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I removed the AC97 drivers, and everything else that said Audio, media devices, from device manager and disabled onboard sound in BIOS. Shut down and installed Audigy2 sound card. Installed drivers and Media Center from Creative's install disk. When I try to play a audio cd using Media Player,I get …

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bought an asus a7n8x moto and xp2400 chip,when flased updated bios , when i start system takes forever moto sees hd ,western digital 80 gig 8meg but when i try to load xp pro windows wont see hd and cant install??

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News of more security problems with the Opera browser. Affects versions 6.x and 7.x Details here: [url]http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/10792_2109161[/url]

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I am trying to make my home machine a webserver for a project I am working on. Here is my configuration Windows XP Professional Linksys Router I set up my IIS server 5.1 to listen the default web browser on port 200. I have also tried 1000 8000 9000 2333 …

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I have a generic 17" VGA monitor that i got (assumingly brand new) from a guy about 3 or 4 years ago. Lately, it would become extremely bright, as if the brightness knob were turned up all the way, and then some. i tried to adjust the display settings on …

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Ugh. I tried to demonstrate the IBuySpy portal from school today, but for whateveer reason, it won't connect to my IP. I've given out the URL in the past (http://theqube.d2g.com:801/PortalVBVS), but for one reason or another, its just being a pain and gives me a 404 when I try to …

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I have installed VMware 3.2 with the 30 day license on a Red Hat 8.0 machine with XP on the other partition. I run vmware-config.pl and get this error: Making sure VMware Workstation's services are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [ OK ] Trying to find a suitable …

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Ok, Linux is suppose to be all powerful, or so they say... but what a pain it is to get things back to a normal...anyhow that is not why I am writing this post. How do you install Forte for java 4 on linux if it is for linux? I …

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a port on my firewall is closed? if so, which port? i have zone alarm pro. how do i configure it to use a proxy?

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Anyone know how to partition hard drives in Windows Server Platforms? Meaning the boot drive of a server platform? Lovely partition magic doesn't work in any server platforms.

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Well, due to downsizing my company needs to get rid of our HP LaserJet 4100N printer. We purchased a 5 year extended warranty, which is transferable - a $500.00 value. The warranty has 3 years and 8 months left. Here Are Some Features: -Instant-on fuser prints the first page in …

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I found this interesting post for all those who are considering upgrade their computers and or cases. .....Power supply: How big a PSU do I need? AGP video card - 20-30W PCI video card - 20W AMD Athlon 900MHz-1.1GHz - 50W AMD Athlon 1.2MHz-1.4GHz - 55-65W Intel Pentium III 800MHz-1.26GHz …

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As many of us know (especially those like me who use StyleXP) the well known XP themes site has been down for the last few weeks. As of within the past hour, it's been back up! I'm just about to go head over to it and check it out. Let's …

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Hey everyone, I was just wondering if anyone's heard of a dual cable modem / tv tuner card? Has anyone heard of these, do they exist, or know where to find one? The way I figure, tv tuner cards just have a lil input for a tv cable line, so …

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I am trying to help my brother-in-law get his computer on line and I can't get his computer to recognize the modem. He is running Windows 95, ( I know it is old, but it what he can afford) I have the ISP all set up, but can't get the …

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Hi - I have an hp LaserJet 2200d connected to a RedHat Linux 8 machine, set up via CUPS. The printer is being shared over the network. Duplex printing is turned on (it's a feature I use quite often). I'm using the driver "HP LaserJet 2200, Foomatic + gimp-print(en)" Everything …

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I use VMWare 3.2 on a RedHat Linux 8 host. I compiled the module locally, as opposed to using one of the pre-configured modules (as I don't believe official support for RedHat 8 has been released yet). In any case, I use a Windows 2000 guest OS. However, regardless of …

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My Linux PC has always been set up to use my WinXP machine, 192.168.0.1 as an Internet gateway, with the static IP 192.168.0.2 I just got a Linksys "blue" router, and I want to change this info. I'd like to use DHCP to use the router as the gateway, 192.168.1.1 …

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when I try to boot from the first of 3 cd's, by typing "boot cd", I get the following: cannot open: cd enter filename [cd]: Any ideas? I can hear the cd drive spinning, so its not a mechanical problem

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When I try to boot from the cd, I get the following: cannot open: cd enter filename [cd]: any suggestions?

