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    External Hard Drive Help/Recommendation

    Hey guys. So right now I have a Macbook Pro and a PC that I built (runs Windows 7, but the PC was built in 2008 or something?) I'm a DJ/music producer and I used to just use my PC for DJ-related stuff like storing and editing tracks that I use for DJing while using my Macbook for music...
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    PC problems have gotten worse, can't start up now

    Hi all. I have a PC with Windows 7. So it started acting up where it would get to the password screen and my mouse and keyboard just wouldn't be on. I have them connected via USB. So from that the situation has deteriorated to blue screens and now when my computer starts it tries to go into...
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    Machine Check Exception

    Hey guys. I keep getting the BSOD with this error message. So I'm pretty sure I know the cause. I have a firewire card and one time after I pulled out my ipod wire I noticed the firewire card was not full in my mobo. So I had to open my computer up and secure it into the slot. This BSOD started...
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    Just installed new 24" LCD Monitor, screen goes black and sort of resets sometimes

    Pretty sure it's not normal. Monitor looks fine (Soyo 24"), but sometimes it goes to black and comes right back. I thought it might be a driver issue, but I went to the Vistiontek site yesterday to download a new one. (I have a Visiontek Radeon 9600XT). I have my resolution set to 1920 x 1200 btw.
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    Vista kind of reset on me

    Okay this is very weird. My computer worked fine last night. I shut it down and went to bed. I got home from work and turned it on. It told me something weird about my settings and to check some record. Sorry I should've written it down.... Anyway I have Vista Ultimate. My computer had the...
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    Hard Drive Access is slow

    Hi. I'm having an issue and am not sure how to fix it. I just installed Vista recently. I have 1GB RAM (though I don't think this has anything to do with my issue, but I've heard Vista is slow without at least 2GB RAM) Anyway whenever I click on "My Computer" and go to my hard drives via...
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    PC Problem

    So my PC decided to fuck up a week ago or so. When windows would load my desktop the computer would just restart. I tried to repair Windows because I thought that might be the problem, but it made it worse because the CD I had was fucked up. So Windows never fully installed basically. So last...
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    HELP! Need data recovery ASAP

    Someone got into my computer and deleted part of 2 hard drives (neither of them were the OS drive) I have windows XP What is the best, cheapest way to recover the files?
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    Help. Disk Boot Failure. ASYN - Start Unit Request Failed

    Okay so I left my computer on last night cause I was downloading something. I woke up today and went over and it was at the screen just before Windows starts (looks like a DOS screen and lists the devices). It said disk boot failure press ctrl alt delete to restart. I restarted and when it lists...
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    Help! CD Burner Problems

    I've been trying to burn stuff and am getting a Medium Error. It's a NEC 3500 dvd/cd burner (i think) and the program is EZ CD Creator. Never had problems before today. Anyone know what I should try? I restarted my computer and tried another burn. It got to like 40% and then the error came up
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    NEC 3500a takes 4 minutes to burn a CD at 40x

    thoughts? should i return the drive for a new one?
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    Firefox keeps freezing/slowing down

    Does anyone know what could be causing this? :/ It's happened like 4 times tonight. I'll start looking at websites and then eventually the response times starts getting slow and it gets to the point where i have to exit it and it says it wasn't responding.
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    Weird printer problem

    So when I click on printer preferences it's in another language. I'm on XP. The rest of my computer is in English. This is very odd. I uninstalled and reinstalled and it's the same. It's a HP 5550 printer.
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    How can I figure out how many dead pixels my monitor has?

    I'm not even sure how to tell if there are dead pixels. Is there some sort of test I can do?
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    new NEC3500a burning cds very slowly

    I've used Nero and EZ CD Creator and burning at 40x a CD has been taking like 4-5 minutes to make. that isn't normal. anyone have any idea what the problem could be?
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    Which router to get?

    I'll have 2 computers connected. I don't want wireless. I want something cheap and I want them networked as well. How come wireless routers are cheaper than regular ones?
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    Added a 250gb IDE HD and having a problem

    It showed up under my Promise controller during startup and it shows in my Computer Management screen, but it is showing it as 131gb max. I have this hard drive and a 100gb IDE HD on the same IDE Cable and both on Cable Select. I don't wanna parition/format if it'll only come out to 131gb...
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    are these blank DVDs good?

    I ordered a 50pk of Ritek DVD+R from Newegg for $27. The spindle says Ridata on it though. Are these good?
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    DVD or CD Burner? Recommendations

    So I need another DVD or CD Burner/Drive. I'm hesitant to get DVD because I don't know how much I'll use it. It seems like a decent combo DVD/CDRW is pretty close to some DVD Burner prices though. Actually this computer has a DVD drive (though it's SCSI and i'd like to sell it). I haven't even...
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    Good cheap 17-19" LCD Monitor?

    It won't be hooked up to a computer used for gaming. I'll be doing audiot stuff (Protools). Do I even need a monitor with DVI? Any recommendations? I've been waiting until Dell's DVI monitors go on sale again and then maybe getting one of those.
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    SATA Card problem

    Okay so I thought I had a K7V motherboard, but I have an Asus A7V motherbaord. Anyway, As I said before this is what my system has: AMD 1ghz CPU Asus A7V 768 RAM Adaptec SCSI Card Firewire Card Ethernet Card Video Card Sound Card And now I want to add this Promise Card. At...
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    Another problem with SATA Card (different computer though)

    I am having a problem installing the Promise TX2plus SATA PCI Card into my old computer. I got it to show up during startup, but the hard drive attached to it wouldn't show up in windows. It might be because I have a lot of cards in this computer. AMD 1ghz CPU 768 RAM Adaptec SCSI Card...
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    Problem with ASUS K8V SE DELUXE Promise Controller

    I just built a new computer and am trying to install an IDE HD on the third Promise IDE controller (RAID, but you're supposed to be able to install a normal IDE drive on it also). We reinstalled Windows and during installation updated the bios for the Promise Controller. We used the ATA Driver...