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Right now i have several displays that are powered by an entire machine each, an Optiplex gx270. It's overkill. I'm looking for a digital signage / network media player. I've sampled a Viewsonic NMP-200 and it was middle of the road for what I need: 16:9 aspect ratio .pptx format support...

I don't have a machine to test the new version of WHS. I'm wanting to run Active Directory at home and use Group Policy for all my machines and our accounts along with all the fancy stuff that WHS does. I know in WHSv1 it was difficult to get it to do anything other than what was intended...

Purchased on Steam on Monday I have a q6600 and 8GB memory with a radeon 4850 At certain points on a map the frame rate drops extremely low. I don't know how to measure them exactly but it's completely unplayable. Certainly less than 10 fps. This happens in more than one place during...

This is probably not a problem that affects everyone as I couldn't find anyone else complaining about. When I load up L4D it plays music when sitting at the launch screen after the intro video. I don't need this music. In fact it gets annoying and I'd like to turn it off. Is there a good...

Several of our computers are experiencing this. When working in a Google Doc in IE 8 the left click will not work within the doc. If the user Right clicks once then Left click will work again. If they right click again it will disable the left click again. Have not experienced this in Firefox...

Any good choices? I see a lot of shareware but I'm hesitant to try them out. Seems like something that should come standard these days.

3 of our laptops got stolen this summer and we need to replace them. My Dell DOE contact has told me their lifecycle has ended some time ago. Dell Business, Dell Outlet, DellAuction.com and dfsdirectsales.com hav none in inventory. Are there any other places besides eBay I can find...

I've been using a Rosewill and I've already RMAd is once and it just broke again. <1 year from original purchase. It was $15, I'm not surprised. As far as I can tell the market seems to push for the cheapest in both quality and price. Now I'm looking for recommendations for a new one. I'm...

My wife and I are going to be separated for about 5 months and I'd like to load up her computer with some games to occupy her. She enjoys slow paced non-reaction time based games. She really enjoyed Portal until being faced with GLaDOS and having a time limit. She liked the Monkey Island...

I just recieved this 3 Way Adjustable Tilting Desk Mount Bracket for LCD (Max 33Lbs, 10~25inch) monitor stand. I put it on a Samsung SyncMaster 226BW that weighs 4.9kg. I totally read it as 4.9 LBS and not kg. So I'm the asshole. Anyway, this stand won't work for me obviously because...

My flat mate just graduated. He just built a new gaming machine with a big LCD. The only thing he's missing is a nice keyboard, the one he's using is a beater. I'm looking at: Das keyboard, The Saitek pz30au and the Sidewinder, though I'm leaning against this one 'cause he's a Linux...

It seems like once a week I see a thread asking about how to recover data after accidentally deleting a partition, installing a new OS without a backup or deleting something important. Hopefully a consolidated data recovery thread will save someone else some time and heartache in a crunch...

My wife and I have a very inefficient money management system using a shared spreadsheet in Google Docs. I'd like very much to find something simple and straight forward that will allow me to enter in steady income like paychecks, and infrequent income like side work and reimbursements as well...

Dell site: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-vostro-a90?c=us&cs=04&l=en&ref=lthp&s=bsd SD discussion: http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=1303075 Found via slick deals. Surprised it hasnt' made it here yet. Seems to be the exactly the same as the...

I'm pretty new to messing with Macs in any detail so I'm running into a problem I don't know how to address. first problem We have several Macbooks. I'm trying to install an HP Laserjet 3600 over the network. I have the disk and i've downloaded the newest driver from HP. I've installed the...

I had to RMA my video card. I understand things go bad, I'm not upset about that. What irked me was the $35 fee they charged me plus shipping to send it back. Why should I be charged for a lemon? I'm out of a video card for 2-4 weeks after they receive it. It was a Sapphire card but RMA'd with...

Is there a fancy way to put 2 Airport Extremes on the same network? Is it possible for them to broadcast with the same SSID so only one SSID will show up for clients? I'd like to put them at opposite ends of the building to maximize coverage. Should have them both broadcast teh same SSID or...

I built this machine between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm running a legit Vista 64 ultimate install on a samsung 226bw. Upgraded from a p4 3.0, 3GB, with a Radeon x1300. I've been pretty underwhelmed at this machine. Really the only difference I've noticed over the last machine was...

I have a a GA-EP45-UD3R with a Realtek 8111C onboard NIC running Vista 64 ultimate. This build is a month old. The router is a Linksys WRT150N The problem I'm having is when I when I run my torrent client over night I wake up in the morning to find I've lost all lan connectivity, no IP...

I have an Aspire One. It blue screens with a c0000218 error I think that running a chkdsk /r might solve this but I'm not sure how to create a bootable USB drive that can run chkdsk. What can I boot from?

