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Apple has upgraded the adorable Mac Mini. Reports on the internet reveal that the advertised 1.42 GHz computer was actually shipped at 1.5 GHz, and sported some other features. The new Mac Mini reportably has the following new features: * New 8x Dual-layer Super Drive, model UJ-845. This media device …

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mobo k9n6pgm2 -v amd x2 5200 2.7 1 gig kingston memory 800 1 gig 128 bit sparkle 9500 gt i've got lag issues when i play 3d games like sacred 2 etc is my mobo compatible with my video card?

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Hey, guys. After switching on my computer this morning I noticed a problem with my display. The image is blurred and the colors have odd, discolored outlines. Here's a screenshot: [url]http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/1526/97918483.jpg[/url] I've tried altering the resolution, disabling hardware acceleration, updating my video card's drivers and adjusting various contrast and brightness …

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Hi, I have had an intermitent problem with on of my mobile rackmount computers, It runs and starts great for weeks at a time but everynow and then when starting it up after transport to another location it will not start up, we get no bios screen and it will …

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pressing power, my psu fires up, and the fans start on my cpu and my video card. i get power to my hard drive and optical. but nothing happens. no post, no boot. also, no power to USB or PS2 while in this state. fans spin, drives initiate, but nothing …

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To start, I am a complete noob at computers so Im not quite sure what Im doing. Recently while playing games my computer screen faded to black, followed a few seconds later with my entire computer dying. I tried everything to turn it back on but had no luck whatsoever. …

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Hi, Problem: black monitor. No visibility. MSI manufactured motherboard for Medion pc, onboard video. 1) swapped in a known working monitor. No result. 2) put known working video card in a pci slot hoping compute would bypass the onboard vid. No result. 3) tested power supply voltages at the mainboard …

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Hey ppl, so i've picked out 2 video cards that i want to get for my pc. 1Gb xfx geforce 9500 and 512Mb xfx geforce 9600...im wondering, would the 9600 still be a better buy than the 9500, because of a faster core clock rate? would the 9600 out perform …

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Hi peoples, Does anyone know whether this is a problem with the video card? please see attachment. (2 pics of my desktop) notice the vertical lines on the screen? specs: Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Video card driver: vga, ver: 5.01.2600.0000 Mother board: M2N - SLI Deluxe CPU: AMD …

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Hey all, I bought a fairly decent laptop recently (2 months~) and because i recently finished school i started using it for recreation like playing games and watching movies etc. The problem is that whenever i do any of these the laptop will freeze completely after 5 or so minutes …

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help me please... my nightmare begin when I smell something fried from my power supply, then suddenly my PC went off. I try to buy the new one, and I install it. first try switch on my PC, my monitor didn't response. I try to unplug my video card, clean …

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I have a HP Pavilion Laptop that is having issues with the LCD. The problem is intermittent, and seems to be more frequent after the computer has been running for a while. Occasionally it appears like you are looking at the display through a screen door. Other times it has …

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I inherited a Gateway 825GM Media Center Edition. It had Windows XP Pro installed from Gateway before that had become hopelessly corrupted. After reformatting and installing a new copy of the XP Pro, any further installations of software restarted numerous problems of such varying degrees it was incredible. Sent it …

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Hello i have two sli bridged 8600gt nvida xforces they work perfectly fine with windows xp but in device manager they show two video cards under display devices. The problem is one of the video cards has 1gb of ddr2 ram and the other one has 512mb of ddr2 ram. …

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my computer specs are as it is SOny dvd/cd drive 1 TB Seagate 2 9800 PNY GT cards nvidia 680i sli lt mobo q6600 2.4ghz stock settings truepower quatro 1000 w power supply 1x2gig stick Xm2 Corsair ram (heatsink edition) my monitor is a samsung 932b 3 days ago while …

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Running Windows XP for about two years with 3.0 Ghz CPU and 2 GB ram. Recently the display started freezing. CTRL, ALT, DEL does nothing to recover. At first I thought it might be the FireFox browser. I upgraded to the latest version. Then it would freeze when I was …

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hey ppls, i know i should probably google this, but i'd feel better getting the answer from someone (lazy), i just want to know if my monitor can display in HD, my max res is 1440 x 900, Its a Dell E1909W, Im using built in graphics and plan to …

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For my christmas present I was given a computer upgrade. The system is built around a ECS L7S7A2 mother board running 333 DDR 512 MGB of RAM and using an AMP 2600 2.1gig processor. According to the specs of the motherboard there should not be any problems. However, the from …

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Hey all - i am currently running two of the following cards in SLI: BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 320MB PCIe I can run the most basic games nice with them without a problem. But for whatever reason most games still have a big problem with lines across the …

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I want to replace the AGP video card in my Powermac G5 dual 2.0 (early 2004). The existing card is a ATI Radeon 9600. It only has 64 meg of RAM and will not drive my 26" monitor. I have an AGP ATI Radeon 9800 pro Mac Edition video card …

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I cannot tell if this is a hardware issue, or what, but my audio is breaking up. I'm running XP Home on an Asus MB, 1.7 gb processor, 1.5 gig of RAM, with a Creative sound card (Sound Blaster Audigy). 99.9% of the music is just fine, the other .1 …

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I built a PC containing the following: Main Components: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit OS HP 2159m 21.5" LCD Monitor Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5 GHz CPU Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Fan Intel DP45SG Dual Channel 1600/1333MHz Mobo Sapphire HDMI Radeon HD 4830 512 MB 256-bit GDDR3 …

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Ok, I have now come across something that is really hacking me off. I am not a newbie with computer stuff, I have built many computers but have never come across this problem. About a week ago I turned on my computer and it start up fine, but froze about …

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Not a problem I have had before. When booting up, I get two short beeps and the computer asks I either check RAM F5 (did full tests and all tests come up fine), continue with F1 or do F12 for set up. I have tried all and am unable to …

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Hi this is my first ever post so forgive any problems and feel free to inform me because whatever it is I proably do not know. The Problem My family just got a brand new windows vista computer from best buy. We got a hp m8100n computer AMD Athlon 64x2 …

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Hi There, I've been trying to trouble shoot a problem on my mom's computer. Her start menu is missing. However, when I logged onto my account on her computer, I could just barely see the menu on the bottom of my screen and was able to fix it by making …

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I have Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family video card ... I want to run the game Driving Speed 2 but it says graphic requirements not met. So can I play the game by using 3D Analyzer or Pixel Shader?

