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  1. mckickflip

    Is this GT 220 worth it?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130522 I am intrigued by this since it is only $40 after rebate. I was considering a Radeon 4670 or similar, since I am led to believe this is about equal in power, but seems to be much cheaper. Is there any reason not to get it at this price? Do...
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    XP won't detect 1TB hard drive, Win7 recognizes it fine?

    I'm kind of at a loss for what to do here. Google didn't help. My main computer runs XP SP3. It used to run Windows 7, but recently I went back to XP. My laptop still runs Windows 7. The drive is a Hitachi SimpleTech 1TB USB hard drive formatted with a 1TB NTFS partition. It works on all of...
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    the mysterious case of the Acer Aspire One, random lockups, and strange power issues

    i'm really at a loss for what the problem is with my Aspire One netbook. it is the AAO110 model, currently running Ubuntu 10.04. i never expected it to hold up this long, as it was only around $180 new in 2008. however i'm trying to keep it running for as long as possible, because since I don't...
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    Trouble installing Windows on encrypted HD

    here is my hard drive as it is laid out: Model: ATA HITACHI HTS72202 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 200GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 512B 41.1MB 41.1MB primary ext3 boot...
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    what can i do with a spare Athlon 2500+ box?

    i hope this is the right place to post this! i looked around but this seemed like the most appropriate section. i just got an excellent new ThinkPad T61p. it's way more powerful than my desktop pc (Athlon 2500+, 512mb RAM...), so I was thinking about just getting a KVM switch and docking the...
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    WPA-PSK encryptions switches from TKIP to AES?

    Hey everyone, I've got a wireless connection running as WPA-PSK with a TKIP password. For whatever reason, every few hours the encryption switches back to AES and it disconnects. I have to change it back to TKIP and reconnect again, but how do I prevent this? I have no idea why this would be...
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    WG121 not connecting to WPA/WPA2 network (fixed)

    this thread has no more purpose - i realized it was a silly error which i overlooked in the prefereances hi, I recently put a WPA/WPA2 Personal password on my wireless router (Airport Extreme, b/g model). the only computer it's not working on is my PC with XP SP2. i made sure that the...