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    Is Alienware a piece of crap?

    Alienware is too expensive for my tastes. Their hardware is good, but it's overpriced if you ask me. If I was loaded and didn't want to build a system myself, I'd go with alienware, but a lot of what your paying for is the paint job. Alienware notebooks are rebranded Sager notebooks, with a new...
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    HELP with color lcd *PIC INCLUDED*

    The manual for that TFT would probably contain some useful information such as wiring diagrams and voltage specifications. I'm not trying to be rude, but you really have given us no information on what's wrong, so it's all I can tell you.
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    7 fans and still hot

    This hasn't been pointed out yet so here goes. 45C is well within the reccomended tempature range for an athlon processor. Your system is not running hot. If you want better airflow in your case, thats your business, and I would reccomend using larger (120mm) high RPM fans. Take a dremel...
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    Not quite a case mod. 802.11b at 500 meters.

    Well, a better antenna sends and receives signals better. ;) I'll put some pics up soon of it in action. (It's dark out and I don't have permission to use the camera)
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    Not quite a case mod. 802.11b at 500 meters.

    I have a new summer project that fell into my lap. Long range wireless networking. I was going to work when I saw this laying on the side of the road. I took it home and opened it up then removed it's guts. 3 LNB's, 2 wasp nests and a through cleaning later I was left with a nice...
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    How important are ambient temperatures in WC'ing? (ie., high amb.temps are how bad?)

    Just in case you didn't know already. Liquid cooling will not nessicarily run cooler then an air cooled system. The advantage to water is thermal mass. Because you have more stuff to heat up, you are less likely to generate more heat then your cooling system can get rid of. Water cooled...
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    More problems then you can shake a stick at

    Run memtest86. Bad memory would account for your problems.
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    Cutting Aluminum Case...Dremel, or should I...?

    Use a dremel. Go slow, and don't try and cut a perfect line the first time around, just cut close to where you want it, then finish up with a sanding wheel and hand sanding for a perfect result. Dremels have a specific speed at which they like to cut through a material. As long as you don't...
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    power save issue. monitor or PC?

    Maybe its the monitor. Plug it into a different system and see if it powers down properly there.
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    Brand New System Lagggs

    Check your BIOS settings. You might need to change your multiplier or FSB settings.
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    Help me please

    Looks like decent hardware, but never order from tiger direct. I've heard to many horror stories, and I don't like the way they do business. They actually take orders from you, then farm them out to various other small system builders. When they get the parts in, the badge them from Tiger Direct...
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    BSOD issue...

    That looks like part of the hardware abstraction layer. Clearly it's not the motherboard, or you wouldn't continue to have the same problem after changing motherboards. If you only get this error during games, I'd put my money on there being a problem with the video card. Possibly overheating...
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    Wires

    You shouldn't have any problems cutting and shortening wires, do it the same way you would speakers. Just make sure that each set of wires is the same length, otherwise the electricity won't be in sync and it could cause crashes. ;) /joking about the last part.
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    Hello

    I hate to ask this because it's almost insulting, but have you installed the drivers for your chipset, etc? Most machines will run without them, just slow as hell.
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    Non-Optical Mouse

    I'm fairily sure that the "laser" in laser mice are just red LED's. I've been meaning to test this theory by replacing one with a blue LED, but I need a mouse I don't care about breaking first. No laser you're going to be able to get a hold of is going to be powerful enough to cause...
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