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    Upgrading -- will my 480w thermaltake suffice?

    Hi guys, I'm upgrading everything I have besides sound card, chassis, and cd-roms. I want to see if I can keep my PSU, but I don't want to push it... cause I know running a stressed psu can damage hardware. You think my thermaltake 480w silent purepower will be able to power my new...
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    Setting up a RAID1 and using another SATA drive alone

    Hey guys, I have a MSI K8T Neo FIS2R motherboard. It has 2 sata controllers: a VIA southbridge controller and a Promise controller. Both have 2 sata150 connections (so 4 total). I currently have a 74gig (sata150) Raptor, and I am purchasing 2 sata300 500g drives to put in a RAID1. So I...
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    Mixing a SATA150 with 2 SATA3.0s in a RAID1

    Hey guys, I have an existing 74gig raptor (sata150) that I want to put in a desktop I'll be building (for my OS), but I also want to have a RAID1 consisting of 2 new 500gig SATA3.0 drives I'm planning on purchasing. I'm choosing SATA3.0 so I can get drives down the line when I have a failure...
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    System freeze after boot-up - laptop

    I have an Dell laptop ( 4 yrs old). When I boot up, applications are loaded fine(in systray). While this is happening I am able to move the mouse. At some point the system freezes and I have no control over anything ( mouse, function keys, etc). It happens towards the end of loading all of the...
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    Question about filling up RAM slots

    Hey guys, I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 board and I currently have 2 out of the 3 RAM slots occupied -- with a 512 stick and a 256 stick. I want to give the machine a major RAM boost. Can I just buy a 1GB stick and just throw it on the board, having 3 full slots, or do/should I toss...
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    Wireless card problem?

    I have a Dlink air plus G510 on my win2K machine. all of sudden it stopped working. I can seem to get the card to connect to my router. I tried the card in a different machine and still NG. I have re-seated the card, re-installed the drivers. I have also tried disabling and re-enabling the...
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    MAC Address - find it

    I can't seem to remember how to get the MAC address for my W2000 machine. On an XP machine its "getmac". any clues out there?
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    DNS problems with linux

    This problem is occuring on two different linux machines in a house with 30 computers -- all of the rest are windows and not experiencing this problem. 192.168.1.254 is our gateway (netopia 3000 router) and it has a dns. on every machine in the house (linux or windows), all pcs have...
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    GRUB not booting

    Hi, I had a P3 compaq 'deskpro' with a shot hard drive sitting around so i figured I would get a new WD 120gb ide hdd and stick it in there to make a (debian) server. i took out the old drive, put the new one in, the hard disk errors in BIOS went away and it said 120gb drive on ide0 (...
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    Wifi-friendly linux

    Hey guys, I've been searching left and right online for a wireless PCI card that WILL work for linux (debian/ubuntu, if it matters) without hassle but I keep hearing "this card, only this revision, but you might not be able to tell the revision, blah blah" -- so I was wondering if anyone who...
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    SATA Harddrive question

    Hi. Right now I'm using an MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R Socket 754 VIA K8T800 ATX AMD motherboard. I have a 74 gigabyte 10k rpm wd raptor hard drive. This is currently the only hard drive in this system. Now, I want to start ripping DVDs. I currently have a server that has like 2 40 gig drives and...
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    Can't find XP install disk

    I am tring to re-install XP Home on a Dell for a friend. The PC is really infected and I want a fresh(boot) install. the only problem is that they could not find the install Cd. however, they have the XP sticker on the side of the box. any suggestions on how to make a CD and then allow...
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    Problem with turning on my comp.

