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    White House race is a close call

    were I younger and a student of history I'd avoid presuming anybody over 30 is a "racist". read your books and you'll see it's us oldsters that made Obama possible. But, that's completely other than my point. Fact is we're all racists, white, black and purple to the extent we want to be with...
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    White House race is a close call

    yes, it's a serious post. the fact that you confuse the "points" in the post with the KKK is blowing smoke. the issue here is whether (white) America wants a black president. if you do, that is your perogative.
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    White House race is a close call

    I'm surprised to read so little in this thread about the race thing. Seems to me Obama's selection automatically makes race the issue and all this liberal/conservative stuff merely jibberish for this election. Is there any doubt if Obama is elected that in the next 8 years we'll be importing...
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    Must An External Drive Remain Plugged In?

    I'm storing my necessary office files on a WD My Book External Hard Drive. Would like to know whether unplugging the External Drive will cause me to lose the files. If I can keep the drive unplugged, can it remain unplugged indefinitely and still hold its data?
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    Persisntant Malware Popup problem

    Spybot Search and Destroy--which is the first program on the website--may have done the trick. txs very much for some good advice. Carlin must be smiling!. feb.
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    Persisntant Malware Popup problem

    yes, that's it. you get a 4 x 3 inch "Security Alert" that pops up about every 60 seconds. if you click on it, Internet Explorer pops up with a Spyware Program to purchase. Extortion, I know, but thinking it might be worth the $70 bucks to just get rid of the thing instead of hours trying to...
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    Persisntant Malware Popup problem

    also, i'm thinking. what if you just buy the damn product to get rid of them. is that possible. its an anti-virus program they're trying to sell.
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    Persisntant Malware Popup problem

    wow. i think i've just got the same thing. from Latvia. spyware pop ups all over the place. I am disappointed that my Symantec failed to catch this. anybody have any ideas on that?
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    Asus p5e and e8400 woes

    Maybe Asus could have something on their webiste how to handle the situation of vendors still selling boards with 10/17/07 bios. I've had the identical problems and more. e8400. p5e, corsair dominator DDR2800 2.4V 3-4-3-9. I bought a Pentium 4 631 Cedar Mill for $67.00 and a $15 stick of DDR2...
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    Noob Needs Help

    txs very much. may I bother with one more q. what puzzles me is that the video was working fine when I shut off the power button, then nothing when i turned it back on a moment later. this is exactly the same thing that happened with my first Asus P5E that was RMA. assuming the processor did...
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    Noob Needs Help

    guess your saying you can fry the processor (core duo) in 60 seconds. i noted it was quite hot to the touch after the one min. BUT, i thought the core duos shut themselves off when overheated??? (i did not monitor bios or bios temps. just sat there thanking the good lord for the boot.)
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    Noob Needs Help

    I'm on my 2d MB from New Egg, Asus P5E. Computer Tech upstairs determined 1st that 3 of 8 functions dead, so RMA. Now, second board arrives, and I take extreme care. Put MB on its anti static sheet on cardboard box, installed memory, video card, and cpu, plugged on monitor and keyboard...
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    Help with MOBO issue...

    unknown if this helps majmra, my expertise being "low". but, i recently bought an Asus P5E. treated it very kindly in my second build, and got the same error message as yourself. "CMOS checksum error". I never got to clearing CMOS as i'd have to research how that's done, but, I did have the...
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    Poor temps? What do you guys think?

    ooops. maybe i missed that in the manual. Andy, here's what mine says (sorry to be pest in midst of ur temp problems!): 1. make sure to remove the cap on theEATX12V connector before connecting the 8-pin EPS +12V power plg. 2. Use only an 8-pin EPS 12 V power plug for EATX connector...
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    Poor temps? What do you guys think?

    i have TJ07, lots of room with same top fans, though i had plenty of trouble mounting that fan on the Ultima -90. had to mount it while inside the case. i also see that your HS mounting screw on the left just touches the MB HS fins. On mine, oddly, the mounting screw was placed so that the...
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    Poor temps? What do you guys think?

    Andy, sorry to butt in on a different topic. I just tried to fit an Ultima-90 into an Asus P5E MB, same design as Maximus. Wondering if your Ultima-90 fit. I had to slightly bend the fins on the MB heat sinks to get it in there.
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    Old Hard Drives, New Build?

    Believe everything is plugged into the new system. But, before I power this up, need to clear up what to do with regards old hard drives. I'm using two 150 Gb Raptors from my old athlon system that were in Raid 0. Before disassembling, I erased most programs but left Windows XP (SP2)...
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    Will I really notice a difference between 4x4x4x12 and 5x5x5x15?

    one more Q? performance difference between $75 DDR800 at 4-4-4-12 and $269 DDR800 3-4-3-9 with specially selected Micron 9 chips now (Uhg!) $30 cheaper than last week when i bought them.
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    Senior Citizen Security and Utilities With Vista

    txs very much. the mom now happily using Avast virus with her Vista. Bragging to her friends since she herself accomplished the download. Nice website! Just used it to orient this E6850 into my new system!
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    Senior Citizen Security and Utilities With Vista

    Just bought the 80 yr. old mother a Vista Machine 32 bit. Athlon x5000 with 2 gigs memory--Dell. Since I run Windows XP it's unknown to me what we should put on this Vista Machine. I'm taking it that we need an anti-virus program, but, I'd also like something on there that will...
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    Recomendations for new system to buy today; 2nd draft

    two years ago i bought the top of the line 600W Silverstone (quiet) PS. the noise has gradually begins to wear. it's anything but quiet. unknown how they are now, but, might reconsider PS due to noise.
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    Aggressive Weight Training Program...

    my guess you can gain 25 lbs in a flash by overeating. this leaves 20 more lbs in about 10 months. doable, but, WHY? think i'd educate myself completely on long term health consequences of increasing bodyweight 1/4 including cardiovascular effects, weight strain on skeletal system, etc...
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    Assess my Workout

    maleficus, if you do all that, congrats. personally i'd skip the muscle milk!!! Check out the website at Testosterone Nation--T-Nation--for short. It's one of the better bodybuilding websites out there, and has more info than most people ever need. check out the posts by atomic dog. they'll...