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you just know its EA's fault because...they are stupid! hah! im making signs and im going to protest outside EA about this. whos with me?

im fixing my uncles computer. he has a 7900gt, so i got the latest drivers, but i want to force his refresh rate to 85hz at all resolutions. in the ati CP, its just one drop down box to do this, and thats what im used to, because i haven't had an nvidia card fora long time.. how is this possible...

my uncle bought this motherboard with this memory, and we can't post. i looked on the msi website and it has a supported ram list. the only ocz memory it supports is a pc2 8000, is this why it won't post? any recommendations?

is there extra space on the sides? no. im sure we've heard this before. and its true. one could make a movie where the 16:9 version has less content than a 4:3 version and vice versa. the sides are cut off, oh but the top and bottom are cut off! etc.. but some of you may not realize that the...

I'm trying to make a winrar SFX package that asks the users where he wants a program installed, and then makes a shortcut to the .exe on his desktop regardless of where he tells winrar to put the fies. But I don' t know how to go about it in my batch file. anyone have an idea?

I'm trying to rar a program which will ask the user where he wants it installed to, but then it creates a shortcut on their desktop. i dont know how to do this though. I know I want the shortcut to go to %allusersprofile%\desktop, but I can't get my batch file to recognize the full path to the...

for me and my local friends, we used to LAN it up and play FPS games, RTS games, or any kind of wacky games in the late 90s, early 2000s. Now everyone(and their girlfriends!) plays WOW and never wants to try anything new. its the end of a fun and exciting gaming age for us. now this isn't a...

I'm not able to try this, but does anyone know if the person sharing his desktop needs to open a port through their firewall for remote assistance to work? I know remote desktop needs 3389 TCP open. I'm just trying to find a way to be able to help my friend without having to spend hours...

are adaware and spybot still the only ones you need? or have other programs gone beyond these? ive just used these, and recommended them for 2 years, following the sticky thread, but wondering if anything has changed.

*******SPOILER******* In the casino level, for the life of me i cannot get to the 8th floor. i climb up through the elevator and bang my head on the 8th floor elevator door to no avail. i don't have a card for any room on the 8th floor, but cmon, if i can just get there, i will complete my...

i plug in the dongle to the video card. i plug in a male to male rca to the dongle, then I unplug my dvd player from the TV out of the yellow female rca connector. i plug in the one coming from the computer. but then when i go to CCC and try and drag the disabled TV icon to main display, it...

built a computer for my cousin, and it all worked. he took it home, and it wouldn't turn on. i now have it here with me out of its case. a dfi ultra-d and an enermax 535w SLI PSU, the m/b is on a towel next to the PSU. the lights on the motherboard are lit, but it won't turn on. all 3 plugs...

if someone were to plug in the 4 pin connector thats supposed to go with the 20 pin on a newer motherboard, onto the separate 4 pin connector on a p4 motherboard, is that a bad thing? there are a lot of details, but one motherboard has been fried with a flash of blue light.

ive tried winavi and convertxtoDVD, and they are both very slow when converting to DVD format. a 45 minute episode takes 20 minutes on my opteron 165 dual core oced to 2600mhz. process manager reports 50% cpu usage. is there a way to get my CPU more involved with these programs to convert...

this is for oblivion btw, i edited the topic but not sure if it took effect im sorta confused. the existing spells like frost damage on touch dont' specify seconds. but when i make a 'touch' spell for frost/fire/shock damage, you can specify for how many seconds. i dont understand this...

I'm looking for extension cables for my computer, including vga, audio, and also a long RCA cable so i can TV-out to a TV in another room. anyone know some good sites with good service and cheap prices for cables?

