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    Suddenly Lost HDD Partition...

    Hello, Well i kind of have a big problem... when i was installing 2 new drives in my Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6, i hooked up one new drive to the Gigabyte SATA ports and one old drive (the added 2 ports, not the Intel ICH9R ones) and when i got into windows it said the drives have 32MB?!? I tried...
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    Looking for a SATA controller card

    Hello, I was looking arround for some controller cards because i ran out of SATA ports in my storage computer :) So i didn't want to get the cheapest one, but on the other hand i don't really want to give out a months pay for some of the stuff out there. I have to admit this is my 1st...
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    Need help choosing a cheap gigabit switch

    Hello, I'm building myself a small home network, and i don't plan on hooking up more than 4 computer at any time... When i was building my house i planned a network and already layed out the cables so this should be much faster than wireless... But now i'm kind of stuck with choosing a...
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    Some advice about a cheap board

    Hello, I'm planing on building a small home server in the next week or so, and i need some advice on what mobo to get. The plan is to have a computer that uses as less power as possible, but still be able to act as a home or download server. Here's the choice of motherboards: Gigabyte...
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    Laptop HDD problem

    Hello... I just had my laptop "die" on me today... well i don't have any important data on it, but my wife has a couple of Gb of her pictures on it... and this a kind of a bad time to say "i told you so" about that backup thing... :D Now its not the laptop that dies its just the HDD, but...
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    Buying a new 24" - HP LP2475w or Samsung 2493HM

    Well, i finally managed to persuade my wife to try out the "gaming world", and now after picking out all the components for the computer i'm gonna get her i'm left with the final choice - what monitor. Now the choice here is pretty limited, there are barely no IPS monitors available, and only...
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    Seagate 1.5TB

    Hello, I'm just curious, does anyone own Seagate's new 1.5TB drive? I'm looking for general experience on the drive because i'd found a really good price for it. (basically it costs the same As Samsung & WD 1TB models) I'm only gonna use it for data storage not as a system drive. Anyone...
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    Gigabyte Radeon 4870 1GB

    Hello, I'm just wondering since there are a bunch of 4870 card out there with 1GB of memory, does anyone here have Gigabyte's GV-R487-1GH-B model?? It's by far the cheapest one you can buy, and i'm wondering if there's a reason for that in performance or something, but then on the other...
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    Compaq Presario V2000 Problem

    Hello, A friend of mine brought me her laptop today, for me to "fix" it, and i'm kind of stuck. When i want to turn it on, windows start to load, but after about 15 seconds i get a blue screen and a restart. Safe more, last known good configuration don't work. I thought i'd just reinstall...
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    eSATA & Homemade HDD enclosure

    Hello, I have quite a few HDD's right now connected to my Gigabyte X38-DQ6, 7 HDD's (1 IDE) & 1 SATA DVD/RW. Now, of those 7 HDD, i have 3 160Gb in RAID 0, 1 (IDE) is for weekly backups, and the rest i use occasionally. Since i use them say once a day to store my work data & stuff i...
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    Integrated Audio or old SB Live

    Hello, I'm using the very old SB Live!, Value PCI sound card, and it has always been a bit of a hassle to get all the drivers working perfectly, and in Vista x64 i couldn't even get anything to work, so i was thinking. Is the old Live card that much better than the Intel integrated audio...
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    Question about Belkin UPS

    Hello, I bought a Belkin 1200VA UPS about 6 months ago, and its working perfectly... but i have a small question i'm curious about. Sometimes when the AC line drops under a certain level, say 215V, the green light on the UPS starts to blink, and it gives out the info that its "correcting"...
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    What 1TB drive to get

    Hello, Okay i need to get a 1Tb drive for storage, so i went to the places i usually shop, and i can get a WD, Seagate, Samsung & Hitachi for basically the same price. Now, performance isn't really my 1st concern and reliability is. I'm basically looking for a drive that will last me a...