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    USB and Motherboard Problem

    I have a troubling issue with the USB on one of my motherboards and I really don't know how to fix it or what the problem is. I have two computes at my office. One computer has an ASUS P4S5233-MX with a 2.4 gig Celeron in it. I use WebcamXP Pro and have 3 web cams hooked up on it and it runs...
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    BSOD after restoring my XP image

    Ok, first off, I know everyone wants to suggest doing a clean install, but I have a ton of stuff installed and I do not want to do that...so I have my reason for doing what I am doing :D Now, to the problem. I have made an image backup of my 36 gig raptor OS hd. I took that image and...
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    DVI and Analog display question

    I currently have a Dell UltraSharp 2407W monitor and it is sweet. I was in BestBuy this weekend and saw a 28" monitor by HannsG. I started to purchase the monitor and give my wife my Dell monitor. But as I looked closer at the Hanns monitor I realized it's only outputs were VGA (analog) or HDMI...
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    Does Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 support AMD X2 cpu's

    I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 motherboard that I current have an AMD 3500+ cpu in and I have an AMD 4400+ X2 cpu in a motherboard that just died on me. My question is will that Gigabyte board support the X2 cpus? I have searched on Gigabytes web site and only find a GA-K8NS board and all...
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    MSI K8N Neo 4 Motherboard powering up problem

    I have an MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum SLI motherboard (MS-7100) and I am having a problem getting it to power up. It has been working perfect. Today I took my BFG 7800 GTX video card out to put into another pc that I am replacing this one with. I took a new Nvidia 8300 GS PCI-e and put into my K8N...
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    How to make a recovery disc of Vista

    How do you make a recovery disc of Vista? I have searched and supposedly Vista SP1 will do it, but it is not out yet. PE Builder only works for XP and lower. Suggestions? I would like to make an install (recovery) disc from the recovery partition that Dell has on there. In case something...
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    Dell 530 Motherboard and Power Supply Quesiton

    I have a Dell Inspiron 530 that I just got and I want to test my BFG 7800 GTX video card in this pc, but the sorry power supply in the pc is only 160 watt ps. Plus, the power supply only has serial power plugs on it, no standard power connectors to connect to my BFG card. So, I took an Antec...
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    Audio stuttering problems in Windows XP

    I just upgraded from an AMD 3200 cpu computer with an Abit K8N motherboard with 1 gig of ram to am AMD 3800+ X2 (939) cpu pc with 2 gigs of ram and an MSI 482M4 motherboard. I took my M-Audio 2496 audio card out of the old pc and installed into the newer one and when I playback audio it is...
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    Dell Laptop - Which is the best graphics?

    I am looking at the Dell Inspiron laptop computers. Some come with the 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 HyperMemory and some come with the 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS. Of course, some chipsets vary. Which has the better graphics? I know most all will do simple things like word...
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    Question about Dell laptops and Ebay

    I couldn't really find any place this post fit in. So, if this is not the correct place, then feel free to move it or delete it. I'm looking over Ebay and there are a lot of current model and prior current model Dell laptops. These are all Brand new, sealed and not refurbs. These things are...
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    PC Sluggish and hard drive acitivity light

    Ok, I'm running an AMD 64 X2 3800+ 939 cpu with 1 gig of ram and a WD 250 gig 7200 rpm hd. It seems like anything I do that my systems seems to have to access the hard drive. If I open Firefox, thunderbird...any program. There is always a delay while the pc hits the hd. I have my swap file...
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    PC's can't see each other on LAN now

    I've got 5 pc's on my home LAN and everything has been working fine. All of sudden my Vista pc doesn't see any of the other pc's on the LAN. Then when I check the other pc's, they can't see any pc's either. All of the pc's are running XP Pro except for the one Vista pc. Anyone got any...
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    Frontpage and hit counter question

    For some unknown reason my counter will get screwed up on my web site and instead of showing the counting numbers it shows the words 'Hit Counter'. I have to go into Frontpage 2003 and redo the counter and once I do that I loose all of my previous hits, it resets it back to zero. Even if I check...
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    USB Bandwidth Exceeded Problem

    Ok, I have a pc that I've been running 3 webcams on with no problems...2 are Icatch (that's what the drivers are called) and one is a Phillips. I wanted to add my Logitech QuickCam 3000 and when I installed it and plugged it in I get this error: USB Bandwidth Exceeded or something similar to...
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    Invalid System Disk problem

    I've got a pc that is rebooting overnight and displaying this error: Invalid system disk, replace the disk and then press any key. It's not doing it all the time...just periodically. It has done it the last to nights. I've run SpeedFan on it and I'm not getting any type of SMART errors...
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    Linux OS suggestions

    Answered my own question. :)
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    Need non -Java Web Cam app...

    Does anyone know of any non-Java or non-ActiveX web cam apps? I have a Motorola Q Smart Phone and I would like to be able to log into my web cam at my office to monitor sometimes. The only problem, the Motorola Q do not have Java or Active X in the Mobile Windows 5 version of IE. So, only...
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    Any good free webcam streaming software?

