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    $50AR!! 2GB DDR2 PC6400 MAD42GUOE-X2

    Just did a quick search for pqi and didn't notice this deal, so please delete if it's a repost. But, wow, free shipping and a small rebate. $65 shipped - $15 rebate = $50!!! Deal is HERE at Frys.
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    black and white tv out

    Not sure why, but my laptop using nvidia 6150go with svideo out using an svideo-rca adapter only shows up as black and white on my tv. I've messed with pal/ntsc settings and that doesn't affect anything. If I set it to composite out, then it flickers for a moment showing color, but then stops...
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    Recycle bin not working

    Well, I bought a new hdd and transfered data from my old hdd partitions over. Since the drive letters were different, I had to rename them so my installed software will work. Only issue is, for anything except the C partiton, the recycle bin doesn't work. Everything I delete is auto deleted and...
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    New monitor broke my display driver?

    Well, here's the story, I just hooked up a new widescreen monitor and reinstalled my display drivers. Now that it's installed, none of my games will run. When I try to load up ati tools, it says "the kernel mode driver does not seem to be running." I'm not sure what that means but now nothing...
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    quake 4 running a little slow?

    what does everyone else with their shiny new x800gto2 softmodded to x850xt running this game at? according to xbitlabs it seems i should be running fine at 1600 res w/4xaa and 8xaf. now of course i have a single core processor oced to 2.4ghz and 1gb of ram compared to their 2 gb...but i would...
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    A64 3500's memory controller broken?

    At first...I thought it was my motherboards having issues, but after switching to another, I still have the same issue. I cannot seem to run 1gb of ram...the computer won't post or anything if I have that much in. Does this mean my cpu's mem controller is having issues?
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    ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 not booting

    hey everyone, i just bought a used ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 and i can't get it to boot. the power comes on when i hit the power button and everything else does too...however my monitor won't turn on and i here no beeps or anything. i have an athlon 64 3500, 1gb of tccc ram, and an agp x800xl. i'm...
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    ram not working with abit av8

    I'm asking to see if anyone here has a fix to this. I just setup my new a64 mobo and cpu yesterday. After I was done, the mobo won't boot up and just beeped. After checking everything was in order, I thought it might be a ram issue. I luckily had a spare stick of 256mb ram I wasn't using. So...
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    is there a nvidia equivalance of attray?

    basically, is there a program for nvidia cards that'll link to game's exe files so when you load the game it will load the settings you want including overclocked settings? with my old radeon, i usually run the card underclocked, and have it overclocked only in games, i wonder if i can do the...
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    need help setting up older system

    i'm trying to setup winxp for an athlon 1.2ghz system for my cousin. the only issue is when i go to boot from cd, it'll finish loading all the driverss in the first part and when it goes to start up windows, it'll just freeze. i also tried using a boot disk and doing E:\i386\winnt.exe and it...
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    dvd software for celeron 800

    hey, what do you guys use to play your dvd's with lowered machine. what's the fastest dvd player/codec software. powerdvd seems to run dvd's kinda choppy.
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    question on about the epox 8k5a2+

    Is it common for this mobo to overclock worse with 2 rather than 1 stick of ram? with 2x 512mb ddr400, i get memtest error and random reboots with anything higher than 180mhz fsb regardless of cpu speed. with one stick however, i can hit up to 197mhz fsb until i have graphic corruption from my...
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    need help identifying game save files.

    i've recently messed up one of my partitions and i'm trying to use a program to recover some of it back. the files it recovers aren't in the same folder as it normally would be...so does anyone know what the name of the save files for Half Life 2, Prince of Persia WW, and Doom 3?
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    need help on how to fix boot issue for a friend

    basically my friend recently upgraded his mobo, cpu, hdd, and vid card. apparently the power wont even boot up. when i told him to place in his old radeon 7000...he says the fans comes on for a second...and then the computer makes a beep and shuts off. here's what he says: "Ok I just put...
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    HELP!!! i can't stop stuff from dling into my hdd

    Recently, one of my computers got a crapload of adware/spyware..etc...downloaded on it. i use ad-aware and pestcan's online scanner to identify everything. and then what ad-aware couldn't get rid of, i manually deleted (files and registry settings). i guess i might've deleted something wrong...
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    is there a registry that changes where most programs install to?

    I was just wondering if there is a registry key that i can modify so that most programs i install will automatically go to D:\program files rather than my window's hard drive C:\program files ?
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    help needed in fixing font size in windows

    i have an odd problem...the text in my toolbars, most text in websites, and the text in yahoo/aol instant messenger is smaller than normal...i dont recall doing anything to make this happen, but it has been going for over a week. is there a way to reset the fonts or something?
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    takes 3 tries each time to get computer running?

    when i hit the power button, the power will turn on but nothin will show up. pressing the restart button won't do anythin either, i have to shut it off and turn it back on really quick, then everything will show up but with a bunch of artifacts(which is not created by heat from the video...
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    Spectek 256MB DDR PC2100 $9.98AR

    officemax has these spectek rams for $39.98-$30mir=$9.98 . good deal since the price of ram are increasing. just wondering, does anyone know if this offer only works online? or can it be purchased locally?
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    problems with winlogon.exe...

    it only started recently, after a bunch of adware entered my computer and i had to remove it. pretty much after windows load up, round 10minutes after, the computer gets extremely slow. when i go into task manager, it seems winlogon.exe is takin 99% of the cpu and making everything pretty much...
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    how to get rid of the thing that keeps changing my start page

    k, i know there must be some kind of exe file in my hdd that keeps changing my start page for internet explorer to http://omegasearch.com/passthrough/index.html?http://www.yahoo.com/ instead of normally yahoo.com. if someone has dealt with this problem, please tell me how to fix this. none of my...
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    need help...bad gpu bios flash

    alright...i screwed up flashin the bios of my 9500. my computer locks w/o vid card. so i got pci card. i tried flashin the 9500 bios but unfortunately...i believed i flashed the 9500 bios to the crappy pci card. my question is before i ruin everyone of my cards...what do i type to flash agp's...
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    help accessing files on computer

    i had to reset my bios once, and after that, my windows became corrupted. since then, i have reinstalled windows as a new installation. i've saved all my previous files inside my documents on my old account and windows isn't allowing me to open them right now. is there a way to use my new...
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    anyone have info on the fic au13?

    there isn't much sites that have reviewed the fic au13. it sounds pretty nice, does it have features like soundstorm? also how well does it overclock?