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    Loaded Dell Inspiron 9300 Notebook 1.6ghz, 512mb, 80Gb, 128mb x300, DVD Burner $1250 AC w/free ship

    i've got a 9200 and my screen isn't great the horizontal viewing angle is pretty poor. and there are these splotches. seems like where the backlights are. otherwise the machine is great when u add full ram to it. anyone know the difference between teh 9200 and 9300? true life...
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    save my hd

    you can unplug a usb cable from a comptuer. usualyl with no problems i simply unplugged the usb from teh first drive. and plugged the second hd into the same usb slot. then un hibernated. this seems to have screwed the hd. what a is a master boot record, and if you reformat that, will...
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    save my hd

    So, i have a dell laptop, 9200 it's hibernating. i had an exteranl 250 plugged in. I swapped out the usb for my other 250 when it came up i had to reactivate the drive in computer management. it wrote the first drives index onto the second so now my second drive reads half full, and...
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    hard drive benchmark tester

    I would like to find a free harddrive rating program that measures read write performance, comparing hds would be nice too. anyone know what the standard is for this? any free versions out there? also i'd like to find a regualr cpu benchmarker too. thanks peter
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    Sandisk 1GB MP3 player $112

    on the san disk and freezing up do not fill the san disk to 100% capacity or it will freeze. there is some finite point where it will stop freezing once you free up x space. say about 40megs so even though you sacrifce that space.. you get back a working version. if you filled it...
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    The **OFFICIAL** GMAIL Thread

    if there any more gmails , i''d love one too =) thanks peter
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    Free Tungsten T3 & 25 Trades @ Ameritrade (Requires $10K Initial)

    ameritrade is not cool they are not hot they are a fee driven company that will take your money. they consolidated with datek, and made things worse they have ceo's being paid millions, have had several multi million dollar law suits levied against them and have lost owing millions. and...
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    logitech 5300 5.1 thx $135 amazon

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000C20R9/digitaltrecomcom/102-8915264-3600129 cheapest i've found it. anyone know if the 680's are better for $250? or the 540's for $99 anyone know which is the best for the price?
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    Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates IS BACK!!! [thru 2/9]

    hey i sneezed on my screen, and i wiped it with a tissue (i sneezed while i was sipping milk damn it) and it went all over the monitor. anyone know how to clean this thing? now i have wipey marks on the lcd. how do i clean the lcd properly? thanks pete warm water?
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    pixel dance problem went away when i unplugged hub. windows reported a power surge in the hub. so dont know what thats about, but related to usb for sure
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    wierdage? I just got a wierd thing with the lcd. the screen had all this noise (green red pure colors like a bad signal or something. turn it off turn it on.. it goes away. windows reported a usb power surge, so i unplugged my usb from the monitor.. seems the problem went away. so i think...
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    HYPERX PC 4000 RAM 512 FOR 119$ @ bb SMOKING HOT~Update NO MIR at Frys!

    i bought the pc4000 kingston about 2 weeks ago at BB for 140 pricematched from fries. do they do a competetive retro pricematch even though they came down from 199 to 140? thanks
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    z640's for 66 bucks

    wow guys thanks. but now i'm thinking, i have gotten some bonus cash, and from what a i read, there is a huge difference in the quality of the speakers as you go up. (noticable) so what would be the next one up from the z640s...
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    z640's for 66 bucks

    z640's for 66 bucks is that good? http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?DEPA=1&sumit=Go&description=36%2D121%2D104&searchdepa=1
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    Dell 2001FP LCD Review and Comparision to 1900FP

    hehe, i had just stumbled onto the user setting before i read this so it's a total acknowledgement that i did the right thing. although I recommend 45 52 52 because for me the images where coming out too red. so i'm surpressing the red slighly and pumping more green and blue to get a better...
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    plugging and unplugging my firewire problem

    got a problem where my friend just plugs it in and plugs it out and it shows up ect i have mine, a 250 gig in a bytecc aluminum case. with drive set to master and i alway shave to reactivate it's damned annoying anyone know why his drive is in and out and mine requires going through that...
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    getting rid of auto play

    i'm in xp dont see the setting
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    ya its was only one and it went away. i was surprised that it locked on.. but i'm going to shut the monitor off now when i know i'm not going to use it instead of lettting it blank does anyone know if letting the system blank (no singnal) cause bad pixels thanks also whats the ergo mount...
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    getting rid of auto play