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Just wondering if it is safe to insert/un-insert those PCMCIA cards on a Notebook while it is running? I know on a desktop it's not advisable to plug/unplug anything (except USB) while PC is on. Notebook is a brand new Toshiba (don't know model). Thanks, Donk Free Technical Support Webring …

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Can I use DSL with Linux?? I don't have it yet, but I am doing some research. I know that with Windows 2000, you needed to down load WinPoet. Is this the case with Linux? if so, what is the fix. Thanks. :?:

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Here's an interesting document I came across with when looking up information about Bash programming. For the most part I agree with him... based on my linux programming experience. I don't think [b]all[/b] Linux people "suck" as he put it, but I've come across more snobs in the Linux community …

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Tek I dont want to make you made I am a Novell freak big time. I respect Novell but it seems like there going down slowly even though they released Novell 6 sometime early last year. Novell is best for managing users but the cost of it is just not …

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I was reading my post I posted a while back and I kinda take that back Mac's are good I know I worked on them for 2 years at work. I have 2 Mac's PowerPC's 7200 Reason: They were a complete package the whole computer for $50 I like having …

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I just reformatted my computer (Win XP Pro). Everything runs smoothly except Outlook XP or Outlook Express. Everytime I open either one, it takes a solid two minutes for the splash screen to go away for the rest of the proggie to open. Every other program works perfectly fine (e.g. …

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When I want to uninstall a software , it seems that it has been unistalled .But when I delete the folder , it reports something wrong .It seems that the software is running. I used Ctrl+Arl+Del ,but there is nothing unusual , the software is not shown in neither program …

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The amount of space for backup files appears to be limited by Windows to approx. 10% of your disk space. How can that be changed? I've put in a second drive which I want to use primarily as backup storage. It is an 80 gig drive and has nothing else …

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I've seen a lot of issues lately with OE 6 unable to switch to another ID in WinXP. Three solutions that I know of: 1) 3-finger saluting OE 2) bounce sys 3) deselect default ID setting (and leave setting that way) & do a File/Exit and Logoff, re-open OE & …

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I am currently running Windows 2k on an A7V motherboard with a 1.1 GHz AMD Athlon. In addition, I am attempting to install two different PCI sound cards. However, I am encountering major IRQ conflicts. I have attempted to manually change the IRQ of one of the sound cards to …

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I want to set up the ever popular fortune program to display a random fortune each time a user logs in. The program is installed, but which config file do I need to edit to get the program to automatically run after each successful login?

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Hey guys. I came across this just recently, but I'm not sure if you guys are aware of it. It crashes csrss.exe (thus W2K, NT, XP) through the command console. I tried writing the same program in Perl, and it did in fact crash my system. I did not see …

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I decided to aquire Windows .NET RC1 the legal way, direct from Microsoft. I signed up about a week and a half ago, for the "CPP Preview Program" (whatever that means) and got the email today. Aparently, MS does not have enough servers to meet demand. I can't get there …

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I just got a Geforce2 MX 400 (I know it's outdated. I got it for $25. better than an 8MB Nvidia Vanta). I have the latest drivers for it but in gaming situations, it sometimes "issues a stop command". I don't know why it would do that so any help …

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Windows 2000 SP3 was released to a lot of people. Here is the link for it. http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000platform/SP/SP3/NT5/EN-US/w2ksp3.exe

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ATTN: VMWare users!! Please help me! ... (sorry this post is so long, I tried to be very thorough) I have a WindowsXP computer with two nic cards. One of them is connected to a cable modem and another to a hub. Also connected to the hub are a linux …

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Please help me!! I'm so frustrated. I know I have been a bit absent from techtalk lately but I've been super ultra busy ... one of my latest endeavors is working with Linux. I have a Red Hat 7.3 system set up right now which works perfectly except for one …

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This is like the ultimate site for Windows Networking tips. Check it out. http://is-it-true.org/

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- Windows XP SP1 Beta came out. - Direct X 9 Beta came out. - SOF2 and GTA3 are top selling games. - www.isonews.com Well that is all from this end.

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I just got sent a trial version of XP embedded. I wanted to know if i could fix it with the current files i have. Or maybe someone has a way to fix it. Either way let me know.

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ATI has fired there old Driver crew finally! NOw no more driver problems, well lets hope. The CATALYST Crew just released IN june new ATI Drivers so far so good. I have a couple ATI cards so far so good. All work with DirectX9 fine no problems. ATI is starting …

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If you want to practice unix programming, maybe do a few unix/linux scripts, or just test out some commands, Cygwin is the answer. Cygwin is the command.com for Unix. When you run it, it opens up a window like the DOS console, and you're ready to type out your commands. …

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The search is finally over for Novell 6 hehe Tek enjoy it. If you find anything on the news group like that or better please let me know I will do the same.

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Tek is the new Owner/HOST of www.pcmodkingdom.dns2go.com I no longer run the site I will help Tek with what I can but for now I dont have the money and the resources to run the site maybe in a few years but who knows what then. I thank for HOSTING …

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Anybody have the 60 Day trail of NT Enterprise Edition I wont have use for it but I want to see how to use Terminal Server and Enterprise Server together just some kind of project I been working on.

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