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    Reformat X25-M G2 from HP laptop

    thanks razel, so I'll have my system partition, Windows will create a small partition, and I can leave another partition as spare area for the drive?
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    Reformat X25-M G2 from HP laptop

    Hey all, I've been doing a lot of research to try and answer my question, but I still need a little help. I just bought an HP laptop with a 160GB X25-M G2 already installed, and I would like to do a repartition and clean install of Win7. Main reason is because HP reserves a partition...
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    Battery Life between mobile Core i3 and i5?

    Hey I was wondering if anyone knows how battery life generally fares between core i3 and i5 laptops? I did a bit of searching and most reviews don't compare between the two, but maybe if you know something about the power consumption of each, you can provide some insight. Specifically, I'm...
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    Battery Life between mobile Core i3 and i5?

    Hey I was wondering if anyone knows how battery life generally fares between core i3 and i5 laptops? I did a bit of searching and most reviews don't compare between the two, but maybe if you know something about the power consumption of each, you can provide some insight. Specifically, I'm...
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    Dual channel problem. Identical RAM showing different timings?

    yeah, i guess i can try that, but the manual and color coding say otherwise.
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    Dual channel problem. Identical RAM showing different timings?

    I've been out of computer-building for a long time, so this might be a really dumb question. I just ordered a duplicate RAM for a small desktop system to double the RAM for dual channel. Old one was in DIMM1 and I put the new one in DIMM2. However, POST and CPUZ both show that it's still...
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    Thinkpad T60 -- VGA port issue

    I think this is a hardware issue, but when i hook up an external monitor to my laptop, it displays the desktop fine. When i move the mouse into the display area, it goes black. After about 5-6 seconds, the mouse shows up on the screen, but there is horizontal banding where the mouse is. The...
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    Project Request: Port Slime Volleyball to Cell Phone

    hey this is totally random, but i was thinking since cell phones all run java, that it'd be awesome to put Slime Volleyball on my cell phone. However, i don't know a thing about programming... If anyone is feeling adventurous and knows how to do this, that'd be awesome! I have a Nokia 6126...
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    recommendations for a fast, easy-to-use photo scanner?

    i ended up buying the Canon 8800F, which uses LEDs or something and thus has no warmup time, 2 sec preview, and 7 sec scan. It also does slides and negatives. I'll see how it works in a few days tho.
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    recommendations for a fast, easy-to-use photo scanner?

    I'm thinking of getting a scanner for my parents so they can digitize our old photo albums. However, since me and my bros will be gone for school after the break, it has to be something they can use as well. I'm looking for something that scans quickly and is really easy to use. Good image...
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    Old School: Underclock/volt a pentium 4 mobile

    I have an old toshiba laptop (sucks) that i leave in the common room to handle skype calls and play music, so it's left on all the time. It can get really loud though, and i'm a little worried about how much power it uses. So i wonder if an undervolt or underclock will help at all? I looked...
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    Do i have the right PSU?

    It's been a while since i've built a computer. My system looks like this: Sapphire PE-AM2RS690MH -- AMD 690 chipset Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (65W) DVD-RW drive (SATA) 80Gb HDD (3.0Gb/s SATA) 1 DIMM 1GB DDR2 800 PC6400 RAM and that's all. I'm using this PSU: FSP300-60THN ATX12V 2.01 300W...
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    Long-term satisfaction with your mp3 player

    mm i just played with the Samsung T9 at a store, and i completely love the interface and screen. However, it only comes in 2GB and 4GB is a bit sluggish. but i think its so slick and intuitive my granma could use it! (she wants an mp3 player too =p)
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    Long-term satisfaction with your mp3 player

    yo, i dont think anything like that exists... There is an older player tho, the Cowon X5L that's a little bulky and a bit ugly, but has 60GB, FLAC support, high-quality recording, and 30hr battery. I think it also has an open-source firmware available that supports gapless. also, i'm...
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    Long-term satisfaction with your mp3 player

    mm yea.. the zune seems good for me. I like the look and it was nice to play with at the store. Plus i have a lot of WMA's that i dont really want to convert. But any ideas when new models of all these things come out?? =o btw: i've heard that to prolong your battery's efficiency (so it...
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    Long-term satisfaction with your mp3 player

