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    Driver disapeared

    The device shows up. Pioneer DVR k13a with the yellow ! next to it.... driver issue I found my Acer cd's however it wont read obviously since the drive isnt working. I tried to restart and do a recovery but it wont boot from the CD??? I hope I dont have to RA this, 25 days left on...
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    Driver disapeared

    no help?
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    Driver disapeared

    I have an Acer Aspier 1660, it has a Pioneer DVR-K13a When I went to burn a CD todate the drive was gone and I got error messages. I looked on Acer's site and on Pioneers and cant find anything to help me out. Where can I get this drive, I dont think I have the cd's that came with my...
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    Help needed with Acer laptop and reinstalling XP pro

    I just but a nice new Acer Aspire 1660 It is currently running XP pro with 3 partitions on the 60gb drive all fat32 1 small partition that is called PQService (i assume this is unique to acer somehow?) and 2 equal sized partitions (27gb each, 1 system and 1data) I am not sure what is in...
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    strange burner problems

    I have tried all that has been suggested and i have also tried hooking up the drive via a pci IDE car and the same problem persists.
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    strange burner problems

    still no progress, and looking for suggestions please -leigh
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    strange burner problems

    I tried to use the burner with it alone on the channel set as the master drive and it failed to change anything. the problem was unaffected. the strangest part of this is when Ihave no disk in and i try open the drive under My Computer>E: it opens to a blank screen; rather than give me...
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    strange burner problems

    the drive is set to master and the other on the same channel is set to slave. I will see what happens if i leave that drive as master and take the other of the channal. I have no other means of testing this drive, I am at school and all my roomates have laptops. since had the problem...
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    strange burner problems

    I have had some trouble recently with my burner, It will not detect any media when I use a burning program. Both Nero and EZCD ask say the drive is empty. so i try to read a regular CD from it and it wont work. I open the drive in explorer and it has nothing listed. Even if i have...
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    Wireless cards not compatible with Router??

    im not sure what "locked down" means, im assuming .wep if thats the case no, and the utility for the card cant find the router. but other cards can. could it just be that they are not compatible?
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    Wireless cards not compatible with Router??

    My roomates Have Dell lappy's they got through our school, They dont seem to work with my Dlink Di-614+ router. I have tried to update the firmware and the drivers to no evail. when i run IPCONFIG it tells me that the device is not connected. this is all on win2k of course. the modem...
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    Help with wireless network and 3 Dell laptops please

    I havent tested them hardwired, because they are getting signal, im not sure what you mean by locked down. the network utility auto dects the rigth channel and network, the connection is great, just no internet connection. will the win2k dells need to be in the same domain? or...
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    Help with wireless network and 3 Dell laptops please

    I have set up a network at my new college house with 4 other roomates. we have a cable connection with a Buslkink 614 router. I am hard linked to the router trhiough the ethernet connection using xp on my desktop one roomate can get wirless connection with XP on a Dell however 3 of...
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    Any program to convert .shn to .wav or .mp3?

    I have downloaded a lot of .shn files from some ftp sites and I want to convert them to MP3 or WAV to put them on cd's so I can play them in my car. thanks
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    Problems with LCD monitor

    How do you know that theyare not dead? just wondering how to tell the difference. I got a new monitor, now im just trying to figure out what to do with the busted one
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    Problems with LCD monitor

    I have found that there are a lot of dead pixels, is there any way to fix this or should I just send it somewhere. I it going to be worth it to send it back fo repair?
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    Problems with LCD monitor

    the display isnt really getting any better, i now know that it is infact the monitor ,because i tested my computer and it worked fine with a different monitor. any suggestions out there?
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    Problems with LCD monitor

    no one here has a computer with DVI so thats not really an option. the display is gettingbetter wtih time so maybe it will be ok
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    Problems with LCD monitor

    I just got back to school and now my monitor is all out of whack. The color is all washed out and horrible. I have an Athlon system with a Nforce mx400 with dual output. regular monitor and then DVI for the LCD monitor. I got a 15" refurb gateway LCD monitor (FPD1500). there was a problem...
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    Help with fat32 and large disk

