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    Inexpensive GQ Notebook at Fry's online only

    the GQ brand name stands for "Great Quality" and is anything but. I bought some of the GQ dvd+r's a few months back and they're garbage. half of them, my burner wouldn't even recognize as being in the drive, and the others play like crap in every player. beware. What is Fry's doing selling...
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    Hauppauge PVR150 at Comp USA $69.99

    I picked up the PVR150MCE from Amazon a few weeks ago, but have been unable to get it installed properly. XP's Device Manager gives me a "Code 12" error - it can't find any free resources to use. Even after disabling a half-dozen components (com ports, ps2 mouse, lpt, etc) and removing a few...
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    Outpost Good Deal on P4 3.2E

    For those who don't want to click through or do math, it's $219.99 for the combo.
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    288 Disc CD Wallet $9

    I got threee of these on their big holiday sale last month. I too had to rip out the little clear plastic bullheads from each holder, but it didn't take that long. I wouldn't call them flimsy, though they're not made of wood or aluminum or anything. My only real complaint is when I filled...
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    Free Absolut Personalized drink book, coasters and Ad reprint posters

    the VISIT SITE link doesn't work in firefox. lame.
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    GQ 25 pack DVD+R for 1.75-AR @FRY's

    I bought 2 packs of these last weekend (which was an ordeal in itself) and just tried to run DVD Identifier on the disks, but it won't even see that there's media present in the drive. I may be bringing these back.
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    FUNNY!!!: Buy one KIA, get a 2nd FREE

    Nothing to do with the sale, but we bought a fully-loaded 2002 Kia Optima new a few years back. It has so far been awesome. This was their top-of-the-line model, with full leather package, sunroof/moonroof, 4-door, V-6. It is really very powerful, great ride, and I can't say enough good...
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    Free Guinness Bar Towel (it's back)

    I've entered these Guinness giveaways just about every time they come up, over the past few years, and have never received a THING from them.
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    (DEAD) memorex dvd+rw (100 pack spindle) $58.50 shipped at amazon?

    gotta be. they list another 100-pack of the dvd+r disks for $100 that actually shows a 100-pack. this bum listing shows a 25 pack in the picture, and they're rewritable. edit - goofed on the +r/+rw
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    (Dead) Arita (Ritek) DVD+R 2.4X 100 Pcs Blank Media Spindle for "$39.99" after $20 MIR at Officemax

    I went in at noon to the downtown Seattle OM, and they were completely sold out. They gave me a rain check, and told me there had been 30 people standing outside the door when they opened. Then he tried to tell me that they don't have that many 100 packs in stock ever. I didn't bother to ask...
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    FREE DiGiTAL PRINTS upto 24 PLUS FREE SHIPPING !!!!!!

    right on. I used to work for these guys about 5 years ago when they were still called Seattle Filmworks. I was a software tester and tested an early version of this app and a web-based one. I also tested one of the first do it yourself scan/retouch/print kiosks they did. Unfortunately, it...
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    Warm: Imation DVD+R 25pk spindle for $30 at OM

    Does Office Depot REALLY not pricematch with Office Max? I stopped by the Office Max in Seattle last night, but they were completely out of these discs. I brought their ad up the street to Office Depot, who had lots in, but at $60 a pack. Same exact item. Asked aboe the Pricematch and was...
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    Warm: Liteon DVD player lvd-2001 $127 - plays DVD, Mpeg4, Xvid

    word on the pcclub forum, from the admins, is that they have a TON of backorders for these, but that the shipment arrives at their California outlet on Thursday and will be shipped from there to the various local stores for pickup. i hope that's the case. they did say they've contacted liteon...
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    YMMV - DVD+R Memorex 5 pack $11.86 at OD B&M

    $11 or $22 - that's still an awful price. I really hope the price on these things drops significantly over the next few months.
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    HP DVD+R 5-Pack $6.99 @ Officemax RIGHT NOW

    I stopped in the local Seattle Officemax last week, tuesday or wednesday, and they were sold out. The stockboy told me they would get a new shipment in Wednesday evening and would be stocked Friday morning. I showed up Friday morning and bought the 5 packs they had. I would have thought they...
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    (Dead) Verbatim 2.5X DVD+RW/R Drive "$149.99" AR & coupon at OfficeMax

    Well, it got even worse dealing with them before it got better. When I first received the e-mail that my rebate was being denied, the reason that accompanied it was that I supplied the UPC from a CD-RW, not the DVD drive. I responded and told them they were incorrect, that i didn't own their...
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    (Dead) Verbatim 2.5X DVD+RW/R Drive "$149.99" AR & coupon at OfficeMax

