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    Can 79xx Nvidia video cards do Portrait Mode?

    I have a Dell 2001fp LCD monitor that I use in portrait mode. Awhile back, I have an Nvidia 6600gt card that could not do portrait mode natively. It could do it in software but the picture was horribly slow and jittery. I switched to a Radeon x850 card and it seems to support the portrait...
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    Seagate Hard Drive Warranty

    I have been emailing "Dolly" at Seagate customer service for about 7 months now. I purchased a 250G Seagate drive from Circuit City. When I went online to verify the 5 year warranty, it come up with "component" status, "contact place of purchase". I believe that it think this is an OEM drive...
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    NV Silencer 5 drawing too much current

    I have a Geforce 6800NU PCIe card with a newly installed NV Silencer 5. I am having problems with occassional unknown "CPU usage" about 40 to 50% and slowly tailing off to nothing. After painful troubleshooting, I have discovered the following: The card has some sort of "smart fan" operation...
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    Access User Account from another Hard Drive

    Aloha, I do some computer repairs for certain clients and I have a little problem. My client has an emachine that is inoperable. He needs some file from his hard drive. I grab the hard drive and stick it in another computer to access the files but I cannot get into his user account. I see...
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    Nero 6.0 and NEC 2510A cannot write CDR

    Aloha, I cannot burn a cd using Nero 6.0 and my new NEC 2510A (authentic). I can burn DVD's fine using DVD shrink (nero engine I believe). I can burn cd's using an older version of Roxio CD creator. I actually have two NEC's so I swapped it out and they both show the same symptoms so I do...
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    Test for quality of DVD burn?

    Is there something out there that can test the quality of a burned DVD disk? Several times I have used Xcopy or similar software to burn movies to DVD. After I have burned a DVD, I quickly skip through each chapter to see if the burn went well. I have found several times I get "blocking"...
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    Rebates - defined

    If there were ever a question about what rebates are about, here it is. Kingston is offering a rebate if you buy certain memory from their site. Think about it. Why do you need to send in a manufactuer's rebate when you are buying directly from the manufactuer? Why don't they just give you...
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    Notebook doesn't boot

    I have an HP Pavillion Notebook. It does not boot. When I have the a/c adapter plugged in the notebook lights up without pressing the power button. The hard drive or exhaust fan does not start up. At this point the notebook is completely frozen. When I remove the ac adapter the lights go...
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    P4 3.0G retail hs/fan smartfan?

    I am putting together a P4 3.0G 800fsb HT retail processor with the standard heatsink/fan. The board that I am using is an MSI PT880 (sis chipset) motherboard. I have noticed that the cpu temps run about 40-48C. That might be okay but when it gets hot the fan for the heatsink spins at about...
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    Windows 2000 startup bars

    I'm trying to bring up an MSI PT880 motherboard. I've noticed that when Windows 2000 starts up the blue bars always start from the far left and works itself to the right. This happens everytime (not just the first time). With my other systems, after the first boot, the bars always start about...
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    Raptor (36g single drive) vs Maxtor 2 X 80G SATA Raid

    Aloha, I have been running 2 Maxtor 80G SATA drive in Raid 0 for awhile now. Performance is good. I had to try one of these raptors to I bought one (36G) and ran some tests. I just ran some hard drive tests that came with my Norton Systemworks (Passmark Software). I found that the raptor...
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    Refresh rate and Frames per Second

    If my monitor refreshes at 60Hz (60 times per second), How is it possible to see more than 60 frames per second?
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    DDR333 or DDR400 w/XP2800

    Aloha guys, I have an Athlon XP2800 running with 2 sticks of Kingston HyperX 512mb DDR333 sticks in my Gigabyte Dual DDR motherboard. Would there be any increase in performance running DDR400 sticks instead? The DDR333 seems to be a better match (running syncronous with the FSB 166). I plan...
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    CD door swings from wrong side

    I really like the Antec cases (lots of other brands look alike also) but had one problem. The door for the cd bays swing from the wrong side. If the window is on the left side of the case, shouldn't the door swing from the right side? If the window is on the left side I would put the case on...
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    "Unrecoverable read error"

    Using Nero 5.5, I get an "Unrecoverable read error" when trying to copy a Norton Ghost image to my hard drive. The CD is burned using "fast compression" and has about 700mb worth of data. Odd thing is that it does work when I copy the CD from an old sony DVD drive. It does not work from a TDK...
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    GA-7NNXP to ship in Mid-June

    For those of you who are waiting, The Gigabyte GA-7NNXP will ship in Mid June. I spoke with a customer service rep from gigabyte (626 854-9338) that said there will be 6 boards with the nforce2 chipset. Three with video and three without. Finally, an nforce2 board with ide raid!
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    Onboard Promise Raid - slow boot

    I have a Gigabyte 7VAXP motherboard w/onboard promise raid. I was using two 40G Maxtor740X-6L hard drives and recently upgraded to two 80G Western Digital 8mb SE drives. The drives work just fine. In fact great. Now when I bootup and get to the Raid bios screen, I can count about 25...
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    10 seconds to post

    Hi guys, first timer. I have an Athlon 2000+ with an Abit KR7A-Raid motherboard. Everytime I bootup, the first beep takes about 10 seconds. Its been that way for about a month now. Never more, never less. I had that cpu in a K7S5A motherboard and it was posting in about a second or two. I...