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    For Sale/Trade

    I can't access this forum. Is this a glitch or a particular change?
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    I'm buying a new LCD TV

    I'm curious how the current TV's do with DVI-HDMI conversion. Will the screen show 1280x1024 properly (my current one doesn't but works fine with a VGA connection)? Should I just find a decent older one that has a DVI connection instead?
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    Server Problem

    This is my problem with setting up my new server: I have tried to load windows server 2008, Windows XP, and run a Ubuntu live CD on this system all with the same result. Once the OS tries to go into a higher level of operation the system shuts off and won't turn on without the BIOS being...
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    Network Media Player

    I currently have an Audiotron, but I can not get it to play my shoutcast stream over the local network. What is a similar unit that can play my shoutcast stream?
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    Windows 7 x64 Monitor problems

    I am running a 9800GT in w7-x64 with the latest drivers and I can not get my custom resolutions to work. I have a Polaroid FLM-2632 (TV) that runs at 1280x1024 @ 60hz & 1366x768 @ 60hz in windows XP. With 7 build 7100 I can get it to run 1280x1024 @ 75 hz but the text is funky in the center of...
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    RAID Controller Card Recommendations

    I'm building a server out of my old P4 2.8C CPU & 875P chipset running Windows Server 2008. I have decided to use a RAID 5 array with three 1TB WD Green Power Dives. Now I need a PCI RAID 5 controller card. Here are two I was looking at are they crap or good? If anyone has any other...
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    North bridge

    I need a low profile northbridge chipset cooler for my Abit IC7-G, if i get one to tall it interferes with my CNPS-7000
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    PSU problems

    So today i turn on my computer and i notice a burning smell, so i kill it ASAP look for smoke/fire in the case and feel around for any overly hot heatsinks. Then i load up XP go into Abit EQ and look, everything is fine except the +3.3 rail is at 3.02. Now i would think that it was just a...
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    Video card help

    my 6800GT died on saturday and im going to RMA it but i ran into a problem. When i replaced the stock heatsink i thought i saved everything but it turns out that i am missing the screws needed to hold it to the card. I was woundering if anyone here would happen to have them and could mail them...
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    PSU "whistling" noise

    so i opened up my PSU just to see what was in there, unlike the curious cat i did not get fried by the capacitor, and then i sleeved the PSU cables. Now my PSU is making a loud "whistling" noise, i thought it was a fan at first but when i opened it up it definatley wasn't the fan, and i don't...
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    Black Hole theory

    Simply put i posted this on another forum and they told me to post it here to get a better response. Black holes can basically swallow anything and they warp time. What if there was a black hole big enough to swallow the entire universe, would it not destroy all time too. If a black hole...
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    read only always checked

    ok, on my third hard drive i have my music and my videos and nothing else. Well the Read Only option is always checked with a gray check. When i uncheck it it applies it and then when i check the attributes it goes right back to the gray check. So has anyone ever fixe dthis problem?
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    recovering dead files

    i ahve a hard drive where some of my files read as 0 bytes and i was woundering how i could get them back, they were some of my favorite files...
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    56k problems

    my parents computer has a 56k modem in it that won't work, when it says dialing i pick up the handset on a phone that shares the line and its not dialing. I have tried 2 modems, the latest drivers. and i made sure wait for dial tone is off. I have no idea what is wrong, any thoughts.
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    Windows XP and USB keyboard

    ok, so i got tired of my gigabyte mobo screwing up on me, and i had just build a computer with a Abit IC7-G and it went incredibly well so i got a IC7-G mobo and put my computer together. well i havent reformatted my Windows Drive yet because it wont let me start the windows install, it ignores...
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    mobo problems

    ok, i have a brand new ic7-g and for some reason when i have my usb keyboard connected to usb port windows won't recognize it the windows install won't even recognize it to let me reinstall. and when i use the usb-ps2 adapter i can't use the shift key, crtl, or alt keys. do you think the usb...
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    Pentium 3 mobo

    I found my old P3 chip and i want to make a HTPC out of it, and i have a few questions. 1) the CPU is a slot 1 and i don't know what mobo to get for it (i want full overclocking options) 2) Im going to put my GF4 ti4200 w/ svideo into it, but i need some kind of a video adapter cable what do i...
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    Mobo problems

    ok, im tired of my gigabyte mobo crapping out on me so im going to get a new motherboard. and i can't decide between ABIT IC7-G MAXII ADVANCE or ASUS P4C800-E DELUXE. Im using the Abit in the computer i just built for my brother and sister. And i really like it it seems like a stable...
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    Bios

    so i did my research and i found the motherboard that is in a gateway computer that i have, i just cant decide if i should flash it with the gateway bios or the intel. Would there be an advantage to either? and i do have the correct mobo so no worries about killing it
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    Con Not Format Floppy

    im trying to flash a bios on another computer and i need to format a floppy, but when i go to format it it gives me the error cannot format, and it cant read the floppy either, but according to the BIOS install program it extracted it fine onto the disk. I need to get this done so the mobo in...
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    RAIDed Hard Drives

    We've seen that RAIDed hard drives don't preform much better at the begining but what im woundering is how they preform later on, like after you've clogged them up with your games, MP3s, or what ever else you install. I think that the preformance diffence would be much larger at this point.
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    DDR400

    im buying a upgrade for my aunts computer so i don't go nuts when i use it but i need to know if DDR400 ram will work in a DDR 266 slot. FYI im not dumb in getting DDR 400, its just newegg is running a sale where they have crucial DDR 400 for less than DDR266
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    network not working

    ok, we have a network here with a linksys BEFSR81, the problem lies with 1 computer, the one i just built for my cousin its a P4 2.8 with a Gigabyte 8knxp mobo (i875P aka gigabit lan), well one day the lan stopped working, we formatted the thing and that didn't work, the drivers for the lan on...
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    side pannel

    so im buying a chieftec server case and it has a really sh*tty looking side with some kind of craptastic holes in it, im woundering if its possible to find the side pannel to this case with out the holes and with out a window.
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    file share problems

    how do i get the sharing settings i have on a folder to filter down to the sub folders and sub sub folders and files, because my methods aren't working right now
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    Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition

    http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=646747 Call and say you want the Gateway pricematch, and you get it for $434.95. And Gateway took the match down on their site because they couldn't handle the # of orders that came in.
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    Gigabyte 8KNXP 2.0 LAN

    Ok, simply i built a computer for my cousin who im living with at first we couldn't see the network but that was fixed when we got the case and put the comp in the computer area and switched the network cable. Well it was working fine you could see it on the network and the net worked, now all...
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    8knxp probs

    I have a Gigabyte 8knxp Rev 1.0 and i ahve 2 problems with it A) The onbaord sound doesn't work B) when using the front pannel power button on the turn off in XP it turns off, then right back on