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    Is 4 GB of Ram Needed?

    why would they create applications that 99.9% of the users would need to upgrade their pc's for? even highly specific ones
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    Installing windows on External Drive for Laptop

    I have a laptop whose hard drive went nuts so i bought another one. This laptop did not have a functioning cd drive so right now i'm trying to figure out what i can do. i have a 2.5" enclosure and a new 2.5" hdd i bought. i'd like to install windows on it from my desktop somehow using the...
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    Windows Problem in Laptop

    Hi guys I have a IBM Thinkpad R30. I was having problems with my windows so I decided to reformat my drive and I used Paragon Partition Engine. It asked for a restart to do formating and I did so and ever since then I cant get windows to load. Now whenever I turn on my laptop I get...
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    Zen Xtra 40GB MP3 Player

    how would you compare this in size and weight to the mini ipods?
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    XFX 6600GT AGP at monarch $199 shipped

    same thing here. i got a radeon pro 9800 with my dell..wondering if this is a good upgrade from that?
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    ATI's TV WONDER ELITE (TV capture card)

    hey guys i was thinking of getting this. i have a LCD TV and I wanted to know if buying this would save me the extra cost of renting a HDTV box from time warner. Will the coaxial wire just go on back of the card and it will work or will I need a cable box also to get it to work?
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    Need shortcut Tip for Word

    Hello I have to weekly put in addresses that come in a Word file that come something like below John Smith Dover St New York New York 11426 Sally Jay XYZ St. New York, New York 11030 and so on and so on What I have to do is put this in Avery Standard 5160 format. Currently...
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    Bargaining with Dell Customer Service

    buying a dimension 4700..basically p4 2.8, upgrade to 512mb, upgrade the vid card to x300 and the hard drive from 40gb to 80gb..came to $740 after coupons before tax
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    Bargaining with Dell Customer Service

    I was wondering before I made my final purchase that if any of you guys had success with bargaining with customer service guys at Dell or is everything set in stone? Any success with them making the deal any sweeter? Any tip. advice will be greatly appreciated.
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    Dell $1 LCD TV Deal?

    thank you very much everyone. (especially mugs) anandtech rules
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    Dell $1 LCD TV Deal?

    I have heard that there is a offer where if you spend over $699 then you get a an LCD TV for only $1. I am very interested in this but I havent seen this anywhere. Is this just a black friday rumor or is it just rumors. If it is true can someone please point me to it. Thank You
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    Sudden Dropoff In DL Performance

    it is the trial version
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    Sudden Dropoff In DL Performance

    Ok below is the log I saved. Sorry for not posting the Specs I am running P4 2.8GHZ Intel 1GB RAM GeForceTi4800SE 128MB Windows XP SP2 ===== below is the log file. Any help I would greatly appreciate. Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.2 Scan saved at 9:57:00 AM, on 11/16/2004...
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    Sudden Dropoff In DL Performance

    I recently bought a new computer that I installed windows on by myself. I am finding something very annoying with it. I will have a download going at around 390kb and it will keep running like that. The problem starts when I do anything with my PC. Running an explorer cuts my speed down to...
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    Sudden Problems with Windows XP

    tjaisv: i tried using the system restore to an old point when everything was going good but it didnt help. i dont want to do a system restore before i have gone through all options and as waitman stated i wanna make sure that if i have any virus or trojan they arent attached to system restore...
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    Sudden Problems with Windows XP

    I have been bugged by a few problems that started to happen recently. I have Windows XP SP2 Home Edition. The most important is that my Add/Remove Programs button does not function at all. I double click it and nothing happens. I also have Quicken which is very important to me installed...
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    IDE to SATA Dongle??

    problem is they dont show up in bios or in the device manager
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    IDE to SATA Dongle??

    well i tried this and now i have a problem on my hands. i used the converter to connect my dvd drive and make it a sata drive. i set my bios on combined so it would read the sata and it just didnt work. My computer froze at the windows startup or when i reset it it wouldnt allow me to go...
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    IDE to SATA Dongle??

    thx for feedback guys
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    IDE to SATA Dongle??

    I was scoping through EBAY and I came across a listing for a dongle which converts your IDE devices into a SATA device. Now I bought one of these and now after ordering it I am having 2nd thoughts as to if it would really work or not. The problem is that my pins of my IDE on my motherboard...
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    Booting off Exteral Drive??

    Hello I just recieved my shuttle yesterday and I was trying to set it up today. ShuttleX SBG652 is the system that i currently have. Now I bought the memory, videocard, processor and a HD for it. Now I didnt buy a DVD or CD drive cause I though I could use my external USB drive. Which...
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    Video Drivers and Taking out V. Card

    just checked some stuff on my computer and found out it is a ASUSTEK Computer INC. P4S266VX
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    Video Drivers and Taking out V. Card

    It is a sony vaio pcv-rx752 i dunno how to check what motherboard it is but the videocard was a addon. the pc came with onboard graphics and my sister put in the video card.
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    Video Drivers and Taking out V. Card

    Hello, I just sold my PC to someone and they have said that I can keep the video card that was in it. It is a Ti4800se. Now my question is do I just open the PC and take the card out of the AGP slot or do I have to do something before? Do I have to set it back to onboard graphics or...