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That was it. It was plugged in, but not all the way. It's always something simple that gets me. Thanks!

All the pieces fit together. When I powered it on, the motherboard LEDs light up.I can open the DVD drive. I put the DVD with Ubuntu in and closed it. The DVD drive lights up as it should and the disk spins up, but nothing appears on the screen. I don't even see anything from the BIOS. I...

I'd rather not, but I guess I have to. I've tried everything else.

My HP laptop with Vista keeps automatically starting in safe mode. I've uninstalled all the recently added programs, run AVG, Threatfire, and Spybot, and Windows system restore and it still won't start normally. Any ideas?

Thank you for the suggestions. I will be using this mostly for watching DVDs and listening to music. I would like to play games on it, mostly driving simulators like Need For Speed: Carbon, etc. That is why I stepped up the video card. Also, I'm connecting it to an HDTV, so I was worried about...

Here is the plan: Entertainment Center ATX Case 2.66GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo CPU Intel ATX Motherboard 2900XT Video Card ASUS DVD Burner x 2 2GB Ram Sticks X 2 (4 total GB) Card Reader Wireless Keyboard & Mouse (I'm trying to find a one-piece wireless keyboard and trackball. Anybody know of...

I am getting a laptop for travel, but would like it to function as a DVD player at home. What should I look for in a graphics card to be able to handle playing a HD-DVD on a 42" LCD TV with a decent picture? Thanks.

Of course. Thanks.

I mean wifi.

I have ripped most of my DVDs to my desktop upstairs. I have a Linksys 2.4GHz Wireless-G router. My plan is to buy a laptop and hook it up to the TV downstairs instead of buying a DVD player. I'm planning on getting a laptop anyways, so I would save money that way. Would I be able to play the...

I have 2GB RAM. According to the meter, I max out the CPU Usage and still have plenty of RAM left.

So where I am trying to do several different things at once and I try to open firefox, but it won't open or takes forever, that is where a dual core processor would help. Am I correct?

My computer is fairly fast for what I do, but I can still slow it down by running several programs. I started running Tinyresmeter while running several things on my computer to see where my weaknesses were. It always shows the CPU usage maxed out before anything else. I currently have a 2.2 GHz...

Device manager worked for all but one of them. Thanks. When I tell device manager to reinstall the drivers for the one that doesn't work, it tells me it can't find them (even online). The device is under "other controllers" and is called "SM Bus Controller". Any idea what it's talking about?

I recently moved. When I put my computer back together and started it up, it tells me that it has found new hardware. If I click cancel, it pops up again twice. If I tell it to automatically find the installation software, it tells me it can't find it. I have everything set up just as I had it...

Yeah, sorry. Typo.

Here's my rig: 19" Flatscreen, Laptop style keyboard, Home Theater style case, 700GB total hard drive space, 2.2ghz Athalon CPU, AIW 9800 Pro Video Card with TV Tuner. It's a complete entertainment system.

Ok, I just unplugged everything and ran the setup CD again (for the 5th time) and it mysteriously works (for now).

I tried resetting it. That didn't fix anything. I can't even access the router's setup page through Internet Explorer. Running the setup CD again didn't work either. It gets most of the way though the setup and then says it can't connect to the internet.

I recently bought a Linksys wireless router (model WRT54G) and installed it on my roomate's computer so I could connect mine wirelessly. Everything worked smoothly yesterday when I set it up. At first we were both able to connect without any problems. Today, neither of us could connect. I...