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    Black Widow pics! (my new pet spider from 6/3/08)

    Well as a So. Californian who is still has a dimple in the back of his thigh the size of a quarter from a female Black Widow bite. I say to you good luck with that. The overnight hospital stay was not fun while they tried to stabilize my blood pressure. The ball of blood and fluids was...
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    Does corldess phone interfere with wireless mouse/keyboard

    I have got to get an undo button for my memory. I let it slip by until someone added the word Cheeto's to it. I just trashed the open bag. Think I will buy a new keyboard tomorrow since Cheeto's are probably in this one. Pounds you say ??? I hope those were free sites. Anyhow to add to...
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    Buying a digital thermometer?

    if you want 0.1 degree then I hope you have deep pockets. The $100 range units are 1 to 2 degree resolution. The fact that it is digital even affects accuracy because of slight hand movements affect the ranging count. If you can stand 1 degree then you are looking for a narrow field unit...
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    Standing on carpet while building computer any problem?

    It is not grounding that is important, it is difference of electrical potential that is important. If you have a zero difference of potential then current does not flow. If your body has 600 volts on it which is about the norm when wearing clothes :) and your case is sitting at 600 volts then...
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    Zero Out External Hard Drive USB Takes Way To Friggin Long!

    They are anti-theft screws, lots of builders are starting to put them on the back of PC cases. Fry's carries them in the standard deluxe set of bit heads for about $10 to $15. You can also find them at most automotive stores with a large selection of tools and again at large electronics parts...
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    How great a time is late July for a new computer?

    RAM is on its way back up in the spot market now. Trade projections in CRN and others predict 30 percent next month. That would be the cyclic back to school fall market.
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    Vista messed up my memory card...

    If you double click on the drive icon in Computer you will see the ready boost file if it is using one. Directory of H: 06/23/2007 12:01 AM 296 WMPInfo.xml 07/08/2007 02:48 AM 912,261,632 ReadyBoost.sfcache 2 File(s) 912,261,928 bytes...
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    What's that Nvidia program to repartition HDD within windows?

    Unless you already have a product in your hand with name, I believe that you still have an error. Partition Magic is a trademark of Powerquest Inc. Powerquest was acquired by Symantec in 2005 and that would have been the last independent version. Considering that Symantec probably has much...
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    scanner or aio recommendation

    Most of the all in one's skimp on the scanner section. They assume that you want a copy machine basically. Get a separate scanner this should fit your needs with twice the color depth and twice the optical resolution of your Photosmart choice...
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    External HDD

    Well personally I don't think that you can go wrong with Seagates new Freeagent series. The only drawback is they are not stackable like Western Digitals Mybook series. I have a Mybook at work and it looks like a hard back book fro the wide edges with the top botton and back full of convection...
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    Which Razer mouse for casual computer user?

    I don't know about him but you just made a sale for newegg. I hate most of the fat laser mice and prefer the more traditional style. I have a couple of lasers that I quit using because of the grip. That mouse looks perfect to me and the black body and yellow orange glow probably will match my...
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    Seagate Freeagent External HD Dead?

    I have the same unit and there is no poping sound it is pretty much dead silent just the sci-fi effect like pulsating yellow light strip to let you know it is working. I also have dual internal SATA 7200.10 500G drives no popping sound there either. Normally a popping sound is an attempt...
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    Ballistix Tracers - Weird LED problem

    they could have had a bad run of the custom IC that lights the Leds. More than likely it is a PAL with latches and may have been mis-programmed. Unfortunately Crucial does not offer a standard spec sheet online which shows the logic. They do offer this ... If I had to guess they are...
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    ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

    <div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: allenlux <div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: inklimited @theslasher Story short, it's a nice board, but the Chinese need to make a few leaps to be up to speed with larger corps...</end quote></div> I'm a little...
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    Microsoft Releases Patch For Core Processors

    The folks over on slashdot have tracked down some info. It seems to have something to do with the TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer) which is used to map virtual to real addresses. Random events such as hangs, blue screens or the mouse and keyboard stop responding etc. I have had all of the...
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    two harddrives in same rig die in the same month...

    Over the years, I have seen bad disk drives destroy multiple motherboards because of bad cable electronics, some right away some take several weeks. I have also seen the reverse happen where the motherboard controller destroyed multiple drives because the controller circuits were bad. On a...
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    Whats the best/easiest way to make a 1:1 copy of hdd?

    I could be mistaken but I thought the power cable and data cable just butt up side by side on 2.5" drives. This unit at Newegg which specifically claims to support 2.5 seems to make that assumption also.
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    why is my memory so low scoring?

    Here you go they are both free or have free versions Link to CPU-Z authors site Everest freeware home edition They pretty much went commercial after this edition
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    Quick question about old ATA devices:

    Yes it should with no problem. It will fall back to ATA5 if your controller can not support ATA 6 but more than likely it already does. Controller chips were updated before the drives arrived. ATA 6 gives you 100MB per second transfer rate versus ATA 5 at 66MB/s and increased the head an...
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    Whats the best/easiest way to make a 1:1 copy of hdd?

