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    Strange Acer LCD Problem

    Lately I've noticed that when I power-on my Acer AL2051W LCD but yet to power on my PC, the monitor has stopped displaying the 'no signal' message and instead cycles through all the colors (RGB White and Black) ad infinitum. I'm wondering if this is a sign that my monitor is about to have some...
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    What cars have aged well?

    Not counting exotics (since 80-90% of them age well) and pre-1980 cars: Mid-80's BMW 6-Series Merc S-Class from the 80's Porsche 928 (especially the GTS) Nissan/Datsun 280ZX 1994-1996 Chevy Impala SS All-Black Lincoln Mark VII (my friend's dad had one- real badass) Jeep Wrangler (then...
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    VIA Nano systems?

    My dad recently got an Everex Cloudbook with a 1.2GHz Via C7 and its honestly slower than my 6-year old 1.2GHz P3 Tualatin (even though the Cloudbook has twice the RAM of the P3 rig). Especially since Via just threw in the towel on the chipset business, it seems to me that it might be going...
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    What's your dream car??

    Here they are: 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1 (like the one in the original 'Gone in 60 Seconds') 1987 Aston Martin V8 Vantage (007's ride in 'The Living Daylights') 1966 Ferrari 500 Superfast (saw this @ the Imperial Palace in Vegas, absolutely stunning) However, my #1 dream car is definitely...
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    How does the Atom compare to older CPUs?

    If you look at Anand's article about the Atom from a few months ago, he says that "Under SYSMark 2004, a 1.6GHz Atom is around 20% faster than an 800MHz Pentium M (90nm Dothan). As you can expect, a 900MHz Atom is slower than the 800MHz Pentium M as it needs clock speed to make up for the low...
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    Anyone ever bought a laptop that really doesnt need one?

    My main computer is a laptop, mainly because I decided that I "needed" one to take notes in class. I only really used it properly as a laptop the one quarter when I took a programming class and otherwise it's pretty much stayed put in the dock on my desk. The only time it ventures out of my room...
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    Changing XP Pro OEM Key

    So I'm in the process of moving to a new PC and I'd like to move my current hard drive over intact so I don't have to reinstall all my stuff onto a new PC. As my current install is on an OEM copy of Windows XP Pro, I know that it is considered illegal to use it on a different system (i.e...
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    Voodoo's new Laptop and Desktop offering leaked

    You can actually download them straight from Voodoo's website (http://www.voodoopc.com/)
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    Nehalem to be Delayed

    Although I really want to Nehalem to be released soon, from Intel's perspective this makes perfect sense. From what I've been reading, the chips that motherboard manufacturers have received (and the ones that AT has tested) don't reveal the true potential of Nehalem. Intel isn't anybody's...
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    Intel's legal woes...

    I wouldn't be surprised if NVidia actually made a move on AMD. This would probably be subject to all sorts of anti-trust scrutiny, but if you think about it, it actually makes sense. A bit of history: currently, there are 2 main players in the CPU world: AMD and Intel. There are also 2 main...
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    What is your CPU History

    Desktop CPU: P133 (An HP Pavilion) -> Celeron 466 (Another HP Pavilion, worst PC I've owned) -> P3 1000 (Dell Dimension) -> P3 1.2 Tualatin -> Core Duo (Mac Mini) -> Core 2 Duo E6600 Completely skipped Netburst (probably a better person because of it) and the K8 generation (just didn't have the...
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    Anyone here use MS Office 2007?

    I'm probably in the 5% that doesn't like what MS's done with Office 2007. I had Office 2007 for a while and then reverted back to Office 2003. Word 2007 was awesome, but Excel and PowerPoint left bad tastes in my mouth since I've been ingrained in the ways of Excel since Excel 97 and I didn't...
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    Thinkpad Docking Stations

    Do you have the advanced mini-Dock or the Advanced Dock? The mini-Dock I believe does not support both outputs at the same time (at least that's what I remember when I bought it for my T60).
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    Quad Core Desktop Replacement Laptop

    The power brick on this must be the size of Texas... I had a friend who bought a Clevo-based Alienware about 3 years ago with a desktop P4 in it. He said that the heat started melting his palmrests at one point.
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    Most enthusiast friendly cheap brand desktop?

    I don't know about these days, but having serviced 40+ Dell systems while I was in HS, Dells are only easy to service with Dell parts. CPU, GPU, and PCI cards are easy enough to change out without tools, but the CPUs often have proprietary HSF's and the PSU's are often proprietary as well (even...
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    Advice on New Gaming System

    I never played the original GTR, but GTR-2 is pretty awesome (especially since it has a special version that comes with GT Legends, although that game needs Starforce to run properly). According to my friend, the original GTR's cars were way harder to handle than in GTR-2, but then again, that's...
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    Advice on New Gaming System

    Thanks for the response DSF. One question I have: I'm not planning on installing Vista x64 (staying with XP Pro 32-bit), so will I be able to utilize the 4GB effectively? I think I remember reading an article on AT about the 3GB barrier or something like that.
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    Advice on New Gaming System

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. Flight Sims and Racing Games: MS Flight Simulator 2004 (Looking to start playing FS-X and/or X-Plane 9.0 as well) Richard Burns Rally GTR-2 IL-2 Occasional Audio Ripping and Editing Mathematica...
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    Oldest CPU you are running now???

    P3 1.2 GHz Tualatin running win2k3 server; and an old ibm thinkpad r31 with a 1.13GHz P3-M that's collecting dust right now (since its intel 830m graphics card only likes to work with WinXP Pro and I didn't feel like spending more money to upgrade the RAM so that it could comfortably run SP2)...
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    Lenovo

    So I had a R31 for a few years and then replaced it with a T60 2 years ago. I could never put a finger on it, but the Lenovo stuff always seemed to feel cheaper than the stuff made by Big Blue prior to the divestiture of the Thinkpad division (this even in comparing the business class T60 with...
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    IBM Model M keyboard, Spanish layout wanted

    Check out http://clickykeyboards.com/. Spanish keyboards are harder to find, but this site occaisionally has German and Spanish ones available (they're currently listing an early 80's rare F-series). I highly recommend them, having bought my 1995 82G2383 Model M from them.
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    File Server Build

    Thanks for all the help guys- the D201GLY looks pretty attractive for low-power server duties.
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    File Server Build

    I thought about that, but I was thinking about maybe doing RAID for data redundancy too (probably overkill for just storing digital pictures, videos, and old files, but I'm trying to centralize all the data I've accumulated over the years that are strewn across external HDDs, Zip disks, CDs, and...
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    Undocking Excel 2007 Windows

    Yes- Show All Windows in Taskbar is checked.
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    File Server Build

    Long time reader of the forums, but new to actually posting here: So I recently dug my old P3 Rig out my closet (1.2GHz Tualatin, 512MB RAM, Intel D815EPEA2 Mobo, 128MB ATI Radeon 8500LE, 80GB WD Caviar IDE HDD, Sony 48x CD-RW) added a 500GB Caviar to create a fileserver running Windows...
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    Undocking Excel 2007 Windows

    So I've had Excel 2007 for a few months now, but I recently noticed that when I have multiple spreadsheets open I can't seem to view both simultaneously in different windows (they seem to cascade within one Excel window rather than in Windows XP). In addition, when you close one document, it...