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    Notebook LCD 'noise'

    Hello, I've had my Lenovo T61p for about 2 years now (almost to the day). All of a sudden today the video (as in, what I see on the LCD) showed horizontal noise, almost as if the image was being stretched back/forth. This lasted for about 1 minute at which point I immediately shut down my...
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    Optimal partitioning for quick restore

    Hello, We all know that XP turns to crap after a year due to new programs, orphaned dll's and registry entries (etc etc). I'm just now doing a fresh format and wondering what you all think is the best way to partition a drive to allow for the quickest restore. That is, I don't want to...
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    Intermittent BSOD, High CPU usage but no programs

    Hello, My computer has been acting quite erratically as of late. I'm hoping some of you kind souls would take a few minutes to read my tale and offer any suggestions on what I could try next. Background It all started the other day when my computer just went black and restarted. Being an...
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    Sceptre 22" LCD strange pop noise when turned off

    I'm not sure if this is exclusive to this LCD (a brand new Sceptre x22wg-gamer 22"), but I own two others (Dell 21") and haven't heard of this kind of problem before. When the Sceptre is turned off but plugged in, it makes a soft pop sound every 2 seconds. It's not incredibly loud, but it's...
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    Ctrl/Alt + PrtScn not working anymore

    Has anyone experienced an issue of not being able to capture a screenshot using Ctrl or Alt + PrtScn? It used to work just fine. Haven't installed any software between the time that it did / didn't work, so I have no idea what the heck is up. Tried rebooting, no difference. Any ideas?
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    'open with' box opens when i try to open an exe

    I just purchase a new Compaq Turion 64 laptop last night. Out of the box everything ran fine. I did the Microsoft Update and then went to bed. In the morning, all of a sudden most exe files I attempted to run opened up the "Open With" box: Choose the program you want to use to open this file...
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    External drive is/isn't loading

    I just bought a new Seagate drive (200GB Seagate) with an external enclosure (NSP-ED352). I set the jumper to Master and all the connections are setup properly. I can hear the hard drive purr when I turn the case on. In XP, it's a different issue. The drive shows up in Device Manager (Oxford...
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    6600 displays garbage

    Hello, I'm switching from a 9700 pro to a xfx 6600 gt agp with a zalman v700 heatsink. the problem is that when my comp uses the card to display gfx, the screen is garbled. that is, i can see the bios logo and recognize the bootup text, but rather than text chars, it is all garbled. same in...
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    GPU RAM Heatsinks

    Is it essential to have heatsinks on your GPU RAM? I bought a Zalman VF700 GPU cooler for my GF 6600 GT AGP. The problem is that the 4 RAM heatsinks get in the way of the GPU heatsink. I'm wondering if it's ok to remove a RAM heatsink or two? Or will this cause some sort of problem? The...
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    How to benchmark flash memory?

    Tried googling for the last hour to find the read/write speed of a Memory Stick PRO Duo that I have but I can't find anything. What app would allow you to benchmark the read/write speed of these? Tried Winbench 99 but that gave me a score of 107k/sec which doesn't sound right, nor does it...
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    Recommended keyboard?

    Hello, I'm currently using a MS Natural Multimedia Keyboard. It does the trick, but it's noisy as all hell, to the extent that my SO asks me to shut the door when I'm typing cuz she can't stand the click. Honestly, it is really noisy, and it doesn't serve any purpose. I've used old IBM keyboards...
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    NB / SYS Fan not on

    Hello, I'm noticing that my MoBo (IS7) currently has the NB Fan and SYS Fan turned off in Winbond Hardware Doctor. Physically, the NB Fan connector is plugged in, so it *should* be on. There is no connection for the SYS Fan though, where should that come from? Any ideas why the NB Fan...
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    Games that run on 8MB video card?

    Hello, I'm doing a set of benchmarks on a portable device which runs XP but only has an 8MB video card (1Ghz CPU). Can anyone suggest any games from the last few years that would run fine with this video card spec? Thank you kindly
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    can't boot from dvd-rom

    Hello, I'm attempting to do a boot install of SuSE 9.1, but am not having any luck. I tested the CD (burnt from ISO from suse.com) on two other comps and they both load up fine, so I know the problem isn't the CD. On this device (Sony U50 handtop), there are no internal devices, only a hard...
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    delayed write failed

    i've read the other delayed write failed error thread on this forum ( http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=1330062 ), but haven't had any luck with the suggestions, as it seems that my drive is beyond the point that most of the users there got to. i can't safe...