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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    I'm did a search for that model (Acer AL2051Ws) at New Egg and did a general Google search with negative results. All the sites that I found during a Google search seemed to be based outside of the U. S. Also, should I be concerned with ghosting in games? Do you have any other recommendations...
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    Hello. I'm an LCD noob. I do some gaming (WOW, BF2), a lot of office documents (particularly word documents), some web design, photo editing, surf the net, and use my computer to watch movies. Per those requirements, what is the best LCD for my needs that fall within a $450 max. price range? I'm...
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    Need a Notebook with Pentium 4 Performance

    A current P4 3.0 GHZ 800FSB/2M. Those are the desktop requirements for the application. I need that performance in a notebook.
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    Need a Notebook with Pentium 4 Performance

    I need a notebook with the processing power to handle an application that requires a Pentium 4 at minimum. Any suggestions as to what type of processor this would be? Thanks.
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    Notebook Equivalents to Pentium Four

    I'm looking for some type of cross reference to find the performance equivalent of a Pentium 4 in a notebook. For example, what would the Pentium M equivalent be to a Pentium 4? What would an AMD Turion equivalent be to a Pentium 4 and so on. Also, what would be the AMD equivalent to a...
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    Good All-Around 19 Inch LCD

    Thank you for your reply. I'm new to LCD's and don't know much about them. I looked through your list of monitors. The BenQ, in particular, seems to get very good reviews. The monitor will mostly be used for editing photos, gaming, and internet surfing. I am unfamiliar with a lot of the brand...
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    Good All-Around 19 Inch LCD

    Looking for recommendations on an all-around 19 inch LCD. Can only spend $250. Thanks in advance.
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    Looking for a Stable Motherboard with Passive Cooling

    It's in the running. The purpose of this thread was to get a broad view of the passively cooled stable boards that are out there.
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    Looking for a Stable Motherboard with Passive Cooling

    Funny you should mention this 6150 board because I just built someone a system with it. It is working very well so far. I can't say that for the other MSI MicroATX board with the ATI chipset. It's been really buggy. And, yes, I posted this topic in another forum in order to get more responses.
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    Looking for a Stable Motherboard with Passive Cooling

    Anyone other suggestions?
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    Looking for a Stable Motherboard with Passive Cooling

    I currently have an ATI chipset; my current mobo has been buggy since I've had it. I'm open to any other type of chipset. My main concers are stability and noise. I'd rather not have active cooling, as I don't want to hear the noise. I do game (Rome Total War, Swat 4, Sniper Elite). I will...
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    Looking for a Stable Motherboard with Passive Cooling

    I'm more interested in stability than overclocking, but I may overclock in the future. I'd like to keep it under $100 if possible.
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    Looking for a Stable Motherboard with Passive Cooling

    I currently have an ATI chipset; my current mobo has been buggy since I've had it. I'm open to any other type of chipset. My main concers are stability and noise. I'd rather not have active cooling, as I don't want to hear the noise. I do game (Rome Total War, Swat 4, Sniper Elite). I will...
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    Found a Conflict, Now I Need Your Help to Resolve It

    I've tried it all, including uninstalling/reinstalling the latest drivers and removing/readding the devices. The conflict is still there.
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    Found a Conflict, Now I Need Your Help to Resolve It

    Yes, that's exactly what it says.
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    Found a Conflict, Now I Need Your Help to Resolve It

    In Device Manager, ATI SMBus is conflicting with Motherboard resources. I get the following conflict messages in the Resources tab for each device... ATI SMBus: Input/Output Range 0400 - 040F used by: Motherboard resources Motherboard Resources (second of third motherboard icon from top of...
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    Fonts Disappeared from Windows

    Anyone?
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    Fonts Disappeared from Windows

    I reinstalled Windows 2000, and now a lot of my fonts are gone. These were the same fonts that installed properly when I installed 2000 previously. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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    System Bottleneck

    I uninstalled and reinstalled the sound, checked the drive for PIO mode, and task manager looks good on the cpu usage. Slow performance remains. The only other time it was like this and it was new. Windows update instaled some sort of non critical driver that increased performance...
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    System Bottleneck

    AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AT/AT COMPATIBLE 981, 488 KB RAM
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    System Bottleneck

    I disabled Realtek AC'97 in device manager, but performance is the same.
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    System Bottleneck

    Just took a tour of BIOS, and everything is where it should be. I restored optimized defaults. Sisoft Sandras diagnosis seems to be on the money though...the sound is crackly and stuttering. It seems that something is hogging the bus, but I don't see what it could be.
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    System Bottleneck

    I got the following from Sisoft Sandra... Warning 1206 - Device latency is high - the higher the latency, the more data a device can transfer in one go. The device may be hogging the bus for too long. Some video card drivers set the latency high in order to perform faster. The problem is that...
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    System Bottleneck

    System Idle Process is 99 percent for the CPU.
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    System Bottleneck

    Basically, whenever it executes any function, the CPU goes to 100% and it is extremelly slow to cary out any task. It stays at 100% for a while. It wasn't like this before the problem. It's kind of like the Pentium 2 with 64 megs of ram that I sometimes use. I've looked through all the...
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    Burning Hot Seagate 160 gb HDD SATA for $50 AR

    I ran Sea Tools and Disk Wizard, and everything was fine. It's fine at idle, but it's loud when it seeks. It kind of sounds like the end of a fireworks display, but on a smaller scale, of course.
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    Burning Hot Seagate 160 gb HDD SATA for $50 AR

    It's my first experience with a Seagate. From what I've heard, I was expecting it to be silent. I have an 80GB Western Digital SATA, and it's whisper quiet compared to this Seagate.
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    System Bottleneck

    I've replaced my hard drive, done a fresh install of Windows, installed numerous drivers, yet my computer is still incredibly slow for some reason. 512mb x2 RAM, 3000+ Athlon 64, MSI RS480M2-IL (this isn't the MSI Lock Box problem because I've done a fresh install of windows on a new drive), no...
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    Burning Hot Seagate 160 gb HDD SATA for $50 AR

    I just installed mine today, and the seeks are LOUD! Thinking of sending this little snap, crackle, and popper back.
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    Sticker on Motherboard

    I'm about to install a new motherboard. However, when I picked it up, I noticed a big white UPC sticker on the back that's on there with quite a bit of adhesive.. Should I peel it off? Will it melt if I don't?
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    Rate My New Build

    I used the below case for the build that I currently have, and I used a micro ATX motherboard for that as well, so I'm failry sure it will fit. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119075
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    Rate My New Build

    Any particular reason for the Fortron? I've had the above Enermax in my system for 7 months now, so I figured I'd stick to the same thing. How is the quality of the Fortron?
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    Rate My New Build

    It's a build for my parents, so there won't be much in the way of gaming. I already have the OS, case, and cables. Mouse, keyboard, speakers, and monitor are being bought in store or are being reused from the previous system.
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    Rate My New Build

    Anyone? I realize this isn't the latest gaming rig, but I just want to be sure I'm not overlooking anything, could be getting more for my money, etc. Second opinions welcome.
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    Rate My New Build

    Western Digital Caviar SE WD1200JS 120GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144414 ASUS A8N-VM CSM Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131570 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice...
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    Windows 2000 Hangs at Startup (MSI motherboard)

    As I couldn't even get into safe mode, I had to throw in the Windows 2000 CD and repair it. I deleted Lockbox, and now it restarts regularly. However, my computer now acts like a Pentium 2 with 64 megabytes of RAM. It also won't let me install Service Pack 4 for some reason.
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    Windows 2000 Hangs at Startup (MSI motherboard)

    It's the MSI Lockbox program. Is there a way to get into the registry from DOS in 2000 professional? http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthread.php?p=769479
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    Windows 2000 Hangs at Startup (MSI motherboard)

    1 gig (512X2) Corsair Value MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard Athlon 64 3000+ I can't get into safe mode because I get the ginamsi.dll error message there as well.
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    Windows 2000 Hangs at Startup (MSI motherboard)

    Windows Starts up as normal, and just before it gets to the user and password screen, it goes blue. I get the following message " The Logon User Interface DLL ginamsi.dll failed to load. Contact your system adminisrator to restore the DLL, or restore the original DLL." I tried last known good to...