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    Defrag Question

    Videocard: BFG 6800 GT OC Processor: Athlon XP 2600+ 2.2 Ghz Mainboard: Shuttle AN35/Ultra v1.1 Memory: 2 X 512 PQI PC3200 Turbo Ram Soundcard: Onboard / Cambridge Soundworks sub- PSU: Antec TruPower 430w Windows XP Service Pack 2 I have a 90 Gig HD divided into a 30gig and a...
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    System Restore and Memory questions

    Videocard: BFG 6800 GT OC Processor: Athlon XP 2600+ 2.2 Ghz Mainboard: Shuttle AN35/Ultra v1.1 Memory: 2 X 512 PQI PC3200 Turbo Ram Soundcard: Onboard / Cambridge Soundworks sub- PSU: Antec TruPower 430w I recently used system restore to go back 1 month to fix a malware problem...
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    CPU Spikes and Event log messages

    Videocard: BFG 6800 GT OC Processor: Athlon XP 2600+ 2.2 Ghz Mainboard: Shuttle AN35/Ultra v1.1 Memory: 2 X 512 PQI PC3200 Turbo Ram Soundcard: Onboard / Cambridge Soundworks sub- PSU: Antec TruPower 430w I keep getting a message in my event log telling me my uninteruptable power...
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    DVD's and Magnets

    The other day someone in my house set my dvd storage folder on top of my powered sub-woofer. I moved it and it doesnt seem to have hurt anything. Will magnets hurt a cd or dvd like it will video tape?
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    Fan Control on Antec Tru-Power

    I recently got an Antec Tru-Power 430 watt PS and it works great and is very quiet. It has connections for " fan only" and the manuel says that these connections will control fan speeds thermostatically and will run the fans at the lowest speed till it needs to run faster because of heat. Ive...
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    Changing partitioning

    I have an AMD2600XP, a Shuttle AN35/Ultra mobo, 1gig of PQI PC3200 Turbo ram and a BFG 6800 GT OC and an IBM 90gig hardrive. My friend built this for me for gaming and it works great HOWEVER, When I had it built I had intended to burn DVD?s also so the hardrive is partitioned so that 30 gigs...
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    Changing partitioning

    I have an AMD2600XP, a Shuttle AN35/Ultra mobo, 1gig of PQI PC3200 Turbo ram and a BFG 6800 GT OC and an IBM 90gig hardrive and Windows XP Pro My friend built this for me for gaming and it works great however when I had it built I had intended to burn DVD?s so the hardrive is partitioned so...
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    Overclocking confusion

    Question: I have a AMD 2600 XP+ Barton, a Shuttle AN35/Ultra and 1 gig of PQI PC3200 Turbo ram. I have read that all of this hardware loves to be over clocked. In my mobo bios there are 4 settings under ?advanced chipset options? ___Optimal:____ FSB Freq. 166mhz CPU interface ?Optimal...
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    Overclock Confusion

    Question: I have a AMD 2600 XP+ Barton, a Shuttle AN35/Ultra and 1 gig of PQI PC3200 Turbo ram. I have read that all of this hardware loves to be over clocked. In my mobo bios there are 4 settings under ?advanced chipset options? ___Optimal:____ FSB Freq. 166mhz CPU interface ?Optimal...
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    Changing 3Dmark scores

    Question from a half-life junkie but a tech newbie. I recently returned a BFG 6800 GT OC I bought 2 months ago after it croaked. Before it died it got a 3Dmark03 score of 10500 with the 66.81 drivers. I just got my new one and it seems to work fine however I am getting fluctuating test...
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    Bad Motherboard or bad video card?

    I recently, with the help of a friend, put together a budget computer. I have a 300 watt power supply, Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 90 Gig hard drive,512MB PC2700 DDR DIMM, A Gainward G-Force FX5200 graphics card ( yes, I know they suck) An AMD 2600XP and a ECS K7VTA3 motherboard. I immediately tried...