    just bought refurb 9200se - 143mhz memory???

    I had a geforce 3 ti200 with a very bad fan and I got tired of listening to it, so I picked up a refurb 9200se at newegg for cheap (will probably get a better card around thanksgiving or so). Anyway, but powerstrip and 3dmark03 say the card's memory is running at 143mhz. Anyone know why it is...
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    how necessary is the seti driver?

    If its something nice that will run seti in a system tray or something like that, I'd use it, but right now I'm just using the pure cli seti. Any real reason to run the driver?
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    Shuttle XPC and 92mm fan

    I have a SN41G2 that's a bit too loud/hot, and a couple sanyo denki 92mm fans sitting here not being used. Has anyone successfully used a 92mm fan instead of the 80mm cpu/system fan in a shuttle?
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    popping sound and skippy playback with fusionHDTV recordings

    I just got the FusionHDTV tuner card for my pc and I don't know if the problems I'm getting are from the broadcast, the card, or my pc. I recorded Jag and Hack last friday and the sound pops a ton (several times in a single sentence of dialogue). Also, after I watched jag, I trimmed out jag...
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    outlook express 6 crashed = inbox is gone!

    I resumed my pc from standby (suspend to ram) and when I checked email, the prog froze w/ the hourglass. I could never end the task, so I restarted the pc (took like 2 minutes cause it was still running), then when I ran OE again it gave me the welcome to OE email! I copied my email files out...
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    constant floppy drive access

    My uncle's computer has a problem where the floppy drive likes to access all the time. he has to keep a disk in it just so it doesnt' vibrate his case apart :) Anyway, I ran ad-aware on it to check for stupid programs that may be causing the problem, and I also scanned for virii w/ norton av...
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    Split screen TV display for LAN Parties

    Does anyone know of a way to show the action of a multiplayer game (Counter-strike and UT2003 mainly) on a television screen, preferrably with split screen views and stuff? Is there any intelligent 'spectator' mods or anything of the sort? Maybe a mod that can be used in combination with HLTV...
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    places to buy and download music?

    Anyone know a place to buy and download music? Post all you know of, especially ones with full albums and high, if not cd, quality. Thanks!
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    What's the best linux distro to learn with

    I've had trouble so far with RedHat because of the different locations of source and files besides the default ones. For example, I'm trying to install some drivers for my audigy and I've had trouble because of the version.h file being in a different location and stuff like that. What is the...
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    Logitech Z-565 5.1 speaker system

    Nextag lists the Logitech SWR/565 5.1 surround speaker system on their site. It doesn't give a picture or specs or anything, and neither do the two retailers, which conveniently have none in stock although the price is 140 dollars. Does anyone know anything about these speakers?
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    RedHat 7.3 and SB Audigy - Anyone had any luck?

    I'm dabbling again in linux, but I will never do it full time unless I can get sound :-) Has anyone had any luck with the audigy in linux? If so, did they use hacked creative drivers, ALSA drivers, or what? Thanks
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    Windows partition is missing after uninstalling linux

    Strange problem I have two NTFS and one FAT32 partition in windows XP, with the Fat one being E: and has all of my downloads, music, and backup information. I had Red hat installed on 3 other partitions, and I reset the MBR with the windows FDISK and deleted the 3 linux partitions with the...
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    Experimental Linux Audigy driver

    Has anyone gotten the THIS experimental driver to work? I would try it myself, but I just started dabbling into red hat a couple days ago.....
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    HELP!!! Overclocking a Ti200 - memory only hits 420!?

    I have a Visiontek Geforce3 Ti200, and I've read where tons of people have their Ti200's at memory speeds over 500mhz. Using coolbits, I've only been able to get up to 420mhz stabily! At 425, the performance decreases a ton, and at 430mhz the performance is less than it is at 400mhz! I tested...
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    sound volume problem - Audigy and z560

    This is a pretty wierd problem: I was experimenting with the surround mixer in the audigy settings, and i clicked mute on the master volume during the surround sound test at the top of the program. Of course, the sound stopped, but when i unchecked mute the sound only came back at about half...
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    "interesting problem" w/ audio

    Recently got the labtec Z560 speakers, and I have a creative labs PCI512 sound card. I have an interesting "problem". I was listening to an audio cd, and when playing the cd from the cd player (pressing play on drive) the sound pans from right to left on a track. when I play the CD from...
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    VPN and gaming

    This is a pretty interesting topic that a friend and I were going to set up. I wanted to know if anyone has any advice, comments, or experience doing this: We want to use VPN to connect our computers, with the ultimate result being to have a long distance LAN and be able to play games as if on...
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    nForce overclocking

    Several questions: 1) Why has Anandtech so far (that I know of) been the only site to offer reveiws of the nForce? Does nVidia lift NDA's only to certain reviewers, or does nobody else have reference boards? 2) Has anyone heard about the overclockability of the nForce IGP, or about the...
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    nForce and Athlon 4

    I'll be building a new pc in late august probably, and I need some info on the nForce boards and the Athlon 4. I've heard that current KT133a and AMD760 boards will run the Athlon MP, so is it safe to assume nForce boards will support the desktop Athlon 4? Also, does anybody know any...