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    help with flickering screen

    time for a new one huh. crt 19 or a 17 lcd flat? are the lcd flats about the same life as crt's?
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    help with flickering screen

    viewsonic E790
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    help with flickering screen

    i have a dell 4100 about 4 years old i think
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    help with flickering screen

    i wonder if it is the power supply or the monitor going bad. i get a little flickering when on the computer , it happens only once in a while where the screen gets a lil smaller and then back to normal , gets a lil blurred and back to normal . cant describe it well really .
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    Question on doing a fresh reformat.

    tnx - i did it and so far so good . BTW i installed a 2nd hard drive and a new dvd rom + and extra 256md ram . hope this keeps me satisfied til end of october when prices go lower - and build an new system.
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    Question on doing a fresh reformat.

    tnx - newb here . im trying to practice on my old cpu to get ready to build one around late october (been taking it apart and replacing parts ) . yes sir i have ME - darn it - its a shame :-)
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    Question on doing a fresh reformat.

    i am using a windows ME , and i installed a windows 2000 as a dual boot . now i want to just keep the windows ME as a stand alone . i have a 40 gig HDD . 2 gb was alotted for the ME and the rest for the 2k. now everytime i reformat to install the ME - i only have and can only use 2gb...
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    SPoon feed- Help guys.

    ill try to bring my dell to life and use it for a few more months - to wait for the new stuff, and to bring prices down too.
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    SPoon feed- Help guys.

    im currently being tortured, tormented by my dell P3 dimension 4100 - it has a 128 ram and has an ATI 32 mb video card 7200 series. im going to upgrade it a bit as i found a cheap ati radeon 9200 for $25 here at a garage sale - and ill upgrade the RAM - ill add another 256 MB to the 128.Ill...
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    SPoon feed- Help guys.

    tnx again - ill strongly consider the first recommendation of athlon 64 030 pin $425 and the MSI mobo. this might last a while - keeping it at leats 4 years before i spend again.
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    SPoon feed- Help guys.

    Praetor, if i need to cut the price down and go athlon XP - would this cpu and motherboard be compatible with the other parts you listed? Motherboard Asus A7N8X-E duluxe - $84 AMD athlon XP-3200+ barton $200 This will cut the price down by $250 which can go to an upper level...
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    SPoon feed- Help guys.

    also would it be better to just do 512 RAM instead of 1G and put the money on the video card upgrade?
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    SPoon feed- Help guys.

    what do the internet sellers mean when they say -ASSEMBLED , INSTALLED UPDATED AND TUNED? If i build my own system - how do i tune the system to where there will be less conflicts?
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    SPoon feed- Help guys.

    i might be asking too much of your time but i will be a first time CPU builder soon and im looking into a system for gaming (doom3,UT2004,far cry) mainly - budget of about $1000-$1200. i am asking for a list of parts from newegg as i will buy stuff from there and if you can make a list with...
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    Laptop Brands

    no link really - but i stayed at the holiday inn last night . :D well a lot of ppl at the notebookforums are really helpful and you might be able to get a link .
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    Laptop Brands

    Acer makes good ones , sager i think is tops . you can also look at building one from barebones for bang for the buck.
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    Is it time to upgrade?

    tnx for the link. ill do a research and see how far my $$$ can go - probably only Athlon XP.
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    Is it time to upgrade?

    I have a 5 year old dell 4100 , P3 , 866 mhz , radeon 32mb ddr , 19 inch viewsonic flat panel CRT. I use it mainly for some emailing , web browsing , paperwork/stuff, some gaming. Lately i wanted to try out some PC games as i got interested again - looked at UT 2004 , Doom 3 , Rise of...
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