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    Installing new hard drive

    Just bought a new hard drive, installed it correctly, windows detected it and installed the drivers. But I don't see it in My Computer... although the device manager sees it. So I open the case and realize I forgot to set the jumper.. only thing is... the hard drive didn't have a jumper...
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    AC Ryan case fans

    I was wondering if the AC Ryan Blackfire4 Case fan is good.. does anyone have one / can tell me how it performs?? I was also wondering, if I was to plug it into a sunbeam fan controller, would I be able to lower just the fan speed, not the lights? i'm asking because this fan does that, only...
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    Is my HDD dead?

    I was installing some sunbeam neons in my computer and when I tried to power up the pc.. well.. the neons didn't work.. and I heard some weird beep codes. So.. I power off the pc, unplug the neons, try to plug it like it was before, still beeped. I take off the molex from my IDE HD. It boots...
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    Weird motherboard beeping sound

    I have a really weird problem... Every night, if my computer is running, almost everytime around 10pm, I hear some weird beeping sound. It sounds something like this : Beep,chirp,chirp,Beep So.. the next day I disconnected the SPKR cable from the motherboard and of course.. the BIOS...
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    HELP!! something fell off my X800XL

    I was cleaning up my X800XL 256mb heatsink this morning and I noticed something was wrong with one of the transistors (I think that's the name for it.. don't know though). It was all bent towards me.. and I know I didn't do it.. since I was really careful and while trying to put it back into...
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    Case fan problems

    Hey! I currently have 5 fans in my case (1 120mm front, 1 120mm back, 1 120mm on the side, 1 80 on top and one 80 on the lowest part of the case) Thing is... my motherboard has only two 3 pin connectors (2 SYSFAN connectors, one CPUFAN and one NBFAN) and one of my 80mm fan is plugged in...
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    Tray on my CDRW won't move.. HELP!!

    Hi guys I was messing around my comp one day and I realized my CDRW tray was opened a little bit.. tried opening it by pressing on the button but it wouldn't do anything.. I then tried to put a pin the emergency hole.. no luck.. it wouldn't matter how hard I would press down.. it wouldn't...
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    CPU Heatsink Fan Question

    I just bought a thermalright xp-90 and I was wondering... will a normal Antec 30cfm fan work great on the heatsink? or should I buy a 3 speed Antec fan(the Antec Tri-COOL)??
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    DI-524 wireless internet problems

    Hi there!!! I currently have a DI-704 that's routing the internet through all of my pcs in the house, and now I bought a wireless router because my laptop has a wireless card and I want internet access on it.. My question is : How can I make it so my DI-524 wireless router connects to the...
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    Zalman 7000B-Cu with MSI 865PE Neo2-PS

    Hey everyone! I was planning on buying a Zalman 7000B-Cu CPU Fan, running on an MSI 865PE Neo2-PS Motherboard and I was wondering if this fan would work with my motherboard? i'm also running a Socket 478 Intel P4 3.0E. On the Zalman website, it says my motherboard isn't supported.. but why...
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    Reformating with a S-ATA HD drive

    I was wondering... do I need to install some drivers after reinstalling windows XP pro if i'm running on a S-ATA drive? I think I saw somewhere that I need to install drivers for my drive to be detected... if so.. where can I find does drivers.. is it on the manifacturers website? I have to...
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    Windows2K Admin login problem!!

    The company for which I work gave me a laptop with no administrator rights.. I have the administrator login and password but when i'm logged in.. theres an additional security It's a passwordVerify 5.2A window with a codename like vesji and I need to write down the unlock code (which I can't...
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    DVD-RW problems

    Ok heres the thing.. a friend of mine asked me to help him burn a DVD.. and before I could even help him he told me he just did a firmware update. Of course I had to ask him if he had any programs opened and stuff like that and the thing is.. He had winamp, msn, mirc, explorer opened and was...
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    DVD-RW problems

    Ok heres the thing.. a friend of mine asked me to help him burn a DVD.. and before I could even help him he told me he just did a firmware update. Of course I had to ask him if he had any programs opened and stuff like that and the thing is.. He had winamp, msn, mirc, explorer opened and was...
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    CR-ROM Problems

    My uncle called me up this morning and told me he had a problem with his computer and that he needed to reinstall windows. Problem is, he says his CDROM drive doesn't work anymore and that's why he wanted to format. He's running on a really OLD aptiva 2176-f31 (133mhz with 45mb of ram and a...
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    Computer Problems!!

