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    My Seasonic woes

    I wanted your suggestions regarding some alternate ways of testing/repairing my Seasonic PSU before I RMA it I bought Seasonic S12 600W after weeks of research ((See my Thread). Everybody pretty much convinced me about it's reliability and quietness (ribbon13 you are the bigest culprit ;):)...
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    PSU Decision

    Can you please suggest the best power supply around $100? I have 6 hard drives, two video cards, 3 disk drives and multiple USB devices in my huge PC. Currently Antec 350W is somehow pulling through .. but lately I have expereinced some problems like a DVD drive does not seem to power up etc...
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    ATI FM tuner ... I don't know if I even have it?

    Hi! Am I missing something very obvious? I have two ATI AIW cards installed in two of my computers: 1. AIW 32MB Radeon and 2. AIW 8500 128MB Both of them have MMC 9.02 installed on them. Now, unlike what the MMC manual says, I cannot see any buttons for FM .. or any way to turn it on...
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    What is the maximum length of Cat 5 cable that you can run?

    Can I run 100 ft long cable from my flimsy Negear wireless router with two computers alreay connected to it? Does the length of cable contibute to decrease in speed? Thanks!
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    Are ATI latest Catalyst drivers backward compatible with older AIW cards?

    Hello, I have an ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 32MB PCI card, and am having consistent problems. (twice a day XP blue screen crash). I downloaded the latest Catalyst 5.5 Windows XP driver from ATI website, but I'm not sure if they support this older card. On the other hand, if I use the drivers...
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    Airlink Print Server woes

    I bought an Airlink 101 USB wired print server in order to network my Samsung ML-1740 printer. After configuring the IP etc., I'm able to print a test page from Windows by doing a print test page in the printer properties page. HOWEVER.. it takes like 10 minutes to do so. And as soon as it...
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    Rally annoying LCD Case beep

    Hi, I got a case from Fry's last week which has a front panel blue LCD display showing time of use, and temprature. The temprture is monitored by 3 wires whose sensors are stuck to HD, VGA and CPU areas with a thermal tape. Now this case starts beeping continuously as the computer is...
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    LCD Front panel COnsistent beep

    Hi, I got a case from Fry's last week which has a front panel blue LCD display showing time of use, and temprature. The temprture is monitored by 3 wires whose sensors are stuck to HD, VGA and CPU areas with a thermal tape. Now this case starts beeping continuously as the computer is...
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    Logitech Wingman Force 3D Joystick

    I got a Logitech Wingman Force 3D Force Feedback Joystick from a friend. The usb connection is fine but the it does not have the AC adapter. Now I'm wondering if the AC adapter is necessary? I hooked it up with Nascar 2003 and Microsoft Flight Simulation 2004 and they seem to be working...
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    Gateway Connected DVD Player 802.11g

    Hello .. I just got this player ... but am encountering a strange problem mentioned below. Can somebody who has it, please help: I have succesfully set it up and configured it on my network. It finds the access point, gets assigned a valid ip address, and can browse the media on my pc. When I...
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    Cheap basic video Card

    This might not be technical but ... I need a simple video card (32 MB or higher) which is XP compatible. I'm bringing my old computer back from the grave ... and this is the only missing component. .. Do you know the cheapest PCI card which will work for extremely basic applications like...
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    Pinkish screen

    Hi! I jut re-assembled one of my old computer (HP Pavilion) using parts lying in my closet. Things seemed to go on smoothly until the windows installation completed. Now the screen has turned pinkish .. it seems to be lacking green color. I have checked my VGA cable and the pins are intact...
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    Least wide 34" HDTV

    Hi! I know this is not the right forum, but I'm sure many of you can help me. I have a limited space in my entertainment cablinet (36" max). I want the biggest screen possible widescreen HDTV which can fit there (probably a 32 or 34). Do you know a model with thinnest side pannels (no...
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    Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 2.0 Keyboard

    Hi! I have a very quick and urgent question ... :( .... I just got my set, and I see that the keys look horrible. The glue used to stick the keys to the keyboard shows as dirty spots ... the space-bar looks filthy because of three such spots.. are your keys also the same? Kind of half...
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    Cordless Keyboard and Mouse - Big Confusion ...

