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    POPing sent mail, yahoo --> thunderbird

    Hi, yesterday I opened up a gmail account for my girlfriend, who has been using yahoo mail but recently decided to switch. We realized that yahoo doesn't support either forwarding to another account or pop access without paying $20/year for yahoo plus, so we paid up, thinking that either we...
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    optical drive disappeared from Computer in vista

    I've been setting up my girlfriend's new laptop, and at first (as far as i can remember) the optical drive was working fine. I then uninstalled the roxio burning software sony had provided and installed nero 7. now the optical drive, a matshita dvd-ram UJ-852S, no longer shows up in Computer...
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    sb live! 5.1 with kx drivers

    I don't have the time to learn how to program the dsp of my sb live! 5.1 with the kx drivers so my music sounds even better. can someone tell me what to do? if it helps, i listen to all genres of music except techno and metal, and mainly classical and classic rock. i occasionally play...
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    sata driver error and bsod at xp installation

    i have an abit kv8-pro mobo and i am reinstalling windows on my sata hd. i put the latest sata drivers for my southbridge (via vt8237) on a floppy (i use a usb floppy drive) and rebooted with xp cd in cd drive. setup allowed me to use the drivers on the floppy to find my southbridge's sata...
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    optical drive woes

    i have three optical drives, one is a new external plextor dvd-burner which works great, and the other two came with my gateway 2.5 years ago. i am sure that there are newer firmware versions for them that might make them a bit more reliable and generally better functioning. one, the more...
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    bsod i've never seen before

    i was just using my computer (word and listening to music), when i got a bsod id never seen before. PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA STOP: 0x00000050 (0x99B62015, 0x00000001, 0xBF803195, 0x00000000) Win32k.sys - Address BF803195 base at BF800000, DateStamp 4225191e The fact that it's a...
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    xp home -> xp pro

    i've heard that i can turn my xp homecd into an xp pro disk and use it as such as long as i have an xp pro cd-key (which i do, but i want to use my straight win xp cd rather than the modded alienware one that came with dad's laptop). how can i make my win xp home cd into pro, to then slipstream...
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    at stock, cpu not prime stable!?!?!?

    at stock speeds (204x10, 1.5v in bios, 1.52 in built-in voltage monitor), my cpu only last about 2 hours, 20 min on prime95. is this normal? shouldn't it be far stabler if it's at stock? i can't rma, i bought it about two and a half months ago, and newegg only rmas procs within 15 days of...