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    laptop buying help

    I am fairly inexperienced with buying laptops, and i was hoping for a little advice I am looking for a somewhat powerful laptop in the 1500-2000 dollar range, and so far the companies that are standing out to me are sager, sony (the vaio laptops seem like a good deal... even if they use some...
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    Monitor (I hope) Issues

    thanks a ton for the advice, Im gonna get to testing stuff out tommorow. Just wanted to add this - I turned my computer off for a few minutes, and then decided to turn in back on. I did not encounter and issues on boot. after trying a few more times, I had no problem. After leaving the...
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    Monitor (I hope) Issues

    Lately my monitor has been giving me trouble on boot. Both during the initial and windows boot, the monitor will blink on and off (never anything but a black screen, the light just turns on and off). I can get the monitor to work if I turn the computer off and on enough times. Usually I am...
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    a minor problem

    yeah. thats what ive been doin for the past few weeks. :P thanks for the help. i think ill do some tests and try and zero in on the piece of hardware thats not up to snuff. lol.
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    a minor problem

    weak. lol. well, i guess its time to start checkin parts. anyone know what parts might be malfunctioning? thanks for the info ;D
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    a minor problem

    it goes all the way. the OS is completely shut down.
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    a minor problem

    if you could point me to a solution, id be very grateful. I have been having problems with powering on and off. When i power down the computer, the tower stays running, even though the OS shuts down. also, when the computer sleeps or is put to sleep, it does not wake up completely; the...
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    i dont know what to do

    When my computer goes to sleep, and i wake it up, my monitor doesn't switch back on. My keyboard/mouse and tower boot back up, yet i get no response from my monitor. Also, when i shut down my computer, my OS shuts down but my tower (hardware) keeps going. If anyone could shed some light on...
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    error on startup

    whenever i try to start up my main computer, i get an error message that says page_fault_in_nonpaged_area or bad_pool_header. I dont have any backup disks, just the windows vista install disk. I have no clue what to do, and any help would be appreciated (i do have windows XP install disks and...
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    Dawn of War wont start

    ok, so i updated drivers and patched the game, but now im getting an error message telling me my graphics card wont initialize. any idea what to do? ty.
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    Dawn of War wont start

    most definatley. But Im not sure how good the support is for the 8800s on vista. at first it sucked, but ive updated a few times since then. thanks.
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    Dawn of War wont start

    The patch mentioned nothing about Vista. I installed it after I tried to open up the game and it wouldn't respond. Im thinking ill just reinstall, and hope that my problem is fixed (the demo worked fine). thanks.
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    Dawn of War wont start

    im running windows vista ultimate, and whenever i try to launch dawn of war the game just does nothing. any idea of what i should do (its patched up to date)?
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    C&C! sick game

    I loved the game play, and once i got over the shock of actual actors playing out the cut scenes, the story seemed pretty interesting, nothing spectacular, but enough to keep me going and not just ditch it for the online play ;) .
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    Stalker?

    I really hope your kidding.
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    Guild Wars worthwhile?

    i have never played guild wars, but i have spent enough time looking into the mmo world to learn a thing or two about it. If you buy it, dont expect the massive interactions between players you get in normal mmorpgs. Think of it more as seperate servers, where you can join with some friends...
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    Command and Conquer 3

    Now that the official demo is out, I wanted to hear what everyone has to say about the next installment of the C & C franchise. personally, I think the game play is really fun, and i can see the opportunity for tons of new strategies. And the graphics aren't to shabby ;).
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    Walmart Launches Movie Downloading...

    since the subject of wall mart came up... Id just like to say that that store is on the top of my S list. i hated them for politics, and on the subject of computers, the "lindows" OS they created pisses me off. why sell people something thats that worthless?
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    can anyone beat this???????

    I died -.-. i got kinda far tho, figured out the lock combo, and found some nifty items. dont wanna try again at the moment, but its pretty fun :D.
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