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An easy question for all you in the know guys. I have an MSI MS-6318 motherboard which has SDRAM installed. How can I find out if it will take DDRRAM? TIA.

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Dear Techies, Well, My internet explorer(v.6) for some inexplicable reason seems to be shutting down by itself. After i load the explorer, i roughly get 10 seconds before it dissappears. I am running Norton Internet Security 2004, XP pro and P4 2.6 with 1GB RAM, please help as i can't …

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Hi techtalk members - first time poster. I've got a problem today in that the address bar is not opening on my i.e. 6.0 toolbar. [img]http://www.ladormida.com/images/address.gif[/img] As per the above you can see it but you can't move it / open it and therefore I can't type in urls directly …

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My computer config is P-IV 1.7 Ghz 512 MB Ram it started dunno how - but i located blaster worm in my pc - and installed fixblast from symantec removed it - and it was running fine. but than my computer started to freeze every 5-10 minutes. I formatted my …

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Hi. First post and just need a little direction. I currently have a PIII 500 machine with win98se. My primary drive is 40 gb and I also have a second drive (60 gb). I'm wanting to do a clean install of win2000 completely replacing win98. I've backed up everything to …

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O.S Win 98. Just downloaded Internet Explorer 6 a couple weeks ago and cant enable java chat rooms now. When I try to log on to most chat rooms I get no error message except a colored square,circle,triangle inside a bigger square. I checked internet options -advanced section and java …

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I'm completely frustrated. I signed up to broadband for the first time last november. Since then i've had may problems with multimedia flash pop ups. The one that my 2pop up blockers fail to erradicate is 'Top Searches On The Web'. It actually goes out of it's way to click …

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Hey all, I'm considering building a dedicated video caputure box for recording signals from cable and satilitte feeds. Among the hardware I'm considering is a 2.5 Ghz Celeron processor, ATI All In Wonder 9600 card with 128 MB Video memory onboard, and 512 MB of pc3200 DDR and a 400 …

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MY NETWORK CARD, FUCKS UP MY PRINTER . WHEN I TRY TO PRINT SOMETHING ON MY Lexmark 5700, HE SAYS THE PRINTER IS OFFLINE !!!AND I AIN

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i have a Logitech MX700 wireless mouse. and when i play games with it i cannot program the mousewheel or any of the other mouse buttons to do anything i dont know how to fix this heres the screen of the configuration tool i have tried checking the box that …

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So I was playing Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne and then suddenly my screen turned black and i landed up on my desktop with this error message : (now this message has never appeared before) [img]http://afdrano.150m.com/war3error.jpg[/img][img]http://afdrano.gq.nu/war3error.jpg[/img] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Also, I click my start button and i notice what programs are below my …

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Hello, trying to find a solution for my problem in google, I found this page - great:) but the problem still exists:cry: OK. This page is no problem for my IE6 on XP Pro. Also not the german [url="http://www.herber.de/"]www.herber.de[/url], [url="http://www.spotlight.de/"]www.spotlight.de[/url]. They work fine. But [url="http://www.spiegel.de/"]www.spiegel.de[/url] or [url="http://www.rp-online.de/"]www.rp-online.de[/url] are making trouble. …

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:( For some reason my computer is just lagging in all areas right now. It works, just slowly. My 512 MB of RAM is working at 13% right now. Most of the lag occurs when alt tabbing or starting a new program. Comp Specs: - 2.4 Ghz P4 Processor - …

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I just bought a new Samsung flat screen monitor, SyncMaster 955df, and it gets fuzzy near the border, especialy the text in my web address bar. I have tried everything to get it to focus. I am not sure whether it is the monitor or the settings. Any suggestions on …

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[left][font=Arial][size=3]Hi all,[/size][/font][/left] [left][font=Arial][size=3]i basically face a problem concerning a WinMe installation in my old laptop[/size][/font][/left] [left][font=Arial][size=3](IBM Thinkpad 380z) which has a [color=red]broken floppy[/color]. As u might have already undestood i cant install WinMe cause i cant boot from floppy:-| . Furthemore i cant find a bootable WinMe cd or make …

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The centre of my display has a white band which seems to disappear partially when i apply a bit of pressure on the side of the display. Please help if any of you knows whats going on. Thanks MJ Khan

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All folders on desktop that point to c:/documents and settings, do not open. The pointer will turn to an hour glass then revert back to a pointer. If I create a new folder I will not be able to open it, all aftermarket program folders work fine. I am not …

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Hey, I cant seem to get any sound on my sys with mandrake 2.0. My motherboard (a7v266-e) has onboard sound, but i recently purchased a soundblaster audigy 2 which i obviously use instead. Manrake recognizes both soundcards in the config, but i think that its running primarily through the onboard. …

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Hi everyone. I made a post a few weeks ago about deleting everything on my hijackthis log (I know... really stupid), but this is the log from what my computer is currently running, if anyone could help me out with what I need/what I have that I don't need, I …

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Can someone please help me? I'm in desperate need of a php/MySQL based statistics tracker for Apache. It should be easy to configure and install. At the same time, provide a wide variety of information. I'm currently using Wusage but it just isn't robust enough for me. I heard good …

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Ok, so i opened my laptop the other day to find that it is totally white. My laptop is a gateway solo 1450. I emailed tech support and they sent me back some reply about replacing ram. I knew it wouldnt work but i followed the instuctions and it still …

