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    Apartment complex troubles... any advice?

    So I recently moved out of my college apartment, and I get a bill in the mail a few weeks later for a $338 carpet replacement in the common area (my roommates received the same bill). The carpet was fine when we moved out, certainly nothing to warrant a replacement. I talked on the phone with...
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    Video card won't POST in my system?

    I just got a shiny new ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512MB AGP to extend the life of my DFI Lanparty NF3 250Gb board. I popped the card in, hooked up power, and hooked up both monitors and it didn't work. Hard drives spun up like normal, but no beep codes or POST beep coming out of the motherboard. Fan...
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    Pick me a good 1GB DDR stick...

    My setup: Athlon 64 3200+ S754, DFI Lanparty NF3 250Gb, 1GB PQI PC4000 DDR (2x512MB, I have one slot left) Basically I'd like to get 2GB of memory on this rig. I know my equipment is sort of outdated but I'm not really in a position to run out to buy a new CPU and motherboard and RAM and...
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    WRT54G - seems to just freeze?

    I have a Linksys WRT54G router, (yes, I know, like the other 75% of the population) and I've been having an issue lately. It's hooked into a cable modem from which Internet is shared throughout the house. Here's the issue: Occasionally the router just decides that it wants to quit accepting...
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    LCD screen care

    So I just got two Dell 2007WFP S-IPS screens. These cost me a lot of money and I plan to use them for a while, so I want to make sure they stay in top shape. I've only had them a couple of days so obviously I haven't really needed to clean them or anything yet. However, I'd like to know what...
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    VHS to DVD, I need an easy and quick solution...

    Okay, so I need to get some VHS home video tapes converted to DVD format. I've got the capture hardware, I've got it set up, and I'm able to import and burn video just fine. Problem is that the VideoStudio 10 software I'm using, even though it says it's encoding directly to "DVD" format...
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    S-IPS: Are there any left?

    Now that the 2007WFP has been riddled with issues after switching some of its units to S-PVA panel, it has left people like me in a bind for finding a good 20+ inch widescreen monitor. I don't want a TN panel since I want accurate color reproduction, and I don't want an S-PVA because I don't...
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    I need a sturdy flash drive!

    Okay, I'm in the market for a flash drive. It doesn't need to have fancy features, it doesn't even really need to be that small. My main requirement is that it's sturdy and durable. (USB2 is also required but I think this is pretty much de-facto these days) I want something I can stick on my...
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    Picking a new cell phone

    Okay, my two year Verizon contract is about to expire, so I am going to get another phone along with another contract. I want something fairly top of the line (since I'll probably have it for another two years), but I don't need a ton of crazy features. Cost is not really an issue. Durability...
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    Anyone using Norton Internet Security

    I have had two people reporting that my site does not work with Norton Internet Security. Can I have anyone who is using that software please just tell me if this simple page loads: http://www.fastlanehw.com/sample.php That's all I wanna know. Thanks :)
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    Inline power switch

    This seems like a laughably simple concept but for some reason I seem to be having a hell of a time... I'm looking for something really, really simple...an inline power switch, something that will plug into the wall, have a power switch and a 3-prong outlet on it to plug a device into, and...
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    Delayed Write Failure on Firewire HD?

    I have a fairly old Maxtor FireWire enclosure which I put a regular old hard drive inside of... I've been trying to copy a bunch of files to it but in the middle of the transfer it will show "Delayed Write Failure" and the hard drive will disappear from My Computer. My board is a DFI...
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    Windows setup crashes when trying to install SATA RAID drivers

    Trying to do a SATA RAID setup with Windows XP on my DFI Lanparty NF3 250Gb board. Drives are recognized fine. Hit F6 at setup, fine. Asks for drivers, fine. After I tell it to continue it goes through the rest of the drivers it needs to load, then says "Setup is starting Windows"...
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    Windows XP on SATA RAID setup help!!

    I just got two WD Raptor 36GB drives and I am hooking them up to my DFI LanpartyUT NF3 250Gb board... They hook up just fine, recognized in BIOS, I go to RAID setup and made a RAID 0 array out of them... RAID setup in the BIOS shows that I have a 69GB RAID drive... Yet I popped in my RAID...
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    Single-Cup Coffee Makers

    With a coffee shop just around the corner, I've kind of picked up a bit of a coffee habit and I want to make good coffee at home :P Honestly having a big 10 cup coffee machine just doesn't make sense since I am the only one drinking it and I might have 1, maybe 2 cups. So I heard a lot about...
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    Completely random question, but...

    Just curious-- on the highway today I noticed 3 cars left on the side of the road with white towels hanging from their windows...I've noticed this before but never really thought about it... What is the reason for this? Thanks...random life question :)
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    What to clean my CRT with?

    My IBM P260 21" is now a couple of months old so naturally the surface of the screen has gotten a little dirty. I want to clean it off but I've heard that using a damp cloth (like I always did with my other monitors) might damage it over the long run. I want to be extra-careful, so what should I...
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    UT2004 benchmarking, please help!

    I can't benchmark UT2004. I installed the game, installed UMark 1.2, no matter what map I try to run, it doesn't move the camera around a pre-set path...so I have to move it around myself, which makes the benchmark invalid... Please, someone tell me, how do you benchmark this game??? Thanks..
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    Hey ATers, help me find a new camera

    I'm in the market for a new one :) digital of course. This is mostly for my review site www.fastlanehw.com where I need to do close-ups of computer hardware and most work is done inside. Maybe some of you can help me choose what camera I need. Things I DO need: - great picture quality, this is...
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    Sony MDR7506 or Senn HD280? Or other closed headphones

    Hey everyone, Merry Xmas :D I need headphones for around $100 or so, they must be closed-ear. I've been looking at the Sony MDR7506 and I've heard they're excellent, but then again, Sennheiser's HD280 also look great and I've heard they're built better. I am looking for something with crisp...
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    DVD+R media questions

    Hey folks...just bought an NEC 4x DVD+RW drive and I've got some questions. It should be here next week sometime. Now the drive itself was cheap but the media I have noticed is expensive...the cheapest DVD+R media I've been able to find was at newegg for $1.49 each but it's a crappy brand and...
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    Can we make the ads a little bit...dumber?

    I know it's all for profit etc etc, and I know it costs money to run a site...but perhaps we can make the ads just slightly stupider in the FS/FT section? Whenever a product is posted for sale, i always see a ton of other ads on the side saying where you can buy the product, sometimes for...
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    Need to buy cheap dualhead video card

    OK, I need a cheap dualhead video card, something that supports dual CRTs. It's for my dad Leaning towards ATI because of higher image quality, Matrox would be ideal but it's a bit more than we're planning to spend. don't need 3D performance, I was looking at some ATI Radeon 7000 or 7500 cards...
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    dual monitors + TV tuner

    I have heard that you can't run a TV tuner if you have dual monitors. This sounds really wacky to me, so can anyone confirm or deny this? Thanks...