    Look around the kits can be found cheaper. Sell it to a budding tech when you are done, you would be surprised how many do not know that they exist. Try Mwave.com in California. $9.99 Mwave Link Look at the blow up picture because it looks like it does not include the power supply but it does.
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    why is my memory so low scoring?

    Why don't you get a copy of CPUz or Everest and see what they tell you your memory is set at. It will not be the first time that a BIOS overruled manual settings during POST.
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    two harddrives in same rig die in the same month...

    receiver/driver circuits on the same cable can do this. That is you lost one drive and it took the other out by weakening the circuits. More than likely the media is fine but the circuit boards are dead. If you have an old mother board that you do not care about you can hook them up one at a...
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    Printer Help

    Old is right, they started making them in 1992. 24 pin black and white or 4 color ribbon. They are still popular if you need an impact printer for forms. The FG connector is a Centronics connector. You just need the standard cable that all printers used before USB and Ethernet became the...
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    WD500GB 16SATA

    :D
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    Very strange little problem

    Unless you removed it for the picture it does not seem to be connected. If not you are pulling way too much current across the motherboard bus lines and that is the source of your problem. I see a molex connector with nothing plugged in it right by the video card next to the red LED behind the...
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    Random Freezing-Blue Screens

    I had the same problem with Vista and a 6800GT. I thought it was the mouse driver because it always seemed to happen when I used the scroll wheel to zoom. Replaced 2 gigs of Corsair memory with 2 Gigs of Crucial Ballistix and the problem magically disappeared. This was even after running the...
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    Why are current hard drives so slow!

    I would say it was very dramatic. Everyone had midnight sales at the end of 1995 when windows 95 was introduced. Most stores had bundle deals with a 120 megabyte hard drive. Most people had 40 to 80 meg at the time. You can now buy a 500 gig for around 100 dollars. Chips are not mechanical...
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    System build: A few Adobe-friendly pieces

    Unless it has changed with CS3 Photoshop will chastise you for not having two physical disk drives. I do so I cant tell. Swap file is moved to the second drive as recommended by Adobe. .
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    WD500GB 16SATA

    No place, that is the size of your disk in GiB or binary Gigabytes. Disk drive makers started selling their drives rated in decimal values to make them sound bigger in the mid 80's and the fudge factor has continued on. If you right click on the drive icon in "my computer" and look at...
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    recommendation for a portable hard drive please.

    My recommendation http://www.seagate.com/content...t/disc/ds_portable.pdf
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    How to transfer everything to a new drive?

    For the home or occasional user I think the best solution is Acronis True Image 10.0 Home which is about $50 U.S. Other commercial products are Drive Snapshot, Norton Ghost, Image for windows by um I think Terabyte. Most can be purchased on-line for download. There are a few free ones...
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    Memory doesnt show up right in windows?

    Well you really haven't given enough information to answer. However assuming that you just built a new Core 2 duo running at stock speeds 533 times 2 is 1066 which is what the front side bus is rated at without over-clocking. Now if you are running a AMD X2 then something would be wrong.
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    First rig with two SATA drives in it.

    Sorry it is late, the logicals go in the extended. You create the extended and then the logical will no longer be grayed out. Basically the extended partition is a container for the logical drive letters up to Z on Windows, up to 29 (32 - A B and C) on Novell Netware and Linux just gives them...
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    How Many Burns can A DVD burner Take?

    Well I do not have a source for red lasers but Sharp just introduced a blue laser with a 10,000 hour life expectancy. Link to story
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    Memory doesnt show up right in windows?

    It is standard for 32 bit systems, that is all that can be addressed. If you want more then you must switch to 64 bit XP or 64 bit Vista
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    First rig with two SATA drives in it.

    Make it a primary in case you ever want to put an OS on it. Let it take the whole disk. Not sure what the 4 volume comment is about unless it is talking about the 4 partitions that all hard disks have in the master boot record. That is three primaries and one logical. Normally you only use...
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    Laptop: difference between Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, and video cards?

    You never really got this part of your question answered. The Core Duo is more closely related to the Pentium M and is the seminal basis for the new architecture doing away with net-burst. The Core Duo lacks the 64 bit enhancements. The Core 2 Duo corrects this "shortcoming" and introduces...
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    2 or 3 GB in Vista?

    783 MB with just IE open, I did have office open and acrobat a little while ago so it was up for a while I guess. Oh this is on ultimate 32
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    ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

    Their index must be screwed up or recently fixed because it is currently under the shipping products list. Only new products show on the main page, while all available products are under the products tab at the top. Here is the Link as of the date of this message The page says nothing...
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    How hard is it to change a notebook hard drive?

    Physically easy to swap out as long as you have fine point tools normally a very small phillips head and a very small star head. On most laptops that is a bracket plat holding the drive in place and mylar ribbon cables. From a software standpoint you will lose the hidden recovery partition and...