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    System Restore on XP not working?

    Thanks. He probably does but he's older and not very computer saavy so I don't think I could walk him through it over the phone. I'll see if I can have him do a CheckDisc.
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    System Restore on XP not working?

    Hi all, my father in law says his internet stopped working after a power outage. A technician came out and did a System Restore and all was well. The power went out again, lost his internet connection, but this time System Restore keeps saying 'restore point failed'. He's tried several...
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    XP} 4GB ram + 256mb video ram= 3GB?

    Thanks Dan.
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    Keep old Video Card or Buy New One?

    OK, thanks guys.
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    Keep old Video Card or Buy New One?

    Just to keep my ol' reliable homebuilt PC cruising along I wiped the Raptor HD clean of XP Home and installed Xp x64 Pro that I had laying around and plugged in couple more gigs of inexpensive Black Friday memory for a total of 4GB. It's mostly used now by my wife for MS Office work, internet...
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    XP} 4GB ram + 256mb video ram= 3GB?

    I'll post the video card question in the Video Forum.
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    Alternative to Ink Guzzling Printers?

    True. I'm surprised an affordable alternative hasn't been around for awhile now given the expense of replacing toner cartridges. Cheapest replacement 4-pack I found was at B&H Photo, still $38 though :(
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    Alternative to Ink Guzzling Printers?

    My Canon Pixma MP620 Ink Jet printer guzzles ink, even at lower settings. Ink cartridges are so expensive to constantly replace. Is there an alternative to ink cartridge printers nowadays? The only one I see on a quick Google search is the Zink by Polaroid. http://www.zink.com/
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    XP} 4GB ram + 256mb video ram= 3GB?

    Yay, installed XP x64 Pro, turned on Memory Hole (or something like that) in BIOS to see more than 4GB memory and walla! It now shows all 4gigs of memory being used, cool. Thanks for the help. Question, would it be worth switching out the old PCI-e x16 7800 GTX for something newer just because...
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    XP} 4GB ram + 256mb video ram= 3GB?

    Thanks Shikami.
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    XP} 4GB ram + 256mb video ram= 3GB?

    Whoa! You guys are way over my head now :) From what I can understand in this thread and on an internet search, the nForce 4 chipset on my Mb should allow for Memory Remapping and I should be able to enable Memory Hole Remapping under the DRAM settings in the BIOS. That setting, my x64 cpu and...
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    XP} 4GB ram + 256mb video ram= 3GB?

    Thanks. I'll give XP x64 a go then.
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    XP} 4GB ram + 256mb video ram= 3GB?

    It's an old Athlon64 3700+ San Diego processor on a DFI Lanparty nf4 SLI-DR mb. I'll wont be putting any more than the 4gigs of memory in there. Are you saying with my cpu/mb combo that a x64 OS would allow the full 4GB to used? Plus the benefit of x64 processing I suppose.
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    XP} 4GB ram + 256mb video ram= 3GB?

    Thank you Yeu, very informative. So given that it's showing 3GB, it must be recognizing more than that. Switching over to XP x64 Pro using the same 4GB of ram shouldn't result in hardly any gain then. At least there's a full 3GB available now as opposed to just the 1GB I had left previously.
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    XP} 4GB ram + 256mb video ram= 3GB?

    OK, thanks. It's an older machine I built with the best components at the time, it's been bulletproof and just keps on going. When one of the two 1BG sticks of ram finally quit I took advantage of Black Friday and picked up 3gigs for cheap (the max that the old DFI mobo will take). My wife is...
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