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I just recently purchased a 2600+ athlon, and i want to overclock it. My motherboard is a a7n8x deluxe (not revision 2). I currently have one stick of 3200 ddr in. The only settings my mobo will allow me to boot up with for the cpu are 11.5 multiplier at …

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[b][size=3][font=Times New Roman]Hello, im working on a computer for someone at school and this problem is driving me nuts. The computer is used for a movie editing class and was built last year by students (but never had this problem until a few months ago).[/font][/size][/b] [b][size=3][font=Times New Roman]Problems:[/font][/size][/b] [list] [*][font=Times …

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hi there, i would like 2 know if u can solve this... when i start my laptop up its fine but when my desktop shows it take five minuets before it finishes loading/doing its thing. why? p.s. i have win 98 on my downstares computer and that load the destop …

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I have win/98 system and as I go online and try to get into my mail or into explorer etc the pages cannot be opened as it cannot find server. When I go to close the program a message appears stating that "WUPDATER" is not responding.I have to shut down …

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Has anyone ever heard of a CD-ROM Destroying a CD? I Just had a teacher come to me and said that she put this CD in, 10 seconds later heard a loud POP and ejected the tray and there was nothing gut shards of a CD left. She knows that …

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Hi all, This is probably just me being dozy, but hopefully someone can help. I've had loads of problems with my copy of Windows XP Pro (eg the system crashing when I try to access the properties of my LAN!), mostly involving it crashing, so I've decided to try and …

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Trying to print a page from 5.50sp2 and the picture, which i can see fine on the page, prints out with a blank box with a little red x. Out of 5 pcs 1 works and we all print to the same printer.! help!

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i have restall the window today, but after the installation complete..it appear a msg " and force my computer auto shut down in 50 second everytime i start my comp...is it the cd key problem??? someone please help me~

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My computer wasnt shut down right. it was turned off right from the button and didnt get to close anything down. now when i try to delet the history of the computer the sites wont go away. i know that when the computer is shut down wrong the sites get …

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I am looking for a new computer and i was wondering what kind of graphic card is is integrated into the P4 intel cpu and if it's any good or if I should go out and buy another? If I should get another one what would u suggest?

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can anyone shed any light on this everytime i start up messenger i get a firewall warning udp packet from remote computer 64.4.12.201:7001 is trying to access your computer i blocked this and ticked always block this and this happens everytime i start messenger i have scannned for viruses using …

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it seems to be the activation issue. winXP loads up and after a minute it starts a cont down to shut down.

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Ok, I was on a page I probably shouldn't have been on and I clicked on a link to download. The download started and I realized it wasn't what I thought it was and cancelled the download almost immediately. Then things got weird: on the bottom right of my display …

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The subject line is just part of the trouble. Let me first give the symptoms. About 10 days ago, we started having trouble accessing Hotmail via IE on my home PC which is loaded with XP. We could access it 2-3 times after a reboot, then the computer would lock …

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I have Windows 98. IE 6 Recently went to Yahoo DSL. On some sites, not all, I get red x's instead of images. For example: Yahooligans comes up with red x's, but when I click on a red x, I get an image. Going directly to IE, I have the …

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About a week ago, through no intentional action on my part, my system decided to start up directly in MS Access. I have searched through msconfig and find no entry re: Access, only two "MS Office". If anybody has any ideas as to how to stop this, please send me …

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I am looking to buy the Epson C 84 to print on custom paper size. Unfortunately Epson customer support is not able to tell me if that feature works under Panther. Is anybody using that printer and could tell me? Thanks!

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I have recently had a reconfiguration on my computer that makes it impossible for me to visit popular websites including yahoo.com, microsoft.com etc.... I have no clue how to undo this. For instance when I type in [url]www.yahoo.com[/url] i am redirected to [url]www.www.yahoo.com.org/[/url] and i type [url]www.microsoft.com[/url] i am redirected …

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Hello all When I go to the USERS portion of CONTROL PANEL, there is no option for ADVANCED to enable or disable CTRL+ALT+DELETE function at logon. I am running XP PRO with SP1. ANy help would be appreciated thank you in advance

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I bought my computer just for Everquest but find myself frequently fustrated with it even trying to run StarCraft. Graphics card : e-GeForce FX 5200 Mother Board : ASUS (A7N8X Deluxe) Processor : AMD 2500+ (2.88) Modem : PCI V.92 Internal 512 DDR (2 x 128 K-byte) OS : Windows …

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hey all, my dad has a Dell Dimension 8200 computer and he runs Windows XP pro. he's had it for almost a year and up until recently it was working just fine. Almost a month ago, he tried opening his picture file and he got this error message: "[color=red]The instruction …

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Steam :sad: Please give me some advice. I downloaded hijackthis and the log is pasted below: [font=Courier New]Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7[/font] [font=Courier New]Scan saved at 1:28:00 PM, on 2/2/2004[/font] [font=Courier New]Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)[/font] [font=Courier New]MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000)[/font] [font=Courier New]Running processes:[/font] [font=Courier New]C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe[/font] [font=Courier New]C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe[/font] [font=Courier New]C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe[/font] …

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grr I have three PC's each with a WD Cavier WD1200. I just installed win2k on one last friday and over the weekend it crashed and it says invalide boot sector insert bootable media. I checked the post screen and it doesn't find the harddrive. so than I tried to …

