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    Mountain Mods

    Sorry for resurrecting this thread but I wanted to respond to this statement I also will likely not do any future business with MM. I recently bought a $450 case and am very disappointed with the company. I did lots of research and every review said that these cases are of very high quality...
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    Cannot watch videos on secondary monitor while I game on primary monitor.

    OK I switched to vga on my new monitor and have the same problem. I'm totally confused. Just to confirm... this SHOULD work right? MPC and VLC don't work either. edit: also, using "always on top" didn't work any other ideas?
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    Cannot watch videos on secondary monitor while I game on primary monitor.

    Ok I have reinstalled the codecs and video drivers and am still having the problem. Thing is, it worked until I replaced my secondary monitor. Could it have something to do with going from 1600x1200 on the secondary to 1920x1200? My primary has always been 1920x1200. I'm running WinXP Pro...
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    Cannot watch videos on secondary monitor while I game on primary monitor.

    Thanks I'll try this when I get home tomorrow. I hadn't thought of reinstalling codecs.
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    Cannot watch videos on secondary monitor while I game on primary monitor.

    I like to play a game on one monitor while a movie or show is running on my secondary monitor. Since getting a new screen to replace my old secondary, the videos just go black when I game. Used to work on old CRT going through VGA. My new monitor is hooked up via DVI. Could this be the...
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    Help me choose a handheld scanner

    Thanks for all the replies. The linked handheld scanner looks exactly like what I was imagining, but maybe my shaky hands will create uneven scans (it sounds crazy, being a pianist, but my hands are very shaky - almost like early stages of parkinsons even though that is NOT what it is)...
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    Help me choose a handheld scanner

    I'm a piano teacher and sometimes students bring new music to the lessons. I'm hoping to find a compact hand scanner that runs on batteries and does not require a pc-connection to make scans (hold the data on flash perhaps?) This way I can practice a student's music when I get home (after...
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    How much cooling is necessary for 4850 ram?

    Thanks for the advice. I came to the realization that the power management area will also get very hot and it won't be covered by the gpu block. Seems that even if the ram can handle no airflow, the PWM certainly won't.
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    How much cooling is necessary for 4850 ram?

    The topic is self-explanatory! I am being a cheap-ass so I'll find a way to rig my maze4 waterblock onto the gpu. Will the card work with no ramsinks at all? I'm assuming no... If I do put ramsinks (cheap ones) on, will I need to also have a PCI slot fan in order to keep air moving...
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    Antec Neo HE 550 work with GTX 280?

    What's the deal with mentioning "SMPS text books" 500 times a day?
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    3dmark 06 won't start after installing 4850.

    try adding -nosysteminfo into the command line. Worked for me.
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    HD4xxx series video Transcoder

    are you sure about this? I was under the impression that this is not yet available to normal users
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    HD4800 Drivers out!

    Where do you get the bios file? Will a standard 4850 bios work in any 4850 card?
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    HD4xxx series video Transcoder

    exactly ati's been lying about gpu acceleration since the x1000 series I believe just run gpuz and watch the gpu activity rise to a mighty ZERO PERCENT when you run the avivo converter
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    GPU acceleration for video encoding on 4850

    The package on the amd site does not use the gpu at all. It's just a software encoder that uses cpu.
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    GPU acceleration for video encoding on 4850

    OK I have researched Power Director 7 and unfortunately it seems that it does not support gpu encoding. Anyone else have any info on this or other software?
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    GPU acceleration for video encoding on 4850

    well I suppose it'd be nice to do mpeg2 (dvd) encoding on the gpu too, but I'm more interested in mpeg4 support such as h264/x264 hopefully powerdirector 7 won't be mpeg2-exclusive
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    GPU acceleration for video encoding on 4850

    Yup it's the Guru3d one... I couldn't find it anywhere else (spent maybe 15 minutes looking, so maybe it's out there) Thanks for this info. I'm going to check out that software and maybe buy it if it's promising.
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    GPU acceleration for video encoding on 4850

    I read about the AVIVO xCode and downloaded it but apparently it's Vista only and it won't install. I'm eagerly anticipating video encoding with my new gpu (x264 baby!) Is this ever going to become available? I swear ATI has been talking about this ability since the x1000 series but it...
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    4850 Benchmarks - Something Wrong Here?

