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    core i5 650 video corruption with DC-to-DC PSU

    How can one experiment too much? :D Thanks for the feedback, investinwaffles. It seems odd to me that video corruption would be due to faults in the motherboard when the GPU is integrated with the CPU. However, there are lots of reports of this problem with the GA-H55N-USB3 in the Newegg...
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    core i5 650 video corruption with DC-to-DC PSU

    I am trying to build a carputer which is something I have done several times in the past. This one would be the most powerful yet if only I could get it to work... Here is the relevant hardware bill of materials: mobo: Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 CPU: Intel Core i5 650 RAM: 2x2GB DDR3-1600...
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    Maxtor drive failure [HELP]

    I did the work in my clean room by which I mean bathroom so I suspect/hope the drive will be uncontaminated. Studying the video, it looks like the noise is generated when the read head is at the beginning of the drive (or closest to the spindle motor). I would guess one of the read heads is...
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    Maxtor drive failure [HELP]

    Hello, I have a Maxtor 6Y080L0130413 which is failed a friend gave me in the hopes I could get some data off of it. It seems to beep an annoying tone several times when you power it up. Googling around, I got the impression this means the drive head is stuck to the platter and the tone is...
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    Windows DNS strange behavior

    Thanks for the suggestions, guys. When I get around to setting up local redundant DNS servers (I've been toying with DNS using LDAP) I will implement this as a fix. But for now I don't trust the local DNS server to not crap out on me :)
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    Windows DNS strange behavior

    Hello Hardforum, I have a couple new Dells running XP SP3 with this strange quirk. All the office PCs are set up with a Primary DNS server that is a local Linux box running bind that resolves a couple of local servers. The Secondary DNS is set to one provided by our ISP. These settings are...
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    PS3 Outselling Wii and 360 in Australia?

    Isn't that bad for Sony? If they sell the system at a loss and then people don't buy $60 video games that cost a dime to manufacture, won't they lose money? I guess they plan to make it back in movie sales but movies cost half as much as video games. I was actually wondering this same thing...
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    getting data on an Xbox 360

    Hey, it isn't my 360/my money. I'm just the friendly neighborhood computer nerd. I understand the reasoning behind requiring their very expensive memory card is that they only sell them in sizes smaller than the games and that way you can't download illegal copies of games and put them on the...
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    getting data on an Xbox 360

    Alright, that seems to be the consensus. But...why? Did M$ make it so you can't have a mass storage device plugged into a USB port on the 360? If the memory card (which is just a flash memory device) can be adapted to USB, why can't a USB flash device be adapted to the pinout of the memory card...
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    XP vs Vista: Redux @ [H]

    It seems to me that something similar to this happened when Windows XP was released. Some websites wouldn't test games on XP as it was "constantly optimizing itself in the background" which added overhead and lowered frame rates. Funny how every new piece of technology is slightly worse when it...
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    getting data on an Xbox 360

    A friend of mine just got an Xbox 360. I set it up for him and got it on the network and all that jazz. Later in the evening, he found updated rosters for NCAA '07 online and asked me to help him load them into the game. I thought to myself, no problem; you can probably get them over windows...
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    New Worm Targets Portable Memory Drives

    I've been concerned about this happening for a long time. A few months ago I was looking all over for a good flash drive with a write protect switch (like floppies have!). It was very difficult to find them and nobody seemed to understand why I would want this feature.
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    Power strip and extension cord question

    Hello. I am working IT for a small company that does tradeshow displays and have a question hopefully someone in this forum can help with. We have displays set up in remote locations with a few (let's say three) low power PCs. We have them hooked up with a good extension cord and a decent...
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    World’s Fastest Wireless Link

    6 gigabits for 6 seconds = 4.5GB. A "full DVD movie" this is not. Although I suppose Steve's "10 DVDs a minute" comment isn't technically wrong. "10 DVD-Rs a minute" would be more accurate.
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    Two PCI RAID cards problem

    Thanks, unhappy mage. I did already tell the owner there was a chance we might need to buy a 4-port card if I couldn't get it all working.
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