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    Swapping HD's between AMD and Intel

    My mother's comp stopped working, and before I could really look at it she bought a new one. The only thing wrong her old one was some bad ram, so I just put some spares in and it worked perfectly. Now she wants her old one back since she was used to how she had that one set up, but she doesn't...
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    Motherboard may be dead?

    I have an older MSI AMD motherboard in a comp that won't start. I've tried a different power supply and that didn't work. I put the PS in a different system and it started up fine. I've tried shorting the power jumper in case it might be a power switch wiring problem, but to no avail. Does...
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    Is my computer toast?

    So my two year old somehow got a hold of a small bottle of clorox clean up and managed to spill it on my tower, which has a fan and holes on the top. I shut it off asap and let it dry. Now all it is doing is turning on, spinning up the cpu fan, then shutting off over and over again. It's not...
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    DVI to HDMI adapter not working

    I've been trying to use my 50" DLP as a secondary display. When I use a Svideo to Component adapter my comp recognizes the TV just fine, but the image is stretched out beyond the boundaries of my tv. So I figured using a HDMI adapter would fix it, but when I use that my comp won't recognize it...
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    Problems with a WD2000

    My friend is trying to get some data off this drive. He tried hooking it up into his comp as a master, then a slave to his new drive. His comp would not boot up with the hard drive connected. I took it and hooked it up to my comp and it was the same thing. My system would not recognize either...
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    First new rig after 3 years

    After doing some research and finally getting the money, I'm ready to buy my next rig. I'm going from this: AMD64 3200+ Radeon X800XT MSI K8N NEO2 1GB Mushkin to this: E8400 Wolfdale (If i can find one) EVGA Geforce 9800 GX2 GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L 4GB Mushkin DDR2 800 Going in a...
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    Need a mobo suggestion

    I'm finally going to be able to upgrade my comp after 3 years, and I have everything picked out except for a mobo. I haven't really been keeping up with what has been coming out, so I need some help. Here's what components I have picked out already: Amd Athlon X2 Black Edition 6400+...