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    I understand your rules change.

    That was insightful...
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    I understand your rules change.

    My signature was in my profile several years ago I do not know why it vanished but if you are going to lock my thread for that reason and then lock my next thread because I have an ebay link in my sig. wouldn't it be better to just tell someone everything they have wrong immediately during the...
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    What would this be called?

    A guy I know needs to take his HD out of a dead laptop and back it up before sending it in for repairs. The laptop is about a year old. He said you can buy something to put the drive in and copy it. Is that called a hard drive enclosure? I need to know so I can buy it.
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    Will a recovery disk fix this?

    I formatted a laptop. If I get the recovery disk from the manufacturer will it restore it to like new, or does there need to be some sort of OS on the drives in order for it to repair them?
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    Acer 5100 not waking up from sleep correctly

    I have a laptop using vista, when it goes into sleep mode, and you wake it, you get a blacking flickering screen, looks like something is loose, but it only happens if you put the computer to sleep. It happens even if you don't close the lid, so I think it's a software issue. I have updated...
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    How I got windows 7 to work with the asrock dual sata board

    First of all I am using the trial enterprise windows 7, good for 90 days. I read plenty of claims that said the drivers on the windows 7 disk would work for everything I had, well they didn't work for me. After installing I still had a onboard lan not working, no sound and no sata drive. If you...
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    Windows 7 and Asrock 939 Dual Sata2?

    I have the same issue lan driver and audio driver are not installed
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    Issues after installing 9800 gt

    i formatted, fixed it.
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    Issues after installing 9800 gt

    500 watt psu, asrock dual sata 2 board with a athlon 64 x2 4200 cpu. 2 hard drives 1 dvd drive. 2gb of ram This is the power efficient card also. It's seated good also. I have the latest bios also I checked the video card fan settings and made sure they werent at the default 30% also
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    Issues after installing 9800 gt

    I installed the 9800 gt last night, replaced a 7600 gt, now my sound is stuttering, and games are taking 3-4 times longer to start than they did with the 7600 gt. When they do start they run pretty bad, worse than with the 7600, they look good but the graphics hitch. I have installed the...
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    Can't get win7 to find sata drive

    I fixed it by removing all my drives and starting the sata up with the winxp disk. I formatted it and then it installed fine
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    Can't get win7 to find sata drive

    the ios detects the drive fine in the bios and it shows up during the initial post, but not in win7. I also tried to assign it a drive letter but it does not show up there either. I have tried running it in ide mode but get nothing. I cannot find a more current uli driver than the one I have...
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    Which one of these would be the fastest cpu

    thanks, will just get a new mb and cpu. My computer in fine atm, I was just thinking of maxing out the asrock dual board.
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    Which one of these would be the fastest cpu

    939 Opteron OSA185DAA6CD 2600MHz 1000MHz 1MB+1MB E6 P1.40 939 Opteron OSA180DAA6CD 2400MHz 1000MHz 1MB+1MB E6 P1.40 939 Opteron 175DAA6CD 2200MHz 1000MHz 2MB E6 P1.40 939 Opteron 170DAA6CD 2000MHz 1000MHz 2MB E6 P1.40 939 Opteron 165DAA6CD 1800MHz 1000MHz 2MB E6 P1.40 939 Opteron 154DAA5BN...
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    Did I buy incompatible parts??

    I might have figured it out, but not sure. On the big motherboard power, I can make it work, and then I can use the 4 pronger to fill in the left open spaces, maybe that's the way this is designed? First intel stuff I have messed with but maybe this is something they do now? Alright, I...
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    Did I buy incompatible parts??

    I bought these two items http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813128357 http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817371004 Both are atx, but on the atx psu the power for the mb is only 10 prongs long, while the motherboard is needing a 12 pronger, plus the 12v power for the mb...
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    Vista deleted files off desktop

    yeah tried doesn't matter I formatted and install xp, not much into learning vista because xp does everything I need thanks though for the replies
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    Vista deleted files off desktop

    Took 25 min to do what she did and I just tested it with my external and you can drag and drop just fine. Now maybe vista actually doesn't work this way but xp does.
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    Vista deleted files off desktop

    Bought a brand new laptop 2 days ago, wife took it to work copied files to the desktop, got home drug some more files from the external drive to the folder on the desktop, then this morning on the first restart all the files are gone. Not being familiar with vista I am not exactly sure where...
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    Need laptop suggestions

    yup, not buying a mac, bought an asus, works great so far
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    Need laptop suggestions

    No idea but I do know that I would rather drop it off and let them wory about shipping rather than me. Plus 2 crappy dell desktops is why I am having to buy the laptop
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    Need laptop suggestions

    changed our minds after I did some research, going to buy this tomorrow more than likely. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ol...oduct&id=1218044029788
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    Need laptop suggestions

    Alright, looks like a toss up betwen these 3, monitor size is no longer an issue http://tinyurl.com/pqptzp I am leaning towards the sony because the video card is a little better and I might want to play some tf2 on it
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    Need laptop suggestions

    I need to add that the laptop must come from best buy, going on a credit card. I'm not a fan of dell just because the reason I am having to get this for my wife is both dells gotten for her have died within weeks right of the box, and the support wasn't to great. I need to be able to take it...
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    Need laptop suggestions

    I'm good with desktops, but really don't know enough about laptops to trust myself in buying one. My wife needs it for work, all it needs to do is run photoshop decently cs3, stuff like that. She's running that stuff atm at home with no issues on a 5yr old computer. I would think that any laptop...
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    Need Drive back up advice

    Thanks for the info will check these out and let them know. We were going to try mozy or carbonite but the size of the files and the lackluster reviews I read on recovering your info din't sound like they would work well BTW, I think this stuff might have to be mac compatible, I know macs are...
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    Need Drive back up advice

    I need to know what options are available. We do movies and things of that nature at my job. Some of the files are 20g, then add in another 2-3g of info per day to the file. We would like to start backing up all of this info daily. Aside from burning it all to dvds daily, is there a way to...
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    Need a cheapo video card suggestion

    Brother needs to upgrade his fx5500 card. Upgrading his whole computer is out of the question, so don't suggest it. I just need the best of these 3 cards, all around $40 or an alternative card within $10 Geforce 7600GS http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-NVIDI...trksid=p3286.m20.l1116 ATI RADEON...
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    How does CD-RW work w/o melting the plastic?

    pretty interesting. I wonder if anyone ever tried making some sort of laser gun with a cdrw burner.
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    cd rom restarting cpu

    This is a pretty odd problem that is driving me nuts. I installed a samsung 240b cd burner. It has burnt about 10-15 cds so far with no problems. today I tried to install warcraft3, and my cpu rebooted. I tried to install sims2 and my cpu rebooted. It does this anywhere from 30seconds to 5...
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    will pc2100 memory work with a 1.4 athlon

    The cpu is running with pc 133 ram atm. The motherboard supports ddr 2100, it's an asus a7a 266