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Hey guys, The company has recently found one of their old notebooks that seems to have been lost for quite some time in one of our vehicles. This is all good and dandy, except nobody can remember the bios password for it. The model is an ACER Travelmate 514t and …

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Could any of you guys please proof read the table attached for me and help fill in any missing information? I swear I will put this table up on my website, I could barely find any of this info. Thanks heaps guys! Slade

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I have the same problem. My new MB is ASUS P4P800 Deluxe - much better quality than my present MB. I have identical 2 HD's - recently cloned from one to the other - and OEM ver. of Win XP Pro without a CD. Can the move be made to …

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how do you have bios look for a driver because i just reformatted my computer and i cant get my cd/dvd rom drive to work

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I changed the battery with a brand new one. It has a PIII 733mhz processor. 512 of ram. The battery is a CR2032. Could it be because I have a 133mhz front side bus processor running on pc100 ram? I doubt it because my friend has a PIII 933 running …

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Hey all, I just got a new motherboard it's and Abit-wb6. My question is does anyone know any sites where I can download the manuals on it. What is the biggest hard drive you can put in it? whats the board worth? I found it to be worth between 100$ …

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I just installed my new motherboard and got it to boot everything up. There is just one little problem.:evil: Every time it gets to the windows bootup screen, the entire computer resets. It doesn't matter if I put it on safe mode or regular boot. And I am currently running …

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I just got hold of a Celeron 466mhz. I was thinking of selling it but I would like to test it first. I was going to test it in my server which has an Asus P2B-F motherboard will it see my Celeron 466mhz. I have a sloket (sp?) adapter for …

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I just got hold of a Celeron 466mhz with a 128 cache and a 66mhz front side bus. any clue as to what it is worth? my friend was interested in it and I was wondering how much it would go for?

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i got a question about ram, i have: slot1:128 slot2:128 slot3: 256 slot4: nothing could i get another 256 and put it in slot 4 or would i have to get a 256 and take out the 128's and replace it with the new 256? or doesnt it matter

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Quick scenario: Home built computer, P3 1000; Asus CUSL2 MB; 320m Ram. This machine has worked fine for years until I tried to be all cool and finally upgrade to XP (from 98). Went for a clean install, and never could get to main setup, after first reboot would get …

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What's your experience with them? Do you like them or hate them? I had the first model they put out for the athlons years back. Didn't work too well. All three ram slots worked, but only one at a time. It wouldn't let me use more than 1 stick at …

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I'm building my first computer, so far, so good. I noticed that my power supply has a 12 volt cable (square with 4 wires) and that my motherboard has a 12 volt jack. Am I supposed to put it in there or not. by the way I'm not talking about …

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Hi All, i have put 128Mb sdram in to my pc but it only registars as 64Mb, i have tryed with other memory sticks and its always halfed. has anyone seen this problem before? from what i can see its the mboard/bios and not the memory any ideas? spikes

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Hi I am looking for a pro at this to explain or point to a site or link that will show me how to manually overclock my motherboard. I am using the quick clock setup, but want to learn the step by step method, to max the system (safely) with …

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AMD or Intel? I'm curious what everyone in this area is using and their reasoning. There will forever be the arguement of which is better, so everyone try to back your reasoning well. Let's see if we can solve this arguement once and for all. ;) :cheesy: BTW, I am …

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ok I'm not really sure what catigory (sp?). I've seen some computers at my school that when they boot up a picture will display. This also happens on my personal Acer computer. It will flash a blue background with the word Acer in the middle. My schools will flash Warwick …

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I have an IBM ThinkPad T22 It is about 2 - 3 years old I am not totaly sure because I received it as an x-mas present this year. Every time or just about every time I shut it off or put it into sleep mode or close the screen …

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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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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 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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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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ok i have 512MB of ram in my i have 3 of my DIMM modules in use, #1 and #2 have 128MB sticks in them, and in #3 i have a 256MB stick i read my manual for the computer and it says to not pair two different kinds of …

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i dont know much about ram other than i need more of it. i have 256 now and i need more for some games i need 512 1.) if i get 256 ram does that add on to my current ammouint or do i have to get a 512 stick …

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Specs: MotherBoard: Asus P2B-F Processor: Intel Pentium III clocking at 450mhz Hard Drives: 40gig WD (master) 60 gig maxtor (extra) RAM: 512 megs of PC-100 CD-Roms: sony 48x/24x/48x cd-burner, 16x Matshita (spell?) dvd-rom Extra Goodies: tons My question is will my motherboard see a 120 or 160 gig hard drive? …

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I have an asus P2B-F mobo running 512 megs of ram It's capible of holding a gig of ram. It has a PIII-450mhz with a 100mhz fsb thus I need PC-100 but for stick of 256 its like a 100 dollars. where as like pc2700 for stick of 512 its …

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Im new to the forum and I was wondering if some of you could help me build my pc. I have bought a couple of magazines and have been surfing the web on how to do it. It doesnt seem that hard but if you have any words of wisdom …

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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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Ok, Can someone please answer this following question, only answer it if your sure of the answer. What would be a better CPU for great gaming with 1GB of ram? A Pentium 4 3.2 GHZ HT OR AMD 64 3200+ Everywhere I go says different things about them. I need …

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1200Mhz CPU, 20GB Hdd (Windows XP Home) I've just installed another mobo,(it's a second-hand one, and I'm not sure if it's faulty or not) - Microstar MS-6368 ver:5, booted up and got this message: We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software …

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[url]http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm[/url] The url above list almost all of the processors made. Quite thorough I must say. I found this because I was interested in the amount of power that processors consume.