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I recently bought a used Celeron 1.7 Hz. The vendor from whom I bought told me that the system had 128MB of RAM. However when I checked the My Computer properties, the system is reporting only 96MB. I am running Windows 2000. The vendor told me that this is normal …

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I just thought i'd like to put this out there because i've been looking for something like it for a while. [url]http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm[/url] is a web site that tells you what all the programs running in your task manager are. Of course it doesnt have things for programs and software you …

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Hi, What are the steps to create a dual boot? I am running Win98SE and I want to also install RH 8. Or can you direct me to a good site. :p

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Hello all! I have a problem with a folder that keeps on freezing up. Whenever I'm just clicking on that folder or just highlighting it, the whole folder freezes up. I have to wait for like a minute for the freeze to be over, from there then I can access …

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What exactly are UDP packets? They often come up in netplay of video games, I know that much.

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Hi All, i want to relay mail through my fedora box on to my exchange server. i'm useing sendmail 8.12.10, perviously there would have been a relay-domains file in /etc/maill, but it does not seem to be there. even though in the .cf there is an entrey for /etc/mail/relay-domains. anyhow …

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could someone please tell me a link to where i could buy this motherboard? it is very apreciated..

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[font=Verdana, Arial][size=2]Having a major problem with a computer. It began for about a month ago, it started doing minor freezes for 1-2seconds, mostly in games at that time. But a few days it took a turn to the worse and began freezing up in windows whenever I tried to open …

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Is the name of the trojan. Please help me get it out of my system. AVG Anti-Virus which i downloaded (free one) today found it, but it couldn't "heal" it, all it said was 'Action Failed.' So how do I get rid of this? I'm right now scanning my computer …

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i downloaded motherboard manager, and when i come to the part to choose my motherboard make mines not there, i have a dell dimension desktop 4600 with a stock motherboard and it says dell on it....please help

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:sad: Okay Here is the problem!!!!! I had someone rebuild my computer for me. Everything inside is new. He installed Windows 98. After having problems with that we tried to install Windows Xp and that never happened, could not install, had errors coming up. Thought the hard drive was bad. …

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I have a fairly new Sanyo 20" flat screen and it has an s-video input in the back. I also have a Presario 2100 Laptop also quite new with s-video in back. When I connect my laptop to the T.V. via s-video cable the most I can get from the …

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Hey, today someone named Eliza5021 IM'ed me, and said hey i wanna chat. i said whose this? then they said something which I forget, then i said what? because what he said didnt make sense, then he said one mans trash is another mans treasure (your computer for example). about …

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What's up with this? I don't know, but recently this box has been appearing whenever i try to reboot. It gives me a box that tells me this dialog is ending and it gives me the option to end task, so even if i dont end task the result is …

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All, I have read the thread and picked through my hijack log but after a reboot my home page keeps being reset to [url="http://www.searchdot.net"]www.searchdot.net[/url]. Below is a current hijack log - can someone please help me figure out where the stuff is that is resetting the page. I have also …

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ok i know where to get themes now but do i have to have a program that is constantly running in order for the theme to stay or is there no way around that?

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Hi everyone. I just built a new computer and I used a ASUS P4C800 Delux Motherboard. When I am booting up at the start screen with the fat ASUS head it beeps. 1 low 1 high 1 low. I looked in the manual and it has nothing for this so …

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I just registered for this forum, to find out help on how to solve my problem with cpu usage overloading. My computer has been fine until about 3 days ago. It started getting real laggy, and my internet speed dropped majorly. When i open up (WTM) i see that SVCHOST.EXE …

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I am stumped. Can't get the following to work. Basically all it is suppose to do is if some calls a hello.html file it should grab the hello.shtml file. RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^(.*).shtml$ /$1.html So far all i get is 404 errors. This rewrite is placed in a …

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I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. In the last few months, I noticed that the screen was getting darker. In the last few weeks I noticed the screen was getting a red tint. Yesterday, the screen had a slight flicker. Today, the screen is not working. I plugged the …

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is it posible to link computers together like a hive so that one processor can use all the computers memorys at once. thus a extremly fast pc? this is just a question i dont inted doing it but the theory sounds cool! :cool:

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Hi i'm new! Got a problem that maybe someone can help me with. When XP starts it takes about 60seconds before I can run any programs. Any help would be great, this is a really annoying problem. My machine is almost new specs below - It is a fresh install …

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My hardware: Soyo K7ADA V1.0 motherboard with Ali MAGiK1 Chipset with USB on the chip itself. Amd 2000+ processor 256mb ddr ram Lexmark Z32 Printer Don't think anything else is going to be of importance.... I'm running win xp pro. I just formatted and reinstalled windows and now it doesn't …

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Hi Techies, My win 2000 sp4 1.6 512MB 40GB machine is slow to respond. I have done every tweak available. when I click a menu it takes awhile to respond. any help appriciated = Carmine = :rolleyes: ps hi Dani

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:cry: Like when im at google or whatever, when I type in "a" it will show everything I have ever looked for that started with "a" and the same with everything. I think its slowing my internet down but even if its not is there anyway I can remove this? …

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I have got a problem trying to boot up an xp machine. I get the following message but does not matter what I choose it just goes back to the same thing [color=blue]We apologize for the inconvience, but Windows did not start sucessfully. A recent hardware or software change might …

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