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    please help me with data recovery after paragon disaster :(

    Hi everyone, I don't know what to do anymore... I've tried troubleshooting this myself but I need help now. Two weeks ago I tried to do what I thought would be an extremely simple operation. On my 2TB caviar green drive I had a small unallocated partition of ~500mb. I felt like it was...
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    Help me decide. Intel X-25 G2 160gb vs OCZ Vertex Turbo 120gb

    I've been looking at SSDs for too long now... I feel like I'm about to make a purchase! I seem to have narrowed it down to 3 drives.. (mostly two). The OCZ Vertex Turbo 120gb for 440$ The Intel X-25 G2 160gb for 485$ The OCZ Colossus 120gb for 430$ I really don't like the fact the...
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    is this possible? 2 video cards, 1 with monitor/tv and the other with just monitor

    Just wondering if this is possible. I have a X48 mobo with 2 pci-e 16x slots. I'm purchasing a 4870x2 this week and I plan on using the DVI-to-HDMI adapter to output to my HD projector. The 2nd DVI output will be used for a monitor. Here's the tricky part. I'm used to using two monitors...
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    which is the best 4870x2 ?

    After a little digging the only brand-comparison review I've found is this : http://www.vr-zone.com/article...2_Roundup/5984-11.html However I find it is a very poor review.. not really listing the pros and cons of each card and not offering any chart comparing the cards between themselves...
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    question about 4850 and HD (bluray) playback

    Hi everyone. So my uncle's got this fairly old computer. It's about 3 and a half years old. It's got a 3200+ with 1gb of ram. It's mainly only used as a HTPC to watch video on the living room TV. Last year I got him a ATI 2600HD for his HD playback needs. It does ok but it really begins to...
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    your thoughts on my new rig please

    Hi all. Well it's been almost 3 years since I built my current PC and I figure I'm due for an upgrade. Also I could use a 2nd PC and with my income return coming in.. this is what I'm going for. Your thoughts are always welcome.. maybe I missed something. A few notes before I post my small...
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    x1900xtx running very hot all of a sudden

    Hi guys. I have a Sapphire x1900xtx with an accelero x2 installed on it. When I first installed the accelero x2 on it many months ago, I had also done a bios flash to set the fan speed at 100% all the time. The temps back then were very nice.. hottest it was running was around 72 degrees...
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    cheap video card with component-out.. 8400gs do the trick?

    Hi all. I currently have a Geforce 6600 (non GT) and I wanted to output to my HDTV via component since the s-video was crap. My card didn't come with the famous dongle that allows TV-out to component. So I went and purchased a DVI-to-Component cable from monoprice and yesterday I spent a few...
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    I want to play sound from a networked computer.. but without using remote desktop

    Hi all. I live in a two story appartment and previously when I wanted to play games or watch movies on my downstairs TV.. I had to carry all my computer parts downstairs.. what a pain. I've sort of solved this now.. by passing a 50 foot long s-video cable.. and getting a bluetooth...
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    please recommend a tv-out / tuner card that supports HD

    Hi guys.. I am trying to find a solution for my uncle who was about to purchase a portable media streamer (such as the mediagate) but was turned off by the price and bugginess of the product. I recently experimented with MCE and figured with the right parts.. we don't need the portable media...
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    looking for some "gaming on SSD" discussions to drool on

    Hi all, after a few failed google searches.. I was wondering if any of you know of any interesting reading material or hype articles discussing the potential and speed of running games off of Solid State Drives. After seeing games like Stalker and Fear take excruciating long to load levels...
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    how to know what the hell your hard drive is doing??

