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    8800GT or wait for new ATI card?

    I know the 8800GT is an awesomely priced card, but should I wait and see what ATI/AMD offers? I know if I wait the 8800GT might be out of stock for a while, do you guys think that ATI will be able to compete with the 8800GT?
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    Prime 95 question

    Is it normal for one core to be slower than the other three? I know its usual for the temps to differ but one of my cores is consistently finishing tests 1+ minutes later than the other cores.
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    Windows XP randomly rebooting and/or bsoding

    After spending a few days messing around to get my vista stable, I decided to give up and go back to xp, which I thought would be much easier to install. No luck, now my computer is randomly restarting without a bsod, or crashing with a STOP: 0x0000000A error. My ram went overnight on memtest...
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    Random bsods running vista

    -_- just crashed again, I forgot to look at the blue screen before I restarted. I'm pretty sure its either a 0x000124 or a 0x000000A though
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    Random bsods running vista

    Okay, I'll see if the system crashes anymore. Thanks for the help!
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    Random bsods running vista

    oh, should I re-install soundMAX drivers or just disable the inbox drivers?
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    Random bsods running vista

    uninstalled soundMAX drivers, but crashed with a new error The error is
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    Random bsods running vista

    Already did a bunch of what the google searched sites told me to do, still doesnt work. I guess I just have to disable sound driver and live without sound until a fix comes out.
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    Random bsods running vista

    updated bios, ati drivers, sound drivers, now its bsod'ing very very frequently
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    Random bsods running vista

    Computer just bsod'd again. Here is the stop code
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    Random bsods running vista

    alright thanks guys, I'll post it up here the next time it crashes.
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    Random bsods running vista

    The only thing I could find was [/i] Is there some other place I should look?
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    Random bsods running vista

    My system specs are: Q6600 g0 stepping @ stock Thermalright Ultra 120 heatsink seagate 320gb 7200.10 sata drive 2x1 gig mushkin 5-5-5-12 DDR2 800 ram x1900xtx 512mb @ stock 550w antec NeoHE power supply Windows vista 32-bit ultimate version I have run memtest and windows memory test...
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    Antec 180 or 180B

    oh okay thanks guys.
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    Antec 180 or 180B

    I was looking online for the 180's specs when I noticed there were two models. Are the models different in any way? If they are, do both models come in two colors? Thanks in advance
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    Fix Vista MBR without Vista DVD

    I know its F11, it says so on the boot screen. I've tried every F key there is anyways. I've tried it with 2 different keyboards so I dont think thats the problem. The F10 button works fine for entering setup. The only problem is that nothing happens when I try to enter the recovery menu.
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    Fix Vista MBR without Vista DVD

    I see that the hp recovery option is available when I boot up. But for some reason when I press F11, nothing happens. I know that the keyboard works because the other keys work.
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    Fix Vista MBR without Vista DVD

    I have an HP computer that came with Vista pre-installed, so it didn't come with a Vista DVD. I screwed up the MBR by trying to dual boot XP. Is there any way to fix the Vista MBR without using the DVD?
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    Vista DVD working on one computer but not another

    When I use my vista dvd on my computer it works perfectly fine. But when I use it on my brother's HP computer, after the press any button to boot from dvd, it give me the error: the file is possibly corrupt. The file header checksum does not match the computed checksum. Anybody know what's...
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    Get the most out of my dual core CPU

    I got a new Core 2 Duo E4300, but honestly I dont notice that much of a speed increase in comparison with my old Sempron 1800+. The two have the same clock speed but since the C2D has two processors shouldnt it be twice as fast? Is there something I have to do the make sure I get the most out...
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    Keeps Going To "Windows did not start successfully" screen

    Whenever I turn on my computer it goes to the Windows did not start successfully screen and gives me the options: Safe Mode, Safe Mode w/ Networking, Safe Mode w/ Command Prompt, Last Known Good Configuration, and Start Windows Normally. No matter which option I choose it just restarts the...
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    Computer Freezing Randomly

