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First my spec:- AMD64 San Diego 3700+ 2x1gb corsair xms 3200 c2pt HIS Excalibur x850xt turbo Asus A8N-E nforce4 ultra mobo. I built this PC just under a year ago. I noticed that in games such as WoW, during play the game would freeze then after a few seconds the …

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Hello, I am having a problem with my computer, as you probably guessed. I'll start from the top. I had just installed the Half-Life/Counter-Strike client, Steam. I have all the games on it, CS and CS: Source. Last night I was playing CS 1.6 perfectly fine all night. No problems …

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I bought myself a Radeon card today, and everything installed and runs perfectly, except for one thing. The desktop is limited to a specific section to where i can drag and drop files! I can move the mouse all over the desktop, i can drag programs into the "dead" area. …

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Hiii I'm going to document a [I]very[/I] frustrating issue I've been experiencing here, and I encourage you all to read it and give any advice you can. I would really appreciate that, a lot. You'll understand after reading... I recently bought a new laptop, for $3000 -- the XPS M1210. …

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hi, iv got a TV capture card iv got set up and i was wondering if any one of you know of a good simple video capturing program Thanx

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Hiii I'm going to document a [I]very[/I] frustrating issue I've been experiencing here, and I encourage you all to read it and give any advice you can. I would really appreciate that, a lot. You'll understand after reading... I recently bought a new laptop, for $3000 -- the XPS M1210. …

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I know that this is kinda old but I am unable to install this video card on my computer. When I put the card in and start windows it does not recognize the driver that came with the machine or the one that is on the vidia websight. When I …

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I have two desktops with about 2 or 3 year old motherboards. I think both are AGP. I have been using the Matrox G-450 card on my own desktop for years and love it, but I would like to add a third monitor. At the moment my daughter's desktop has …

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I know that this is kinda old but I am unable to install this video card on my computer. When I put the card in and start windows it does not recognize the driver that came with the machine or the one that is on the vidia websight. When I …

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Hey guys, I got a new video card, 7900 GTX-OC. But it wont fit in my case. I mean it fits, but it wont go in all the way. It SEEMS like its hanging up in the area between the mobo and the end of the case, you know those …

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On Friday morning, the electric went off for a very short amount of time. My Gateway is plugged into a power surge protector. Monitor works on another computer but goes into "analog power save mode" within seconds of rebooting offending computer. On startup, the fan runs and runs and runs …

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Hi--Built a new PC using: ECS NFORCE3-A motherboard AMD Sempron 3100+ processor with Coolmaster heatsink Corsair memory (DDR 1GB PC-3200)-single module ATI Radeon 9200 video card (128M) Raidmax Scorpio 868 case - 420W power supply 6GB Maxtor hard drive LG CRD-8400B CD-ROM Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG Eventually got everything working perfectly …

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I have an Acer AL1716 LCD monitor that decided to turn hazy this morning. Here's what happend moments before we noticed the hazy screen. The computer was running and i looked away for a minute and when i looked back the computer was in the process of restarting itself. I …

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Ok, I am running into a problem here folks. I bought a ATI Radeon 9200 PCI Bus card for my comp as the guy at staples told me it was one that should work in most older comps. I have a emachines W2646, Intel Celeron 2.6g, onboard Intel 82845 Graphics …

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Hello, all. About two years ago, I built myself a nice system. Last month, during record-setting heat, I turned it off one night, and it wouldn't work when I next powered it on. The first time, it got through POST then said that the registry was corrupt and rebooted. It …

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Ok.. i have an this model (a705w). I upgraded the memory about 2 months ago and all was well. Then we decieded to upgrade the Video card to a Geforce 6200 OC. before installing the card we went in removed (not disabled) the onboard Graphics card...I think that might have …

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I installed a new video card today and when I went to restart computer I recieved a message saying "Reboot and select proper boot device", and says about inserting media if boot device is correct or something...Can someone please help me with this!!