SPOILER FOR QUEST BELOW: well i have the shovel and manifest in my inventory to finally give to jensine and be done with this quest. but there is no dialogue option to tell her I have the goods. when i get done talking with her, she says 'dont' you have something to give me?'. *sigh* i...

april fools! but hey, damn i got suspended from the mages guild and have to find redwort flowers and dragons tongue before they let me back in. is there anyway to find out where these grow without having to roam the entire contitent until I find them?

its a DFI ultra-d motherboard, latest official bios OCZ powerstream 520w PSU x1900xt 2 gig gskill pc-4000 it stops at registering components about 3/4 of the way through the progress meter. i can't figure out what isdoing this. any ideas on what possible reasons could be? ive restarted...

ive heard people say one should get this driver if they have this CPU, but on the amd site I can't find just a generic driver. what driver should i get for this opteron 165?

can someone tell me why adjustable rails on PSUs such as the OCZ powerstream 520w are beneficial, and how one would use them to make the PSU better? sorry if this sounds noobish

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103478 i was getting an enermax 535w for a DFI NF4 ultra-d w/ opteron 165 & one x1900xt, but it was back ordered. would this sparkle be a good choice? i didn't want to go over $100, but 12v@36a at that price seems really good right? or...

im getting new parts soon, and there are some new words floating around that im not used to. im used to 2-3-3-6 for memory timings, and those are the only #s i needed to know a while back, but what is this 1T people are referring to?

i've read on dfi-street forums that opterons and memory dividers don't get along(heard from one guy). is this true? i just bought an nf4 ultra-d and opteron 165. and its gskill pc-4000 ram ill be using. but i was hoping to use memory dividers because my ram probably won't reach 280+

whats the best order? assuming that you've just installed windows xp integrated with SP2. im asking because im building a new gaming rig, and im new to dual core, 64 bit cpus. im wondering if there are any new special drivers i need to install before others for best performance

im looking for a good 120mm for a scythe ninja, but i can't seem to find a store that doesn't rip me off with shipping that costs more than the fan itself. or is this normal?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811220008 if you look in the pics, it has that duct on the side, im wondering if anyone thinks the ninja might not fit. if not, im looking for a cheap case that a scythe ninja can fit in but has adequate airflow for some OCing i plan on...

im reading the manual for this, and it doesn't list what the ratios are. im looking for ram for this board so i need to know the divider options, as i probably don't plan on running 1:1. anyone know what those ratios are? thx

im looking at the antec smartpower 500w, and it says '+12V1@17A, +12V2@19A'. ive heard that 12v@26A is best and to get a PSU has that. i see that there are 2 12v thingamadoodles there on the antec. is this as good as 12v@26a? or is it worse?

I'm looking to get this board as part of my new system. i have an opteron 165, and im hoping to OC it to just around 2500mhz, nothing fancy. but Im reading the online manual for this board, and I can't find a fsb/memory ratio option in the bios. is there one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820223040 is rosewill 2gb pc 3200 ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820223031 is rosewill 2gb pc 2700 ram yet more expensive. same timings for both sets. im not meaning to compare prices or find deals, im just...

I'd really like to spend less than $100 for a motherboard to go with an opteron 165 i just purchased. This time around I'm not going to push the CPU to the limit, so I don't need a really expensive motherboard, im hoping to get to 2.5. what motherboard would you recommend for $100 or less?

http://sharpusa.com/products/FunctionPressReleaseSingle/0,1080,567-34,00.html only $16000 MSRP. damn i wish i was rich.

im getting a system overhaul soon. I was wondering if anyone knew when CPUs start bottlenecking dramatically with the x1900xt? I'm looking for the dual-core CPU that can keep up with the vid card and not be a weak link, yet not be so great that there is minimal gain. hope that makes some sense...

I'm looking at some syntax olevia displays, and 1366x768 is their native resolution. but if I were to plug in an xbox360 to this, and select 720p, it would stretch the 1280x720 to fullscreen and cause some aliasing, correct? or is there a way to make the LCD only use 1280x720 of the screen so...

needless to say, windows xp is very screwed up right now, so i wanted to go for a windows repair, the problem is windows isn't recognized as on the partition according to windows setup, even though i can boot into windows xp. i tried going to recovery console and doing 'bootcfg /rebuild'...

i can't seem to find good resources for basing a buying decision off of. I'm looking for a 26-32 inch CRT HDTV thats affordable(for an xbox360), but also one that can display decent resolutions from my PC so I can PC game on it as well. can someone recommend good companies/models to look for...

do you think the new 2007/2407 will have more than just HDCP from the 2005/2405s? wondered if anyone heard any rumors about if dell is going to improve any performance on the monitors

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for this strange problem. a windows xp computer with service pack 2 can ping any web site, browse the LAN and transfer large files just fine. but internet explorer nor firefox can web browse. Also, Antivir, the antivirus program cannot update, and...