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Do not use the drivers that came with your card, go to [url]www.ati.com[/url] and download their latest catalyst drivers and such. Asus drivers seem to be out of date and cause many games to hang and freeze. I installed the ATI catalyst drivers instead of the Asus ones and never …

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Ok i finally bought a 9600XT and new mobo and put it in, now on all my games the game either hangs or freezes making me restart my pc. Could this be because my pc is getting too warm because when I touch the case the case is pretty warm. …

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Ok I am planning to upgrade to a AMD 64 3200+ 1600Mhz FSB in a few months, I need a cpu that will allow me to run any 3D game,edit movies,Do office work,and do some minor to moderate photo editing and graphics editing,finally some animation. Will this cpu allow me …

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Alot of people are going to completely disagree with me but I'm I the only one who thinks overlocking is a waste of time? Now listen when I had a P3 600mhz & overlocked it to 800mhz that was cool. Now this is just from experience. Take a guy name …

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[url]http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-156-135&catalog=7&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=0&section=1[/url] Will a micro ATX mobo fit in this case? i know it will "fit" but will the screws line up and the mobo screw in? On the newegg site they say ATX or Baby ATX,but on other sites they say ATX or smaller, so im stumped

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System Mobo - ASUS a7v600, FSB max 400MHZ CPU- AMD 2500 AthlonXP Barton, FSB - 333MHZ Memory - 512MB Corsair PC3200 SDRAM I am wondering if anyone can tell me if I wasted my money on PC3200 SDRAM since my CPU bus speed is slower than that. Basicly can my …

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Does anyone have experience with this board? Thinking of getting it for my son (gamer), and overclocking an XP 2500+. Any ideas??

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Ok i think I need a new power supply but there is one problem are all the power supplies that same size? I currently have a eMahcines microATX case with a 250watt powersupply, i wanted to upgrade it to a 300 watt or 350watt powersupply but I am not sure …

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I just got a new computer case with a new power supply with it (400 watt). Im not sure who made it but PowerUp! is on it(dont know if thats the company). When ever i use that power supply my computer starts up normally and everyhting works for about 5 …

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ok im sorry to post a title like that but im in a hurry. [url="http://www.asrock.com.tw/product/product_m266a.htm"]http://www.asrock.com.tw/product/product_m266a.htm[/url] thats a motherboard im getting but im the specs it says IDE: 2x ATA 133/100/66/33 Up To 4 Devices if that for just hard drives or is it for every device? well can i install …

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I have a motherboard marked with the model number W6LXA-0. I went to lots of search engines and typed that in but nothing came up. There are also a few different names on it (SMC, PhaseLink, TMF, Intel and American megatrends) does anyone know anything about this board or where …

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[url]http://www.bzboyz.com/store/product4439.html[/url] Will this work with a AMD ANTLON XP 1800+ and 512 DDRAM 2100?

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I have a Dell Optiplex GL300. There is a password on the BIOS. How do I reset the password? Thanks.

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[url]http://www.sonicparts.com/applications/search/itemdetails.asp?sku=BS-M7VIP#[/url] amd 1800+ with 512 ddram 2100 with this processor i plan on upgrading the ram and processor i just want to know if this stuff will work with this motherboard as a temporary thing until the upgrade.

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Hi Everbody, I Am A Comp. Eng. Student And Take Computer Architecture... I Have A Project For Next Friday And I Have No Source In My Hands... My Project Subject Is Pipeline Hazzards, Maybe One Of You Knows This... I Need Online References For The Subject... If You Know A …

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Hello.I have upgraded my comp by adding a new cooling fan and one 256mb ddr ram.There are three slots for ram in my gigabyte motherboard.Previously,there were two ddr rams ( 128 each ).When I went to the store for adding two 256 ddr rams and brought my own two 128's …

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hey guys. i just built myself another computer, i know what i'm doing there, put all the parts in right blah blah blah, put the cathode light in correctly blah blah blah. Heres the problem: I go to turn my computer on, to look at the pretty light lol, and …

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Hi there, Ok - I'm running a few audio apps... some of them are quite demanding... one particular processor intensive app sucks the system resources down about 60% (Alt + Clicking on My Computer) & the display of the app goes all weird... fonts are in bold, icons don't appear. …

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