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Hello there, I am having some problems with my comp and was wondering if anyone here could give ms some direction. First off i have a home built comp. Im running windows xp pro, 500w power supply, 1 gig of ram, 80 gig hd, an amd 64 3500+ processor, mother …

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Hi. I had my Radeon X800 Gto for a month and since i bought it, i noticed it kept getting hotter and hotter as the weeks went by. The last temps i recorded when it was working properly was 55C idle, ~100C load. I bought an after market cooler for …

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Well, I used to have a Geforce Fx 5200 256mb Card. I just decided to update to a Geforce 6200 512mb DDR2 AGP card, but ever since I did that I have been having major video problems. I cant play my games at all now, it worked fine earlier but …

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The stroy goes: I just bought an 80gb sata HD from western digital, a copy of win xp pro sp2 and installed the os, formatting for NTFS. Installed all drivers for video card (ATI Radeon x800) and audio (Soundblaster 24bit) from the web, of the most recent version. Also install …

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:eek: Hey I have just built a computer with the following Hardware: ASUS P5SD2-x Motherboard Pentium D 3.2 Ghz 840 ULTRA Series 500W ATX power supply PNY DDR2 1G RAM ATI 1900X 256MB ALL IN WONDER PCI E MASSCOOL CPU FAN 200 GB SATA MAXTOR HD OK so the first …

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Hello everyone, I'm wrestling over the idea of buying an Apple 30 inch Cinema Display monitor. Is it worth it? I'm worried that all my videos will end up looking stretched out at the maximum resolution! Will I have to watch movies in small squares on the screen (shudder). I'm …

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I'm planning on buying a computer before I go off to college this summer and I'm not sure what the best way to go about that is. I'm looking for a computer with at least 512 MB RAM and a 128 MB video card, so I can play middle of …

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Okay so I am goinng to do a major upgrade to my computer. From P4 1.7 Gig with pc33 memory and agp video to a conroe with the latest memory and top of the line grahics card. Do you think I will be able to get win Xp to boot …

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I just put a new Core 2 Extreme processor in a new 975xbx (rev. 305) board. It posted fine and I entered the BIOS to change the voltage for the memory I want to use with it (Corsair XMS 1GB); I changed it from 1.9 to 2.1 as recommended by …

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Okay, so after a bevy of virus issues I decided it was high time for a reformatting. So, I reformatted my hard drive a couple days ago and I'm in the process of getting everything back together. Everything seems to be fine, but when I tried to run Civs4 it …

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Hi, I am not sure if this is the right place to post this (let me know where to post it if it's not) but I was wondering if this would be a good destop barebone+other parts and acessories to have in general for like non-editing things. [B]OS-[/B] Microsoft XP …

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Hi, i am getting a new barbone desktop computer, and my dad said that when we build it i can just simply transfer my older sound blaster sound card (I dont know the name becuase there is no way to check and they do not sell it any more) from …

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Ok, here's the story. On my Dell Inspiron laptop, one of the three power prongs got pushed into the case. So, I opened up the entire laptop, very very carefully, and pushed the prong back out. Problem fixed. However, after I put it back together the flipping screen won't work! …

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Please help. I have played Pinball on Win 98 (at work...shhhh!), and at home on my old computer (also Win 98). It works great, even with the bare minimum of resources. Now, with XP, and 1 gig of RAM, and a decent video card, the flippers barely make the ball …

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Hi All, Windows xp is playing video files in full screen mode irrespective of the different players that i using. and when it starts playing i have no control over the sytem cant even use ctr alt delte only alt and f4 to switch it off. have an acer aspire …

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I have a amd 754 pin cpu and im thinking of upgrading to the sli board they have for that processor but i hear it cant use the new sli drivers. Thats what it says from the shop im thinking of buying from. Does that mean i just use the …

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Hi everyone, I have a question about my game slowing down when I get in close proximity to other players. It is fine if I am by myself but when I get close to 3-4 other players or vehicles it becomes very unstable and almost imposible to control my actions …