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I installed windows xp onto a second hard drive that I had, but i removed it. When I start my computer, it would ask which windows to start. Even though i removed the hard drive with the other windows installed, the option to start the other windows appears. How would …

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I also have the commonname problem. From what I hear it's big and hard to get rid of. After downloading hijackthis and doing the scan, how are you supposed to know what to delete and what to keep. An "about blank" screen always pops up on my computer also. Here …

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a particular site is opening very SLOW in InternetExplorer and absolutely ok in Netscape... cannot figure out why? the site is [url="http://www.mojochicago.com"]www.mojochicago.com[/url] the site seems to be in php

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Hi there I'm new to the forums so bear with me =) My friend just created his own domain. The first time I accessed it, it was just a simple "hi" message because he had no webpage up yet. Now he has a web page up, and even after deleting …

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Hey all, Unfortunatly its my first post, so that means I have a problem. I just built this new system. Details: Mobo: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP CPU: 2.8 HT P4 800FSB Hard Drive: Western Digital SATA 36GB Raptor 10K Video: 9800 Pro OS: Windows XP Pro CD: LiteOn CD-RW/DVD+RW Well ever since …

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About 3 years ago, I had a Windows 98 system, then upgraded it to XP. I have a Kodak DVC325 Digital Video Camera, and now it doesn't work. I downloaded the driver here: [url]http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/downloads/dln_ekn.jhtml?ekn=EKN009389[/url] and unziped it to the DVC325 file. Should it automatically work or is there something I …

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I have an airport base station (snow) administered wirelessly by my Powerbook G3 (Firewire) running Panther. This basestation distributes ip addresses, and client computers share a single ip address using DHCP and NAT. This allows 3 computers to share a single PPPoE phone line high speed internet connection. The other …

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Hi, I've just installed 512mb ram on my laptop, running windows xp home. I had to do this becuase it was only running 128 before aahh. Now I don't know very much about this but when I had a look at System in the control panel it tells me I'm …

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Hello My first post here. My problem is with the Explorer window in Windows 98SE on an new, custom 1800 Celeron system with dual hard drives and 512 RAM. It's a problem I've not seen before on three of my own systems and two of my wife all running the …

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Hello there, the other day I downloaded a program, it had two smaller programs and i double clicked one called load_me.exe and it loaded like 50 or 60 of them into the processes tab and so I immediatly restarted the computer. When my computer started back up, the 60 or …

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I have peer-to-peer network. One of the computers is running WinXP, the other one Red Hat 9. I've been trying to setup Samba to bee able to see linux from my windows machine. I can see windows from linux machine, but not the other way around. Any suggestions are welcome. …

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I can't seem to send or recieve files and don't know how to configure the router to serve files

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Hi I have been trying to get my Dell inspiron 2500 to show something anything on the lcd but to no avail...it works with an external monitor. I have tried to reset the flex cable but nothing... When I start it up the screen is jetblack! then it flcks to …

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Hi I just tried to load win XP home edition. doing a new install from scratch. the install started out fine, after the format was done it started to load. I walked away for a minute and when I came back there was a light blue screen (not the blue …

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Original problem started w/error mess saying files required to run have been removed/replaced-tried doing system restore to previous date-same error message-put Win XP Home Ed cd in (inc sv pk 1) like it said to- froze in the middle of setup.Fatal error pdt catalog -signature invalid-prevents setup from continuing. Called …

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OS: win2k Connection: dialup As window boots "preparing network connections" takes a long time and when it finishs everything is fine EXCEPT for the internet... it dials... it verifies u/p.... But then it TOTALLY freezes when it says registering on network and takes like 10min to do its job... found …

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The loading bar is not showing, I have IE 6.0. Any help would be appreciated. thanks

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Recently i have had problems with my pc freezing up during usage and or restarting itself. I heard it could be because of the dust build up and i cleaned my pc to find out that did not slove the problem. Well then i read i could have a problem …

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I was always told that when u press ctrl alt delete, it should tell u that u are running programs. I was also told that at start up u should ony be running Systray and Explorer, now i am only running Systray, how can i run Explorer again????

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Hi, I was given a computer to fix and have been searching various forums on the solution, well the problem is that aparently the user clicked on a popup for a free trial on anti-virus software, after the download it scanned his HD and found a virus and told him …

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I am having an interesting problem with IE 60 sp1 and Google. When I send a search with Google tool bar the Google results will come up for about 5 seconds and then IE shuts down. I don't remember exactly when this started but it seems after getting the last …

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All the time if I am replacing a CD by another one or if I take it out of a CD-Rom-drive while the windows explorer is opened Windows XP Pro hangs or seems to be working. It happens also from time to time if I try to close the windows …

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My apologies for the length but am unsure of specific diagnostic data needed for trouble shooting responses. From perusing the threads, there are a lot of competent people who are really sharp in these matters. If additional info/diagnostics are needed, let me know. I've researched a lot of Liteon/Microsoft/Intel et …

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Has anyone seen the IBM commercial titiled, "The Future is Open"? When the commercial first started, I was thinking that it was cool. As I realized what the commercial was about, I felt a little offended :!:. I emplore all of you go and watch the commercial. Link: [url="http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/ondemand/tvspot.html"]http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/ondemand/tvspot.html[/url] Scroll …

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Hello all. Im trying to write a batch file that will install a few (3) Applications/patches at once. I want the installs to be quiet or unattended, but I cant get it to work for adobe. W2K SP4 works fine and a custom app we use (Impact) also is fine. …

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