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Transformer winder

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designing loudspeakers
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Core 2 duo E6600, ASUS P5B-Deluxe mobo, Seagate 320 Gb Sata HDD, Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme Music, BFG…
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I have all of my components for a new build but before I start I have been thinking about maybe getting an SSD to use as my boot drive. I have a very large collection of music, 200 plus Gb worth. I keep it in " My Music " on …

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I've been using Windows update for many years without a glitch but for the past two weeks for some reason it won't give me my updates. When I go to Windows update, click on custom it starts scanning my computer for updates in the usual way. I can see my …

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Just out of the blue I have no sound from my computer. Going to Control Panel and selecting sound and audio devices I get an error message that say's I'm missing a mmdriver file. I'm not sure why this happened but does anyone know how I can restore it. Thanks!!

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I have an Asus P5B Deluxe MOBO. It has 6 SATA ports, 4 red and 2 are black in color. It says to plug the primary ( boot )hard disc drive to one of the red plugs and and "data" disc's on the black plugs. I do have my HDD …

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Lately I have been getting JRAID errors when using both of my DVD rom drives, an LG and a Plextor PX-870A. They will usually play normal audio CD's but sometimes when I rip from them I will get many errors. When I play a DVD movie I sometimes have to …

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Months ago I read somewhere on the internet that Creative was coming out with a new X-Fi, THX certified HD card. It was supposed to have a high quality discrete analog output section with inter-changeable op-amps so you could select you own sound quality etc. I've been looking online and …

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I didn't know where to post this but decided to put it here lol!! My question is regarding deleting a contact / friend from FaceBook. I have an X beside each friend on my friends list. If I click to delete does it notify them that they are deleted and …

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I've been using IE6 for a long time without any problems, but due to many websites I visit prompting me to upgrade my browser to IE8 because they wouldnt be supporting my browser much longer, I decided to upgrade to IE8. It works OK but my text is blurry. I …

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I listen to a lot of music samples on Amazon.com and it always works ... until today. When clickin on ' listen to samples " it trys to load the samples for a long time then prompts me that I need to upgrade my Flash Player to version 8 or …

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My Mobo is an Asus P5B Deluxe, Processor is a Core 2 Duo E6600 and RAM is dual channel OCZP800R22GK. This computer has been running for 1 1/2 years without a glitch. But I recently downloaded CPU-Z and it's telling me that my 800 mhz memeory's bus speed is presently …

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A friend of mine bought a new LG 22" monitor, Model # W2252TQ as an " open box " but the driver CD was missing. I went to the LG website to get the drivers. I downloaded a file there that was supposed to be the drivers but all that …

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I have a 320 gb sata dard drive that I've been using for about a year. There are three partitions C, D and E. C and E are about 150 gb eack and D about 20 gb. Due to (my music) collection growing now to 80 gb, looking back I …

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My video card is a BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC and my monitor is a Samsung LCD model 2443 BW. I'm using XP Pro. I'm not having any problems with this system and everything works perfectly, but a recent visit to the windows update website showed that there was a …

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I want to dress up Win XP by changing some of my icons to custom ones. I had plenty of icons for when I had Win98 but never got around to doing anything with XP. Does anyone know of a good (safe) download website for Icons? Thanks; Dougie

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I have a SATA DVD drive thats not working. I have an IDE drive on hand and wanted to use it for now. My MOBO is an ASUS P5B-Deluxe. There is only ine IDE header on this MOBO and one IDE cable included in the box that the MOBO came …

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I recently had a defective MOBO replaced by ASUS. It's a P5B Deluxe. After reinstalling the MOBO and all original components the BIOS wouldn't recognize the HDD, a Seagate 320 Gb SATA drive. After checking everything and several restarts it finally recognized the hard drive. Once past the BIOS screen …

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HI; I hope that I'm in the right forum for this topic. I have a fresh install of Windows XP SP2 in a new computer just two weeks ago. I've been using the Media Player v9 with no problems untill yesterday. When in the Media Library for about 5 min …

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Hi; I was wondering if anyone knows what the +12 and +5 volt measurements should be under no load and also under load? One would think that under no load ( nothing connected ) the voltages should be slightly higher than 12 volts or 5 volts. Thanks; Dougie

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I have a new ASUS P5B-Deluxe MOBO, BIOS v.0614. When I tried to install a utility called " ASUS update " from the CD ROM that came with the MOBO it wouldn't install. I just got a pop up message that said " unable to create NT driver service for …

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I've been looking at buying an external hard drive to back up my main internal drive. So many different interfaces, USB2, firewire etc. My MOBO is an ASUS P5B-Deluxe and has an external SATA plug at the back ( am I to assume that this plug is what is referred …

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I've recently installed AVG Anti-Virus free edition. I've done a couple of scans with no viruses found. Then today I did a scan, and right at the beginning of the scan this showed up under the "file" list ( Partition Table MBR) and under the result/infection list it said " …

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I have a Plextor PX-716SA/SW CD/DVD drive installed in a new computer. When I have an audio CD inserted, it playes OK, but when I go to My Computer and hover the mouse over the drive icon or right click on it and select " properties " it always shows …

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I'm building a new computer with a SATA hard drive and want to transfer about 2 1/2 Gb of files from my old machine which has an IDE hard drive to the new one and was wondering if anyone has ideas on the best way to do this. I was …

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I have everything for my new computer except for the sound card. I was looking to buy the Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music card. [url]http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=008511&cid=SC[/url] I was looking at it tonite and realized that this card dosen't have a headphone jack. I find this odd because my older Soundblaster Live …

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I'm building a new computer and was considering this hard drive... [url]http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=010282&cid=HD.96[/url] I don't know what NCQ is or the benefits of it. Could anyone here explain NCQ to me :) Thanks; Dougie

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I'm putting together a new computer. Nothing is installed in the case yet except for the PSU. I have an ATRIX case that has a built in multifunctional PC temperature controller display and clock. I want to power the PSU up to test the voltages and to power up the …

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I just bought a new power supply for a new computer I'm building, it's a MIOS 500 watt. The person who sold it to me said that it had several SATA power connectors ( I didn't look in the box :-( ) When I got home and opened the box …

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My daughter is still using Win98 and I wanted to buy her an Epson printer R340. The documentation for this printer says that it works with Win98 ME etc. What is the difference between Win98 and ME that would make this printer not to work with Win98? Thanks; Dougie

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I have been looking at this card on the internet but cant find any reveiws. Does anybody have this card? Whats it like? Is there a Better Equivlent? Please Help.

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I want to replace the battery for my CMOS. How should I do this without erasing everything in my CMOS? Do I jump another battery across the terminals while I pull the old battery out and put a new one in? Does the CMOS battery only retain the CMOS memory …

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