    Hi all. I'm running Vista Ultimate, and every now and then I hear my hard drive grinding (sort of like if it was defragging). It's constant and it lasts a long time.. usually over half an hour! There's no reason it should be doing this.. everything is idle.. my antivirus isn't scanning...
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    bad luck or bad disk controller??

    hi all... so this is driving me up the walls... i have had SO MANY hard drives fail for me over the last year... I just can't believe it can be bad luck !!! maxtors, seagates.. and now i have finally gotten WD replacements.. Just to give you an idea... I had my WD 320gb sata2 replaced by a WD...
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    where's ma new vista drivers ? :(

    new vista drivers have been due since the 27th of november according to some sources... that makes them nearly 2 weeks late now.. does anyone have any news ? or are there any betas available anywhere like there often are for the XP versions? links will be appreciated thanx
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    how to remove 'system' attribute from a non-system partition?

    Hello all. I have 4 hard drives in my computer. One of them is improperly tagged as a 'system' partition. But it isn't, it's just one of my storage partitions. Because of it's system tag I am unable to change the drive letter of it in Vista RC1. And Vista erronously assigns the wrong drive...
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    Flashed x1900xtx with Rabit 2.1 and..

    and well.. it fixed one problem and seemingly caused another. All I did was save my original bios flash with atiwinflash. Then I edited it with rabit 2.1 the ONLY thing I changed in the bios were the fan speeds, I set it to 100% fan speed for each temperature bracket. Then I saved it...
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    GTI Racing and catalyst 6.8.. anyone else having problems?

    Hey all.. So I just got GTI Racing and I have been having a hell of a time getting it to "look" right. I'm using Catalyst 6.8 with a x1900xtx. basically.. I have tried just about every possible configuration.. both forcing AA/AF and letting the application choose.. and I've played with...
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    ISO handling

    Hey all. I'm trying to replace a few files within a DL iso image. I'm wondering if there's a way of doing this without unpacking it and repacking it ? The reason i ask is because the tool I'm using won't let me repack it since it has more than 4000 files in it.. And the whole process...
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    question about BAD SECTORS

    Hello all. Last week I started having serious problems with one of my drives. Some 'delayed write' error on my $MFT. And afterwards chkdsk and norton disk doctor kept reporting a small ammount of bad sectors. I RMA'd it and had a cross-ship sent to me. I received the new drive today and...
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    what software to display video-input on screen ?

    Hello all. I have a sapphire x1900xtx and I wanted to test video-input. I plan to eventually convert some old VHS tapes on my PC but right now I just wanted to try out my PS2 on my LCD monitor. my WDMs were messed up with the latest catalyst 6.8 but I've fixed that now. I tried a...
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    bad sectors on a fairly new HD

    Hey all.. I just had a very nightmarish experience with my PC this last week end. At one point it just plained crash for no reason (wasn't even doing anything, it was idle) and after that it didn't want to boot back into windows. After a while I managed to back up my important files and...
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    quiet cooling solution for individual hard drives ?

    Hello all. In the past 9 months I have had to RMA 3 brand new hard drives because of bad sectors and other failures. And now I'm about to rma a 4th one ! This is really making me sick inside my stomach... I figure that it may be caused by overheating at this point. I have a coolermaster...
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    friend just fried PSU caz of static

    Hello all. My friend called me a few days ago letting me know that after he cleaned up his PC with an air-duster can and a vacuum that it wouldn't turn on anymore. Apparently he was pretty careful not to get too close with the vacuum and the air duster didn't shoot out any of its cold...
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    looking for bios update for old MB to work with new HD

    Hello all, my good friend just bought a new hard drive, a 320gb ATA seagate and we're having an hell of a time trying to get windows to install on it. I think the bios isn't detecting it properly.. it seems to be accessible once we're in windows XP but the windows setup off of a boot cd isn't...
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    considering a laptop

    Hello all. I've never really been a laptop fan before but lately I've been considering getting one more and more. For school and for being able to work anywhere anytime. The thing is I've really been turned off by what I've seen so far. None of the packages seem to suit all my needs. I'm...
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    any other way to get my fan to run 100% all the time ?

    Hey everyone. I have a problem with my video card.. I've always had small problems when I am forced to use ATITool to set the fan speed. I'm pretty convinced that the problem is because of ATITool. I am using the latest catalyst drivers with my x1900xtx. And my system often hands when I exit...
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    any way to enable tv-out on the fly? maybe with a hotkey?