    My uncle called me up this morning and told me he had a problem with his computer and that he needed to reinstall windows. Problem is, he says his CDROM drive doesn't work anymore and that's why he wanted to format. He's running on a really OLD aptiva 2176-f31 (133mhz with 45mb of ram and a...
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    CD-ROM Help needed

    My uncle called me up this morning and told me he had a problem with his computer and that he needed to reinstall windows. Problem is, he says his CDROM drive doesn't work anymore and that's why he wanted to format. He's running on a really OLD aptiva 2176-f31 (133mhz with 45mb of ram and a...
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    Memory question

    I have 512mb 400mhz MAJOR in my pc currently and I was wondering if I could had some Kingston 1024Mb PC3200 (400Mhz DDR) Dual Kit My motherboard has 2 slots for dual channel memory and 2 for single channel. What I was wondering was if I could put the current single channel MAJOR ram I have in...
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    WindowsXP password reset

    A friend of mine installed XP and he put a password for the administrator account and now he doesn't remember it and it's the only account available... is there a way he can reset the password? I tried running XP while pressing F8 but it asks the password for every option I chose (like...
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    WindowsXP password reset

    A friend of mine installed XP and he put a password for the administrator account and now he doesn't remember it and it's the only account available... is there a way he can reset the password? I tried running XP while pressing F8 but it asks the password for every option I chose (like...
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    Windows XP install problem

    I have just installed WindowsXP pro on my dad's IBM Thinkpad laptop which had windows 2000 on it. While installing, it didn't ask anything concerning the format to NTFS and all the other bunch of stuff that usually happens and it went directly to the winxp install. But now, when the...
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    PC keeps freezing

    When I play games (happened twice when watching a movie in WMP and once while surfing the net) sometimes my computer will freeze for no reason what so ever... I have bought a stick of 512mb INFINEON 400mhz ram about 4 months ago since my old ram was defective and this started happening since...
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    MSI neo-2 plat compatibility issue with ATI cards?

    Iv'e just bought a MSI 865PE Neo-2 Platinum board and i get alot of blue screens related to video card drivers... i've tried using catalyst 4.7 to recent 4.11 and it doesn't stop the blue screens... Is there a way that ATI radeon cards are incompatible with MSI boards? (running a sapphire...
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    Quick ram question

    I was just wondering, i have an old 256mb 266mhz stick hanging around and i wanted to know if i can put it in an MSI 865Pe Neo2-Platinum which supports ECC memory... judging by the 4 year old memory stick i think it's NON-ECC... can this cause problems with the computer like crashes or blue screen?
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    Quick ram question

    I was just wondering, i have an old 256mb 266mhz stick hanging around and i wanted to know if i can put it in an MSI 865Pe Neo2-Platinum which supports ECC memory... judging by the 4 year old memory stick i think it's NON-ECC... can this cause problems with the computer like crashes or blue screen?
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    Quick ram question

    I was just wondering, i have an old 256mb 266mhz stick hanging around and i wanted to know if i can put it in an MSI 865Pe Neo2-Platinum which supports ECC memory... judging by the 4 year old memory stick i think it's NON-ECC... can this cause problems with the computer like crashes or blue screen?
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    PSU question need answer

    I have just witnessed something strange in MBM5 with my psu +3.3 = 3.09V +5 = 4.97V +12 = 1.55V -12 = -170.75V -5 = -5.20V are the +12 and -12 readings normal because i'm getting random reboots and blue screens recently and i was wondering if it was the powersupply
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    HyperThreading BIOS question

    I have an MSI 865PE Neo-2Platinum board that supports p4 with HT technology the thing is, when i check the BIOS it says HyperThreading function is disabled... should that be enabled?
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    Hyperthreading question

    I have an MSI 865PE Neo-2Platinum board that supports p4 with HT technology the thing is, when i check the BIOS it says HyperThreading function is disabled... should that be enabled?
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    Random pc reboot

    Ive been having this problem for 2 days now and i cant stand it anymore... my computer just keeps rebooting for no reason, displaying a blue screen and saying stuff like : page_fault_in_nonpaged_area stop : 0x00000050 portcls.sys crashed blabla stop : 0x0000008e win32k.sys crashed...