I'm currently running Vista Ult 32 bit retail. I have a new machine on the way and I want to put 64bit on there to support all the new fancy ram. Can I use Migwiz to migrate to the new install? Will it transfer my stuff successfully? I have no problem transferring my data manually but this...

I had originally planned this purchase over the summer when I was waiting for my stimulus package. It arrived and had to go to bills but my savings have allowed me to go through with building this machine now. Here's what I'm looking at: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R 16GB memory support and onboard...

Hi. I'm confused on bus speeds, memory speeds and memory standards. I'm looking at buying a Q6600 with a 1066MHz FSB and a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R that lists 1200MHz memory standard and 1600/1333MHz FSB. What kind of ram should I get? But how do these numbers relate? Can anyone point me to...

I have a WHS with 3 drives. Duplication turned for all important data. I have 2 x external drives that I backup all the difficult to reproduce data. Using Live Mesh I sync my unique critical data with my brother off island. Is this sufficient? Can I take one of those external drives...

I have an HP 1023c with a dead motherboard and powersupply Are the mounts on an OEM motherboard the same as a Gagabyte or Assus board? What about the heatsink mounts? It would be way cheaper to buy an enthusiast board ten to go through HP

One of the students brought in their personal white Macbook. It looks like he dropped it, the screen has to be propped up, the battery holds zero charge. When I power it on I get the blinking folder with question mark. The slim drive won't pull in a disc. It tries, I can hear it working...

I have a laptop. It would boot just fine, but after a little bit of typing the machine would shutdown with a pop sound. I had given up on it, pulled the memory and hard drive as spares. just plugged in the hard drive via USB adapter and while it does detect it doesn't stay writable for...

I replaced an old 80GB drive in my wife's laptop with a 250GB WD drive. Completed restore using the original restore that came with WHS. After successful restore it would not boot. I remembered there is a new restore disc after PP1 was released. Created new disc and completed successful...

I have a Westinghouse Nb-14w2 for parts. It has a weird problem, it would turn on and run fine until I start typing then it would give a pop and shut off. Probably just a bad capacitor, but that's beyond my expertise to fix. I'm selling: LCD = $125 Keyboard = $25 Touchpad / palmrest =...

I have a used Nb-14w2. This is for parts. While it does run, typing on the keyboard causes it to shut off with a slight pop sound. The LCD works fine, the keyboard probably is not the culprit but I have no interest in sorting it out. The battery holds a charge but I can't be sure for how...

I have a case, hard drive and ddr800 memory, need: cpu: E7200 Wolfdale. This looked like the right price point but I could easily be persuaded to another cpu. mb: GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L. I'm not married to this board but I have another Gigabyte board and it's running pretty well for me in...

I posted this in the Disk Storage sub forum but didn't recieve any replies. I have an external drive that runs clonezilla live. I've been using it to take and cast images of Dell laptops easily enough. Now I have an additional 4 Macbooks. Since there's only 4 of them it wouldn't put me...

I don't know if this belongs in the mac forum. I have an external drive that runs clonezilla live. I've been using it to take and cast images of Dell laptops easily enough. It's been such a life saver instead of doing all the changes manually to all the computers! Now I have 4 Macbooks...

I have a Win2k Server machine running. It has several shares. I can't ping by name but can successfully by IP address. I can reach all the shares by entering in the \\x.x.x.x Cannot reach \\computername "network path was not found" One of the shares is found via IP. In Network...

I'm currently running a 320aaks re certified drive that WD sent back on a warranty repair a few months ago. Is this the same tech that goes into the 640aaks drive the is supposed to be really fast and everyone loves? I'm putting together a new machine and wondering whether I can stick with...

My WHS is running a p4 2.8 with 3 hard drives and 1GB of memory. The case is hot. I touch the outside of the case and it's warm, I can't imagine what the inside is like. The case has some passive cooling vents, but it occurs to me that I could underclock that cpu to cool it off. Since...

In a highschool setting where the school provides ~15 laptops for about 50 students to use. What's the best way to manage them 1. Assign teachers X amount of laptops as needed and make them manage the students 2. Assign 3 students to each laptop. Can narrow down the blame is something...

I'm tired of using the hp kb I have. My criteria for a new kb: The print screen / scroll lock / pause row is separate from both the Function keys and the Insert/home/page up group. (my biggest complain with the one I have now) A full backspace button, I think it take the space of two keys...

I currently run a Poweredge sc420 with the PCIe mod for the video card. I have pentium 4 2.8 and 4 GB (3.25 detected) of DDR2 800 installed running 32bit vista. My top goal is to run a 64bit cpu to take advantage of more memory and their incredibly low prices these days. Here's the dilemma...

I'm working for a small charter school I'm in the process of upgrading all their infrastructure. This phase of the project requires WiFi coverage for the whole building, the building next door and the tent off to the side. Both buildings are 1 story separated by about 25'. The tent is about...