    Hey everyone. I have a dual monitor setup and a large TV nearby and i'm constantly switching from dual-monitor extended desktop to monitor-TV extended desktop. on one computer ive got the omega package with ATT and on another computer (which I also do this with) I have official catalyst with...
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    looking to buy a new printer

    Heya all. I just tried printing a picture that had very bright yellows and greens on it and my hp deskjet 940c did terrible! so terrible that i've decided it's time for me to buy a new scanner and printer the scanner i currently set my eyes on is the Epson Perfection 3490 and the...
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    loud pops and squeaks when watching tv on computer

    Hello. I hope someone can help me. Whenever I watch TV-shows on my computer (on my TV via my computer actually) I often hear some extremely loud POPS and SQUEAKS.. they only last half a second but they are so loud they make me and my cat nuts. Usually immediately following a squeak or pop the...
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    trouble installing XP on compaq presario laptop

    Hey all.. I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro on an old Presario 700 I've reformatted and run the install.. but it seems everytime the setup needs to restart it just shuts down instead. And then when I try to resume manually it "restarts setup" and goes all the way to the "setting up...
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    my DDR500 memory only shows up as DDR400 ?

    hey everyone.. a few months ago i upgraded my ram and bought 2gb of pcz platinum EB ddr500 i got a decent performance hit from it but i was always bothered by the fact that when my system boots up it detects my memory as DDR400 i once tried to change the 400mhz to 500mhz in my a8n-e bios...
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    something is still undetected in device manager and i have no idea what!

    hello. ever since i built my PC last june I always had a problem with one device remaining undetected in my device manager. everything that's plugged in to my pc works perfectly.. and nothing is 'unaccounted' for... i've tried unplugging all my USB devices to see if it would make it disapear...
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    is there a way to use profiles with the logitech mx1000 mouse?

    hey everyone.. i've been reading that the latest setpoint software offers the ability to load profiles with the gaming mouse (like the g5). i see that it's the same setpoint software that is available for download for ALL their mice.. but when i use it with my mx1000 i just don't get the...
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    question about restoring images for windows partition

    Hey everyone I recently reformatted my own PC and decided to finally use an image backup program (I used Acronis TrueImage) to save myself a few hours of pain the next time I have to do it. In my image I mostly installed a big software package.. but I also installed most of my drivers...
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    damn hard drive and their failures

    hello everyone in the last 6 months i have had 2 hard drives fail me.. both brand new 300gb.. I had them replaced both but boy was it a pain. now i seem to be having yet another hard drive fail.. this one's a bit older (11 months old) and it's a seagate with a 5yr warranty.. but still a...
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    best software for simple audio cd burning

    hey all.. well i've had it with making CDs using nero and all my CDs skip.. I know this is a known bug.. but I want to change for something else nero is too massive and installs too many things I dont want/need anyway im looking for a small software that is bugfree and allows to burn audio...
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    what drivers to install for old radeon card

    Hey everyone. I have an old Radeon 64mb VIVO in an old computer I want to use video out capability on it on a TV.. right now i've managed to do this but I was forced to install .NET framework.. because if I only installed the display driver I did not know how (or maybe i couldn't at all)...
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    weird problem with older computer

    heyas.. im having a weird problem with an old computer. i just recently formatted it and everything went smooth and it was loading up pretty nice and fast (it's a athlon 1200). recently it's started having this problem where it takes a really long time at start-up if I don't have any cd...
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    POLL : what's the best aftermarket cooler for the x1900xtx?

    looking for the best aftermarket cooler that lowers tempertures the most while keeping it a very quiet solution price isn't much of an issue
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    how would i copy video from a vhs to my puter (with ati vivo)

    hey everyone.. I have vivo functionality on my ati x1900xtx and I want to rip some old VHS content onto my computer so I can then burn it on dvd... some old family videos you see i am wondering what software solution i should look into for ripping the video AND the audio and keeping it well...