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I have a main C: hard drive, plus a secondary drive. The 2nd hard drive is G: and is connected to the proper place on the cable that plugs into the mobo. I can open files on the G drive if there is a shortcut to a file or folder …

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i have a Ethernet adsl modem connected to my pc. now i want to share my internet using proxy. is it possible to have 2 pci lan cards on one pc, so that i could connect one to the Ethernet modem and the other for LAN (to the second pc) …

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I have been reading and I know the P5K3 Deluxe is a good motherboard, but are there any better ones to look at. Has the P5K3 Deluxe been discontinued and replaced by a better motherboard? Can anyone please offer some advice?

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I think this post is in the right spot if not excuse my ignorence im stupid with computers. If i leave my compy on for a while it goes nuts and the xcreen goes black and a whole bunch of little a's with a \ over them start appearing i …

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hi guys! My uncle give me an HP Pavilion laptop, there is 2 partition on it. The D: drive has a 7gb which is cater by HP Recovery, I've plan to reformat the laptop. My question is do I need a driver to reformat this one or the driver is …

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I just wanted to know that when we upgrade windows to the latest version of windows, example WinXP to WinVista, then is the program folder and documents and settings folder also effected or only the windows folder is changed? I hope my question is clear Regards,

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I have a home network consisting of 1 wired PC running XP and 3 wireless laptops each running a different OS (1 Mac running OS X, 2 PCs - 1 XP and 1 Vista) connected through a Linksys WRT54G2 router and high speed cable through Comcast. When only the wired …

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Hi I've got the virus that won't let me change my background, so I ran the registry and enabled desktop under properties again, etc. There was also a mysterious icon on my desktop that said "setup1" that wouldn't delete (I'm assuming it was part of the virus), but once I …

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Hello I have one problem with network. Please help me. Description : I be going to running a network. The operation system of clients is MS-DOS and they should connect to the server novell that ,is in other place. by one commeunication line (dial/up , P2P) For this porpost I …

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I was wondering when to use novell. Are there certain things to look for? Does it have advantages over server 2003? What about at a hospital, would it be a good idea to use novell when there is 1000 employees and most have 2 computers?

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okay - so I am not a computer pro and i am very frusrated right now. I will try to be as descriptive as possible and maybe some one can help me. Please be as descriptive as possible in your reply as well. So a few days ago I tried …

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TV not detected as secondary display device on laptop connected through S-Video to RCA adapter:(TV Out) I have a compaq presario V3070TU laptop connected through S-Video out to the RCA input of my TV (Samsung CS-29K44ME).Laptop has Intel 945 mobile chipset as graphics card. I am unable to get my …

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hi all, today for no reason that i can think off i have pop-ups opening every few minutes and 1 or 2 porn icons appear on my desktop. teh pop-ups seem to be alert this and virus that, i even have norton pop-up with explorer allow or block so at …

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Hi, first time poster, but long time techie. I have an HP 864N desktop system that has been my workhorse since I purchased refurbished from TigerDirect 4 years ago. I use it for literally everything - web design, coding, CD and DVD mastering, video and audio editing, etc. Unfortunately...it's deader …

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I was just working on a computer running WinXP SP3 and having RAM 512MB and CPU 1.80Ghz. But I have noticed that the CPU usage shown under performance tab in Task Manager is too high. Sometimes the CPU Usage exceeds 70% and sometimes it goes to 84%. Although when I …

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Hello, After days of went-in-vain googling I finally wanted to start a thread here. I am using ubuntu 64bit 8.04 I just wanted to configure my fan settings. My fan starts when temperature is above 60C and stops when It reaches below it. I wanted to change my settings so …

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After being left idle for a little while, my computer stops responding and freezes. i first thought it was a problem with the sleep function, but i turned off sleep and it still has the same problem. i am not sure what would cause this sort of problem, and i …

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My hard drive D (Recovery only has 23.MB left and I keep getting a popup about it. My son tells me that because Microsoft has partitioned its hard drive that it cannot be cleaned. Is that right and does anyone know what I can do to get some free space …

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I'm a novice when comes to computer networking. I would like to know if there is any way I am able to change the tcp/ip setting as user. It has been disabled by the administrator. Thank you.

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Hi Everyone, Odd question, can't seem to find an answer. I'm trying to track down the dimensional specifications (notably, screw-hole positions) for extended ATX motherboards and/or cases. I'm constructing a custom case and can't for the life of me find diagrams of this information. And yes, I've been to formfactors.org …

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Hello, I installed the Vista Transformation pack a few weeks ago and I have decided to remove it and replace it with a nicer looking theme that Lifehacker wrote about. I restored my computer back to before the installation, but for some reason there are still parks of the pack …

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This has appeared on my computer and won't go away... Is it a virus? Can anyone help me? I looked for sites to remove it on Google. What is a reliable site to download to remove this virus? Thank you. Marg

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New here and glad you guys exist!!! I have ran several anti this and that software including AVG, Avast,True Sword4,Spy ware Doc etc etc ...last 3days Currently after reading a few threads on the same or similar spyware probs I am running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for a full scan on both …