    is there a way to disable autoplay from engaging. i have macdrive 5 and it autoplays the hd when i plug it in. but it wont disengage it. preventing me from gaining access.. (it wont let me access the drive unless it's not autoplaying) if i boot, it doesnt auto play. if i plug it in (firewire)...
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    had the monitor for 2 days. very nice big display. today though after letting the screen blank itself when it came back on i noticed one pixel was locked on. white. tapped it a couple of times and when background and foreground where on it wasn't noticeable, but when black was on, it was just...
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    hehe thanks for the info no refresh rates and dvi by the way, thought i had some dead pixels, but i just touched them, and i think they were dust or something because they went away. =) mine is the same production run as the other guy who had no white problem and no dead pixles. a dead pixel...
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    got mine today could not immediatly get a signal from the dvi connector so i used the rgb after changing the settings on the video card to 75hz the 1600x1200 mode came up although i thought it did 1600x1200 at 75hz the radeon 9800 pro says only goes up to 60hz. anyone else who bought the...
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    well order went from jan 8th to shipped today =) well see how it is, crossing my fingers for no dead pixels.
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    not sure what to do. apprently it's not even made yet meaning they are out of all the ones they made. geeze no lcd for me in 1 week =( -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get detailed order status for all your Dell purchases. Order Number: my...
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    i ordered mine today 811 with the tax however i used fatwallet to get 3% back well 2.something percent so helps lower that taxt http://www.fatwallet.com/ =) free shipping too so thank goodness on that. let you know how long it took, ordered today before 1
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    2000hds not working on in xp setup, no idea why ntfs files systems

    there is no option. they just show up as healthy, with no settings I should be able to see a win 2000 hd in xp correct?
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    2000hds not working on in xp setup, no idea why ntfs files systems

    sp1 is installed. jumpers are set to slave as master is a 20 gig i formated (previously it was an nrfs from win 2000 reformated it works fine) i thought about the bios, not sure, it's an asus p4c800-e deluxe mobo it shows up as 200 gig in the bios settings i used windows to partition it they...
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    cel phone blocker

    is it possible to create something that will create a dead zone for cel phones how do you make a jammer?
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    ya goto check out it winds up being 899 =(
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    damn looks like its 899 now only 99 dollars off =( checked it just now
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    so if you get an american express 5% card 750 - 5% is 35 bucks more off heres a link i found to american express 5% BACK CARD http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=*0p/Fbg78oM&offerid=51265.10001459&type=3&subid=0
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    i'm ready to buy it, but waiting for a coupon for free shipping or 10% off or something =) let me know if you find any guys pete
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    if you just goto dell and look this monitor up it's 999 so it seems this is actually quite the deal =)
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    2000hds not working on in xp setup, no idea why ntfs files systems

    hey all, ran into a weird problem. set up windows xp on a new system added my windows 2000 hd's to it, and althouhgh they show up, none are accessable. giving errors when you look at them, yet showing up as healhty. bring them back to the win 2000 system and they work fine formated using...
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    adding win 2000 hds to windows xp problem

    hey all, ran into a weird problem. set up windows xp on a new system added my windows 2000 hd's to it, and althouhgh they show up, none are accessable. giving errors when you look at them, yet showing up as healhty. bring them back to the win 2000 system and they work fine formated using...
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    HOT!!!...for ...NEW RADEON OWNERS.. (any model except 9600np) get HL2 FREE!

    North America: 1-866-223-4955 Other Areas: 1-905-882-2600 ex. 2331 (Note: Long distance charges may apply.) thats all i could find first one is i think a free call to canada, (866 is equivalent to our 1800) 905 is a canda number.
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    HOT!!!...for ...NEW RADEON OWNERS.. (any model except 9600np) get HL2 FREE!

    man anyone have ati's email so that we can pester them, i think alot of poeple got the cards saw that they expanded their who gets a free halflife 2. but i got a 9800 pro aiw but i'm not on thier faq list for models that get it. WHY NOT? the 9600 aiw is not fast enough for my needs so i...
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    HOT!!!...for ...NEW RADEON OWNERS.. (any model except 9600np) get HL2 FREE!

    bought a 9800 pro aiw dont see it on the list but i do see the 9600 aiw what the fuck trying to find out if i qualify case its a 9800pro even though its an all in wonder. anyone know if this one is redeamable.
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    ram timing what does it mean? the importance of cas level.

    thanks, still looking to find out more about just ddr specifics and what ram timing is. =) those articles discuss the differences between the rams not the differences between the subtype ddr and it's differences between the differnt parramters.. timing, mhz, and the pc designations
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    ram timing what does it mean? the importance of cas level.

    http://www.legitreviews.com/Reviews/IC_article_5.shtm I found this answers some questions about cas levels