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Recent content by kilroyc

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    Gaming Rig/Multi-Use Help/Opinions/Pointers please

    yep, i'm about to switch back to Intel after my 2.5 years in the land of socket 939
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    CM GeminII Free AR + Free Shipping @ the Egg.

    i just bought one
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    XFX 8800GT 512MB $187 Shipped

    i'd be willing to bet that the card manufacturers know when nVidia is releasing the 9800 chip, and they would factor that into any marketing/promotion decisions they made to incent folks to buy 8800 series cards in Q4.
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    Need Advice on A8N32-SLI purchase (don't shout in thread titles)

    board does have issues if you fill all 4 DIMMs with RAM, so it isn't perfect.
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    A8N-SLI Premium, 4 mixed sticks of RAM

    I've got 4 x 512 Corsair Valueselect and i can't get this S.O.B. to POST. doesnt matter which pair i have in there, it is having 4 sticks in there that is the issue.... now that i have Vista i'm pretty keen on finding out how to rectify. The only solution i've read is cranking voltage to...
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    Laptop shuts down during boot process

    Wanted to throw this wierd situation out there to see if anybody has any thoughts. Unfortunate disclaimer, this is my sister-in-law's HP pavillion zv5000 laptop, and had a bunch of spyware/malicious stuff on it and she tried to reinstall windows. I have no record of exactly what malicious...
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    SFF PC for clueless old lady

    Thanks all for the good input. The whole point of this exercise is to REDUCE my involvement. Teaching somebody an entirely new OS (Mac) is not really going down that road ;) as awesome as OS X is, it is very different for an older person. you sir obviously have no clueless old...
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    SFF PC for clueless old lady

    Hey - My mother in law needs a new PC, and she wants it in her kitchen, so i'm thinking SFF. She has minimal technology skills (i'm her tech support and i want to minimize this). So even though i build my own machines myself, i want to get some feedback on whether Dell, HP, Gateway...
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    Pioneer DVR-109 dvd burner won't stay closed

    I have a Pioneer DVR-109 DVD burner. About a week ago it started doing something really wierd. It won't stay closed. If you close the drive by pressing the button or pushing it in, it just opens up again. Restarting the machine doesnt do anything. It doesn't matter if the operating system...
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    ASUS A8N-SLI not posting. Conflict w/ Venice??

    we may be arguing over semantics, but the Front Power switch plug covers 4 pins. There are 2 wires that go into that plug, making connections presumably to two of those pins. One of those pins is marked with a "+" on the mobo. A corresponding arrow is on the plug. IF that arrow goes over...
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    ASUS A8N-SLI not posting. Conflict w/ Venice??

    LOL it was totally in backwards, and that was completely the problem. thanks ppl =D
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    ASUS A8N-SLI not posting. Conflict w/ Venice??

    Can i flash the BIOS of a bare board? i thought it wouldnt do jack without a CPU on there.
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    ASUS A8N-SLI not posting. Conflict w/ Venice??

    So i just finished putting together my new machine yesterday: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GB Corsair Valueselect SDRAM (2 x 512mb) Samsung SpinPoint SP 2004C 200GB SATA II HDD Antec Sonata II case w/ Antec Truepower 450W PSU Leadtek PX6800GT 256MB video card...
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