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    Largest Prime Number to Date Discovered

    For those that didnt realise, like me, a Mersenne Prime is a subset of all primes. But this one is the biggest prime ever found. I think Mersenne Prime's are easier to find than a normal prime as you kind of have "a place to look" for them. Mersenne Prime a number of the form 2^p −1, where p...
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    Post Your Workstations 2016

    Here is my "couch station". I run a busy ecommerce store and game, read etc from this couch in my office. The TV is a 55" 4k sony that does really well at 1080, I find 4k a bit small to read everything. I went this way because Ive got some sort of nerve or blood flow issue in my left leg from...
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    India: Army Mistook Planets for Spy Drones

    Um as a modest skywatcher, I would immediately know when I saw a planet, sounds like the astronomers had to watch for a few days until they noticed these bright lights were moving....
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    Firefox 5 is Now Out!

    Can I install 5 along side my FF3? I have many mods installed and I dont want to lose them all when I install 5, Im sure none of them will work with 5.
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    Firefox 5 is Now Out!

    Can I install 5 along side my FF3? I have many mods installed and I dont want to lose them all when I install 5, Im sure none of them will work with 5.
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    Ant Colony Stuck In Scanner for 5 Years

    Wow I thought the HOCP guys were all of a fairly high IQ? But some have missed the obvious on this one.. Surely timelapse wont show an object as mobile as an ant when your time frame is 1 frame per week for 5 years... I believe that would be the situation from reading the text along with...
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    Vista killed sound in XP.. help?

    WOW WOW Ive fixed it, I went into bios and turned onboard sound from AUTO to Enabled... how crazy is that, its been on Auto for the whole of the time XP has been on this box, install vista and Auto no longer works, it needs to be on enabled now... Call me stupid but I blame vista (somehow)
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    Can I uninstall Vista?

    WOW WOW Ive fixed it, I went into bios and turned onboard sound from AUTO to Enabled... how crazy is that, its been on Auto for the whole of the time XP has been on this box, install vista and Auto no longer works, it needs to be on enabled now... Call me stupid but I blame vista (somehow)
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    Can I uninstall Vista?

    Ahhh that might explain why I just hosed XP.... I had to go into repair console off xp cd and do a bootcfg /repair Im also wondering how to delete the Vista windows folder, XP wont let me. Safe mode perhaps? And then Im worried about the bootcfg.exe "The boot manager for Windows Vista runs...
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    Can I uninstall Vista?

    Yeah, I did try redoing the drivers, several times now. I started a thread here http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1064344 Ive tried a rollback and a restore, neither helped. Its crazy because sound works fine in Vista, but Im using XP as my main OS..
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    Can I uninstall Vista?

    Ive lost my sound in XP and Im sure it was Vista. I have Vista on D, XP on C. How do I uninstall Vista?
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    Vista killed sound in XP.. help?

    Sorry I think you missed my point... VIST sound works fine, XP sound no longer works after installing Vista. I did say that I downloaded and installed the drivers, for XP.
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    Vista killed sound in XP.. help?

    I installed Vista on D, XP is on C and I can boot into either. After palying with Vista for a while I went back to Xp and my sound doesnt work anymore. Im using the realtek onboard sound on my Asrock 939sli esata motherboard. I tried reinstalling the drivers from asrock but no go. I can see the...
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    A64info, help this tool broke my pc?

    Thats the thing that got me, it doesnt install, its just a stand alone .exe. Ive done a last know working config and that seems to have fixed it... phew. Didnt think of that off the bat because Ive never done a "last known...." before.
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    A64info, help this tool broke my pc?

    A64info is an overclocking tool, I presume anyone who can help me out will have heard of it. Its the PC in my config and I can only boot into safe mode now, Im doing this at 800x600.... I changed the memory divider to 166 in this software, it was at 133 with bus speed at 270. When I clicked...
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    HTPC HDD gone crazy, videos are all mixed together...

    I have a htpc which I just recently installed winxp on a new disk after the old main HDD and motherboard died. I had a second 200GB WD2000 in there which had all my recorded TV on it. Now with winxp (no SP's installed) it all runs fine but any of my 50 or so previous recordings refuse to play...
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    Help, my USB devices keep getting spiked/destroyed!

    Hey thanks for all that. Im in Australia though so Ill look locally.
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    Help, my USB devices keep getting spiked/destroyed!

    If its bad MB regulation, do you think a very good quality PSU will fix that, Im keen to get myself a new PSU but I think Id have a hard time doing an RMA on the board...
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    Help, my USB devices keep getting spiked/destroyed!

    Do you think if the regulation was bad thered be more variance in the 5v that MBM is seeing? Or could it be a one off spike every now and again? I wasnt sure where to post this one...
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    Help, my USB devices keep getting spiked/destroyed!

    I have a NF7 abit motherboard and a codegen 400w powersupply Ive broken 2 USB devices so far, a canon i560 printer and a logitech wireless joystick. The printer worked fine on other machines, then I plugged it into mine and it wasnt recognised by the usb device detect thing, put it back on...
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    Reinstall xp without loosing mydocs, how???

    I have a laptop that needs xp reinstalled but I want to save some files on there also. I cant boot it at the moment thats why it needs reinstalling. If I boot from the xp cd and choose install (or should I choose repair?) and pick a different windows dir, say newwin or something will all the...
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