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i'm 45 and ought to know better. intent on growing old disgracefully. love music festivals.
and making old broken things work again

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books, bikes, astronomy, computers, sunshine, festivals, partying hard.
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main: 2.66 core2 2gb ram. 70gbSAS XpPro laptop: 1.86 core2 2gb ram 120gb sata VistaUlt Pet: dell dimension…
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Is everyone familiar with this game? Just reply with the first word that comes to your mind when you think of the last word posted. You can't respond to the post with a comment, just the word that comes to your mind. It can only be a word or a …

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Hey, I'm new to the forums but fairly experienced when it comes to computers. I've got a Dell Dimension 8400 and a 2001FP monitor. When i boot the computer up, the video card's fan is spinning and the computer seems to power on fine... except for the fact that there …

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This is really simple. Just take the last letter of the movie name in previous post & put another movie name starting with that letter. Eg.:- if i put "The Matrix -Reloaded" answer may be "Doom" so let's start. I put : The Matrix Revolution

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ITs the vending machine yippie What you do: I'll start and I put somthing in ... [COLOR=SeaGreen]seaweed[/COLOR] so then the next person would post what the machine gives me and then he would put somthing in and[B] [COLOR=DarkRed]NO POSTING TWICE IN A ROW[/COLOR][/B]

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HI, I was working on my laptop for few hours (just surfing/chatting)..and suddenly now screen went blank... and wont comeback... i tried rebooting it but still no avail.... it wont show even the initial bios setting.. i tried to connect it to desktop monitor still blank.. but hard drive light …

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Hello, I have compaq armada m700 laptop. I want to reset the password of bios(power-on). I know that with fix the jumper setting ,It can be done. But if anybuddy genious can tell me some diff. way to reset it. good solution will b appriciated.

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It's running XP Pro, everything seems to be connected fine. Recently I'd opened the case up to remove an old CD-RW drive that was malfunctioning, but I fixed the drive and returned it back to its original spot, and it worked fine. But today when I turn on the power, …

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Hi everyone. thanks in advance. I have a DELL Inspiron 8600 laptop, running windows xp. When I turn on my computer it tells me: [B]Primary Hard Disk drive 0 not found[/B]. It also makes the loudest clicking noise. (It ran some scan before all this happened.. i think it might …

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Aloha! When I woke up this morning... Vista would not load. :icon_eek: 1. It automatically goes into the Startup Repair mode, and that has no effect. 2. The System restore does not restore back to a point earlier in time. 3. Within the System Recovery Options, there is no option …

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Hi I have a new HP G62-b24eo laptop that I just started using this Friday, and I get several bsod every day. What comes up on the screen is "IRQL Driver not less or equal" and further down "tcpip.sys." I'm trying to find out if this is a problem that …

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Hi I have a Triple boot system XP, Vsta and Win7, but due to somehow Virus or Trojan on Vsta, I want to take that drive out and replace with a new harddrive. The Vsta HD is a 2nd drive so I not worried about the data, which I can …

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I thought it would be great if we share our softwares here. So post your favourite software here that other people would love to have. Note: Please write some description about the software and a link from where it can be downloaded.

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Hey there everybody... haven't been here in a while but I am in need of some help for my girlfriend. Her computer is giving her problems, let me go through the steps. Step 1, she starts up the PC, it asks the "Start the Computer Normally, Start in Safe Mode..." …

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well, avast kept getting an error and reporting alureon-fr. I tried to boot into safe mode and now the machine will not boot up...I get to the screen with a choice of safe mode, etc. but no matter what I choose it just reboots over and over to that screen. …

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Hi all, I am facing a problem regarding running the task manager. Few days back, I had installed another task manager in my xp professional. Now, i've already uninstalled that software & by pressing ctrl+alt+del the window task manager is not coming. I am not finding out the solution, how …

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I have a Dell inspiron 5160 laptop computer that won't boot properly. Upon power up, eveything thing seems to be working properly. The computer startup up on the POST. (BIOS SCREEN) and the status bar starts to fill. when it is approx. 75% full it stops to the fill and …

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Hey folks. I'm hoping someone on here can save me from taking a hammer to my PC. I have an XPS 720 H2C that up until 2 nights ago, was running fine. Then all of a sudden, my OS (Vista Ultimate) started freezing after about 10 minutes. I am unable …

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