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[COLOR=#0033cc]I have an internal pinnacle 50i Tv capture card. the display (video output) of the card has excessive brightness. everything looks almost white. Other than TV output, the monitor has a perfect display for video files. I've even got my card replaced by the manufacturer but the problem persists. also, …

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PLEASE READ ALL SO I DONT HAVE TO RETYPE WHAT I ALREADY SAID I recently built my computer and everything was running fine the first night im actually using it right now to wright this,but im on my onboard video. i installed quake 4 and still everything was fine my …

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I somehow made it impossible to use a PCI Express card on my ASUS A8N-Sli motherboard. This is what I did. I put a Diamond Supramax PCI modem card in the bottom PCI slot on my motherboard. This modem had been working in another computer. But now it caused the …

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When i try to watch a video either on the net or from my own cds my computer screen starts to blink on and off. Im thinking its my graphic card but not sure. I think my graphic card is on the blink literally. Dont suppose anyone has had this …

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[U][COLOR=#0033cc][URL="http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pic0729061pt4.jpg"]http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pic0729061pt4.jpg[/URL][/COLOR][/U] I recently bought a ATI Radeon X600 Pro 256MB PCI Express Video Card and it does not fit in my computer. Now, before I bring it back, it would be nice to know exactly what kind I need. I know I need a PCI express one but there is …

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Hi all, I was hoping for some advice on a recent problem. I have a home PC running Windows XP using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card and a Medion monitor. Both the graphics card and monitor are around 6 - 8 months old and were an upgrade to …

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hello, I have a problem with my Mouse. The problem i am having is that whenever i start my PC (which is running on Windows Xp home editiion), my mouse won't move. What i have to do in order get the the mouse to move for me again is to …

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I still have one computer that has Win98 OS. The video card is a Diamond Viper V550. When I open the display properties box then click on the " advanced " tab, it opens another box called " Diamond Viper for Windows 98 Properties Box ". Then clicking on the …

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WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME FIX THIS PROBLEM... WHEN I TURN ON MY PC EVERYTHING RUNS LIKE IT'S 'POSE TO THEN WHENN XP STARTS TO SET UP THE SCREEN GOES BLANK OR IN SLEEP MODE I SHOULD SAY. THE PC STILL RUNNING BUT THE SCREEN GOES BLANK. I HAVE ONE …

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Alrighty, we got us an issue. Again. Me dood's machine is getting reformatted. All is well, we put in el disc, chose his SATA drive out the two [an IDE Samsung 160Gb and a SATA Seagate 80Gb] in the comp. The reformat went well, no problems. The issue is when …

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Hi there everyone. One of my older computers which for some reason i use more then the other computers so i decide that i should fix it up. Here is the specs of this computer right now (This is a oldie but it works fine) Computer: Operating System: Microsoft Windows …

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I am having serious problems with my lcd and I am at a loss what to do with it. Below is a post I made a few weeks ago on a different site. I thought everything was fixed after I updated my video driver. Everything was normal for over a …

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I cannot load My Computer, Windows Explorer or Control Panel. I can open directories from within word processors. Have not tried all applications. We have been installing a new video card ATI Radeon 9250 128MB. The problems seem to have started after installing it. I took it out. Problems went …

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can you have 2 pci-video card installed on one computer. If so, do they add the memory, for example: one is 128 mb and the other is 256 mb is your totall memory now 384 mb???? and what about one pci and one agp card????

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my sound and video card randomly stopped working....and random things that usually dun pop up keeps on popping up. is there a virus?? thx! Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 2:03:23 PM, on 7/18/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe …

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I recently bought a radeon 9550 (256 mb) for my computer. It replaced my old radeon 7k (32 mb). Well it occasionally, after maybe 30 minutes - 1 hour, it restarts by itself. Also, when I play video games, I only play a few minutes of it then my computer …

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