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Bad power supply?

Mekadave
Hi, all! Does this sound like a going-bad/insufficient power supply to you folks? In the last couple of weeks, my PC has locked up during boot pretty often. I've checked a lot of other possible culprits, running ChkDsk, defragging the drive, running Western Digital Diagnostic (WD hard drives), cleaning the registry ...
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2 waps to connect long building ? How?

duhmez
I will have one digital internet connection to a hub in computer lab all on switches. I want the rest of the computers to go wireless. The building is too long for one wap, I did tests and 2 waps will cover the building.
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help:display problems using geforce2mx400 on heavy games

444rt
hi again, i've a geforce2mx400-64mb,agp card. It works fine for everything for nfs5,video,tv etc. But when palying heavy games sometimes while in the middle of the game horizontal lines appear,and worst case monitor goes on and off,the power and signal lights remain,the cables are fine,this happens in games like ww ...
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Help - trying to set up Speedstream 3060 on NT4 Server

martinash
I'm trying to set up a broadband connection on an NT4 Server. The modem I have is an Efficient Networks Speedstream 3060. I have found the drivers and set the modem up and it appears to all be working correctly except that when I try to connect to my ISP the Init String which was set during the driver installation ...
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Very impressed with my FX5900, let me explain ;-)

dayspringUK
Bought a GeForce FX5900 (128MB) just before Christmas, and was highly impressed. At the time, i looked at the Radeon 9700 Pro (about £200), the 9800 Pro (£250 ish) or the FX5900 (£180). From wot i could see, the 5900 offers most bang for buck, and gives better performance then the 9700 Pro.
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Perplexed!!!!

perryben
crazy < trying to build a computer. . . In short, my problem is that I bought all my parts (new retail) put my computer together and it doesn't work. I bought a Athlon XP 2600+ and put it on an MSI nforce2 IGP mother board, with 512mb Kingson RAM, in a case with a 350w power supply.
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My Poxy IPOD

cigarhudson
Can anyone out there please tell me where i'm going wrong in trying to get my IPOD working. . The Problem stems from windows I think. . . . I'm running Win2000 prof on my laptop. . . I have music match installed which is fine for picking up the details of Cd's that i download to it but the program does not recognis ...
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DDR2100 & DDR2700 living side by side?

sk
Hi I have 3 blocks of DDR ram that I have trouble getting to work. 2 256mb pc2100 266mhz cl 2,5 and one 512mb pc2700 400mhz cl 3. They are from the same brand Elixir. They work fine if I use either the 2 256 blocks or the 512.
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Win2003 Server and PIO mode instead of UDMA...

iks
Hello there. . . I have set up a Windows 2003 server and since everything is working really slow on that box I nticed that all Devices (0 and 1) on both IDE Channels (Primary and Secondary) are currently set to PIO Mode.
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LAN speeds and SATA on KT600, compared to any other chipset

Hipshot
Hmm, as everybody knows, the IDE-bus goes through the PCI subsystem, but the SATA on the KT600 is native and goes direct to the southchipset. Normaly when you are on a LAN and your friend copies a very large file from you, the system is getting slow, cause, I think the network card, which also goes though the PCI s ...
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Different upgrade paths...

tsonta101
Hello everyone, I am currently in the process of upgrading my ageing machine. I have made up my mind (or so I think :S, hehe). This is a three-fold question. 1. mobo. That is going to be my choice for various reasons.
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ASUS A7N8X-VM and GF-4

PaTiNsAnE
Hello, I recently purchased an asus a7n8x-vm and Athlon Barton 2500+. I've been having some issues with the video card that I use. I have an AGP geforce4 ti-4200 and when I go into the device manager of Windows XP Pro it tells me the video card is a PCI device.
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ATI Catalyst drivers on Windows server 2003 as 64bit

Anonymous
Hello, i am trying windows server 2003 for 32 bit (not 64) on my 32 bit amd, and the catalyst drivers detect my computer as Windows XP 64-bit. i stopped the driver install. i installed omega drivers and it is OK, but i want official drivers.
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9 in 1 Card reader issues

videobruce
Anyone with digital camera experiance and card readers? I have a 9 in 1 ATech card reader (USB 2) and it corrupted a CF card doing a CUT and paste operation. Previous COPY and paste operations were ok.
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Athlon XP 2.6 on WinXP or MOBO Problem

acidtwin
Hola I recently bought a new MSI KM4M Series (VIA KM400 Chipset) mobo, i installed a 2. 6 GHz AMD Athlon XP (apprantly thats meant to run at around 2GHz or such, as AMD Tell you the Effectantcy and the actualy clock speed, while windows xp recognises it as a AMD Athlon XP 2000+ it shows it is running at a clock spe ...
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USB-Hub on NT 4.0 SP 6

hajo_s
Hallo! Some weeks ago I downloaded that favourable USB-patch from DELL R62200. exe. It really works great, e. g. mem-sticks plugged in, a new device is visible in the explorer. So far so good! But my USB-Hub doesn't behave as I expect.
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Unknown device (USB)

Jfk-Sting
Hi, I installed an USB Logitech Camera under Xp and was functional (the setup worked fine and drivers are loaded) until I unplugged it (it is a photo-camera too) and the I plugged after the use. Now Ev'ry time when I insert the usb plug in my pc it finds only an Unknown device under the usb tree in Device Manager w ...
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BIOS update problem

areid
I am trying to get hold of a BIOS update for my laptop pc (running XP pro SP1). My current version is Insyde MobilePro BIOS version 3. 00. 03 but I can't find an update anywhere! I've looked on the Insyde website, but there is no facility for downloading updates.
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windows 2000 not recognizing sound card

esthera
I upgraded to windows 2000 a little while ago and needed to reinstall all my drivers. Now my problem is my sound is not working and I assume the sound card needs to be reinstalled. How can I know what sound card is in my machine (without actually opening it up)?.
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