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    Windows XP SP3 Update

    I am about to install SP3 and I wanted to know if there are any problems with this update? Just wanna make sure cause I depend heavily on programs such as adobe photoshop, flash, illustrator and autodesk maya 2009.. Should I go for it?
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    Trouble with insane fans and standby

    Ok, so here's the thing... last night I put my computer on standby mode (it's not a laptop by the way)... then the next day, I press the power button on the machine to power it up and all I hear is my CPU fan going nuts (normally i can barely hear the CPU fan while the computer's on, but this...
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    Urgent urgent help, PC WONT START!!!

    Thanks a million justageek, and thank you everyone for the help here... You guys have been extremely helpful. I was about to dish out 100 bucks to take it in for repair but thanks to you guys i didnt have to :) Thank you!
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    Urgent urgent help, PC WONT START!!!

    by the way, the memory timings have been set to 5-5-5-12 is that correct? and also, do i have to set the memory voltage to another value ? if so, where can i change the values in the bios...i cant seem to find the memory voltage settings. PS: heres what i put FSB MEMORY CLOCK MODE...
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    Urgent urgent help, PC WONT START!!!

    by the way, thanks everyone for the help, you guys rock!
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    Urgent urgent help, PC WONT START!!!

    hi, do you know what values i should do in the bios for the memory? i already have xp installed... should i uninstall it? i have this memory http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16820145590
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    Urgent urgent help, PC WONT START!!!

    Thanks for the quick responses guys :) I'm having yet another problem :P After windows formatted my hard drive, ir reset my computer... now the computer is stuck at the windows XP professional loading screen... the blue bar loading bar moves, but nothing happens... any ideas?
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    Urgent urgent help, PC WONT START!!!

    Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [mbr] thats what it says for the drive info
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    Urgent urgent help, PC WONT START!!!

    ok, this is very good news. I'm currenly installing windows xp... I have a sata hitachi drive of 320gb... however, when win xp setup asks me if i wanna partition the drive, it only shows 130 gbs... whats wrong?
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    Urgent urgent help, PC WONT START!!!

    You are my hero... I had no idea on that 2x2 pin connector... you literally saved my life... i cant thank you enough. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Urgent urgent help, PC WONT START!!!

    thanks guys, ill be posting pictures shortly to see if anything is wrong... thank you so much for the quick response :)
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    Urgent urgent help, PC WONT START!!!

    I basically built my own computer... After connecting all of the necesarry conections , I turned on the computer and I hear the fans from the CPU, Video card, and the PSU go on and immediately turned off after 1 second... What could possibly be wrong? The LED from the motherboard is green...
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    Urgent Help with Boot Camp on a Macbook Pro

    Well i've been using my Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro for about 2 months now and I installed Windows on it specifically so that I could use After Effects on it since After Effects 7 on OS X is painfully slow... Well, so far no problems had aroused except for the fact that a few days ago, when I start...
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    Damn it!! Hard disk is screwing me again...

    Thanks birdpup, awesome reply :) I'll give those methods a try :D
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    Damn it!! Hard disk is screwing me again...

    Tested all my USB ports... they all seem to work.
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    Damn it!! Hard disk is screwing me again...

    I checked and the drive is detected BUT it tells me it's not initialized (which is weird because the drive WAS previously formatted and the error happened when I was watching a movie on that HD) I went to the event log and I discovered the error but I dunno what to do... I dont wanna lose all...
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    Damn it!! Hard disk is screwing me again...

    I have a USB hard disk enclosure with a 120 gb drive... It was working without any problems until today. While I was watching a movie stored in that 120 gb drive, the movie started skipping and then it gave me an error that there was some sort of problem with the drive (I got one of those...
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    [BIG TROUBLE] Hard Drive Trouble :(

    The enclosure i used was an EL-CHEAPO kingwin external enclosure... this one: http://www.topmicrousa.com/kikhexhddenu1.html Nope, unfortunately i wasnt thinking of active cooling on behalf of the enclosure (bummer :P) Hmm... Fortunately I had another 120 gb HD that i have with me with a...
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    [BIG TROUBLE] Hard Drive Trouble :(

    im hoping for the best for my drive... im actually planning on getting all of the stuff backed up, then sending the crappy maxtor drive for an rma... then ebay the drive and never see maxtor ever again.
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    [BIG TROUBLE] Hard Drive Trouble :(

    :laugh: dunno though, im depressed now :( i've lost so much stuff :( NOW I KNOW THAT I CAN NEVER TRUST MAXTOR AGAIN... THEY SUCK!!!!!!! I still have an old 30gig WD caviar and the sh!t still runs decently... hmm
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    [BIG TROUBLE] Hard Drive Trouble :(

    a rough estimate? about 500 bucks???? NOOOOOO!!!
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    [BIG TROUBLE] Hard Drive Trouble :(

    I was thinking of backing up the data with the following data recovery service: http://www.iomegadatarecovery.com/index.html Problem is, I have a $#%!load of divx movies and pr0n and stuff :P Will it be a problem?
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    [BIG TROUBLE] Hard Drive Trouble :(

    I tried another HD with the enclosure and the HD worked fine... I'm afraid it's the piece of crap maxtor HD that's screwing me over... damn it!!!
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    [BIG TROUBLE] Hard Drive Trouble :(

    Hi everyone, I got a 300gb Maxtor 7200rpm hard disk recently and I have it hooked up with a hard disk enclosure so that I can use it with my laptop. At first, everything went fine and perfect, but recently (after about 7-8 months), when I turn on the enclosure, the hard disk doesn't operate... I...
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    Video conversion help!!

    I only found guides for WMV/ASF to DivX :( and ASF to AVI (but not the other way around :()
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    Video conversion help!!

    Thanks for the reply, I'll see what I can find :)
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    Video conversion help!!

    Hi, I need to convert a 2.1 gb uncompressed avi to either a 30 mb wmv or asf video file... how can I achieve this? are there better encoding techniques to get a better quality video at a very small size? Thanks!
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    Access denied error message

    Worked!! Thanks a lot! :D
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    Access denied error message

    im already logged in as the administrator... problem is i cant see a tab or a button where it says security... im on xp professional...
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    Access denied error message

    Hello, I recently got a hard disk enclosure for my laptop and I'm using my old 30 gig western digital caviar. THe thing is I can access every folder there is in the hard drive except Documents and Settings. It gives me the access denied dialog box. What's wrong?
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    Access denied error message

    Hello, I recently got a hard disk enclosure for my laptop and I'm using my old 30 gig western digital caviar. THe thing is I can access every folder there is in the hard drive except Documents and Settings. It gives me the access denied dialog box. What's wrong?