    My brother's computer just randomly started freezing erratically. It'll run fine for about half and hour and just freeze. It wont respond to anything, and I have to hard reboot it. Lately it's been giving out hard drive read errors during boot before it loads the OS. Usually if I just reboot...
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    Hard drive permissions

    What's UAC?
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    Hard drive permissions

    I tried that but it give me the error: An error occurred when applying security information to: folder im trying to edit Access is denied BTW I'm using Vista if that matters.
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    Hard drive permissions

    Ok I just took my brother's hard drive out of his computer and into mine because it was messed up and I needed to backup some of the files. The problem is I need permission to copy over all of the files. Even when I click allow it wont let me do it.
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    Repair install

    I turned on my computer and I got this error message: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. Please re-install a copy of the above file. I have a windows xp cd but I dont know exactly how to go about re-installing a...
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    Aero w/ 512mb of RAM?

    Ok, I got some more RAM so I have 1 gb total. But for some reason it doesnt change to Aero. Do I have to switch to Aero somehow?
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    Aero w/ 512mb of RAM?

    I've been meaning to upgrade. Usually I can only upgrade one part of my computer at a time due to budget. Hence 512 mb of RAM. If I do buy new RAM and install it, will Vista automatically detect it and allow me to use Aero?
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    Aero w/ 512mb of RAM?

    I have a C2D E4300 and a Radeon 9200 so my CPU and GFX card have no problem with Aero, but I only have 512 mb of RAM. Is there any way I could force Vista to use Aero?
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    All drivers installed but still no audio

    Thank you SO MUCH!!!!! That solved the problem.
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    All drivers installed but still no audio

    Its enabled in the BIOS and the speaker icon is in the system tray. I really hope that its not just broken. I've already had to exchange this model of motherboard once. I found something on microsoft.com that seems to fit my problem but I dont know how to download it...
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    All drivers installed but still no audio

    I have integrated audio on my ECS P4800PRO-M motherboard and I've installed all the audio drivers but there still isnt any sound. I've tried multiple speakers and headphones so I know its something to do with the motherboard. Anybody know what could be going on?
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    Power on but no boot

    The 12V connector is connected but I dont think thats the problem. A quick search on the ECS website revealed to me that only the latest BIOS firmware supports the E4300. The problem is I cant update the BIOS if I cant get it to POST. Would the mobo be able to run without the CPU just enough...
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    Power on but no boot

    I figured out that the clicking was coming out of the hard drive and a light flashes every time it clicks. Everything seems to be connected properly. I tried without the gfx card but that didnt work either.
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    Power on but no boot

    Could it be that I'm using DDR333 memory while the motherboard supports DDR400 memory?
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    Power on but no boot

    Just got a new CPU and motherboard so I wanted to install it in my computer. The CPU is a Core 2 Duo E4300 and the motherboard is a ECS P4M800PRO-M. I believe I connected everything correctly but when I power on, nothing is displayed on the monitor. I've tried connecting the monitor to the...
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    Install Windows XP Without CD Drive

    Well of course I´ve already thought of buying a new CD drive, but thats not really an option for me right now. I will get a CD drive later on though.
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    Install Windows XP Without CD Drive

    The CD drive on my computer is old and cheap so now its not reading very reliably. I´m trying to install Windows XP onto a clean hard drive but every time some file ends up being corrupted because the CD drive cant read it correctly. Is there any way to install without a CD drive? I have an...
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    Reinstalling Windows XP

    Yeah I tried setting everything to default and taking out everything but the necessities but still no luck. What do you mean by "ran a cleaner" is that some software or did you actually physically clean out the drive?
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    Reinstalling Windows XP

    Ok, so I tried reinstalling Windows AGAIN, to try to fix the corruption. Now it shows the boot screen very briefly. Then goes to a screen that says: Setup is restarting................. Then it flashes a teal-blue screen. Then it gives me this error STOP: c000021a {Fatal System...