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    Troubleshooting an Ethernet port

    Tried that already.
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    Troubleshooting an Ethernet port

    Hi folks, Long time since I posted, glad to see things are still hopping. I am trying to troubleshoot a PC that will not load the internet through a network cable. It runs very slowly, eventually stalling out the connection. It replicates the fault with multiple cables, and since it is a...
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    Need a Note Book with IEEE/1384 Firewire Ports

    Hi folks! got a lot of video work to get done, on the road. I am looking for NB's with firewire ports on them, and they seem to be few and far between. Anyone know some models with them, or failing that, does anyone have recommended add on cards with Firewire ports that work well with a...
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    Codec for WMP or other alternatives?

    Yes, it is strange. I don't know what it is, I can't get anything to play on the thing. I am starting to suspect a hardware problem. I'll let you know later.
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    Codec for WMP or other alternatives?

    Hi folks, I am totally confused, and I need some help here. I am trying to repair an old PC for a friend of my son. It has a copy of XP home on it w/SP2. But the person can't play any media at all with WMP. I can't even play any of my media with it, even legal cd's that I purchased...
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    Determining the Value of a Notebook?.

    Hi Folks, I have several older, really old NB's that I need to get rid of, plus maybe a decent, fairly modern NB that needs to go out the door too. My first thought was check ebay, and the anandtech forums (of course), but I can't find much on the models I have, and the models change so...
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    Another Silly Question

    Hi folks, My web searches have been pretty weak recently, i must ba asking the wrong questions, so I thought I would ask you folks. Recently I put Vista x64 on my PC, and I love it. It has not crashed yet, after 2 months of using it, and I have a dual-boot machine with XP on the PO as...
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    Silly Wista Wallpaper Question

    :laugh: Hi Folks, Recently I found a silly little flash file (.swf) which would make a silly looking screen saver for my Vista X64 PC. But since I am still very new to Vista, I am wondering if I can somehow set this this file up as a windows screen saver. I have saved the file to my...
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    Dual OS's/ Dual Boot?

    Oh, how I wish it was true. But, I already tried to get the printer working, and it totally failed to work. When big time vendors like HP are not writing Vista drivers, it seems to sat MS is in trouble with the OS.
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    Dual OS's/ Dual Boot?

    Sound, Two reasons: 1. There are apps I can/need to run that Vista won't run, though I admit I have not tried some of them in an XP Compatability box. 2. Never thought about setting up a virtual machine in Vista, have to look into that. Any place where I can information?
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    Dual OS's/ Dual Boot?

    Men, I have a related question. Since HP is not writing Vista printer drivers for my printer (what are the thinking at HP?), I find that I am going to have to set up a dual-boot system on my new Vista PC. If I take my old HD from my old PC, transplant it into my new PC, is it just a...
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    Micro$oft and its Friends Do Hose the Consumer

    Men, You might be right that I was a little hasty in what I wrote last night, and I ask your forbearance. However, I am totally at a loss to understand how I could run the same DVD's in the same PC using an earlier version of Media Player on the same computer before all the upgrades to media...
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    Micro$oft and its Friends Do Hose the Consumer

    Folks, As some of you know I have been posting on the forums, as I have been building a new PC for my son as he goes to school. Well, he brought the box home for the weekend, and I was doing some work on it. Sadly I screwed up on formatting a hard drive, so I had to reinstall XP32. Part...
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    7900GS 256pcie doesn't work with drivers

    Hello, I currently live in the state of confusion. I am trying to get my new build to work, and the 7900GS from evga is giving me fits. Rig: Q6600, Gigabyte p35-DS3P, 4 GB or RAM, XP (no comments please), Silverston Zeus 750 PS, lots of cooling. I got the card used off another guy...
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    Torn Between Devil I know and Devil I don't

    Hi folks, While this might get ported to the Operating Systems Forum, my first thought is that this is a more appropriate place for the discussion. Just finished my newest build: Q6600, 4GB of Ram, Giga P35-DS3P, pleanty of cooling, Antec 190 case, Raptor 150GB, Samsung 400 GB Drives...
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    P35C-DS3R Network card help please.

    I'll get back to you...
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    P35C-DS3R Network card help please.

    I also laded all the drivers on the CD, at least all that I could.
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    P35C-DS3R Network card help please.

    Hi folks, I'm stuck in the same problem. I just built a Ds3p build for my son, now in college. I only have an old copy of XP home, so I loaded it up. Then I tried to load all the drivers up, and several of them required XP SP's 1 and 2 for all the drivers to load. Figuring it be no...
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    P35C-DS3R Network card help please.

