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Meanwhile, in our location we have fist sized rust holes, accident damage, outdated/damaged decals (some of our trucks have banners on the rears dating back to 2003) Always, "cant fix it, not in the budget next period" They recently 'fixed' a truck with a can of spray foam, sanded to the door...

http://ceg.ferris.edu/ Usually have a LAN every couple of months. Probably the best you are going to get on the west side of the state ATM. Next month's LAN is sold out, as they usually sell out not even 5 minutes after registration goes live.

Haven't had a need to expand beyond the 500gb of the Samsung yet. Can be added down the road if I run out of space. Thanks for the quick assistance. Been quite awhile since I've put together a machine.

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $800-900, can stretch a bit more if the gains are significant. Tax/Shipping not included 3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us...

Anyone have an idea what could cause this issue? Does it immediately upon turning on. doesnt matter what menu/input you are on it is all messed up. I've seen other issues with screens but never something like this.

Sager NP9150 and my reliable Thinkpad x60t convertible for work.

throwing my hat into the ring

From what I understand it's there from the manufacturing process when they slap the heatspreader on there so the glue or whatever can cure/harden, been that way ever since the early P4's

Need this SSD because my current Corsair 80GB needs a big brother to hold more games!

I love AMD because well..... I just love them! :P

Double lifetime warranty ftw

If he isnt overclocking, and if he says he has a dual processors, then he is running dual Xeon MP 3.66's, which would explain the PCI-X slots. Or a single processor in this case as they were hyperthreaded i believe Yes, a complete rebuild may be in order in this particular instance.

The next two are just standard PCI, no x4 or x8 about it, they are just a standard PCI slot, only used for expansion cards like modems, network cards, etc. They made some PCI videocards but they were only for basic tasks or if you wanted an extra monitor or etc. The bottom cards are PCI-X...

Seeing as how the user manual for the inspiron 1721 references using the Dell Factory Image Restore it's most likely on there.

The recovery 'disks' are embedded onto the harddrive itself in the form of a recovery partition. Pretty much all newer Dell's, HP's, etc. have this in some form or another. Here's Dell's FAQ/tutorial guide on using their recovery partitions. How To Use Dell Recovery