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    Windows 8 - media center pack - FREE

    Just got an email from MS, reminding to activate the Win8 Media Center key by 1/31/2013. Does that mean it will expire after that day?
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    Acer Aspire 5313 no post

    Grandson"s Acer laptop will not Post past the Acer splash screen. Black screen with blinking cursor only. Still able to enter BIOS with F2 key and make changes. Cooling fan runs for second or two then stop. HD tested good, re-sitted memory sticks. Any idea? Thanks
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    LCD for photo and Cad work

    thanks for all the info, I'll look into Dell, still have a 150.00 credit with them. jt
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    LCD for photo and Cad work

    Sorry for the lack of details. I am in the US. Looking for something in 22 to 24 in. at around $350 to $400. Mostly for my wife's Embroidery Digitizing and old photo touch up work. Just need for it to display sharper image and more to "true color" that her Dell 1907fp can. Our old eyes are not...
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    LCD for photo and Cad work

    Need a new LCD for photo and cad work only. Recommendations please. Thanks jt
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    SATA DVD drive and Gigabite GA-MA69GM-S2H

    Problem solved. Set IDE 0 to none, so the bios will look elsewhere for the DVD drive. Thanks jt
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    SATA DVD drive and Gigabite GA-MA69GM-S2H

    "CD/DVD might refer only to IDE devices" It seems that is the case. CD/DVD is not on the HD boot order. No settings for sata dvd drives in the bios either.
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    SATA DVD drive and Gigabite GA-MA69GM-S2H

    Installed a Pioneer sata dvd drive on a GA-MA69GM-S2H MB. Everything works fine until I try to boot from the dvd drive. It will boot off the dvd drive if the hard drive is blank, no OS installed. But will not boot off the dvd drive if there is an OS is installed on the hard drive. It is...
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    Plextor 712A will not read ISO image burnt to DVD

    Did not notice the problem before, Burnt a 600mb ISO image to DVD with a Plextor 712A, the DVD will not work in the same drive, neither read nor boot from it. But the DVD works fine in other drives. The same ISO burnt to a CD by the same drive works fine in it. Data or movie DVD burnt in...
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    Need help repairing Vista Home OS on a laptop

    Worked on this puter some more this morning. Can't get to the eRecorvery menu anymore. Instead, I am getting: File:\Boot\BCD Status:0xc000000f Info: Error while attempting to read the boot configuration. Did the boot sector has gone bad? Removed the drive from the laptop and hooked it...
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    Need help repairing Vista Home OS on a laptop

    The "Recovery" option is still on the boot menu. When booted with that option, there is about 10 min of drive activity with a blank screen, then the mouse pointer appears, follow by another 5 min of drive activity. After that, nothing but the blank screw and thew mouse pointer. The mouse...
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    Need help repairing Vista Home OS on a laptop

    Grandson screwed up Windows OS on his Acer Aspire laptop. Windows goes in a reboots loop during startup. Startup Repair does the same thing. He has no recovery disk for the puter. Can I use my Vista Utimate disk to do an OS repair on it? Thanks
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    Painfully Slow!!!!!

    Tried it on 2 different computers, same result. The thing must be bad, returning it in a few days. Thanks JT
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    Painfully Slow!!!!!

    Pickup a 4GB USB Micro Center house brand flash drive a while back. Trying it out yesterday, took over 10 hrs to copy 2.4 GB of files form one puter, then another 10 hrs to copy it back to another puter. Is it suppose to be this slow ? jt
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    Vista Ultimate vs Server 2008 Workstation

    There is/was a Howto for this in PDF format on the net, but all the links I can find for it are dead, Anyone has a working link for it? thanks
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