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    Help Please - Unlocking AMD Phenom II X2 555 BE

    [/B]Hello, Good day! A little help will be very much appreciated. I have a Phenom II X2 555BE and an MSI 785GTM-E46 Bios 8.6. The motherboard has a CPU Unlock Core, ACC and CPU control feature/s. I've tried to unlock the dormant cores from my processor - settings: CPU Unlock Core...
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    Are You Better Off Keeping extra laptop or selling it?

    Hello Peachesbackwards, Tecra A-8 notebook is a great unit. Keeping the unit will be a great help in the future. Who knows, right? As of the moment, you are not in need of the $300, which is your selling price for the Tecra A-8 Notebook. So, why sell it rather than keeping it. Thanks,
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    Is this laptop for real?

    Hello Green Xenon, "Apple MacBook - Core 2 Duo 2 GHz - 13.3 " - 1 GB Ram - 80 GB HDD -> $88 new" I don't think so. But still we don't know if this is for REAL. Thanks,
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    need help finding dvd burner

    Hello spazz31585, Have you tried to check and compare prices with an external DVD Burner. If replacing the internal DVD Burner of your laptop doesn't work then the next option will be to go with an external DVD-RW. Thanks,
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    Gateway laptop help

    Hello SnowMan13, Just a quick question? Both your LAN and Wireless Connection is working fine or not? If it is then you don't have to worry about that. You just need to reinstall or update the drivers on those icons with yellow triangle and a black exclamation point at the middle. Thanks,
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    Rate this HP VS DELL Desktop please

    Hello dannaswolcott, This will be my choice -> 1: HP Pavilion a710e- I got this desktop from my fire dept, they have used it for a few years never a problem, it is factory restored with windows xp pro sp3 installed. specks are: AMD Athlon 3500+ 2.20ghz 1GB PC3200RAM 80GB HD DVD-RW FireWire...
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    RAM Question

    Hello zrally, This should be fine but you should go into bios and manually set the speed to DDR3 1600, make sure you set the voltage and timings right. Hope this helps. Thanks,
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    Hard Drive for performance (help)

    Hello leodhas, jevery is right. HDD's rpm only increases the ability to load applications much faster compared to a 7200rpm. Anyways, can you tell us also your computer specifications? In this way, we can also justify on the reasons with regards to the performances of your applications. Thanks,
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    XP computer restarting

    Hello viper110110, Congratz! That's good to know that you have fixes the problem on you own. Keep it UP. Don't hesitate to let us know if you have any concerns in the future. Great job! Thanks,
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    format sd card

    Hello childsy_1985, All you need to do is to back up all the files that are saved on the SD Card. You can save it on your computer HDD. If it prompted you to reformat then you can do it, as long as you have already done backing up all the files in the card. What is the Operating System that...
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    Refrormatting desktop

    Hello BigPete56, If you have all the device drivers saved in a different HDD then you are set to reformat your PC. Don't worry with regards to the detection of the USB device for your WD External HDD. I'm sure that it will be detected immediately once you have finished reformatting and...
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    Daul Boot help

    Hello robertbiferi, You can either install Ubuntu inside Windows XP OS rather than reformatting your HDD which can be a waste of time. But if you really want to install Ubuntu in a different drive with the HDD that you are using right now, then you create a partition and reformat the...
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    Optical Drives and Speeds...

    Hello canivari, Thanks for sharing this information. This will be a great help for all of us computer forum users. Keep it UP... Thanks,
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    LG External Writer good?

    Hello Nevakonaza, An external DVD-RW is great but I would still recommed an Internal DVD-RW. There is a big difference of connecting with a SATA cable and a USB cable. But it will still be your final choice to make. Thanks,
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    Can you burn a dvd using a cd-rw drive?

    Hello NeoDude86, You cannot burn a DVD file with a CR-R burner. There is a DVD/CD-R burner, which only reads DVD files but cannot burn DVD files. Now, regarding your question - there is no way that we can burn DVDs into a CD-R burner. Thanks,
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    Good External?

    Hello Nevakonaza, For an external drive, I would go with Plextor PX-880U. I would rather suggest to us an internal drive instead of an external drive. For an internal drive, my choice will be LG GH24NS50. Thanks,
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    How to play these video files?

    Hello markbro, Try to download and use VLC Media Player. I've been using this media player for a long time and never failed me. Thanks,
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    I need a new DVD burner, which is best?

    Hello Saturnine, For me, I would choose - LG H22NS (SATA, 22x DVD+-R/RW, CD-RW, Dual Layer, Black). Thanks,
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    Whats Better

    Hello sopo95, I would prefer SATA. There are several advantages if you are going to use a SATA cable. Increasing the rate for the transmission of data is one (The cables are only 8mm wide, it goes 250MBps, basically way better than ATA/IDE). It is a lot cleaner compared to the IDE cable that...
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