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    Keystone/Patch Panel Hack

    I recently moved into a new house that had an existing phone patch panel yet had cat5e throughout the walls, terminating in rj11 phone keystone jacks. The 8 conductors were spread across two phone lines at each jack. Since I don't have a phone line, and was interested in networking two rooms...
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    Hibernate --> Switch Users screen?

    Since my reformat and reinstall of WIndows 7 the other day, I cannot hibernate. I have re-enabled it by disabling Hybrid Sleep, but whenever I click on the Hibernate button from the Start Menu, the screen fades and I end up at the Switch Users screen.... The only thing I've done differently...
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    Switching system hard disk

    I've got a 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS and a 640GB WD6400AAKS. The 640 is one of those newer ones with 2x320GB platters and I bought when I built a new pc with quietness in mind, and to give my previous 320GB system disk a rest. So right now I have the 640GB multibooting a few OSs, and the...
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    Tiniest ITX case with full sized optical drive?

    Hey All, I wanna build an htpc with a bd-rom drive, but all of the cases that seem to fit the bill will only take a slim optical drive. A fullsized drive could cost $65 these days, but a slim one costs significantly more. The ideal image in my mind is something the size of say, a mac mini...
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    > BSOD on Windows Server 2008

    I thought I'd give Server 2008 a try since it was on Dreamspark for free, and I've read all these great things about it--how people have been using it as a workstation OS. I've been getting D1 and A stop errors pretty consistently. At first I thought it had to do with when I was writing to...
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    Can I trust Abit uGuru?

    I've been in ignorant bliss believing Abit's uGuru reporting my q9450's temps at an idle of 26 degrees C. My friend told me recently about something that intel has neglected to release that properly allows temps to be reported. He couldn't explain it more than that, and as a result, I've had...
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    Why Does Ext. HDD make seek noises when not in use?

    So why does my USB attached Seagate harddrive make clicking noises at times when it is definately not in use? I understand that is a difficult question to ask, in terms of the software that I have installed on my computer that might be accessing it at times, but this happens (I think) when I've...
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    Board Recommendations

    Hey all, I've been reading around different websites and forums lately as I've been in the market for a new computer build. I can't seem to find too many recent posts/articles about non-gamer/enthusiast type computers. The 'Attention System Builders' sticky was useful but i;d like some more...
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    Dell 8400 BIOS won't detect 2 IDE devices, does in Windows

    Topic says it all. There's a SATA drive with the OS on it, and a storage IDE harddrive as well as a DVD drive. No matter the cable, the BIOS will detect only the middle device on the cable (with cable select, or master, or slave). Once in windows xp, the drives work. It doesn't totally...
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    XP won't go to the 2nd part of its installatioN

    So I've got a happy Ubuntu partition at the front of my 320GB disk. Then I've got a swap partition, and a few other document/data partitions and then at the very end, I decided to put back a little XP partition at the end of the disk. So I started the XP install, loaded my sata drivers from a...
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    want to upgrade 1.6ghz p4-m

    I have a dell 2650 inspiron laptop with a 1.6ghz p4-m socket 478 w/ 400mhz fsb. I want to replace the chip with a pentium m chip. I want to know whats the best chip I can put in to the board. I saw that there were some with the 400 fsb/ 478/ and a 2mb l2 cache. Basically I want a pentium-m with...
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    Need Massive Storage Solution

    So my dad is a digital photographer. I don't live nearby, and he's always been reluctant about opening up his G5 to put more disks in it. As a result, he's got LOTS of external drives. On top of that, he's got tons of archived work on DVDs. He tells his clients he only keeps their stuff for a...
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    Safe to check my desktop as luggage for flight?

    I'm moving just for the summer, and intend to pack very light. However, I think I might go crazy if I don't have a computer for the whole summer--which I won't if I don't take mine. Would it be a bad idea to box up my pc and throw it in a rolling suitcase (it'll fit)? I don't know how well...
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    Goes to XP boot choices menu when away from home office??