    Ok, here's the scenario. i have a dell dimension 2400 I have my computer at college, i always left it on, never had any problems until i came back from thanksgiving. for the weekend, we had to turn off all electronics and unplug everything. So when i came back from thanksgiving, i tried to...
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    driver problems

    i was installing drivers for my mouse and when i restarted, it lost info for the .lnk extension. as a result all the shortcuts on the desktop and start menu were lost. anybody know what i should do to the registery or win configurations to get these working again? thanks in advance. mark
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    XP and display monitor

    I recently re-formatted my hard drive with XP and all went well. However, as I try to change the display properties, it appears that I can't move off of 480x640. I downloaded the latest drivers. I then went to the setting/advanced tab to select the monitor type and it is grayed out, not...
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    Picking a new laptop

    I'm looking for a laptop for a 3d design and graphics studio that I'll have to traveling to and from often. I'll be needing to do a lot of rendering but I'd like to avoid a ridiculously huge notebook. My budget is about $3,000-$3,500. I've more or less come down to four different choices; 1)...
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    Need opinion on RAM for new AMD64 PC

    Hi, I'm builing a new amd 64 pc with a newcastle 3200+. Here's a link to the PC. I'm getting all the parts from newegg but I have one quick question: Am I better off getting 1 gig stick of ram from crucial instead of 2 512s? I'm using pc3200 (ddr400). I want to get crucial because they make...
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    Network topology

    Hey everyone, I'm wondering if i can get some tips with regards to setting my network topology... putting clients, servers, routers, firewalls in the right places. I have 4 pc's that i'm dealing with right now, i'll call them a,b,c, and d. a: AMD Athlon 1.2ghz 512mb for serving stuff running...
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    New Computer Problem at Startup

    I finished building a computer, here is some info: New MB NFORCE 2 SPP M7NCD BIOSTAR RTL New CPU AMD|2500/333 ATHLON XP BARTON R New DDRAM 512MB|64X64 VS DDR400 COR% From my last computer ATI RADEON 7200 AGP The assembly went smoothly. I powered it on, and at first everything came up...
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    Use printer on one machine thru router

    I am using a router( linksys). I have 2 XP Pro machines. Printer is connected to LPT 1 on one. Trying to print from other. Installed printer software on second printer which I am using a wireless connection. Not sure if this is a network config printer or local in add printer options. I do...
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    Domain name server problems

    I've recently ordered my own domain name which i wish to point to my webserver. So I called up the company from which I ordered the domain name, and they said that I can't just give them my IP address and have the domain point to the server. They said that i'd have to use my own DNS servers...
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    My computer is dead :(

    I recently moved from NY to CA and shipped my PC in the mail via UPS. My graphics card somehow, from shock, popped out of the AGP slot and was wandering around loose in the case during shipping. One of the inductors became a bit tilted on the vid card but i just bent it back. When i boot up...
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    Cant boot into anything

    in the process of trying to dual boot gentoo and windows. i have win2k on primary hdd and it always used to boot into it. i tried to setup a dual boot with GRUB on the MBR of the primary hdd. i boot up the pc and it wont boot into anything. just sits there i tried to rewrite the MBR with grub...
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    Installing Gentoo -- Genkernel error

    Well i just got a genkernel error and i lost the error but it happened on this step from the installation manual Moving bzImage to /boot/kernel***** Now, i checked my 'mount' right after and what do you know, but only my hdb3 (root partition) is mounted. A few steps before the genkernel i...
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    Linux Distributions

    I know you've all already seen this type of thread a hundred times over, and I know I can read about this elsewhere, but I have been reading elsewhere and I would like some specific help with this if anyone has any time. I currently have a dual-booting PC with Win2k/Red hat 8(purchased it...
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    Boot Problems -- Linux/Windows

    I've had this problem before but unfortunately I can't remember exactly how I fixed it. I have two harddrives, the primary with 30 gig to WIN2k and a secondary with 40gig to Red hat 8. A while back I reformatted the first and lost the MBR for my dual boot and now I want to get it back again --...
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    Motherboard Problems -- Computer Won't Start

    Just put a new PC together with an EPoX nForce 2 / AMD 2500+ 2.0GHz. Haven't got the PC started yet. Hit power on -- Heard CPU fan going for about 1.5 - 2 seconds, then everything stops. Then we only hear a very faint alternating high/low pitch sound that seems to come from the battery area...
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    Pertinent mobo question

    Ok right now im trying to install a heatsink and fan on a 2.0ghz amd/nforce2 rd8a+. the retention clips on the fan seem like they Really dont reach the nubs on the processor holder. Also, after i was trying to make the clips reach lightly , i took off the heatsink and it seems almost as if the...
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    Building a new pc!

