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    Reliable Flash drive for OS?

    Looking for recommendations on a reliable flash drive to boot and run an OS off of. A bit of background, this is for a retrofitted point of sale system, and the supplied drives from the vendor die every 3-6 months. The point of sales are used continuously 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. It...
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    Laptop motherboard ground question

    So I have collected a bunch of laptop hardware, and plan to make a low power torrent/music box. I am going to house it all in an xbox which bit the dust, and i had originally planned on taking out all the metal foil that lined the inside of the xbox. Then it occurred to me that most laptops I...
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    Powerbook parts compatibility

    So does anyone know if a powerbook needs a dc-dc board to operate? And will dc-in boards from other PB models work? from the pictures (which could be deceiving) the titanium dc-in plug looks very similar to the aluminum plug, minus the modem jack. The cables and all that look to be the same...
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    used ndiswrapper to fix the wireless driver issue also if anyone could recommend a good resource site w/how to's and what not would be greatly appreciated, all i have found so far is ubuntuguide thanks Ian
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    Two questions concerning a htpc

    My roommates and I would like to put together a htpc. I was going to build it from scratch, but i saw a p3 733 socket 370 forsale on the forum. My roommate has a dell precision 420, which came with a slot1 p3 733. Now it has been while, but werent there little cards you could use to convert a...
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    real dumb question just needing clarification

    Would a sound card, say the creative xwave, with coax spdif output be able to pass a DD or DTS signal to a reciever with built in decoders? Even tho the sound card is only a 2 channel sound card. Thanks for the help, google only got me ads. Ian
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    Lots of little wierd problems on new system

    I just built my little bro a going of to college computer, i havent been following computer hardware recently so i over looked the 20pin > 24pin change. Here is the computer: CASE COOLERMAS|CAV-T03-UKA BLK R MB|FOXCONN NF4UK8AA-8EKRS RETAIL VGA ROSEWILL RX8XL-256PX ATI X800XL CPU AMD 64...
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    Wierd CDROM problems

    This my friends computer which i built for him. It is a fairly new system, was about a week old with all new hardware except for the cdrom/cdrw. The old computer died due to over heating, the cdrom was the only thing that survived, so when it stop coming up in windows a week later we just...
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    Importance of brand?

    I am i going to regret buying this wireless 802.11b pc card? It seems like a hell of a deal, but i dont want to buy it and have all kinds of problems and just turn around and buy another one. If its not a quality product i would rather just spend more now then have to deal with it later. Oh...
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    Kiosk Software compatible with bill acceptors?

    My parents own and opperate a travel center. A new big thing for travel centers is public computers, so they have asked me to look into it. The biggest problem i have found is what software to use. I have tested quite a few cybercafe programs, but they all require a maned terminal. This...
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    Advice on what to do with my xbox

    I bought an xbox in december and now it is developing problems, i just got off the phone with microsoft and they want 100 + tax + shipping to fix it. If i try and fix it or have an unauthorized repair service work on it microsoft wont touch it. The xbox sometimes will only start to a screen...
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    resolution and refresh rate problem on 9500np

    Just received my radeon 9500 from newegg today. I can not get the refresh rate to go anything higher then 60 after going higher then 1024x768. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Oh and the mod did not take (running none modded drivers), and i have tried 2 different driver versions, the...
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    Is there a winamp burner?

    The other day i ran across a program that somehow added a burning utility to winamp... problem was it was in french only... is there such a program in english? Seems like it would be extreamly conveniant
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    iis is driving me crazy....

    i cannot get iis to work properly... i get this message when trying to start a page "Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred".... i have pretty much given up unless some one out there knows how to fix this problem.... so what is a good program that will work in xp to replace iis.... thx
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    please help... i have no idea what just happened

    I had a maxtor 13 gig, and 2 maxtor 20 gigs running raid0... my maxtor 13 gig was my boot hdd and had the os(s) on it.... today i picked up a 40 gig maxtor to replace it.. i backed up everthing on the raid drives (like i have everytime in the past) this time insted of installing on a already...
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    Anyone ever heard of United Devices..... plz read...... could be worth while.......

    http://members.ud.com/download/gold/Text could this be the next seti@home? seems like a great cause to me..... plz read the link and post a reply......
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    how to pep up the mx400?

