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    Is there something wrong with my Western Digital WD-6400AAKS hard drive?

    oh, and I tried putting a jumper on the HD to restrict to sata 1 , no difference.
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    Is there something wrong with my Western Digital WD-6400AAKS hard drive?

    I was checking the benchmarks and noticed it. Right now it's just a back up drive, it;s going to be the os drive after I'm sure all is well. I have a sata 1 drive that seems to run "normal" with cpu under 5% and a old eide that runs with 2% cpu.
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    Is there something wrong with my Western Digital WD-6400AAKS hard drive?

    I'm getting low burst rates, hi random access rates and high cpu usage. According to Hd tach 3.0.4.0: I'm running the tests after a fresh boot with nothing running. Burst rate: 115 ave read: 90 random access: 15.7 CPU usage: 15% Hd tune yields similar results. Also, looking at...
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    Has anyone used the Samsung F1 HD322HJ yet?

    Hey gang, looking to get a new hard that is quiet and fast. I was looking at the F1 line from samsung. I can't seem to find much about about the 320 gig single platter drive, HD322HJ . I want a drive that uses the newer high density platters. I found info about the other f1's, but not this...
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    Epson printer no longer recogonizes ink cartridges. any ideas??

    Well, I took thye carts back to staples. The guy said I could try some epson carts and return them if it still didn't work. Well it worked,go figure.
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    Epson printer no longer recogonizes ink cartridges. any ideas??

    no staples carts.got them from MSI inks. I got some carts from staples this afternoon. Some progress, now just yellow does not work. time for a new printer I guess.
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    Epson printer no longer recogonizes ink cartridges. any ideas??

    i don't have spare carts. the print head is indeed separate. everything worked fine 3 days ago. Nothing has changed.
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    Epson printer no longer recogonizes ink cartridges. any ideas??

    HI, I have a epson cx 5400 printer. Generic carts. I went to print something out tonight and it gave me an error. it said there was a error with all 4 ink cartridges. It's like it didn't even know they where there. So, I took them all, out cleaned all the chip contacts on the printer and...
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    videos won't play after installing geforce 6200 video card

    I installed a pny geforce 6200 card today, a upgrade from the igp. NOW, no video will play, divx ,xvid,mpeg,even dvd's won't play. streaming video from cnn.com does not work either. everything worked fine before. I tried deleting the card and then reinstalling with the latest drivers from...
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    New lcd keeps blanking out, is it bad? or something else?

    if you unplug it,then plug it back in, the lost signal message is displayed. The picture does reappear pretty quick when it's plugged back in. The blinking does seem quicker though. Time to RMA it.Thanks.
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    New lcd keeps blanking out, is it bad? or something else?

    no I don't. My previous moniter ahs it's vga cable built into it.
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    New lcd keeps blanking out, is it bad? or something else?

    it does it in safe mode too. I'm going to send it back.
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    Hanns 19" LCD $109 AR

    I ordered mine on sunday, but I called today and they gave me the $10 price differance and the free shipping credit. 2 thumbs for pc connection. Now the bad part,I have to RMA it, the screen keeps blanking out every couple of minutes, sometimes several times a minute.
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    New lcd keeps blanking out, is it bad? or something else?

    no. i use vga. screen just goes blank. just like it blinks on and off.
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    New lcd keeps blanking out, is it bad? or something else?

    update: I thought it might be a windows issue so I rebooted and went into the bios and waited a few minutes. It still did the same thing. Guess that means it's not a windows or driver issue.
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    New lcd keeps blanking out, is it bad? or something else?

    Hi, I just got my new hanns G 19" lcd monitor today. The screen keeps going completely blank every couple of minutes. It blanks out less than 1 sec then returns to normal.The entire screen turns blank(black). I have tried different vga drivers,different resolutions. no help. I'm...
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    What's a good basic video card??

    thanks, what's non tc?
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    What's a good basic video card??

    hey guys, My igp is getting flaky so i think it's time to upgrade. I have a sempron 2800+ based system, 1.6 ghz and a gig of ram. I don't do any gaming. I do web surfing,watch some dvd's and watch xvid and divx videos. Can you guys recommend a video card that would be appropriate...
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    when I increase the resolution, the icons don't shrink and some of the desktop gets pushed off screen.

    Yes I did try it, no help. I'm trying to use use the monitor at it's NATIVE RESOLUTION. It's not the monitor, I tried a different one, same problem. must the igp or the drivers. thanks for your input guys.
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    when I increase the resolution, the icons don't shrink and some of the desktop gets pushed off screen.

    could it be the graphics igp has gone bad? Sis says this igp supports resolutions higher than I'm using so, that should not be the issue. any Xp settings hidden away somewhere?? thanks
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    when I increase the resolution, the icons don't shrink and some of the desktop gets pushed off screen.

    lcd, it's native resolution is 1280x1024. I think it was the same with my old crt too.
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    when I increase the resolution, the icons don't shrink and some of the desktop gets pushed off screen.