    I want to add a 160GB HDD to my existing win2k fat32 system, how would i go about formatting them in fat32? is there anyway to do more that 128gb with fat32? thanks - leigh
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    Explorer wont close

    I tried doing the repair and that didnt work. I would really like to find out why explorer is messing up. when this happens when i go into task manager, it says that the cpu usage is 100% thanks
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    Explorer wont close

    thanks i will give that a try
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    Explorer wont close

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    Explorer wont close

    When i use my interenet explorer recently sometimes the boxes wont close when I "X" them or ALT-F4. Instead i get an annoying DING! I then have to go to task manager and End Task Explorer. What is the cause of this? Is there anyway to un-install explorer and reinstall. I tried upgrading it...
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    HELP: screen blacks out after installing Video drivers

    all is solved.. i found the gateway drivers.. as this was a gateway refurb monitor/geforce bundle all is well thanks to all
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    HELP: screen blacks out after installing Video drivers

    i havent had a chance to change the resolution at all/ so its runnin in standard VGA mode? maybe i am missing a step? dont i just install the Detonator drivers.. am i missing anything here?
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    HELP: screen blacks out after installing Video drivers

    drivers for my monitor?.. i didnt now i needed any.. i have tried using the regular OUT rather then the DVI out with this video card.. and a different monitor and i got the same problem. i can try another card.. but i want to try to get this new flatscreen to work do i need special drivers...
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    HELP: screen blacks out after installing Video drivers

    after installing the latest nvida drivers drivers for my geforce 2 mx400.. it commands a restart. and i prceed to restart.. after this it goes through the bootup, and right before the desktop loads... it goes black, yet it continues to start up and make the start up chime... i have an abit kt7e...
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    screen blanks out after installing Nforce drivers

    now i got it to boot all the way through.. however now, upon reboot, it cant find the *.inf files where are they located??? thanks
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    Need help with G force drivers

    Now i can get the drivers installed, but when it reboots i cannot find the drivers when it finds the car it looks for the *.inf files.. where can those be found??
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    screen blanks out after installing Nforce drivers

    here is an update.. i tried using an older version of Nforce drivers.. same problem.. except i got a Neon green screen this time.. some one please help me with this thanks
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    screen blanks out after installing Nforce drivers

    I just got a new flatscreen monitor with a geforce 2 mx400 with DVI out i hooked it all up and it works fine, until i install the latest Nforce drivers. it asks for a restart, and gets close to the desktop the blacks out.. the copmpiuter continuses to boot and makes the start up noise...
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    Need help with G force drivers

    I found the drivers.. now when i install them. it commands a restart. so I do that when it restarts, just before it gets back to the desktop it blacks out.. but does go all the way through startup any ideas? thanks
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    Need help with G force drivers

    i am using win2k by the way thanks
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    Need help with G force drivers

    I did that, then when i installed it.. i restarted, and as soon as a got close to getting into windows the screen went black.. it did boot all the way though becuase the speakers mad a start up noise/ i tried with the DVI and the regular hook ups and both did the same thing
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    Need help with G force drivers

    I just bought a 15in lcd from tigerdirect.com. it comes bundled with a Geforce 2 mx400 (w DVI out) it didnt come with any drivers... where can i find drivers for this. arent there a bunch of companies that make Geforce cards? i am new to the whole Nvida thing\\ here is a link to where i got...
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    need a speaker recommendation, something almost as good as klipschs...

    cambridge soundworks makes some great speakers, i use the four point surround speakers in my dorm, and they are real loud you can step up the price and get the digital 5.1's for $280 check it out Here\
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    Help win2k cant even boot into safe mode

    i worked it out.. i just put the HD in antother PC and deleted that file... all is good and no more via 4in1
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    Help win2k cant even boot into safe mode

    I just finished getting all the programs on a fress install... and i was havesome slow performance from my DVD. i uninstalled and reinstalled the VIA 4in1's andnow it won't boot.. bsod even in safe mode!!! the BSOD says that it is file system32.....\viapfd.sys (i thinknot exact) i got an abit...