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 | your machine may have a max. My dads pc takes pc133 (its from ~2002) and it has a max of 768mb ram.  |
| | [url]http://www.elstonsystems.com/prod/pc_analyzer.html[/url] this explains about post cards |
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| | Re: Lefty or Righty? mainly right but i am ambidexterous, cant use a nouse with my left hand though.  |
| | welcome! if you want a .NET book look at the one by Microsoft Press, there quite good |
| | Same. After i put my email in my sig my spam increased about tenfold.  |
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| | Xp is meant to do that. XP is designed so that if its hardware drasticalyl changes, it wont boot, in order to stop piracy. You may be able to get it to boot by doing a "repair reinstall" but you will need an xp cd and it will cock things … |
| | you can use the "lspci" cmmand for cards, dont know about drives |
| | The network drivers just probably arent installed wired or wifi? |
 | You might have a virus thats sending out emails from your PC or more likely, someone is spoofing your email address (easy to do if the smtp mail server is unsecured - thats how spam emails can sometimes appear to originate from legitimate companies) |
| | Re: Vista and RAM are they matching? DDR ram must be installed in matching pairs of speed size and type and be in the correct slots. Also, does your pc have a limit? older pcs have a cap - in most pre-2002 pcs its ~768mb. Modern PCs its 4-8gb |
 | Re: CIS or CS? I am looking to go to university next year and know lots of prople who work in IT CIS is a perfectly acceptable qualification here for non-coding jobs (in fact, CIS is looked on better by some employers than CS as it teacfhes you business skills, not just tech skills) … |
 | vista can gain a 60% speed boost by tuning off unnecessary services, applying tweaks and using the classic theme. By this method its possible to get it running quite well on 512 |
| | yeah sounds like the Backlight or Inverter has gone (could even be both) DO NOT open your monitor yourself. Send it away or just buy a new one. |
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| | simple answer is you cant a tweaked xp can do it in ~10 seconds but not vista thats ~30s when tweaked |
| | bad motherboard? can you RMA it? - probably the warranty is now void though :( youve tried everything i would otherwise have said already |
| | you probably damaged it and so probably the data is lost forever. you could have baught a Y splitter for under $10 to let them share the power plug Moral of the story here is NEVER mess about inside the PC when it is running. |
| | Re: vista vs. xp Yes, its the same thing as the 98 vs XP debate. Back then everyone hated XP as it needed loads of system requirements, was different, and nothing ran on it - but in the long run XP proved to be the best In a few years vista will be like … |
| | Check here: [url]http://www.tutorials-win.com/WindowsUpdate/Dialafix-fixed/[/url] this guy is having the same problem. you can download dialafix here: [url]http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix[/url] |
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 | Importing is a very complex task Have you tried simply running the old version in compatibility mode? To get old dos games working on xp you need to right click on the shortcut and chose Compatibility tab and the choose windows 98 |
| | Re: help be more specific about what you want and what you know already, also please dont use internet speak like plz as it confuses people, especially those where english isnt thier first language |
| | control panel -> (classic view) -> regional and language -> language tab -> click the ""details" button -> click the "language bar button" uncheck all the options then in the desktop right click on the staskbar and go into toolbars. Make sure language bar is unchecked there too. Reboot. |
| | to run any .exe is possible. You can use system.diagnostics or the "shell" command  |
 | watercooling isnt really needed on that rig ive got a core quad extreme oced to 4ghz, 4gb ram and an 8800gto and it runs fine with good paste, good design, air cooling and big heatsinks |
| | I got that with MS office after i created a new user account and deleted the old one. Its a windows instaler bug. |
| | on the motherboard in a socket or inside a compartment attatched with a long wire (in laptops which use the latter method its sometimes under the main battery) |
| | google for reviews, You want 256mb or 512mb cards and when they banchmark them in the reviews, the higher the benchmark score or the FPS (frames a second), the better the card is |
| | firstly, type AMD/ATI and Nvidia are the ones you want. They produce cards under a number of name like BFG, Sapphire etc... secondly, memory 256 or 512 mb of memory - no less thirdly, socket you need the right one for your pc. You need to find out if you … |
 | Re: What may happen? WW3 is happening, its the WoT ;) The stock market is likely due to rising intrest rates, governmenty debt, personal debt and the subprime scandal I predict a new cold war, either between russia (again) and the USA or russia and china or china and the USA  |
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| | yeah the motherboard could be bad or the motherboard battery could be dead. Either is likely. Try replacing the CMOS battery first. Its fairly cheap for a new one , so if it doesnt help then its not the end of the world. JUst make sure you DO NOT stick … |
| | Re: Seamonkey yeah, firefox or seamonkey are derived from netscape. Firefox is strictly a browser whereas seamonkey does email, web page creation etc.... like netscape did. firefox is a very popular browser for windows to replace IE and Seamonkey is used as the internet suite on most Linux distributions. They are good … |
| | linux home printer support is really crappy but support for business modele like lazers, especially HP ones is very good |
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| | overheating? you sure the thermal paste, heatsink and fans are on right? |
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 | you need to change the boot order so it checks the HDD before the floppy, cdrom etc... btw a new pc means you will have to reinstall windows  |
 | my thinkpad had this problem. I disassembled it and cleaned out the fan and heatsink and applied better thermal paste (arctic silver rocks) |
 | [url]http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm[/url] unzip the fixes for: directory drive folder shortcut/lnk when they have been unzipped right click on each of the .reg files and choose MERGE. Reboot aftwerwards This will restore the default programs for opening the drives in my computer |
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 | Download + Run AVG Anti-Rootkit free edition |
| | yeah you can use either but might not get extra features. E.g to link two Nvidia cards up using SLI you need an Nvidia SLI ready motherboard |
| | you would be better getting a 256mb 8800 then a 512mb 8600 dont know about the motherboard bundle |
| | you might have killed your PC with static, or you could have knocked something loose. Did you wear an antistatic wrist strap? |
| | sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade this will flush your systems package cache (the zero packages to be installed/ access denied messages signal a possible corruption issue), recache it and upgrade your packages to the newest versions (including the kernel - a new kernel version might solve … |
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