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    Computer failure: garbled screen

    My computer two days ago very suddenly went totally haywire and I?m at a loss to figure out why. It started with some strange, vertical lines appearing when I was browsing the internet. Then weird lines ended up all over my screen and things started looking garbled and my computer BSOD?d and...
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    New system won't turn on

    I just built myself a new system with the following parts from Newegg.com... GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 Wolfdale 2.66GHz LGA 775 Dual-Core Processor Model BX80571E7300 - Retail SAMSUNG 22X DVD Burner Black SATA Model...
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    Mobo for Brisbane A64X2?

    I'm thinking of gutting my current computer because of some issues I'm having with it. I'm going to replace my processor, memory, video card, and (maybe) power supply. Eventually, I'm going to build myself a Core 2 Duo system and turn this one over to my wife to be her WoW computer (rather than...
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    Toshiba recovery discs? (For looping restart problem.)

    Here's the situation: my wife's laptop, a Toshiba Satellite M55-S3292, isn't able to boot into Windows XP. I think the XP install is toast since it won't stop rebooting when it tries to launch Windows, whether she tries to boot up normally, go into Safe Mode, or use Last Known Good...
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    Understanding memory usage (and Vista)

    I work at a place that sells computers, and I was looking over our various Vista systems and was rather surprised about something. No matter how much RAM they had (512MB, 1GB, or 2GB), the percentage of their physical memory used was pretty similar. I would assume that, at least, the 2GB systems...
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    Mid-range DX10 video cards?

    Right now it appears the only DX10 video cards being made are hugely expensive ultimate badasses, but will either nVidia or ATi be releasing anything DX10-compatible to replace things like the 7600GT any time soon? (IOW, video cards that retail for under $200.) Or is that a long way off still?
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    Upgrade a Toshiba M55's video card?

    So my fiancé has a Toshiba Satellite M55-S3292, and I'm pretty sure that it's not possible to upgrade its videocard. She plays WoW a lot, and even with 1GB of RAM, the framerates suck. So she asked me if it'd be possible to upgrade her video card and I had no definate answer for her. Even if...
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    +12V: how much is not enough?

    Simple question: on a power supply, what is the minimum voltage the +12V should be at to avoid damaging components? Thanks!
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    Video card suggestion?

    My FX5900XT appears to be dying. I'll be getting a new computer in January when Vista comes out, so I don't want to sink too much money into my current system. But I've got a 19" monitor and I want to be able to continue playing WoW at 1280x1024. I've got 1GB of PC3200 RAM and an Athlon 64...
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    6600GT not working right

    My brother bought an eMachines T6524 (click for specs) and an eVGA 6600GT PCI-E video card. It worked fine at first but now there's a bunch of weird crap all over his screen and sometimes it's like the video card just stops loading certain things in games. Here's an example...
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    Random Freezing

    Though it happens most often in World of Warcraft, it's getting worse and it's happening more and more outside WoW. At random moments, my computer simply stops doing anything. The mouse won't move, sound stops playing... nothing. It's completely frozen. And nothing short of a physical reset will...
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    Cannot share files over network

    I have two computers connected to my Linksys wireless router right now with ethernet cable. One has XP Pro with SP2 and the other is brand-new and has XP Media Center. I have enabled File Sharing on both computers and run the network setup wizard to connect them to the "MSHOME" network. When...
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    System Hangs

    Until recently, my computer, post-SATA hard drive install, had simply been tempermental. Occasionally (and particularly in World of Warcraft), it would lock up and nothing short of my reset button would fix it. But today, matters got much worse. Instead of crashing outright, it would just...
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    How to install my new SATA hard drive?

    I just bought this hard drive and tomorrow I'm planning on installing it. I plan to do a fresh installation of Windows onto it, but I have a feeling this is going to be complicated. Right now, I have two EIDE hard drives. I'd like to migrate some of the data from my 80GB onto my new SATA...
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    New Hard Drive, How to Migrate?

    Right now, I have two hard drives: a 40GB Seagate that came with my computer back in 2001 and an 80GB Maxtor I added about a year and a half ago. I'm ready to upgrade to a larger hard drive but I have a feeling I'm going to screw something up when I install it. Back in November, I bought an...