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I am thinking about buying a netbook, but wanted people's opinion on whether that was the right decision or if I was better off going with a bare-bones, small-laptop. I currently have a 17" Dell with Blu-Ray, good processor and video card (Only about 1 year old), etc. However, I am looking to...

All, I recently dropped in a new MB (gigabyte ga-ex58-ud4t) , cpu (intel core i7 2.66 ghz), and ram (3 sticks of 2gb ddr3) as a result of a system crash/upgrade. However, I have been unable to get my video card to work since. I have tried my old 8600 GTS and a new 4850, however neither...

I have never purchased an extended warranty on a laptop through Best Buy. I have, however, purchased one for a Dell Insprion 8500 that I bought before I started college 5 years ago. When I bought this I also decide to get the accidental damage plan. In my 4 years at school I had 3...

What setup did you use and how much storage do you have?

Budget is not an issue for this project. And I think that the plan would be to use this strictly for Music/movies. After a quick perusal of the My Movies website, this looks promising. DO you have any experience with it? What all would I need to build a system along these lines? Would I...

Hi All- I am looking into building a DVD Server similar to the Kaleidescape System (http://www.kaleidescape.com/experience/). Any ideas suggestions about the best way to go about doing this? Ideally I would like it to be accessible from any TV and ideally controllable from a Universal...

I am also having this same problem. Mine is on a laptop that dell sent to replace an older system that crapped out, but miraculously was still under warranty. The system is an inspiron 9400/e1705 with the 256mb Nvidia Go 7900 GS and two sticks of 1GB RAM. I am running Vista business, and...

Ok Cool, Thanks for the help!

I ordered a couple new WD drives for my rig but they did not come with screws. I went down to Home Depot and picked up some that were the same length etc, as his other HDD screws and had him use those. However, the screws were zinc rather than aluminum, so are still magnetic. Does this pose...

That worked, thanks guys!

So I finally got around to installing my two WD 500AAKSs that I have had lying around for the last couple of months. So i hooked them up, booted up the computer and went into the BIOS to make sure everything was detected properly. Everything looks fine, so I continue onto windows and try to...

Hi- I've been trying to back up my itunes library to DVDs. When I put in the DVD it burns the first disc and asks for the next disc, however, after I put it in it says "checking media" and then spits the disc back out and asks for a blank disc. I have tried it with multiple different DVDs to...

Thanks guys...I think Im going to pick up the Quickcam 9000 it looks like it has great resolution, and can deal with the driver question.

Hey Everyone- Not sure if this is the best place to post this...I'm looking to get a webcam for my rig, that I can also take with me to use with my laptop. I'm looking for a really high res camera, so that I can use my 32" Lg LCD for the chats if I want. I've also been reading that a lot of...

Hey Everyone- I recently updated my virus software to Kaspersky 7.0; however, after I installed it and restarted my screen comes back as black with only the mouse pointer. I've tried doing a hard shutdown, starting in safe mode (with and without command prompt and/or networking), starting in...