    I almost bought a 30gb ipod video, but then the battery in my brother's (5th gen) just died after a little less then a year. A lot of my friends who have ipods also had something mess up (usually battery) after a year or two - which makes me a little worried about getting an ipod. What are...
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    Looking for *amplified* speakers to add to laptop

    theres a logitech mm28 portable speaker ( http://www.amazon.com/Logitech...Speakers/dp/B000AM6QH4 ). I bought mine off woot.com for about $35. you can also find a pretty corny, but informative review on youtube if you wanna "preview" it. Pros: It's REALLY thin and light. Battery life is an...
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    Budget sound system upgrade

    anyway i found a good bmw forum, so i think i'll start asking around there. thanks for all the help! :)
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    Budget sound system upgrade

    oh nuts, this is probably more complicated than i thought.. " The Harman Kardon system employs the same new in-dash unit as the standard system; its 10 speakers are all upgraded from the standard ones and include- 14-mm soft dome tweeter in each front door 65-mm midrange in each front...
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    Budget sound system upgrade

    so i got a Pioneer DEH-1900MP on eBay. But then i think i have weird front speakers. They are like 3" plus a tweeter. pic but 3" speakers seem hard to find. I see 3.5" on crutchfield, but i'm pretty sure the ones installed right now are smaller than that. If i get new 3 inchers and...
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    Budget sound system upgrade

    hmm thanks all. yeah i was thinking about connecting the ipod through a headunit. I should just look out for one that has decent power and is easy to operate, huh? I think i will not mind going over $200 at all now actually =x So Techboy, those sony speakers were $50 a set, meaning 100 for...
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    Budget sound system upgrade

    what's a good store i can go to to discuss my options? will something like circuit city do? I'm in the SF bay area
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    Budget sound system upgrade

    so i guess ideally i'd want to replace everything, but if not, would it be better to replace only the headunit or only the speakers? hmm.. but i think i'd rather get a new headunit for an aux-in, though i know you can just wire an adapter somewhere else instead
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    Budget sound system upgrade

    I want to upgrade my car's sound system, but don't want to spend too much money. It's a '96 bmw 328 with the stock sound system. I don't want to spend more than $200 but i don't know if that's lowballing it too much. anyway, i most importantly want more clarity in the sound, not so much a...
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    What would cause a computer to just stop responding at all?

    mm i'll try out that ram test. the cpu is def not overheating and i hope its not a PSU problem
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    What would cause a computer to just stop responding at all?

    Lately my computer will just stop responding after being left on for a while (at least an hour or two, at most... 12 or more). The screen freezes (no blue screen or error msg) and keyboard, mouse doesnt respond. Can't even turn capslock on and off. I can only hit the reset button or hold power...
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    setting up network between apt rooms

    I'm gonna be sharing an internet connection between 3 apartment rooms in the same building soon. One next door and one directly below. We have a 10M/1M cable connection and are planning to share to the other rooms via wireless. There's four people in each room, and the other two rooms are all...
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    digital camera for my mom!

    So if you already know the answer, why did you start the thread? damn dude i'm just looking for other suggestions... take your thread crapping somewhere else
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    digital camera for my mom!

    sure you can... http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Panasoni...atOid/-13062/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do but most cameras don't, so i did put it at the bottom of the list
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    digital camera for my mom!

    hey, so my parents are going on a trip really soon and my dad wants to get my mom a camera for the occasion. It's been a while since i've been in the camera scene and i tend to avoid "user-friendly" cameras..... so.. i'm helping to look for a small camera in the $200 range. Any...
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    DVD Playback has no audio

    anybody have any ideas?
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    DVD Playback has no audio

    EVERYTHING except for DVD's works, audio-wise including audio cds
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    DVD Playback has no audio

    My DVD's have been silent for the past few months. It worked fine in the summer and i can't remember what sort of changes i may have made to my system since. The picture quality is perfect yet in both PowerDVD and WMP, there is absolutely no sound. Maybe a small clicking sound. I've tried...
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    Picasa2 help anyone?

    yea... Picasa is a nifty program, but it's using near 300 megs of my C: drive for thumbnails!!! >:o anyone know how to store the thumbnails somewhere else?
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    Program for Batch volume adjustment on wav files?

    sweet it works! i love audacity, i just hadnt checked out the beta version
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    Program for Batch volume adjustment on wav files?

    I have this old game on my computer that uses wav files for all the sounds, and i also like to play music on my computer all the time. But the wav files are all really loud. is there a program that'll just let me select all the wav files and lower the volume? theres like 100 files so im way...
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    hi-fi speakers on a PC?

    i guess i dont know what i'm looking for, but i just dont see any that have the same plug on the back as my sound card has... i'm pretty noob at this stuff
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    hi-fi speakers on a PC?

    wow, i didn't expect it to be this easy to hook together. This morning i hooked up my dad's old stuff. A harmon kardon hk330i receiver and Yahama NS-A636 speakers. The speaker cables were right in a little cabinet. Bought a cheap mini jack to rca adapter at radio shack and so far have plugged in...
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    hi-fi speakers on a PC?

    well i'm in college now and dont plan to actually do this until next year when i move into an apt, but right now my dad's got some big ol' speakers lying around (each bigger than my computer), and i got some spare time, so i thought i'd at least try it out. I plan to spend as little as...