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    This is probably a dumb question...

    Will a Socket 515 P4 mobo take a P4 Socket 478 processor?
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    Building a new computer and need some help..

    Pretty sure I'm going to base the system off a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600. Pretty sure I want to go with an Asus motherboard but theres just so many options and I really dont know what to go with. I'm not a gamer at all but would like a nice solid system. I will overclock a little bit but nothing...
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    Socket 478 Motherboard

    Pretty sure my current Abit IC7-G (non max) is fried.... Can y'all suggest something else or should I just go with another IC7-G but the max version this time? thanks, nags
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    Having some computer issues..

    So my computer has been running fine. No problems at all. Nothing has changed and all of a sudden it wont start up. I turn it on and the leds show some harddrive activity but the monitor never comes on. I tried swapping monitors and that didnt help. I tried putting a brand new video card in...
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    Problem with emachine

    Hey.. I'm having a problem with my moms emachine. All was fine for about 2 years. Then this morning all of a sudden the comptuer was off. Tried turning it on this morning and the power button does nothing. I opened the case and looked around.... everything seems fine. I swapped out the...
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    Booting from an external firewire drive

    How can I do this? The external drive is an iOmega and the mobo is an abit IC-7
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    Hard Drive tests

    The hard drive in my laptop has been clicking once in a while latley and the computer wouldn't boot up at all a few weeks ago till I reformatted. I ran checkdisk and a hard drive test utility from Hitachi and both say the drive is fine... Is there a different test program or anything I can...
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    Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 Problem

    I got this card a few months ago and it's been working fine. Then Nvidia released new drivers for it so I updated. Once updating any video that I tried to watch was vevry bright to the point where you could barely see any colors. I was going to swap out my mobo and reformat about a week after...
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    New mobo.. Temp Question

    Just yesterday I swapped out my mobo from an Abit VT7 to an Abit IC7-G Max. I didnt change anything else. Since the swap I've noticed my processor is running about 10 degrees hotter. Any ideas as to why? The processor is a P4 2.4ghz, its not oveclocked or anything. I have a very good...
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    Having a problem with USB on my Abit mobo

    Earlier tonight I was having problems with some random lockups on my computer. After messing around I found out that one of my sticks of ram was bad. So currently I'm running on just one 512mb Kingston DDR stick. Computer seems to be working ok but now I have no usb! USB doesn't even show up...
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    Why is my computer slow with Winamp?

    My computer is plenty fast. It's a p4 2.4Ghz with 1.5gb of Kingston ram. Running WinXP Pro. Why when I play Mp3's via winamp does it slow down my computer to the point where its hard to do anything? Same thing with playing vids in WMP. Everything else is real fast. I was using a friends...
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    Outlook XP auto reply?

    I've tried forever and cannot figure out how to setup an autoreply in Outlook. I'm going out of town for a week and wanted to set one up for my buisness email. Any idea how?? thanks
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    Office XP - Question

    I'm trying to export my server settings and all and I can't seem to figure out how. When I go to Import/Export I see the option to import the settings but I see no way to export them. How can I do this? thanks
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    Blue Screens in XP?

    Ever since I built my new computer I've been getting someone frequent blue screens. There seems to be no one reason that causes them. They are completley random and happen several times a week. They usually refer to Win32k.sys. Sometimes they say something like IRQL_EQUAL_OR_LESSER or...
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    IE Question in XP

    I was just looking around on the web and I got to a website that automatically resized my IE window. Now anytime that I try to maximize my IE window it only takes up like 3/4 of the screen. Is there a way to fix this?
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    Office XP Question(s)

    Ok, I've been using Office XP for quite some time now and I've liked it pretty much.. But theres 2 things that drive me crazy and I dont know how, or even if, you can change them. First thing. When I open Office for the first time and it retrieves my mail right away. It does not run my rules...
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    MSN Messenger problem

    I've been tweaking my computer all day with the instruction of several websites. Been doing a lot in the registry and everything has been working very well. However, earlier I ran a script to get rid of the popup messenger program and I think I may have ran the wrong script or something, but...
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    Popups in XP?

    Ok, I know this is a common question and I've searched everywhere and done everything I can think of. First off, I turned off the messenger thing in services. Ran Ad-Aware and Spybot. Both detect everything and get rid of it. But then randomly I'll get popups in windows without even having...
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    Windows XP Services Questions

    Hello. I'm new to Windows XP Pro.. I've been using 98 for years and know it like the back of my hand but I'm still trying to learn XP. My question is, what services do I want enabled and disabled? So far the only one I've touched is the messenger service so I don't get random popup ads...