    I was on a buget for building a computer.... and i went with the mx400 (now i am starting to regret)...... the computer specs are 1.4 p4 512 megs of ram 40 gig barracuda IV mx400 with 3dmark2001 i get 2500... i get about 30 fps less then with my gts (t-bird @950 256 ram) The factor setting...
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    I LOVE ATTBI!

    this is why i love attbi "AT&T Broadband, said the company eventually intends to introduce tiered packages that will provide higher speeds at higher prices" "Comcast has a policy in place that forbids the use of virtual private network (VPN) clients over a residential connection while AT&T...
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    6 Years- $125,000 in fines just for owning keys

    1 year per key, 5 keys, the sixth year is for useing 1 of the keys, $25 per key I don't really know the person that well, but he some how aquired "master keys" for some car companys, as far as i can tell he purchased them over the internet. At first i doughted that these keys would even...
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    whats this wire coming out of my power supply?????

    I just got 1 of those antec sx830.......... and the power supply has a white and a black wire coming out of it... looks like its a fan connecter.... its not to the ps fan is it???
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    ya know that song.... the really good song... whats it called

    The song i am looking for is on an Olympic Games commercial........ "This is our house, the only rule in our house is that we never loose" or something to the extent of that....... i hope someone here knows the song.... i am about to go crazy.... thx
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    GTS drivers

    I was reading how the new Detonator 3 drivers are optimized for the gf3... and some people clam to have had a slight down fall in performance in other cards. So... what drivers should i use for my gts... or should i just use the det 3's... lmk thx ian
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    Amd?? psu??

    I am building a tbird system and i am not sure if the psu you will work or not (the psu works, but with amd?). Its a Channel well technology (CWT) model: CWT-300atx, does anyone know off the top of their head?? or have a site with a list of amd compatible psu??? thx ian
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    HELP with setting up hdds

    - Maxtor 13 gig hdd (installed, master on promise ata66 card) - 2 Maxtor 20 gig hdds (not installed wanna do raid, hotrod raid card) The 13 gig has 2 partitions, 1 gig witch windows 2000 is installed, and 12 gigs for everything else. No heres where i get lost. I want 1 partition on the raid...
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    Sharing files over parallel ports...... need some quick help

    Where is the program that comes with windows that allows for two computers to share files over the parallel port.... i found it once and never thought i would need it... but now i do and i can't find it.... name or location is pretty much all i need
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    Help with networking win2k machine with win98se

    I can not for the life of me get a win98se machine and a win2k machine to network.... i can't share internet, can't share files printers.... i can't even ping the other computer! if some one would plz share the way they have their comps set up, so i have something to work off of, that would...
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    Questions about going the way of peltier/water cooling

    I am planing on making my own peltier water cooled setup.... i belive i will have the waterblock custume made with copper.... and i think i will purchase a 72 watt peltier..... it will be cooling a c2 566... with a slotkey on an bh6.... now to the questions 1) What size should the waterblock...
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    i need help.... in almost everyway... but right now i just need/want partitioning help

    I have been trying to install linux for the past 2 weeks.... i think i finally got it... but have no idea how to us it... and it still has lots! of problems.... so i am just going to get rid of it.. and install it on an old pos... and learn the way of linux there..... anyhow back to the...
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    And yet a new linux problem...... and some partition problems

    I got it installed (went out and picked up old ide cdrom), everything boots up like normal.... then comes the lilio (or what ever it is called, the thing where you select your os), of course i selected linux... starts the boot process and stops!! stoped on something about IDE3 and something in...
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    I can't install drake..... i can't belive the luck i am having with it

    I have been trying to install lunix for the past few days.... i have got a copy of drake... I dl the iso from the drake webpage... then made that into a cd... sense the cd was bootable i figured i would stick it in and let it do its thing.... well it wouldn't boot to the cd... don't know why...