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    audio not switching to headphones

    My Toshiba Satellite laptop running Vista no longer reroutes audio from the built-in speakers to the headphones when I plug them in. At first I thought the headphone jack had fritzed out. But after a bit of twiddling with audio device properties, I discovered that the jack works fine and...
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    dead mobo?

    my pc died yesterday when waking up from sleep. after swapping power cords/sources and checking the internal, i tried to start it up and only get a momentary flicker and fan spin but the on-board led stays lit. since the antec smart power 500 is pushing 3 yrs old, and i hardly ever turn...
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    slow embedded link performance with hd 4850 CCC

    is anyone else having a slowdown with windows explorer and file associations since installing the hd 4850 CCC and the hotfix? since i installed my hd 4850, windows explorer (not internet explorer) is very slow to open new windows. also, it takes about 20-30 seconds to open any link sent via...
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    need advice on mobo/cpu/ram

    i'm preparing to upgrade my pc with new mobo, cpu, and ram. ideally, i'd like to get a q6600, bump the fsb to 1333, and wind up a 3ghz quad core. this seems to be "automagic" with a e6600 on a p35 board, but i'm getting mixed signals about the ease of oc'ing a q6600. ramwise, what's your...
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    x1950pro flicker

    I've got an x1950pro that's about 3 months old and it has an annoying flicker with certain apps. For example, when playing spider solitare, the screen will blink out and the display will have a remnant (such as a stack of cards) that shouldn't be there. It seems that the invalidate rectangle...
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    movie from rip or dvd?

    I'm going to be travelling a bit and want to watch movies on my laptop. Which will offer longer battery life -- watching the movie from the DVD disc, or ripping the movie and watching it from the hard drive. If ripping is better, which encoding is better from a battery standpoint --...
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    x1950pro pci-e smartgart?

    I upgraded to a x1950pro pci-e and the catalyst 6.11 drivers earlier this week. (Old card was unlocked a x800gto2 w/6.7 drivers) Each time I boot, I now get a message that SmartGart (which I thought applied to AGP cards only) is determining the capabilities of the video card. This takes about...
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    'They' say it can't be done, bah!

    I'm trying to upgrade a Toshiba Satellite 1415 laptop from a 1.8ghz Celeron-M to 2.2ghz Pentium 4-M. The laptop uses the i845-MZ chipset which supports both the Celeron and P4M. The Toshiba BIOS is revision 1.4 and the same BIOS is used by the Satellite 2415 which differs from my laptop only...