    Does anyone know of any good free webcam software for streaming video? I have to monitor some equipment at work and have been using WebcamXP version .92 (old version) and was getting ready to look for something better/newer. WebcamXP has stopped streaming the video for some reason. I can...
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    MSI K8N Neo4 bios problem

    I ran Tune Up Utilities 2007 on my pc...I've run a lot of the features in there with no problems. I ran the one about checking the hard drives. It came up and said it found errors on my C: drive, which is my 35 gig Raptor. It said it needed to reboot to fix the problems. I rebooted it and...
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    Win XP Pro vs Win MC

    What is the real difference in Windows XP Pro and Windows Media Center 2005?
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    Vista Compatibility List

    Is there a Vista Compatibility list somewhere...just curios if there's a lot of things that are not working or don't have drivers? Thinking about making the move, but didn't know if it would be like x64, not a lot of drivers and a lot of software issues.
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    Questions about Linux

    I would consider switching to Linux if there was a version I could run my Windows based programs and games in. I know absolutely zero...nothing about Linux. So, my questions are...is there a version of Linux that will run Windows apps and games? And secondly, which version is it...if...
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    HELP - MSI Neo 4 SLI PCB Revision

    I have an MSI Neo 4 SLI Platinum motherboard and was wondering where can I find what PCB revision this board is? I've looked on the board, but can't seem to find it. Can someone point exactly where MSI has stuck the revision number on the board? Thanks!
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    Windows XP x64 questions

    I'm thinking of upgrading to Windows XP x64, I'm not interested in Vista right now. And I wanted to here from some of you out there that are running x64...what are you opinions, problems...etc. with x64. I know a lot of things still do not have drivers. But are you having any specific...
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    Looking for a Windows XP x64 Compatibility List

    I'm looking for a current...up to date list, if anyone knows of one. The one at the UKGamers site doesn't look to be up to date. And doesn't show the last time it was updated, like the former site did. Thanks!
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    Help with Windows XP and burning files to cd

    Ok, I got a new pc at my office which is running Windows XP Media Center on it. Windows keeps popping up this little balloon at the bottom saying files are ready to be written to cd. You can delete those, so I choose to delete them. Well, low and behold, it deleted the source files from...
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    Help converting an old Random Access Database

    Here's my problem. Years ago I wrote a program in DOS Basic language that would catalog music. It's basically a music search program. Over the years we've entered thousands of songs into it and then we can search it to find any of those songs. I used a Random Access file and I dimensioned an...
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    LAN Problem

    Ok, I have 5 pc's connected on my LAN and they all run Windows XP Pro. I swapped one of those pc's with an older pc I had that was running Windows 2000 Pro (long story why I changed them, but it was a pc that use to be on this LAN and worked fine on it). Anyways, after I changed out that pc the...
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    Suggestions on ram for overclocking

    Ok, I currently have 2 sticks of Corsair CMX512-3200C2 and I'm needing to purchase some more ram for another pc anyways...so I want to purchase 2 sticks of 512 to replace what I have in my current system in my sig below. I have about $125.00 to spend...looking for suggestions of brand and which...
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    Help recovering old data from a hd

    Ok, I have an old pc that swapped with my mother-n-law and gave her and newer and faster pc for it. I've had it about 7-8 months and finally about 2 weeks ago I reformatted it and installed Windows XP Pro. It was running Windows 98 and it's an old HP Pavillion pc. Ok, now to my question...my...
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    Sorry..wrong area!

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    How to convert .cda files into .wav files

    I didn't really see an area for audio type discussion...so I put my question in here. I have some .cda audio files that I need to convert into standard .wav files and all the programs I normally use for my audio stuff will not handle this. How do I convert these files? Thanks.
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    Is this slow for a stock 4400+ system?

    I ran 3DMarks and then compared it to several on there (most were overclocked), but wondered if this seems slow for a non-overclocked 4400+ system? Most of the ones in there are at least 6000+...mine was 4482. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=96932 Thanks!
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    4400+ or 4800+

    If price wasn't an issue, which would you choose? The 4400+ or the 4800+? Is the the 200 mhz difference that noticable? Thanks!
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    Help with PC not seeing hd

    Ok, I have a Maxtor 160 gig hd that I use as a secondary hd. Tonight I switched my hd's from one pc to another (actually the Maxtor hd was put back into the pc it use to be in). Anyway, after I put the hd back into this pc...the hd isn't working. Here's the problem...the hd shows up in the...
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    How to get new serial hd as boot hd

    Ok, I just did a fresh install of Windows XP Pro on my current 7200 rpm hd. I've imaged the drive and I would like to put one of my WD 36 Raptor hd's as my primary boot drive in this pc. Now the question...is there ANYWAY I can put this serial hd in and then copy the image onto it? Or is...
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    Looking for good HD diagnostic program

    I think one of my hard drives is crapping out on me. I get strange reboots overnight and an error about the hd and it hangs on the bios screen. I've run WD program...it finds nothing. Is there any other programs out there that work better? Thanks!
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    Question on Registry editing software

    Ok, I've got a problem with MS FrontPage 2003 and it will not run. I've uninstalled it and tried to re-install it and I keep getting an error when it's trying to install. Now to my question...I've looked in the registry and I don't believe FrontPage has removed itself from the registry, thus...
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    Office 2003 problem

    Ok, I have Office 2003 installed on my pc...Word, Frontpage, Publisher...etc. About a week ago anything I run Word, Frontpage or Publisher...when I start them up I get so message like 'configuring MS Frontpage 2003' and that little pop up will stay up for a while. Then once I get into Word and...
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    Question about Compact Flash & Ultra II Compact Flash

    I'm looking at getting a new digital camera and noticed that one of the models (in some of the packages) has an Ultra II Compact Flash. What exactly is the difference in Compact Flash and Ultra II Compact Flash?