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    System upgrade advice

    Hi all, I am looking for some system upgrade advice on a budget, hoping to spend around $300-350 CDN or $230-270 USD or so at most. The games I play are not particularly demanding graphically, examples include Overwatch, Hearts of Iron 4, Football Manager 2016, and CS:GO. However, I have...
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    Advice on new value gaming system build

    Hi everyone, I am looking to put together a new value gaming PC for the holidays. I live in Canada and have had good experiences using a local vendor for my last few builds, so would like to use them again. My budget is around $800-900 CDN before tax. I already have dual 24"/22" inch...
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    Refresh rate stuck at 30 hz after re-install

    Hi everyone, I recently installed a fresh copy of Windows Vista 64-bit. Everything is great except for one of my monitors on a dual monitor setup. I have a BenQ E2200 and a BenQ V2410. I'm able to get both monitors to display at their native resolution of 1920 x 1080, but the V2410 is...
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    Useful little app for keeping windows "always on top"

    Just thought I'd share a useful little app called DeskPins, which allows you to pin windows and applications to stay on top. Really useful when you're writing a report and referring to a document in a browser, or PDF file, for example. Has definitely increased my productivity at work. If...
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    New machine: NTLDR is missing

    Hi everyone, I had the following machine assembled for me at a computer shop: Asus P5Q Core 2 Duo 3GHZ 4GB RAM 640 GB WD HD Samsung 22x DVD Upon trying to boot the PC, I get two messages: Adapter 1: Disk information No hard disk is detected! which is followed by: NTLDR is...
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    Firefox Bookmarks Disappeared?

    Hi, So I turned on my computer today, loaded up Firefox and all of my bookmarks in the bookmarks folder and bookmarks toolbar are gone. Since there's easily close to 100 of them this is a real nuisance, so does anyone now what I can do to get them back? Thanks.
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    Windows won't boot

    Hi, Having a problem getting windows to boot up. Computer was running fine today, when I decided to patch BF2 to 1.3 (havn't played it for awhile) and afterwards I decided to defrag my computer. After that was done, everything was working fine, and I eventually powered off the system. Now...
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    Newbie Alert: Installing DVD Burner

    Hey there, I bought a DVD Burner today, the BenQ 1620, and it's time to install it. As far as hardware installations go, I am relatively new, having only installed RAM and a sound card in the past. (Those were simple enough) :) Anyway, I just have a simple question: I'm looking at the...
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    Having some trouble re-installing Win98 on a machine

    Hi, I am having a bit of trouble re-installing windows 98 on an old machine. The computer boots to the DOS prompt, and the Win98 CD is in the drive, but when I try to run setup from the CD-Rom drive, it gives the error "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." I have also tried booting w/...
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    Help with a statistics question....

    Hi, Worth a shot asking this here, as there may be some people out there that have taken statistics courses. I need to answer the following question: An exam consists of 3 questions. In the past the instructor has learned that the time students take to complete the first question can be...
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    Program to split MP3s

    Hi, I have a MP3 file of ambient music that's about an hour long. Basically, I want to be able to split this one large file into smaller segments, so that I can easily skip through to various segments of this one long "song". I have heard of SoundForge, but this program seems to be overkill for...
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    Skipping Windows Logon

    Hi, First off, I'm using Windows XP Professional, and I'm the only user on this PC. Anyways, at one time, when Windows would boot up, it would not prompt for user selection and would load the desktop. Then, I installed Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (was a requirement for a program I installed)...
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    BF1942: Brightness Problem

    Hi, Worth a shot asking here since I'm sure some of you play BF. Recently bought the BF1942: Anthology pack. My problem is, the game is way too dark and I need a way to adjust the brightness / gamma correction but there seems to be no option for that in the video settings. I have a Radeon...
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    Getting new PC; PSU strong enough?

    Hi there, I'm ordering a new PC with the following components: Asus P4P800SE i865PE P4 2.8C Ghz 2x256 PC3200 RAM WD 120GB HD w/ 8mb cache Sapphire Radeon 9600 128mb LG 52x32x32/16x Combo drive Enermax 3051L-S3A case w/ generic P4 350W PSU My question is simply, is the PSU sufficient? I also...