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    troubleshooting

    that was the first thing i asked and he says no he didn't as far as harddrives go, i've switched harddrives computer to computer without as much as a hiccup.. with his harddrives it's quite a bit worse.. i got my trusty xp cd and tried to boot or reformat it, and where it's supposed to give you...
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    building computer on budget

    why would you need a quad core for internet, light gaming and whatever else... this is basic stuff that could be done on a single core p3 that having been said, yes if you have the cash, by all means go intel.. if you want a budget compy then amd is by far your best bet, for 500 you can build...
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    troubleshooting

    hi everybody i'm trying to figure out what exactly is wrong with my friend's computer... it doesn't boot all the way.. at first i thought it was his windows installation that was giving him trouble but the first thing i tried was take my working harddrive and plug it in but even that gets to...
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    wireless bridge help

    no i wanna get a second router that will serve as an access point in my room, so it will turn my wifi signal from the first router into a lan line as far as the mac filtering.. that was my dad.. it's his protection.. i don't really care... a basic user will never figure out how to do this...
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    wireless bridge help

    Guys, i need help i just got a 360, and i wanna play on live, i realized quickly that i don't wanna spend 100 bucks for their usb network adapter, but i do want it online. after looking around i found a router that says that it serves as an access point, but i'm not entirely sure if that it...
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    ecs kn3 board

    thank you much. any idea why it would be pulled from newegg, tigerdirect and zipzoomfly?
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    ecs kn3 board

    i don't know if this is the appropriate place for this.. but i was looking to build a computer a while back. and i found the perfect components a while back, but life kicked me in the balls financially so i couldn't build it at the time.. long story short. i wanted to use the ecs kn3 sli2...
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    no sound on compy

    huh so here's a twist... everything says that i have a crystal CS4205 card.. i looked at my girlfriend's computer who has the exact same thing... she has the same card listed in the bios but she has way different drivers. she has some weird intel 82801 ca/cam ac'97 audio controller... so what's...
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    no sound on compy

    to be perfectly honest i'm not even seeing the device, all i have under sound, video and game controllers are audio codecs, legacy audio drivers, legacy video capture devices, media control devices and video codecs. that's it. nothing about my actual sound card.. am i just looking in the wrong...
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    Laptop is really laggy/ (drivers)?

    check the basics, video drivers/graphics acceleration
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    no sound on compy

    the weird thing that there are no sounds at all... not even the standard beep you get when you boot up. i already said that under the sound properties it says that there are no devices installed. and when i finally installed the new driver it's giving me "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" so...
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    no sound on compy

    yeah the laptop was running all night.. well i fell asleep with it on and it woke up in a frozen state where i couldn't reboot it at all it would just beep at me... but as far as the drivers go, it won't reinstall them.. well... it installs the driver and then asks to restart the computer for...
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    no sound on compy

    hi everybody, help a brother out.. i took my old lappy camping with me, and it rained the first night.. the next morning i wake up....lappy doesn't turn on... umm ok.. i figure humidity/condensation fine it will dry out and work again.. so that much is true it works now, but the computer no...
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    ram for dell

    nah the prices are garbage dell direct, and it's not like this laptop has any kind of warranty left on it.. it's way outdated equipment at this point and i got it with just the charger and nothing else.. so i wouldn't even know what to do with it if i actually had problems
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    ram for dell

    i just bought a dell c840 and it's actually way worth the 200 bucks i spent for it... but i wanted to upgrade the ram because 256 is just not cutting it, so i'm looking online.. but i ran into a small wall... cpuz is telling me that it's ddr pc 2300 which according to dell and newegg doesn't...
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    asus m2v?

    i'm building a pretty cheap rig, do you guys think that ASUS M2V Socket AM2 VIA K8T890 is a good board? or rather do you guys know it or have any experience with it? because as far as i see it, the board has everything i want but newegg reviews have about half and half people who love it and...
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    x2 4600 vs 4800

    i just had a quick question about a couple of cpus. i'm looking to build a very budget system, but i want it to last me.. so i'm looking to buy an x2, and i'm trying to figure out if the difference between the 4600 and 4800 is that extreme, because from what i understand it's mostly the...
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    need partition help

    i figured since i'm new to this forum i'd say hi first. Hello now i have a question about my harddrive. but first some background i had a system with 2 harddrives, a 6gig drive which held my windows installation and an 80gig drive where i installed my programs and kept my files. after a while...
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