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I've gone through the "Read me before posting a request" thread and here are the requested log files. I am also including a hijackthis log. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thanks. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.28 Database version: 1234 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 10/6/2008 11:18:34 AM mbam-log-2008-10-06 (11-18-34).txt Scan type: Full …

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I have had great help here in the past, so i thought i would try my last resort. Nothing has helped me yet I get this Event Viewer > System error every time i turn on my pc ****** The LogMeIn Kernel Information Provider service failed to start due to …

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In the past I've used vsftpd for File transfer. Installing this was quite easy: - yum install vsftpd - go to 'services' and click start. Now it would be up and running. This has always worked for me, but now I'm required to use Tftp as a server. So I …

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my problem is i have a laptop and pc and need to exchange files between them so i set a network and the laptop seems to see the pc and everything is fine But when i try to ping the laptop form the PC it asks me for a username …

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I posted in the wrong area, so here I am again and hope this time the HiJack Log will be attached. I keep getting a popup saying Windows virtual memory is low and that it will be fixed. So I go and check it out and nothing has changed, so …

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I have a Dell from hell desktop Dim 3000 found a new mobo abd bought it the board fits perfect in the can and all connections line up but 1 and that is th front audio jack no sweat. The board is gettin power but it will not fire hd …

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I've been enduring a what I believe to be an infected computer for about half a year now. Until the new version of Hijackthis came out I couldn't get it to install. Today I finally got HJT to work and have a log, which I have attached. If there's somebody …

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Antivirus XP 2008 arrived on my machine today uninvited! I think I have managed to get rid of all of the files but now I am unable to change my wallpaper. Half of the tabs are missing when I go into "Properties for my desk top. I have been working …

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C:\DOCUME~1\Family\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERc23a.dir00\Mini101008-02.dmp C:\DOCUME~1\Family\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERc23a.dir00\sysdata.xml How do i go about fixing this? happens on start up most times or computer randomly restarts.

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I keep getting a popup saying that windows virtual memory is low. I go in and check it and it seems fine, although I did bump it up to the recommended size, not sure if I should've or not, will leave it alone until I find out whats going on. …

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hi i have a toshiba a55 i spilled soda in the keys board turned it off got it dryed out turned it back on said something about the clock i set it and it started up then it just turned off never to start again.took it apart wipes it out …

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How do I change the netmask on two machines to /1? If I do this what does it do? I'm a bit confused because if they netmasks are the same, does that mean they are on the same network?

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Hey All Glad to be apart.:) Need a little insight on a problem that is just driving me crazy. If this was covered previously - sorry. I have this one particular Machine, running on a Asus P5N-E NFORCE 650I SLI motherboard. The graphics card is the; XFX GEFORCE 7300LE, (x16 …

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hi I recently had an infect on my computer this Virus Alert! I did some research and thought I had cleared it out but apparently not. I now have an empty device manager. So the virus is still on my pc somewhere. I had originally tried using the Malwarebytes and …

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I have Windows Vista Premium and cable internet through Charter Communications. All of a sudden my ipv4 address reverted to a 169. I called their technical support and we walked thru several possible solutions such as release/renew, resetting the connection from their end, resetting my modem which is connected directly …

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This is probably an old question but I can't connect to a couple of sites..pgatour.com and bestbuy.ca. I have avg antivirus which I deleted and tried with no luck and I turned off windows firewall..still no luck

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All I did was let Windows update install SP1. I get the box: Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically. I'm now doing a full system recover...thank goodness this was a new computer! So, do I prevent the thing from doing a Windows update? How do you take care of …

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Hi to all, I am trying to connect 2 computers (maybe more in future) with a T-link hub and modem. Unitil now I do: - cable from 1st comp to modem; - cable from modem to T-link; - cable from 2rd comp to T-link; - cable from printer to T-link; …

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i am using vista home premium operating system i am facing new problem from the last 2 weeks. all the time when i switch on my laptop this pop up massage is come more than 2 or 3 times in the screen. [B][COLOR="Red"]"distributed file system replication has stopped working"[/COLOR][/B] please, …

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...of Thermaltake stuff. [url]http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38494[/url] Nice :) :)

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About two weeks ago, I noticed my Sony VAIO Laptop (five years old, runs on Windows XP) would run SVChost.exe to 99 processes, running about 4,000 k of space, and was under the user name "Network Service". This would only happen when I was trying to re-connect to the internet …

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Must have came in Music Software install, It's bad , located in windows/system32, also came with micro antivirus2009, I think it has invited friends. Please help. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:08:27 PM, on 10/11/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16705) …

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Hi Every One I have a new mother board with a intell duel core 3 ghz processor and 4 gig of 1066mhz ram. When i try to install win98 i get a message not enough memory. Can any one help. Thanks oneamp.

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Recently i took a pc with Pentium D 830 3.0 GHz processor Intel 945 gntl mother board, 120 GB samsung SATA drive and 512 mb ddr II ram.. When i tried to install linux : (i have tried to install many versions like red hat 9, elx, suse, fedora core …

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I am new to this site so if I leave any information out or sound stupid I apologize. Google and Yahoo keeps redirecting me to other websites like edmunds.com or other search engines. My browsing speeds have started to slow down and I cannot visit sites like majorgeek.com or install …

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