    I'm helping my friend build a new pc for college and I was wondering if you guys could help me pick out a good mobo/processor/ram combo and a good case/psu to go with. I've had all too many problems myself with my motherboard conflicting with sound cards and video cards and you guys are usually...
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    Need to determine version of processor! Urgent!

    Right now i'm working with a pc that someone just noticed the CPU fan on it died. Yes, i know, i'm working on getting a fan ASAP. Unfortunately, it's a server, and the person NEEDS it running right now, and unfortunately, the owner of the server doesn't know what processor it is. I can see the...
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    Laptop brand question

    I'm buying a laptop for my first semester of college soon. It seems that a lot of people have either a Dell or a IBM Thinkpad. The slim thinkpad seems to look the coolest, but whats the better machine? what has a better track record? Supposing that i can get the same hardware speeds but i had...
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    pcAnywhere problems

    I'm at work trying to connect to a pcAnywhere host that our client has running. They are behind a regular LinkSys router and I had them forward the right ports so that they should be able to host. 5361 and 5362, tcp and udp, data and status ports respectively, i believe i did. They are...
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    Webserver question!

    OK starting in september i want to be able to have a webserver running out of my room on my pc which i plan to run 24/7. First question: Does anyone know of a Very good, free webserver that's powerful and i could download? (my vb one isn't cutting it :P) Second question: How about mail...
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    Router Question

    I have a linksys router and i'm hosting something on port 80. I can connect via http://localhost but others can't connect to my external address when i have forwarding to my pc via port 80 enabled. They tracert and timeout to my address too. Any ideas?
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    Need help with web server/linksys router!

    Ok i made a small webserver in visual basic that listens on port 80, deals with queries and spits pages back out. When i do http://localhost it works. I am behind a linksys router (yes i know, soon to hit the trashcan.) Now. Under the advanced>forwarding>UPnP-forwarding section i have port 80...
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    Voltages

    I just installed a hardware monitor... It has in red text (caution) that my Core voltage is +1.79V Is this bad? also my other voltages are: +12V = +11.95V +5V = +5.08V I/O = +3.31V Also... how do i change my AGP voltage? (i don't see an option for this in BIOS, and i have to change it to...
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    BIOS question

    I just downloaded a new BIOS and flash utility from ECS to update my ECS k7VZA rev3.0. It says to put the files on a floppy, and also to put a bunch of files to make a DOS boot disk on the floppy. but as far as i know, you can't make a DOS boot disk for win2k. how can i get into a dos...
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    What is a good temp for me?

    I am using: MSI ECS k7vza amd mobo 1.2ghz radeon 9500 pro neither has been OC'd. -- also have an Antec true 430watt psu (has been known to run a little hotter than others) I have 1 fan beside the PSU and i have just left the pc running in windows for 20 mins, and in BIOS, my temperature...
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    beeping without anything happening

    i just got new RAM from crucial and a new antec true 430w PSU and when i try to turn on the pc, i just get a beeping noise. monitor doesn't show anything... no bios. just beeping. any ideas? thanks
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    Reinstalling WIN2k... GRUB issues.

    i have windows 2000 on one hdd and red hat linux 8 on another. i dual boot with the GRUB loader. I have to reinstall windows b/c of video and agp troubles -- but if i reinstall windows 2000, will the MBR be screwed with and will i automatically go into 2000 every time? can i change this? i...