    I'm extremely confused between: 1. Logitech Cordless Desktop Express Wireless Keyboard And Mouse for 21.49 AR/AC OR 2. Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 2.0 for 24.99 AR/AC Please advise ... Currently leaning towards microsoft .. Just two...
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    Dual Monitors: How should the monitors be?

    I'm a bit confused by what various people have to say about dual monitors ... I've heard some people say that it is great if the two monitors are exactly identical. This produces seamless, least confusing, most effecient set-up. Others state that it just doesn't matter. What's your take on this...
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    Dual Monitor Setup with two Video Cards?

    Hi! I have Radeon 8500 AIW 128 in my set up powering a Sony Trinitron CRT. I'm thinking of buying an LCD. I plan on using my old Voodoo 5 3dfx to power the CRT and AIW DVI for the LCD. I was wondering if dual monitor set-up will be possible using two cards (1 AGP + 1 PCI) instead of having to...
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    Kingston SD card problem

    Hi! I just bough a Kingston 512 MB memory card. When I formatted and tried to fill in songs in it for my mp3 player, it just goes as far as around 240 MB and then I get a windows message that 'either the file or the directory is corrupted!" The above thing happens when I use my card...
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    Windows XP nightmare

    Hi! I'm not sure if I have hit a bug in XP ... but this is what it is: I got a new Hard drive and wanted to install XP pro on it. I already had it on a sloewer second HD. I started the process... Installed the HD, started my computer normally, inserted XP CD and selected the 'install windows...
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    What can a bad power supply do?

    I was wondering what can be the effects of a bad/overloaded power supply? The reason why I want to research this is because if these effects are not fatal, then I do not need to change my power supply .. On the other hand if is risky to continue with such a power supply, then I think there's no...
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    Muhammad Ali's Chipset!

    Everytime I come across a deal for USB product ... some deal-crapper warns all the readers of the dreaded ALI chipset ... I do not understand what's the problem with it ... Can you guys comment on that?
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    USB 2.0 ... How do you know?

    I was wondering if you can tell whether a device, cable etc. is 'working' as usb 2.0 or not. I just happened to transfer pictures from my 128 mb memory stick using a usb 2.0 memory stick reader. The total process took around 2 minutes. If it's usb 2, shouldn't it take 128 MB/440 MBps = 0.3...
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    Can partitioning effect speed?

    I was just wondering if partitioning makes the drive slower? I mean if we have a 250 gid hard drive (say Maxtor ultra) versus the same drive partitioned at 50 gig + 200 gig .... which one if faster? My experience with RAID leads me to believe that bigger hard-drives are faster. Since...
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    Estimating required Power Supply

    Since I'm adding more hard drives and fans to my gigantic Antec case, I was wondering how do you guys tell what is the power supply requirement for your system? One way would be to add the power supply requirement of every component (drives, fans etc. etc.) ... Maybe there is an available...
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    Adding Hard Drive Bays

    Hi! Need to add an additional 200 GB SATA Seagate, but do not have any bays remaining. Is there something available which can be attached / hang-on to the existing bays / case and hold the hard drive? I have an Antec case ... On a side not I was wondering if there is an extension cable to...
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    Intelenet wireless sucks

    I bought a new cell phone with service (one year contract with T-mobile) from them. As per their advertisement, they promised to send a $50 mail in rebate after ?181 days from the date of Activation?. I placed my order with them in Sept/Oct 2003. Now that I contacted them after 8 months to...
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    Camcorder as Webcam!

