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    Spray painting my computer case (HAF 932)

    This will be my first case I will be painting. I'm looking forward to it and I think the finished product with the color of my components will look good. :) I know I will need primer, the color I want, as well as the clear coat and sand paper. As far as taking the case apart what is...
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    Does this sound like the mobo, power supply or something else maybe?

    I went to turn on my computer today but only the hard drive, and the fans would turn on. My usb devices wouldn't work, monitor wouldnt work and i noticed my cpu fan not spinning. I checked to see if the cpu fan was blocked but it wasn't. I checked all the connections and everything looks to...
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    AIM on a mac

    I just purchased my very first Macbook pro and my very first mac product. I tried downloading AIM but there is an extension .bin that will not open. It says it is the wrong media file or something.
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    Password stopped working in XP

    I set a password up yesterday on XP. I logged out a few hours later and then logged in a while after and it worked fine. But now I am trying to log in and it is saying it is the wrong password. How do I bypass this if it is possible?
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    Looking to buy a new laptop

    I am torn between two different laptops. The macbook pro or the an acer one that has some nice features such as the hd-dvd player. I can get about a total of about $300 off the macbook and I can probably get the Acer down to hopefully $900 from the original $1300 price tag(I work for Best Buy)...
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    Installed new hard drive

    I installed a new raptor 10,000 rpm hard drive and I connected both serial ata cables and now my computer will only boot for a split second every few minutes. I tried putting jumpers in the far right but still no luck.
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    I'm baffled

    I recent bought an e6600, a new motherboard, a 650w psu, and 2gigs of gskill ram along with vista. I kept my hard drive and video card. I installed vista and didn't like it so I reinstalled xp and everything was running fine. And then a few days ago I noticed it running a lot slower. Maps would...
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    Installed OS onto H drive

    I tried installing flash but I am getting "Free up 5000k" error. I'm assuming it is because I accidentally installed the OS onto the "h:" drive and not the "c:" drive. Do I need to reinstall windows?
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    windows requires a digitally signed driver

    I'm trying to install my x-fi sound drivers and I get this pop up about 6 times. Last time I got this today I had to repair windows. What can I do?
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    New motherboard, no signs of life

    I installed a PSU(BFG 650w), CPU(e6600), motherboard(965p-DS3IS3), and ram(2x2gb PC6400) and I connected everything correctly or so I thought. When I power it up all my fans turn on but I have no video and my dvd driver doesn't open. I plugged speakers into it to see if I could hear the start up...
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    Ripping songs from an ipod

    My computer recently crashed and I had about 10gigs worth of music in my itunes libaary as well as on my ipod. Where can I find some software, free or paid that will help me transfer songs from my ipod to my computer the best?
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    Making sure everything will fit

    I plan on buying this motherboard (http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?item=N82E16813128017) along with a e6600. I just purchased a ninja plus cpu cooler as well. I was wondering will this fit in my current case (http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16811146016) or do I need to buy a new...
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    Freezes on start-up

    When I try to start up my PC and it will load windows and then the bar will just stop moving. I went into safe mode and did a system restore to a point where it worked and it did the same thing. I've been having problems with my computer since I bought it and I must of reformatted it over a...
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    Motherboard updates

    I'm reformatting my computer again after various problems and I started to wonder are there other updates I need besides the CD my computer came with? I bought it from IBuypower in 2005 and I believe it is a evga k8n sli motherboard. I was wondering the same for the CPU which is a 3700+.
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    650w or 700w

    I was looking at a 700w power supply by RocketFish (Best Buy's brand which is pretty good) and a 650w power supply by BFG which I can buy for $10 more ($60) then the other power supply. I was wondering if I should get the BFG as it is known more and maybe more reliable. I will be running...
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    Delete partition

    I've had problems with my computer since I bought it and my manufacturer can't seem to fix it so I am just going to buy a new processor, a motherboard, ram, psu, and a windows oem. Now to completely clean off my hard drive can I just delete the partition or do I need to buy the software to wipe...
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    Serious framerate drop

    This problem just started to occur this mourning. I was playing World of Warcraft and periodically I would get a really bad framerate drop to maybe 10fps for about 2 minutes and then it would go back to normal for about 5 minutes and then drop again. I thought it was the server so tried cs:s but...
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    6800xt support dual monitor?

    Does anyone know if it supports dual monitors? In the back there is one DVI and one analog. If I was to use the analog for the second monitor would it work? Also, does analog have less quality then dvi? So should I use dvi for the the one that games will show up on and the second monitor will...
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    Ripping songs from an ipod, and transferring files b/w two computers

    I just purchased a new computer. I need to transfer my files that I have on this computer onto my new one. How do I set up like a FTP between the two computers? Also, I have a lot of my songs on my ipod that are on my computer. It might be easier if I could just rip those songs onto my...
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    Any software to test your monitor

    I am getting my computer hopefully tomorrow. Is there any software out there I can run to make sure the settings on my monitor are good for gaming?
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    Brand new computer

    I am recieving a brand new computer this week if the company ships it out soon. It is a custom built so would I need to upgrade the bios, motherboard, and all those other things or will it already have the latest updates? I will probably have to update my video card, right? Basically, what...