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    Clock is Speeding Up; Why

    The clock on my computer is going faster and faster each day. I think I read somewhere that that happens when the onboard battery starts to run out of steam. Can I just change the battery to fix this? Do I have to do anything else to protect my bios settings? Thanks for any information.
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    Problems with Qwest DSL and Mozilla Thunderbird

    I recently switched from Charter cable to Qwest DSL. Now I find that Qwest is married to the MSN mail server for free mail. I have a lot of historic stuff in my old mail including paid bills etc. I can't use the new mail server to get them and I can't move my address book because my old server...
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    Need A Modem

    I have been having a lot of trouble with the high speed internet serviee of the TV cable and so I'm going back to my DSL service with the phone company (Qwest). Can anyone recommend a good reliable DSL modem. I have two computers networked via a Netgear RP614 v3 router. Thanks
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    Cable Modem Problems

    I am having a problem with periods when my Linksys cable modem loses its connection to the internet. It is a model BEFCMU10 with USB and ethernet connections. I am using Charter cable as my service provider and Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird ISP. I have Windows XP home on my computer and I have...
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    Condescending replies in forums

    I have tried rarely to post to Anandtech forums. But rather than help I have gotton "you should have knwn better" responses--even insults about my name. I had tried to contribute so others might not make the same mistakes I did, but found that the experienced posters were offended by what I...
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    Expensive Ink cartridges

    I recently bought a Canon ip5200 printer thinking that Canon had bigger and cheaper refills than my old Lexmark. How wrong I was! The refills are only available from Canon and cost about 15 bucks each for a total of $65 for a complete refill. I thought the fact that the black came in two...
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    Can't Trust Expert Computer Reviewers

    I just tried to replace my Norton Ghost 2003 software since they are stopping all support as of today. I never had any luck with it. So I went to PC World reviews site and looked up backup software. There I found several with street prices under $50 that seemed to do the job ok with different...
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    Can't Boot from Norton Ghost 2003

    I have been struggling to backup my HD to my external hard drive (connected via USB2) I did it successfully back in February but now I have forgotten the fix for the hangups during boots. I tried to boot from the floppy I made to boot in MS DOS mode but that hangs too. Anyone know how to...
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    Converting to Cable internet. What do I need

    I posted this topic in periferals and got only one reply. I don't know how to move a post so here it goes. I just decided to go from telephone DSL to cable for broadband. I purchased a LinkSys cable modem with inlets for both USB and ethernet, but as I understand it only one computer can use...
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    Converting to Cable internet. What do I need

    :confused:I just decided to switch from telephone DSL to a cable network for high speed internet. I got a good deal on a Linksys cable modem at Newegg ($39.95) but even though it has both an ethernet connector and a USB connector, I understand that I can't hook both my wife's computer and mine...
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    Can't Backup To External Harddrive

    :confused:I bought a Maxtor Personal Storage drive that uses USB 2,0 and I'm trying to use Norton Ghost 2003 to make an image backup of my 80 Gig Hard drive. I run on WXP home edition. The new drive is FAT32 I believe, and the old one is NTFS. I'm making some kind of mistake during the setup...
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    Refilling Ink Jet Cartridges

    :| I just tried to tefill the cartridges on my Lexmark Z52 with an IMS Refill System I purchased at Costco. The black worked fine, but the colors won't even try to print after refilling. They were not completely dry when I refilled them and a pad of paper napkins sops up copious ink from the...
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    Question about NF2 Chipset

    I just picked up a computer that I had built after having problems assembling one myself. I used a MSi K7N2 Delta2 series mb. The tech said that the nf2 chipset does not automatically recognize the higher speed athlon mobile processors and defaults to 800 mhz. He had to manually use a fsb of...
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    I need to vent

    I have been fighting to make a good fast 32 bit machine from these components: MB: DFI LanParty ultra 400 NFII CPU: AMD AThlon XP2500+ Memory: Mushkin 512 Mbyte PC Matched X2 2700 level II CAS 2 2 2 6 Video card: ATI 9600 Pro HD: WD 80 Gig *Meg buffer 7200 rpm After many tries this...
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    Noisy Case Fan Problem

    I'm having a problem clicking the right buttons. I have a Lian Li case and the fans were quite noisy. I heard that they were cheap and not ball bearing fans, so I bought a set that were supposed to be ball bearing and quiet. They were worse than those I had. I need a quiet solution to...
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    Problems installing Motherboards In Rosewill Case

    I have tried a few times to install mb's in my new Rosewill case and have only been able to succeed when I insulate the board from the case and only attach the switches and the hard drive and keyboard & mouse connectors. All posts completed and Windows was starting. Then I screwed the board to...
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    Mysterious CPU/Memory Behavior When Overclocking

    I have a DFI Lanparty B ultra 400 motherboard with the 11/27/03 bios. I got it to overclock by using 11-2-2-2 timings and a multiplier of 16.5. The FSB setting has no effect on the cpu, only on memory. I was running nicely at a fsb of 285 based on Si-Soft Sandra V5. I got the equivalent of a...
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    Problem Putting Old Hard Drive in New System-New Problem

    :(I have not been able to get past posting when I tried to use my wifes existing W98 SE system on a Western Digital 80 gig hard drive in a new case with a new (Shuttle)mb and AMD xp-2500 mobile cpu and pc3200 DDR mem. I had tried to use my newer ATI Radeon 7200 vid card instead of her Diamond...
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    I give Up!!!!

    After trying to update my wife's old computer the component route, I am eady to throw in the towel. I purchased a new Rosewill case, a Shuttle AN 400N ultra motherboard, and AMD mobile Athlon xp2400+ cpu to go with my old ATI Radeon 7200 and Crucial PC2100 memory stick and all I ever got was a...
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    Problem o"clocking aDFI Lan Party Ultra B

    I have checked the instructions for beginners and it seems that AMD only locked the multipliers on their barton chips. I have tried to set my Genie bios to 200X11, but soft sandra says I'm running at 133X11. I tried various fsb settings but get no effect unless I change the multiplier. Is...
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    How To Wire a Rosewill Case

    While assembling my wife's new computer I misplaced the wireing diagrams (if any) that came with the Rosewill TU 155 case. I have most wires figured out but there is one from the front of the case at about the position of the power switch that doesn't seem to match any sockets on my Shuttle AN...
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    WARNING!! NEWEGG ISN'T SHIPPING SOME CPUS

    I ordered an AMD Mobile Athlon 2400+ from Newegg on Oct. 30 for a computer I was building for a present and it hasen't arrived. It was listed in the online catalogue as in-stock when I ordered and is still listed as in-stock. When I called customer support I was told that their warehouse was...
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    Help selecting a reliable but cheap NForce 2 400 board for my wife.

    I need a new m.board and cpu for my wife. I have a new case and 400 W powersupply, an ATI Radeon 7200 and a stick of Crucial DDR 266 w 256 MB from my defunct system. She only uses the computer to type emails. Her hard drive is a Western Digital 80 gig with 8 MB buffer. We have a DSL modem...