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I have a dell inspiron 600m laptop and I have recently formatted it and come across a strange problem and I am hoping someone can help me. I recently formatted this pc to remove linux and install Win XP pro. After installation I went to Dell website to dl the …

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Hello, long time reader first time poster. I ran into a problem today with my XP system. While browsing the web, the graphics on my screen seemed to go crazy. There were all different colors of what appeared to be little tilde's (the character) on my screen. They generally were …

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I have a PC with a little ATI tv tuner card in it, but I'm hooked up on digital cable. So.. to get all of my channels, and in a decent quality I have to hook my cable to a cable box, then from the box to the computers tv …

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My pc: Intel core 2duo 8400 Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS (galaxy) Philips 200cw I got the video card from a friend after he upgraded his computer. It's not new but he didn't got any problems with it. I've installed it, got the drivers and put the monitor at 1600x1080, the …

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Hello forumites, I was testing out a benchmark for a game and found that the video card used by computer is the Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller. I am also aware though that I have the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 on my computer as well. I checked this under the Device …

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For some reason I'm not sure when it started but whenever i try to watch videos in the .avi and .mp4 format i can hear the sounds but i can not see the video. i've tried reinstalling the players and using different players but the same result. My computer is …

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Me again and finally finished the computer i built! but there's only 1 problem and its pretty big.. (i have VISTA HOME PREMIUM 64 bit) when i first installed vista it worked like a charm no problem! but then i started installing drivers which include the g9 and g15 keyboard …

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Ok, I have an [amazing] Dell Dimension 4600 from way back in, if I'm not mistaken, 2002. It was in storage. I pulled it out. Cleaned up everything, reformatted, reinstalled all the drivers...got it up and running to the best of its ability. Not too shabby, if I do say …

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Hi! I deleted the Windows Vista OS and then reinstalled Windows XP for my friend since he couldn't get the hang of Vista. However, after downloading XP, in the 'device manager' section of his laptop, under 'other devices', these were the 'devices' that all had the yellow exclamation mark beside …

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My pc will shut off suddenly. A few days ago I had received an email with a .rar attachment of a chart of pictures of colors. My AV said it was safe so I opened and saved to my harddrive. When I opened it from there my pc immediately shut …

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A friend of mine has a HP pavillion 700 that just won't boot. When I turn it on, it won't post and the monitor isn't getting any type of signal. [I]The system is an Athlon XP, ASUS A7N8X-LA MB with 256 MB PC2700 RAM, built in audio, video & LAN.[/I] …

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Okay I'm running windows vista premium, 64bit, with a NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT video card. My monitor is a Generic PnP Monitor, LCD. Two days ago my sister brought it to my attention that my computer monitor was flickering. Not back and forth between black and fine, all the hookups …

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I have 2 games (RACE the WTCC Game and GTR Evolution), that require DX9 to run. Some other games offer you an option to run the game on Dx8 but not these. Is there a command line or some other way to force it on these games? Because my video …

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My monitor is dark, I have played around with the brightness and contrast buttons but it doesn't work. I have also changed the monitor to see if it is the monitor that is messed up. But does the same thing. I have read that it may be the video card. …

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source: [URL="http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Repair-Broken-LCD-Laptop-Monitors&id=2395996"]http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Repair-Broken-LCD-Laptop-Monitors&id=2395996[/URL] [QUOTE]Whether you need computer repair in Ithaca, or anywhere around the world, if you own a laptop or an external flatpanel monitor, then you have probably run into some problems with the liquid crystal display. If you haven't yet, then you probably will. LCD problems are definitely the …

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What does it do? On my P4P800 it goes as high as 256mb. Does it affect my ram 1024mb. My video card is 128mb If I set it to 256mb, what will happen? And anything at all that you know, please ...

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Helllo all. I have a custom built pc which was working fine untill today when i decided to clean the massive amount of dust that had builtup. I un-plugged it, opened and cleaned it, and put it all back together. However, when i turn it on my monitor stays blank. …

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My Optiplex 260 was upgraded with memory and an additional HDD. The upgrade caused a CMOS change; that change apparently interefered with systems settings established when an AGP Graphics card was added to the machine 3 years ago. Result: This Dell Optiplex 260 computer would not POST or boot. The …

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Every time I play my installed games, my unit keeps on restarting. Is it because of the Video Card? Please help me...

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monitor wont work. if lightning hits video, could video card have a short or something? i alternated two monitors and they have power just no signal & there are no software problems. The screw in inputs that go to the back of the computer for the blue monitor cord to …

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I'm having a bear of a time installing the Sparkle graphics 9400gt pci in my PCI slot, i have no pcie slot( :( bigtime ). If i've read everything correctly, i need to uninstall everything existing, video drivers, video adapters, and all the related items and so on...and then install …

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does not passing windows logo testing affects the performance of the graphics card?

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