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What Printer?

freddy
Some advice needed please. I need to get a good injet printer for a small office of 10 computers that need to share the printer. They wont be doing much colour printing, only colour documents not photo printing.
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USB modem disconnection problem

areid
I am using a Hayes Accura ISDN terminal adapter connected to my laptop via a USB port. When I want to disconnect the modem, because I am using XP pro, I cannot simply unplug the modem from the USB port without getting the famous blue-screen-of-death (BSOD) and having to reset the pc.
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USB modem + overheating

areid
When I have a modem (ISDN terminal adapter) plugged into a USB port on my laptop, there is an abnormal amount of cooling-fan activity (about 75% of the time), even if the modem is not in use. Could this be because the modem is taking its power from the pc (even though the power consumption is very small)? I don't m ...
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Intermittent CPU fan fault.

NimaGraven
Okay well, where to start? I didn't really know where would be the best place to ask advice on this so I chose here and I would appreciate it very much if you could spend the time and listen to my current woes on my PC.
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more cpu temp advice

sflesch23
i'm running an xp 1800+ at the stock speeds and i'm getting temps of 50 - 53C, is that normal? i read some were that the temp should be no more than 39C and that if i was runnin at 50C that it was too high.
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Diamond Stealth III/Speedstar a200

kellinjar
my gfs pc is an old HP pavillion. . and I put an 8mb PCI card on it to replace the 4 mb integrated vid card. . it works. . or so it seems. . problem is up the drivers. . I finally found a coopy of the drivers.
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vistascan 3.76

jwbreaugh
I was told and I saw on the home page that I could download VistaScan 3. 76 from the web site, yet I can not find where to do it. I have a Umax 6400 scanner and I have just upgraded to XP P and I need VistaScan 3.
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Needs advice

Jeice
We had a 36 gig HD that was divided into a 1G and a 35G. 1G is used for the current NT server applications. Attempted to install Quickbooks Basic 2003 on 35G. Program attempted install of IE 6. 0 on 1G but found insufficient space.
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What are the power-on beep codes?

packman
I've suddenly hit a problem of my Win2K machine refusing to boot up when powered on. I just get a l-o-n-g beep, and sometimes a short one at the end of that long one. For a properly-working machine, it should be just one short beep.
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MSI 865PE NEO2-LS Problems

Masterfinn
I just bought this mobo along with a Intel 2. 4c HT cpu with 2x512MB PC3200 ram. Now I bought it all at the same time and the place that i bought it from but the cpu and ram in and tested it to make sure it all worked.
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Does new Catalyst 3.8 release support MOBILITY Radeon 9600

FrankE
I've got a notebook here that contains an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. The release notes speak of compatibility to Radeon 9600 familiy. In the Past ATIs reference drivers didn't officially support mobile GPUs Does someone out there have any experinece in this Thanks Frank.
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Better Cooling

Radioactive Frog
I have just got a new athlon xp2600 with a coolmaster fan suitable of more than XP3000 yet my cpu is overheating !! i have to run it at xp2000 just to boot. Can anyone recommend and have experience of a better cpu fan please? not too expensive!! Thanks RF.
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floppy disk problem

dizarludba
recently i have problems with my floppy disc drive ,since it sems that the floppy disc drive reading something(the l. e. d indicator switched on and make a noisy sound of rotating device) eventhough i dont even ask them to read anything(no floppy disc in the drive).
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NT4 Server

jasonmct
I will be setting up a server for a client and need to know if NT4 server is comapatable with xeon processors. Somebody had mentioned that as NT doen not support hyper threading and xeons do - they may not work.
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RAID-0 with Bad Sector Problem

s0l1d
I've been having this problem since earlier this year. I'm gonna tell the entire story, it can be a bit long, but at least people who try help me can get a better idea of my situation. I have Asus A7V333 Mobo with a built-in Promise 20276 ATA133 RAID controller.
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Printers Printing Randon Symbols!

Nick601
Hi am am the I. T technician at a school and in one of our computer rooms we have 3 printers - 2 epson stylus colour 880s and one hp lazerjet 2100tn these are connected to a Netgear PS133 Printserver box on some occasions on of the epson printers begins printing randon letters and symbols and doesnt stop!! it will ...
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Soundblaster problem, please help

Magjam
Hello Recently my Soundblaster Live 5. 1 card suddenly stopped playing mp3's or any sound at all. I have Windows XP, Viav KT400 Motherboard, Athlon XP2200, Geforce 4 Ti4200, Soundblaster Live 5. 1 When I try to go to creative's mixer or speaker settings I only get mixer not found.
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just turns off....

Radioactive Frog
i turn on my puter and it turns off about 3 seconds later. any ideas? i have just installed a new cpu as the other one burnt out. thanks RF.
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Weird dns problem, Please help

radx
This is probably the weirdest internet-problem i've ever had. To explain my problem the easiest way i've prepared some screenshots for you. Please view them. They will display how i try to NSLOOKUP <internet server> and fail.
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AMD 760MPX & Win2k3 server

dougmach
Are there any chipset drivers for the AMD 760MPX under windows 2003 server. I just bought a Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW-P board, I see AMD has chipset drivers for win 2000 should I install those or should I not worry about installing any chipset drivers? Just curious because this is my first AMD chipset board, I'm used to t ...
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