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    Two defective hard drives?

    This is really strange. A few weeks ago I formatted and partitioned a sata drive so that I could dual boot vista and XP. After I had installed Vista on the sata drive I started to get a strange clicking noise followed by what sounded like a powering up noise, quite similar to when you first...
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    Trouble with dual boot installation

    Hopefully this isn't too difficult to fix. I have 3 hard drives. My main hard drive, up until I installed vista, was a 60gb IDE drive (drive C). I have a slave drive attached to it (drive D). I partitioned a Sata drive (drive F:, apologizes if I'm making this more confusing than it should...
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    best pads/rubber feet for slick desk?

    I have an Icemat 2 and an Ikea Jerker desk and the icemat slides around with a small amount of pressure despite it having 6 rubber feet. Same with my SMK 88 keyboard as well. Now this may be a silly question but can anyone suggest some products which would have enough friction and stopping power...
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    Have to unplug modem with Dual Boot

    Is there any way around this ? I have to unplug my modem whenever I boot into Vista after using XP and vice versa. I assume it's for my ISP to get the different MAC address or something that the OS assigns to the NIC. This is quite tiring to have to do constantly every time I want to switch...
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    Getting a noise like my pc's about to switch off

    Anyone know which hardware component would cause something like this? It's strange because it makes a noise like it's shutting down (a clicking + power down sort of noise) but nothing happens, no crashes or anything like that. It began happening when I installed Vista, actually it happened like...
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    Inexpencive FLAC Native portable MP3 player

    Does such a thing exist? I just want something inexensive to use in the car occasionally. I would prefer if it supported FLAC natively and maybe had a built in FM trasmitter. Maybe 10 gigs for space. I've been out of the game a while but remember I didn't really like the IPOD I owned for a...
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    Overprivileged brats

    You don't know what life is about. Most of you anyways. I guess if anything I can be thankful that I dont have my annual income and salary planned out for the next 50 years from my carefully planned college courses over the years but rather make my own way with my innovative genius. Mommy...
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    Direct2Drive is terrible

    I bought IL-2 Forgotten battles off D2D and have since become addicted to the game, so much so that I want every expansion and patch available. It turns out that if you buy games from direct2drive that A) you can't use any expansions B) you can't use any patches unless D2D offers them (and they...