    Did anyone else get their rebate for this? I bought it, submitted my rebate form with all the upc codes and receipts, and I just received notice that it was invalid - they're claiming I included the UPC for a 52X24X52 CDRW - NOT the DVD+RW drive that I cut the UPC symbols off the side of. Am I...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    I just went to www.package2you.com just fine. IP: 213.130.63.234
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    the Function keys work just fine - they're just labeled differently on the keyboard itself. There is software that can read the scancodes coming from those special keys. it would probably be easy enough to get them working in windows.
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    there are plans and schematics on the net to build your own for about $5. Programmed through the parallel port in most cases. If I can find them in my bookmarks, I'll post, otherwise a google search for "build your own eprom programmer" will probably find what you want.
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    Here's what I posted middle of page 7: it is the J2 header, right behind the video socket and the audio ports that aren't there. When you plug it in, the arrow needs to be facing the RAM and the big orange heatsink. There are two sides of the connector - the one that the ribbon comes out of...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    I tried a bunch, but ended up just doing it in plain old windows xp. there were some good front ends I tried, though. For the life of me I can't remember the best shell replacement's name (It started with a "T") but I know you can find out a lot of information about these things over at the...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    hey, come on! This thread has upped my post count considerably! ;) I've got the desktop pared down to 6 icons, very large, and huge text - white on black. it's very readable. I used to use win2k with one of the high-contrast fontsets. as long as you keep it pretty simple and clean, and none...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    I thought I did. I have the SiS icon in the task bar, so I'll check that out and see if I can figure it all out. Thanks for the note. Text looks great. I spent several hours customizing the desktop with a VGA monitor first. Black background, custom icons for everything, huge white text in a...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    Has anyone else tried using the tv-out? I get a good signal out, but it's not displaying in 640x480 mode even though that's what the display properties are set to. it looks more like 800x600, but not shrunk down to fit the screen, so I'm missing a portion of the bottom and right desktop...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    Thanks for your response tiger. very pro of you. You can guarantee most of us will be watching your site for other deals from now on based on the response you've given. I'll be getting my netvista case in a week or two. Any recommendations on getting this thing in? So far, fxsts has given...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    yeah!!! I got it working, too! I originally plugged it in there wrong, but it's working great now! It is the J2 header, right behind the video socket and the audio ports that aren't there. When you plug it in, the arrow needs to be facing the RAM and the big orange heatsink. There are to...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    they've posted the connection method, but it's the same drawing of the IR connector with an arrow pointing to it that they've been emailing out. I UNDERSTAND that this is where it's supposed to go, however the connector on the motherboard is a single row of 5 or so pins, while the adapter on...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    yeah - the video drivers that came on the CD are not good. Definitely upgrade to the reference drivers release.
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    the method in the owners manual does NOT work. The emails from them so far have not been right. I'll be curious to see what's posted monday. if it's the same drawing they've been emailing everyone, I'll be mighty unhappy.
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    I sent Wayne over at Package2you an e-mail asking him to come to this forum and see the discussion on this. It would be much easier talking in one spot rather than doing this all one on one over email only to have it pasted here anyways.
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    I haven't tested mine on a tv yet, but I did notice that the NTSC/PAL pin was set to PAL by default, so I changed it.
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    got the latest bios (7/2001) from ecs's website.
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    yeah, much much better now. Now all I have to do is solder on the audio jacks (tested them already and know they're working) and get this IR keyboard working and I'm so done. what a long weekend. Okay, so for those of us who DON'T have the IR keyboard working, let's figure out what we're...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    i did. i also installed SIS's graphics software for that chip and it's much better. not sure if that's what made the difference or not. this is teh same cd-rom I had in my previous media machine and it kept up fine. thanks for the tips. I'll keep at it until it's smooth again.
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    after checking the net, i found out that's the way to do it. Thanks for the tip, though. I'll do that next reboot. I still haven't got the keyboard up, but XP is running good. However, video playback is HORRENDOUS. I've got a Celeron 667 in there and the screensavers, etc, run just fine...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    okay, it looks like I finally got XP installed on it without any lockups or crashing. It hasn't installed the IR device yet, so I can't use the webboard, but I am unclear on how i would boot without the usb keyboard as the bios has no option to disable keyboard search on bootup, and doesn't...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    I may have to do that, too. This is getting absolutely ridiculous. I finally got win98 to install, but as soon as I tried to install the webboard drivers, it locks up during restart. Now I have to figure out where I can find a keyboard/mouse ps2 port around here to solder in. lame!
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    ugh. this really bites. win2k finally installed, but there was no driver for the IR keyboard available for 2000. So I ran XP upgrade and it hosed. ever since, and I've wiped out the hard drive and fdisk'ed numerous times, every OS I try to install fails. it locks up a LOT. I've tried...
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    SFF S370 Motherboard + WORKING!! IR Keyboard $30 @ Package2You

    I don't think it'll work without the USB keyboard. I've got windows 2000 finally installed on the system (XP setup kept locking up. I may try upgrading now from 2000 and see if that's more successful) but I can't find an IR driver for this thing. I've emailed support at the maker of webboard...