    My dad has a Sager desktop replacement-style laptop from a few years ago. Its got 2GB of ram (which got some errors after running memtest), runs xp pro, and has a 3.2ghz Pentium 4 w/ HT in it. He's a pro photographer and takes it on shoots and occaisionally dumps stuff from his compact flash...
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    Replacing laptop AC port

    So I've got this old-ish laptop that my dad gave me when he retired it, and the power plug is a little faulty. The battery's kinda shot cuz it's so old, so it NEEDS to be plugged into a wall. The only way the pc will recognize the power being plugged in, is if you angle the plug to one side and...
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    Weird error pop up

    my laptop's giving me this error: "digital line detected (pbx): please verify that your phone line from your computer is directly connected to a standard analog modem or fax line" when it comes out of hibernation. its done this for a while. its not connected to a modem and i havent done...
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    Active PFC & 115/230V switch

    A friend of mine recently bought a new powersupply and seems to know alot more than I do about them. I'm in the market for a new one and we were talking about the different features of new PSUs. We were talking about active pfc and he said that powersupplies that have the feature do not have...
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    MCE2005 -- needs install cd to boot from HDD??

    My cousin got Media Center 2005 and I helped him install it onto his SATA Raid 0 system. We had to do the "press f6 for 3rd party scsi & raid...blah blah blah" and it went smoothly and everything. after getting into windows for the first time, i removed the install cd and we activated windows...
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    Most non-invasive way to check number of ram slots filled

    I'm trying to tell a friend from school what type/how much ram to get for her laptop. We're going back to school next week so i can install it for her, but for now, I need to find out how many of her laptop ram slots are filled. I don't think she'd be comfortable opening the laptop. She's on...
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    G5 to Dell: faster with external drive or gigabit?

    I have a G5 tower that I'll be using photoshop on and I want to get its files to a Dell Poweredge server to burn to DVD-R while (ideally) doing more photoshopping on the G5. Would it be faster/better to save files to the dell from the g5 with a gigabit switch that I already happen to have, or...
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    videos wont play anymore

    a few days ago media player classic 6.4.8.5 stopped working, giving an error of "Failed to create teh filter graph object." so i tried windows media player--which i dont normally use, and it's error is "The specified module cannot be found." the only thing that can open files successfully...
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    mx1000 laser mouse-choppy scroll

    i've had my mouse for about a month now, and its been working great. about a week or so ago, i noticed that it was scrolling a little choppy in pdf's and stuff--but i figured pdfs are a little more intensive than other things, so i shrugged it off thinking i needed to defrag or something. i...
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    Two logtech mx1000s in the same room--conflicting?

    My roommate & I both have logitech mx1000s and i swear sometimes that mine will skip and jump all over when he uses his. I think his is producing a stronger signal somehow, cuz it only affects mine. Ive tried resetting the mouse with the little reset app..no dice any ideas? could this even be...
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    Storage for archive?

    My dad's a photographer and needs a way to archive his old photos incase he or his clients ever need them again. he was hurting for space a few weeks ago, so, in a pinch, i grabbed him a 320gb wd hdd and an external sata enclosure that ran over sata to a pc card for his laptop. he might grab...
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    record audio from firewire on the fly?

    i'll keep experimenting with the recording pins on the audigy card, but is there any known way to record audio from the camcorder without hooking up more connections (like composite video/audio cables) to the pc? also (pretty much on the same topic) is there a way to listen to audio without...
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    SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW bootup winxp

    i put this 160 gig drive that i pulled from an enclosure (it was a maxtor enclosure) that was dying, and after that, my pc took about 8 minutes to bootup. it hangs after the windows xp splash screen--just a black screen. and then i can see my desktop wallpaper after i login, but again itll hang...
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    old maxtor harddrive & enclosure

    i got hold of a dead maxtor drive from someone and played around with it and after formatting it, its working again. so i was feeling lucky while it was still open, and tried putting a western digital drive that i had laying around in it. with the same jumper settings, windows didnt recognize...
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    512 more RAM to complement existing stuff