    Hi folks, I'm stuck in the same problem. I just built a Ds3p build for my son, now in college. I only have an old copy of XP home, so I loaded it up. Then I tried to load all the drivers up, and several of them required XP SP's 1 and 2 for all the drivers to load. Figuring it be no...
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    New Build CPU Problem

    Hi folks, Currently building: Q6600, B3 stepping, stock cooling Gigabyte P35-DS3P 2 GB OCZ DDR2 800 2 SATA HD's, IDE Plextor 750A Burner EVGA 8600GT Video card Antec P190 case The darn thing runs fine, everthing lights up, all the drives and fans spin, except it won't post (no...
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    How Many times Can a Retail Copy of Vista be Loaded

    Bruce, Yes, under most circumstances you are correct. But he is playing FB on the college level, and it is pre-season camp starting Sunday. then it's three or four weeks of 3 a days until 10 P.M. He won't have a chance to get it done for a while. And to even get a key and/or access to the...
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    How Many times Can a Retail Copy of Vista be Loaded

    Thanks, That is what I thought (sigh), so I will be using XP for a long time. As a matter of fact, he is eligible for the program at his school. Problem is you have to have a working PC before he gets up there. Had I know about the program I would not have dumped a ton of cash into his...
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    How Many times Can a Retail Copy of Vista be Loaded

    Hello! As we speak I am building a PC for my son as he gets ready to go to college (makes me sad to think of it). It's probably a good time to port to Vista, however, Micro$soft is bleeding my wallet dry with the cost of a new OS. I know the OEM version is tied to one MB, is the retail...
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    NEC 20WMGX2-BK S-IPS 20.1" WS LCD $399.99 AR+shipping

    The promo code did not work for me when I tried it, too expensive without it.
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    OEM vs. Retail?

    OEM software, will just be a disk(s) with out all the nice packaging, a manual, and all the bells and whistles a full priced retail package has in it. Unless it is pirated software, it is usable just like the regular program is. there may also be lower levels of technical support for the...
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    Confusiuon Reigns

    I hate to bother people here , but I need advice. My son is leaving for college, which is killing me to begin with. But I am building him a new PC for him to use at school. He is a gamer, both using Xbox and PC games. He would like a montior that doubles as a TV for games, or a TV he can...
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    Want to reduce Video Editor Lag. What do I need?

    Good luck, I use Vegas too, and it takes forever. I am upgrading my rig, so I hope I can use your answers!
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    Geezer Needs Help With New P35 Boxes

    Thank you in advance for your assistance: My son is going off to college, so part of the deal is a new PC, and with me doing a lot of video encoding these days, my 4 year old system is hopeless. So I am building two of them. He is a computer science major, at least for now, who plays games...
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    Need Advice- Best Video Card & Monitor/TV

    Hi Folks, I am in a quandry, and I could use some advice. When I did my last build many moons ago, it was fairly easy to find a good CRT/Video card combo that you can use as a TV as well. Boy, have times changed. My family wants to have a PC/Home theater(?), that is more PC than...
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    Need help building new high-end computer

    Master Ralph and others, Thanks for the help. Ouch on the QX6800, I may be headed for an overclocked 6700. The mobo stuff confuses me a little now. I was looking at a P35 board, but I am confused on the flavors of PCI slots you gave me. I am not looking at multiple video cards, though a...
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    Need help building new high-end computer

    :laugh: To change the subject a little, I am a person who has been out of the loop for a long time as well. I need to build two systems, one for my son heading to college, and one for me. Some questions: 1. How low are Intel quad cores falling in price? Is it half of their current...
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    Need help With Bad Crashes

    :disgust: Hi folks, I am at the end of my rope so I thought I would ask for some help. I have a Gigabyte GA7n4400 pro2, with an Athalon 2100 XP. It has 512 MB of RAM, and two WD Caviar Drives, one is 100 GB, the other is 250GB. I use Win XP, up to date. Here is the problem: Every...
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    XP 2000 Too Hot in New system??? Newbie needs HELP

    :o Friends, I just built a new system: MSI NForce, AMD XP 2000 retail CPU, Lian Li PC 69 Aluminum case, 425 watt Enermax power supply. Floppy, HD drive, DVD and CDRW in the bays, with room between them all. Loaded Windows XP Home (what an awful operating system) and MSI's version of PC Alert...
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    Newbie system Builder looking at Lian Li case and MSI NForce problem

    Folks, I am having a blast building my first system in a long, long time. I got an Nforce board, with a great Lian Li PC 69 case. Here are my problems: On the back of the mounting plate there is a fan, with a three plug connector. I have no idea where to put this plug in to get power to the...
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    Replace Early Model NForce?

    Friends, Thank you for the replies! TitleistProV1
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    Replace Early Model NForce?

    Hello! Please give grace to a newbie question: Last November/December I got a new MSI NForce board for a new build. Well, one thing led to another, and it is now almost June, and no build. Now, I have the $$ and time for it. With all the changes in AMD processors and a new generation of...
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    Netscape will Not Automatically Dial up in windows XP

    Friends, A friend of mine just got a new Compaq notebook, intalled with WinXP home. Using good sense, they prefer Netscape to IE/Outlook Express, so they loaded up Netscape, set it as the default brouser, and set the connection wizard. However, Win XP will not automatically dial up using...
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    Attention Netscape Users, Intuit Dumps on non-IE users of TurboTax

    :Q Folks, I know this is a "low level" post for many of you, but... Many of you probably use TurboTax for your taxes, and have for a long time. I first started using it in DOS and Win. 3.1 years ago. Well, today I started up my 2001 tax year year copy of TurboTax to get some early work done...
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    The "Official" MSI K7N420 Thread (nForce 420 chipset)

    RDP, You are correct. John
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    The "Official" MSI K7N420 Thread (nForce 420 chipset)

    cyberized, Got my MSI yesterday. In the box are: 1. CD w/system monitor software and anti-virus program and drivers 2. HD Ribbon and Floppy cable, I assume HD cable is ATA-66 3. USB ports with a set of lights to determine status of board (name of system excapes me now), 4. A second set of...