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    Sony FD Trinitron question

    So, I have a VAIO PCV-MXS10 and looking at getting a matching monitor for it, what its supposed to come with is an LCD but for the life of me I cant find it, so a CRT is the next best thing, I am liking the looks of the G520P as its silver and grey, but does anyone know if Sony made a smaller...
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    Multi-Network question

    I was thinking about snagging up a couple of those Ubiqity long range WiFi AP's to connect up a friends house about 10 miles away, so he could share in my NAS goodness, my question is what would be the best way to do this? I have TWC and my own cable modem, and a Netgear R7000 on my network, and...
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    HP Printer Woes

    I work in a warehouse where we use several laser printers (a major chain store, orders for each store need printouts for each pallet and order) and lately I have been having issues with 2 of them, an HP 4515 and an HP M603n, the 603 just seems to be a newer model of the 4515, and we seem to have...
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    7.1 Channel Cables?

    I have a creative X-Fi with its 4 3.5mm 7.1 channel outputs, and just picked up a set of the Creative Soundworks 7.1s from a friend, now the speakers came with a 4 to 3 cable for use with the older soundblaster cards, four 3 pole 3.5mm ends for the speakers and three connectors on the other...
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    Lenovo Windows 7 OEM issues

    I work for an auto group and normally we have a few system images to use when we get new computers in, and they work for the most part (hence the "few" bit) but..... We just got in 5 new Lenovo's, and they all have Windows 7 Pro preinstalled with Windows 8 Recovery discs, as there is no...
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    Windows 7 Logon issues

    I work for an Auto Group as an IT guy, and normally Google searching can find most solutions, but so far I have found bupkis, so I turn to you guys. Lately we have had a few computers having issues with Logging in, all are running Windows7 with SP1 and various levels of updates, and all are...
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    HDMI Audio Issues

    I have the MSI E350-IA with the Fusion e350 on it, and it works great (just wish Netflix would enable hardware acceleration in Silverlight) I have it connected to an Onkyo TX-SR608 via HDMI and then to a Visio 42 LCD, does H.264 1080p24 video perfectly, however I have one issue and might cross...
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    FPS game question

    There is this old game, I remember playing the demo for it back in like 06 or 07 that was like redneck rampage that took place in a farmyard, fully 3D (as in not like duck hunt or any of the hunter series), that had you shooting chickens and crows I think, you also had to shoot eggs before they...
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    Upgrade Help

    I am currently upgrading most of my computer, going to a Core i7-87x (haven't decided on the 870 or 875k yet) and an ASUS P55D-E Deluxe (Already purchased it) and 8gb of ram, check my sig for the rest of what I have. My question I have is I currently have a GTX-280 overclocked card right now...
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    OLD Radio question

    not sure if this is the right topic forum or not but I thought I would try you guys here. I remember a long time ago, in the mid 90's I had gone to a local Fedco store (long since gone out of business) and they had in the audio dept I guess it might be a table top radio/cd player, it might be...
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    Question regarding an old Sony laptop

    I used to work at CompUSA back from 99-2003 and I remember a Sony laptop that came in and I think it was a P3 though it might have been a first gen P4 that had a weird cooling system, as you opened the lid it would drop down a stand in the back of the laptop that gave it extra cooling, I cant...
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    WD Green issue

    I just got a 1TB WD Green, using windows 7 RC x64 I formated it and copied over 500+ gigs of files, the system is used as a HTPC so I leave it in sleep most of the time, thing is the system doesn't see the drive upon wake up, only on a restart or a full turn on... there is a 320gb wd thats...
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    WTB: a Sony CD tabletop Radio/CD Player

    I don't know if this is the correct topic or not but I remember a long time ago, in the mid 90's I had gone to a local Fedco store (long since gone out of business) and they had in the audio dept I guess it might be a table top radio/cd player, it might be considered a bookshelf system but...
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    OLD Motherboard question

    I have a Tyan Tomcat IIID motherboard that has 2 Pentium 233mhz CPUs with MMX and a total of 64mb of ram on board, I want to mess with it say throw some kind of Linux on it and maybe duel boot with windows NT or maybe 2000 for use with amateur radio gear but my main question is what size hdd can...
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    Audio upgrade questions

    I know this has been answered multiple times in the past but I can't seem to find any info. anyways I have an Audigy2 Platinum purchased when it first came out, and have been using it for the last I don't know 4 years? anywho I recently upgraded to an EVGA 680i board and am using the onboard...
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    Suggestions for Ram and O/Cing

    I have an the system in my Sig currently and was looking to doing some overclocking with it before I retire the mobo, CPU and Ram, and I wanted some suggestions as to what kind of settings I should use on it. And I have an e6300 thats gathering dust waiting for me to work up the nerve and...
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    320mb 8800GTS specs? benches?

    I'm going to get one but I want to know what I would be missing from the 640mb version besides the amount of ram? I work at a place that just got in both the standerd and super clocked versions of the eVGA card, can't do anything with them yet got to keep them in the back will next week. any info?
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    X-Fi questions

    was wondering if I would see any differance to running the X-Fi Fatal1ty over the standerd platnium, I would be upgrading from an Audigy2 Platnium, also since its been over a year, is there going to be an X-Fi 2? possibly in a PCI-E flavor? All I play is BF2 and soon BF2142, mp3s and video
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    mobo problem

    wasent sure what to search for in the fourms for this and I havenet heard of this before either but I have an MSI motherboard that is this and it has the D-Led thing for the back, I get weird green red and both in one colors and it keeps telling me that the memory is to tighten and to relax the...
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    6800gt PCIe problem

    I was running just fine with my TV and my moniter using DualView but it seem the last coulpe of WHQL drivers have no dualview option. even tho its still listed in the help files, anyone have any ideas how to enable this? I have an asus A8N sil Deluxe, A64 3000+ o/ced to 3400+ speeds, 4x512mb...
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    WTB: Encom hat

    was just watching the Gorillaz Music video for Feel Good inc. and saw the drummer wearing an Encom hat and was wondering if there is a RL hat that has the ENCOM logo from Tron on it?
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    need help finding a DVD Burner

    any one know of a slot load DVD burner that can do both -R and +R, dont need DL support but it's ok. the biggest thing though is it needs to be using SATA for its data interface
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    PCMCIA adapter question

    I'm looking to build a car PC and was looking to use a pcmcia HDD like the ones in iPods, but I need to find something that can take the connector, and somthing for the PC to copy files aswell. has anyone heard of or seen a usb adapter that can do this, or mabey I'm just going bonkers... but I...
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    Vid card problem?

    I have an ATI 9600pro and I have been getting random lockups while playing doom3, farcry, joint opps, and BF1942, I kinda thought it was the motherboard, but no amunt of tweaking will get it to stop, I have 2x512 corsair xms sticks, Gigabyte 8KNXP ver 2.0 mobo, p4 3.0c, and the coolermaster...
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    Teamspeak madness

    just found a program that overlays whos talking in TS in game for ya http://www.qbnut.com/tso/ seems to work great too, tho I have just been playing BF1942 w/DC
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    Ok any info (as in probs) on Gigabyte's GA-8KNXP

    I got one for free and have been having problems from day one... it is a version 2.0, but I have been haveing BSoDs till I upped the voltage on the ram, now I get random resets, should I just dump this board and bite the bullit and get an IC7-G Max3?, or is there some hope in this mobo? and...
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