    I've got 512 mb (2x 256) of corsair pc3200 low latency ram..i think the timings are 2 3 2 6. i recomended them to a friend of mine who also picked em up. we both decided that we want 512mb MORE ram to bring us each to a gig, and for good measure were gonna get the same line of memory. the 2x...
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    ATI MMC TV App Closes If Change Channel

    Starting with (i think...) 9.03, MMC will start on the composite input, then when i cycle through to the tv tuner, it'll all work, until i change channels. the tv app will close without any error messages, but the audio will still run in the background. this isn't a known problem, is it? i...
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    Optical/Dig. Coax PCI Bracket

    ive noticed that there's a header for a spdif/optical bracket on the card. will any generic bracket work? or is there a specific creative part i need? i've looked around and found nothing, cept a few months ago i checked ebay and there was one result. it wasnt specifically for the zs, so passed...
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    Faster RAM vs ALOT of it

    I've got 2x256 of low latency corsair ram right now, and am looking for something more... My board's got 3 dimms, and im a fan of the whole dual channel thing, and i think im gonna have this rig for a while, so my options are: 1) get 2 sticks of 1GB each (seems like no one has faster than...
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    Raid (sata/pata) vs scsi?

    if you were concerned strickly with performance and speed (and cost--but the point is that you're NOT concerned with capacity), what would be the best choice for a new harddisk setup? a RAID0 array with serial drives (if the difference between parallel and serial is significant) or having a...
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    8x AGP setting wont stick; gart probs?

    My mobo got fried a few weeks ago, an A7N8X Deluxe, and newegg was out of them, so they sent me an A7N8X-E Deluxe. so i got my system back up on a fresh xp install and partition, and i got my ati stuff installed, except mmc (i got an aiw, yeeeeeeeeeeuh) but i noticed that my 8x agp slider wont...
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    Unusually high temps for me...still decent tho

    so about 2 months ago i bought a bigger, 90 mm fan for my cpu instead of my loud-as-hell 80mm tornado (after having used it for like 6-8 months). im using an slk800u, so the 90mm fans dont exactly fit, tho i read in a few places, and eventually tried this out... u can rotate the fan 45 deg so...
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    12v rail reads too high in BIOS; worth it to check in windows before rma?

    i just got an allied 450w psu from newegg and its got a 12v rail of 12.67 in one room, and 12.6 in another in my house. that alone is a little weird, but i was scared to boot to windows, let alone the machine again, cuz the voltage was really high. thats more than the 5% that i usually hear for...
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    dropped cpu..bent a pin

    k, so i accidentally dropped my 2500+ when i was sticking it in a diff pc. it bent one pin, as far as i can see, and didnt hit the core at all. so i bent the pin back as best i could, but when it sits in the socket, which it did go into w/o any force, it rocks a bit...ever so slightly tho. (on...
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    Assorted random case & cooling q's i got

    #1 so ive been using AS ceramique for a while, and my friend just got some AS5 for his new pc...you think its worth switching? i know its conductive n stuff...but most of the internals of pc's are vulnerable anyways... #2 ive got a lian li 0716s...the only lian li that ive heard of w/o a mobo...
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    Anyone RMA'd to AMD before?

    I was wondering what people's success rate...or turn around time has been when doing an RMA with AMD. I'm debating sending back my retail 2500+ cuz I had an electrical shock to my PC; just got my board back...so if the cpu STILL works now, it will possibly die in a few months or so, so i figured...
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    Any way for (bad) CPU to harm other components?

    A few weeks ago I brought my pc to a friend's place and plugged it into a bad electrical outlet and the board died (or so i think). So i sent back my a7n8x deluxe to newegg, and cuz they were outta stock for those, they sent me an e revision deluxe model. I think all that was damaged was the...
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    OC'd PC Overheating..now only at stock..still overheating tho

    So i had my pc running at stock 2500+ speeds, then for th hell of it, like i sometimes do, i brought it up to 3200+ speeds. usually easy. i ran prime95 and found it was unstable unless i bumped the vcore to 1.75...a7n81x-d overvolts to 1.78 i tried to run farcry, and it froze before loading...