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    New Vista install, cant figure out chipset

    Thank you ObiDonCanobi! I had CPU on my HDD but forgot about it! I also checked the Realtek website, and they actuall just today have released new drivers for all windows versions...perhaps this audio problem will be easier to resolve than I imagined :)
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    New Vista install, cant figure out chipset

    I talked my friend into getting Vista........I gave him the Vista upgrade advisor, and was planning to help him do as I do, and procure all BIOS INF Audio Video HID etc drivers for Vista PREINSTALL to stash on a flash card, but he was so excited he clean installed it without even a little...
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    Determining PC hardware bottlenecks

    I have my OS, HDTV, and TEMP folder for my P2P on the system drive, which is a fast SATA2 16MB, and I have my P2P storage files on my second Maxtor 200GB 8MB IDE drive. Additionally, I have my P2P cache at MAX of 1.5MB, in order to take the stress off the disk drives. I almost never exceed 60%...
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    Determining PC hardware bottlenecks

    I have added my second harddrive SPECIFICALLY to solve te hard drive problems associated with extreme HD access. Running a P2P program full time, as well as the reading/writing of HDTV, was severely taxing my WD Caviar 250GB. I have set up my system so that different applications use different...
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    Need tuner for computer

    ANTENNAS for most over the air will be uterly useless for NTSC, unless you like snow and crap. I cannot get a watchable picture on my FusionHDTV card on analog, but every digital channel is 100% crystal clear and perfect......then again, I can physically see the mountain out my window :D
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    what oh what to spend my money on?

    You could also throw in a $60-100 HDTV PC tuner card.......would look SWEEEEET on tose monitors....I use my PC as Media Center, damn things hooked up to my living room TV and recording shows 24/7, love digital TV :)
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    Computer from hell

    Perhaps it would make diagnostics easier if you UNCLOCKED your OVERCLOCKING mods, and installed the OS as normal, to determin if your setup works A-OK like that FIRST, then proceed with OVERCLOCKING then that you would have "baseline" data to work with?
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    Determining PC hardware bottlenecks

    I have an Intel 946GZIS Motherboard with E6300 2MBL2 cache, 2GB 667MHz RAM, and a SATAII 16MB HDD and 7600GT PCI-E video card. I just upgraded the RAM to 2GB from 1GB after the price fell below $100. I would similarly like to upgrade the CPU when prices get low enough, but I would like to make...
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    Cant use disks, all icons show as IE

    Oh, and I just tried to mount it and it had similar behavior to my g/f........I did noting. But at least the icons are normal when mounted. Running the setup.exe does nothing. Paul
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    Cant use disks, all icons show as IE

    All the DVD games I have burned now have an Internet Explorer E icon shown on the DVD and nothing will run or launch. Does anyone know how to get rid of this and return everything back to what it was? its extremely annoying. paul
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    Disk drive question - trying to add a drive

    Strangly enough I was reading the manual on my new Maxtor drive as I found your post. I am on my jumper page, and it shows master as jumper position left, slave as no jumper, and cable slective as jumper on second from the left. hope that helps. I am going to try installing my second drive...
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    Laptop Display won't work

    I had the exact opposite happen to my laptop. The backlight went out but the LCD was still functioning. Upon dissasembling it, I found three seperate cables between the screen and the main laptop unit. The leads for the backlight were a simple red and black wires came off the solder. The two...
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    New XFX 7600 AGP Graphics card

    What drivers are you using. I bought a eVGA 7600GT two months ago, and it came with an eVGA driver disk. These drivers just put in some lame driver files that probably don't do anything more than tell the Display Properties a few size options. Anyway, I went to the NVIDIA website and...
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    Firefox is Firefuxed

    Wheres my i386 folder? For some strange reason I can't find my system32 folder.....weird. Paul
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    S-Video in greyscale on tv?

    If you connect component to component jacks one at a time you get to see what each signal looks like. The one signal your seeing is luminance, the other signals are chromas, and should if connected independently look like psychodelic colors. Try hooking each RCA to each input independently to...
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    Firefox is Firefuxed

    Temp files deleted, cant find prefetch except a file called prefetch.xpt. Ran a registry cleaner. OS came preinstalled from PCClub.....it is a Win XP Home 2002 version, and I only have a ghost image to reload not able to do an actual clean install. Computer is a few weeks old. All SP's and...
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    Firefox is Firefuxed

    I didn't know there was a new Firefox.......just downloaded it and installed. Exact same problem, instant send error report box. I cleared all my temp files and am going to check prefetch stuff before moving on to Installer cleaner. Paul
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    Firefox is Firefuxed

    I just bought a new PC and tried to install Firefox 1.4. Installs fine, but each time I start it I simply get the Microsoft Error Reporting screen, send don't send. Uninstalled, downloaded Firefox 1.5, same thing. Multiple uninstall and reinstall, no dice. Any clues? Paul
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    Guide to updating Windows WITHOUT Windows Update or Autoupdate

    Every fake XP install causes the death of one child who will never get magic Bill medicine from his Foundation. Of course, these are NON AMERICAN children, future immigrants to steal our pie %, so perhaps we can control the immigration reform issues through software piracy? :) Paul
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    Considering doing a fresh instal of XP, want to set it up right, what do I need to know

    I suggest you set up your new install with youir current situation in mind. Perhaps customize your folders and arrange them in such a way during installs and downloads that they go to a safe and prepared backupable location from the start. I have folders called archived downloads with others...
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    windows xp install/uninstall problem

    Real non tech suggestion..........complete the XP Home install with a generic Home product key, either a friends or a keygen fresh one, and select not to activate. Then boot the XP Pro disc and install over the Home install. Technically spoeaking, that old Pro disk was probably previously...
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    Could not start the Human Interface Device Access service

    At the time the problem occured, I was installing little things here n there and after several days, I tried to fix the remote. I sorta assumed rightly or not that the card coming out of the slot was what caused the p[roblem and I had done a cleanup on my disk and deleted all the old restore...
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    Could not start the Human Interface Device Access service

    I am organizing "my documents" and all my downloaded programs into neat 4.7gb clumps to drop onto a box of DVDRWs, at which point in a while I will reinstall the original "image" from PCClub and reinstall all my toys. Before I try that, should the HID service start or give an error without...
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    Anyone want to help me prune some Services?

    I have a fresh XP install, and default services running on it. On my old slow PIII laptop, I pruned off every service except like sound and some Windows thing and whatever 2-3 other things that cant be shut off. That laptop was used for a few old games and playing MP3's, and AOL by dial up...
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    Could not start the Human Interface Device Access service

    I had installed on my computer an HDTV tuner card, which for lack of a securing screw, was pulled out, tweaked off, the PCI connection with a small tug on the external cable while running the cards program. After reinserting the card, it worked fine, but the IR remote that runs through a...