    Hiya, I'm using a asus mobo with igp by SIS. normally when you increase the resolution the icons on the desktop get smaller. however, when I increase the resolution past 1024x768 the icons stay the same size and the right side and bottom of the desktop get pushed off the screen. There...
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    scrolling issues with new LCD monitor. Did I get a bad one?

    I just got a new samsung 731b LCD monitor. My first ever lcd. It seems to scroll text slow,kind of sluggish and distorted. For example, say I go to cnn.com and try to scroll down, with the mouse wheel, the text moves sluggish. it's even slower if I click on the up or down scroll arrows. it...
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    Very slow file(cd-r) copying from benq 1640 to hard drive

    no, the cd is fine. I used nero cdspeed and did a transfer rate test. steady read throughout. I tested several other cd's too, it's all of them.
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    Very slow file(cd-r) copying from benq 1640 to hard drive

    Hello, I'm getting extremely slow file copy times with my benq 1640. I'm trying to copy a 500mb file from a cd-r to the hard drive. It's taking almost 10 minutes. the drive sounds very quiet so it's not spinning that fast. I checked device manager and dma is enabled. it burns jsut fine...
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    Please help with random rebooting or BSOD. Please

    I did it again,about 4 hours, over 20 times.
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    Please help with random rebooting or BSOD. Please

    The first part is always the same. Stop: 0x40000080, the 4 sets that follow sometimes change. It does NOT say PFN_LIST_CORRUPT.
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    Please help with random rebooting or BSOD. Please

    The one that came with my sonata is a Antec True 380S
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    Please help with random rebooting or BSOD. Please

    Hello, I hoping some of you savvy computer experts can help me out. My computer randomly reboots. The computer is about 6 months old. This has been happening for about 7 weeks now. I have added no new hardware. Well, actually since I turned off the reboot on error, I get a blue screen. It...
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    Space bar doesn't always turn on my computer.

    like I said. It ALWAYS works in windows. every key, every time.
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    Space bar doesn't always turn on my computer.

    hiya, I have a Asus k8s-mx motherboard. I use thw space bar to turn on the computer. Sometimes it won't turn it on though and I'll have to press the power button on the case. Any idea what could make it work only sometimes?? I have a regular ps2 keyboard, 10 years old. It always works in...
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    Wich would be quiter, a Panaflo L1 or a Panaflo M and fanmate?

    Thanks. are those 2 fans the same, same motors, just wired differently to turn different rpm s?
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    Wich would be quiter, a Panaflo L1 or a Panaflo M and fanmate?

    Hello, I have a AMD sempron 2800+ and Asus k8s-mx. I'm using the onboard graphics and sound. I mainly only do web surfing and some movie watching. the stock fan on the heatsink is too loud, it is cool though, i think. The idle temp, just web surfing is 31 C, the temp after 2 hours of...
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    Any way to have windows XP shut down just one hard drive?

    it's just a data back up drive, old and kinda noisy. might only get accessed a couple of times a week. so, i wouldn't be dpinning up and down a lot. I don't actually want to turn it off, just off it spin down, it's much quieter that way.
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    Can I replace the stock cpu fan without changing the heatsink?

    Thanks for the replies. I'm going to try a 70->80 mm fan adapter and a panaflo L1A and maybe a fanmate too.
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    Any way to have windows XP shut down just one hard drive?

    HI, I know you can go into the power settings and have xp shut down all drives atfer xx mintues. Any way to just shut down one drive. thanks jason
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    Can I replace the stock cpu fan without changing the heatsink?

    Hi, I Have Asus k8s-mx motherboard and a sempron 2800+ with a AMD Certified Opteron/64/FX Heatsink that came with it. I got the combo from Monarch. I'm using the onboard video and sound and lan, so the pc case(sonata) is pretty empty. The cpu fan is BY FAR the loudest thing in there. Can...
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    Any reccomendations for a super slick mouse pad?

    Hi, I'm looking for a new mouse pad. One that has a very low coefficient of friction so that the mouse will glide very easy. I use a cordless optical mouse, so it's kind of heavy. Thanks, Jason Ps I wasn't sure which forum this went in, so I put it in 2 different ones. Hope that's ok.
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    Can anyone reccomend a super slick mouse pad?

    Hi, I'm looking for a new mouse pad. One that has a very low coefficient of friction so that the mouse will glide very easy. I use a cordless optical mouse, so it's kind of heavy. Thanks, Jason Ps I wasn't sure which forum this went in, so I put it in 2 different ones. Hope that's ok.