    I JUST DISCOVERED YOU CAN HAVE UNBEATABLE QUALITY WEBCAM USING YOUR CAMCORDER!! Just a free download from the web ... and you can use your digital camcorder (with firewire cable) to produce crystal clear real time video to transfer over the web! great results ... (haven't tried though ... but...
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    Continuous beeping on Thinkpad 600e

    I upgraded my thinkpad (600e) from windows 98 to XP. The clean install of XP seemed flawless until a few days later I have started getting a very irritating continous beep sound from my speakers. I can mute it, but then I cannot use the audio. I researched the beep codes of for this notebook...
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    Coming Soon : Cure For AnandTechers

    As you must have observed .... this hot deals forum has been an addiction for most of us. There have been many instances when we did not need a particular thing ... still we kept searching various threads. Personally, I have spent hours and hours of my precious time lurking and shopping for...
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    Buy.com Price Mistake of the Day: Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD - Complete package $14.99 AR

    Just found this one ... Looks quite hot ... Just two questions: 1. Does it differ from / include instant copy? 2. It is written that " Instant CD/DVD cannot be used to copy CSS-encrypted discs.". Does that mean we cannot copy a normal movie DVD ... as most of them are CSS-encrypted! .... oh...
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    Memorex 4.7GB DVD-R 10-Pack w/ Jewel Cases FOR 9.99 + Sh - cp (Edit: Added Maxell 2X DVD-R Deal)

    Not too hot (due to shipping), but I guess if you are looking for a branded media, the deal seems okay. link There's a 10% off coupon floating around which can ease the pain :) a bit. ____________________ WHILE DOING MY WEEKEND HUNTING FOR DVD-R MEDIA ... I FOUND ANOTHER DEAL: Well, I...
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    GigaFast 2.4 GHz 11Mbps Wireless Notebook Card for 16.85 AR

    Was looking for a notebook wireless card, and saw this deal at Buy.com. Seems to be pretty hot .. if only the card is good. What do you guys think?
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    IOGear USB 2.0 - 2 port PCI card from Buy.com for 3.86 AR

    Just ordered the IOGear USB 2.0 - 2 port(s) PCI card from Buy.com. Free shipping :) linky ... Didn't need it ... but maybe can keep it for future!
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    Radeon 8500 AIW: AGP or PCI in Windows?

    I have a new Radeon 8500 AIW card (4xAGP) running with my Intel mobo and P4 (2.66) under XP professional. One strange thing that I noted was that in the device Manager, my 8500 Card properties suggest that the card is working properly in "PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0". Shouldn't the card be...
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    Accepting phone calls on Best Data V.92 modem?

    Hi Just bought a Best Data 56K v.92 PCI Internal Modem from the Office Max hot deal. However I'm not able to get the Netwaiting thing work. Leave aside, accepting the incoming calls, the netwaiting thing does not even activate? Anybody suceeded in running the netwaiting on this modem?
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    DVD-R more accepted by players than DVD-RW?

    Hi! I just finished burning my first DVD-RW with my new DVR-105 Cendyne/Pioneer DVD writer. I tried to play it in my DVD player (Panasonic: SC-DK10). But it did not accept. Is it a normal that DVD-RWs are less acceptable to normal DVD players compared to DVD-Rs? Does it mean that my player...
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    Nero Burning ROM vs Nero Express

    Maybe the most basic question ... But can anybvody tell me the difference between the two? I got a Nero Express CD with my DVD writer ... I have heard a lot of praise about Nero ... is Nero Expess the same? If ... they are not the same, what are the features I'm missing in Nero Express? Thanks!
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    Radeon 8500 AIW: Language Virus!!

    I have a new Radeon 8500 AIW card running with my Intel mobo and P4 (2.66). I'm encountering a very annoying problem. All of a sudden, my screen starts showing words broken down into granules. Everything else (picture, icons etc.) is okay. However, the works are screwed up ... all of them. My...
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    Physical = Mental

    I have an IBM thinkpad t23 lap top ... the moment I move it ... it hangs! Anybody encountered similar situation? ANy suggestions/ideas? Thanks!
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    Physical = Mental

    I have an IBM thinkpad t23 lap top ... the moment I move it ... it hangs! :Q Anybody encountered similar situation? ANy suggestions/ideas? Thanks!