    As crappy as 3Dmark is, at least it allows a person to see if something is wrong since you can compare your score to a similar system. Jeez... Anyways, my stock 4850 running on 8x PCIe 1.0 , AMD X2 @ 2.8ghz with 1GB ram gets 9876 in 3dMark06 so there is definitely something going wrong on...
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    Please recommend a free hard-drive scrubber

    ^^ hilarious! Thanks for all the help people. I used a program called "Hard Disk Scrubber" after deleting the partition and reformatting. For some reason the filenames remained so I did it again and this time I have been unable to see the file names (50% through the scan though... fingers...
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    Please recommend a free hard-drive scrubber

    Here's the link for seatools: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-...ort/downloads/seatools windows version does not have the full drive scrubbing option :S Even after overwriting the entire free space I still get old filenames that are visible in a data recovery app... annoying!!!
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    Please recommend a free hard-drive scrubber

    Thanks for the response. I should mention that the drive is an external HD running through USB2 Looking at the dban website, it seems that it will only run on drives plugged into the motherboard. I cannot open the enclosure due to the warranty. any other options?
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    Please recommend a free hard-drive scrubber

    The subject says it all. I need to delete a drive completely before moving it to a new office. This is a medical clinic and the drive absolutely must be wiped. The problem is that the scrubbers I have tried on it have eliminated the data, but when I run a file-recovery program I can still...
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    A few questions

    When you turn on your computer (before windows loads) there should be an option to hit a key to enter SETUP (usually F1 or DEL key) ... you might have to hit ESC first to hide any welcome picture that is set up. Hit the key and when you're in SETUP, look for an option for boot device...
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    How do I make my computer ROOM cooler??

    If you have more than one window in the room, you can have great success by having a fan in front of each window. Set one fan as intake and another as exhaust. This worked wonders at my place, dropping temperatures 2-4 degrees centigrade in the summer (although on extremely hot days it's less...
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    Need solution

    I believe there was a major study performed by google (???) which concluded that hard-drive failure is not greatly influenced by heat. In my experience with external enclosures, failures have ALL been due to cheap failing AC adaptors (happened with 3 so far, out of 7) sorry I didn't...
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    Why do higher end motherboards have 2 Lan connectors

    I'm in Canada, and for some stupid reason Telus wants to charge $3 for each extra gigabyte downloaded, even though the main plan is $35 for 60gigs. Makes a lot of sense eh? Getting cable as a secondary connection for $45 / 100GB is definitely more cost-effective in my case. As for that...
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    Why do higher end motherboards have 2 Lan connectors

    I love my dual NIC. One computer is using the secondary port for internet sharing, and my other computer uses its secondary port for a 2nd internet connection (I switch between connections half-way through the month so that I don't go over my monthly limit on dsl or cable)
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    OK...why can't my computers connect to each other?

    try connecting by running "//<computer name>" I've found that often you can still connect using this method despite the stupid "network places" not working you can find the computer name in system properties (right-click my computer, choose properties) under the Computer Name tab
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    Need a wireless router for heavy torrenting

    Thx for the help KenAF2. I did a little reading about DD-WRT and I think I'll get a Linksys WRT54GL since I can get it for $65CAN (can't find that buffalo one in a local store) It has 16MB cache and supports DD-WRT. Before I make the purchase, does anyone know if I'm making a HORRIBLE choice...
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    Need a wireless router for heavy torrenting

    OK thanks, gotcha. Thing is, I still want to get a new router because my old one isn't cutting it, and I don't want to make a poor decision. Do all consumer-grade routers basically have the same capabilities when it comes to dealing with hundreds/thousands of connections??
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    Need a wireless router for heavy torrenting

    It's DSL 3Mb/640Kb... will be up to 6Mb/1Mb soon I thought the # of connections is more important than the total bandwidth but maybe I'm wrong. 3 people with 150-200 connections sounds about right.
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    Need a wireless router for heavy torrenting

    Unfortunately I have no experience with your suggestion of an open-source firewall and I think it would take too long for me to figure it all out and set it up. Are all consumer-grade routers using similar equipment? Like... will it really not make a difference which one I choose unless I'm...
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    Need a wireless router for heavy torrenting

    I know that different routers have different processors in them, so I'm wondering if someone can recommend a router that will handle 3 people using torrents (multiple torrents at a time) without crapping out. I would prefer an inexpensive model (sub-$100) if possible. My current Dlink DI-624...
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    X1900xtx

    make sure you have devices plugged into the PS before shorting those pins though I have heard that an unloaded PSU will burn itself out when turned on
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    Anyone know a SAFE way have multiple drives show up as a single drive letter?

    too bad that drobo thing is $500... might as well just get a raid controller and JBOD it up where can you sell old hard-drives?! I can't believe ppl would buy a 120GB drive when a 500GB is barely over $100
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    Anyone know a SAFE way have multiple drives show up as a single drive letter?

    Is LVM a distribution of linux? Or... maybe "linux volume management"? I'm just guessing here because I have almost zero experience with Linux, but I'm pretty good at playing around with software to figure these things out. Could you recommend a version for me to download/install to give it a...
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    Anyone know a SAFE way have multiple drives show up as a single drive letter?

    yeah that's ok with 4 or 5 drives... but I have 12 and counting, so having 3 or 4 locally, then the rest on the file server as a single letter (once this is possible) is the best solution. It doesn't really make sense to have 120GB drives as storage for movies, especially with HD movies taking...
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    Anyone know a SAFE way have multiple drives show up as a single drive letter?

    Are there cheapo raid cards with 8-12 ports?