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I just updated to 11.4 today and usually when I want to turn on extended desktop on my HDTV (via HDMI) I just enable it in the CCC. So I did this as usual, but I don't remember seeing a prompt to confirm. The setting stayed, but now I want to disable the extended desktop on the TV, so I go to...

I have an old barebones setup laying around and a friend wants to buy it. Of course I am going to give him a good price, but I am wondering what you guys think this is worth. MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (Socket 939) Nforce 4 Ultra Chipset AMD 64 3800+ X2 2Ghz w/ stock HSF 2 GB OCZ DDR 400 PC3200...

I'll be moving up to a dorm in about a week so I thought I would pick up a TV tuner card instead of bringing up a TV. I don't really have too much interest in recording TV, although I would like to try and get some over-the-air HD channels. The dorm itself has cable so I assume they will just...

I started out with a Nvidia build, but now I am swaying towards ATI. Just looking for more opinions on this. Nvidia / Nforce chipset CPU: Intel® Boxed Core 2 Quad Processor Q9450 - $279 (Microcenter) CPU Cooler: ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink - $49 (newegg) Mobo...

Not quite sure if my psu is frying my hard drives or what, but as someone suggested I should probably test the psu. I would rather not use a multimeter, but I am thinking about running out and getting a power supply tester. Antec ATX12V Power Supply Tester VASTECH-PSU TESTER-ATX - ATX Power...

This is a long story, but I'll try to include just the important parts. Couple weeks ago my Ultra X-Connect 500 watt power supply starts to die. How do I know? 5 seconds after I would boot it would turn off, sometimes it would boot and all would be fine and it would randomly turn off. It would...

I just got a MBP about a week ago and since it only came with 512 mb or ram I think more would help. I decided I would just max it out with 2 GB so I started looking around at the major sites like kingston and crucial and they sell it but its about $240 for 2 Gb and they pretty much guarantee...

Every summer I got to the CPL gaming event held in Dallas and sometimes I go to the winter event as well. I have been bringing my laptop since they have a BYOC but its getting old and can't handle newer games such as BF2. So I think this year I am going to build a SFF to bring along. I don't...

I have never had a DVD burner before so I don't really know much about them. From what I have heard Plextor is a good brand to go with. So here are my choices. Fry's (outpost.com) Plextor PX-740A Friend Suggested this on Newegg Plextor PX-750A The 1st one is $80 - $40 mail in rebate...

Well I have around $500 to blow on a new lcd. Right now I have a 17 inch Proview Lcd which is ok but the max resolution on it is 1024x768. A couple months ago I bought an Amd 3800 x2, 7800gt, msi k8n neo4 plat. So I think its time to upgrade my monitor. I have been looking at the Dell...

I put together my new system which consists of: Amd x2 3800+ MSI K8n Neo4 Platinum evga 7800gt then previous parts I had 2 gb ocz 2 hitachi 160gb sata drives running in raid 0 I installed everything did a fresh install of windows installed all the windows update stuff sp2, directx...

I plan on buying this next week when I should have enough money for it. MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum - Link - $122 AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ - Link - $322 Leadtek WinFast PX7800GT - Link - $299 Subtotal: $743.00 Tax: $53.87 Shipping: $10.83 Total: $807.70 All the...

I just bought 2 new sata hard drives and put them on raid 0. Everyone went fine. I installed windows on them and partitioned. I installed all the windows updates and now I noticed whenever I go into regedit or paint or it seems like any exe and try to save something it gives me this error. If I...

I noticed on the fan on my 9800 pro will spin up and then slow down and go fast again and then slow and will keep going like its dying or something. I have cleaned it out with can air but it still does this. has anyone else had this problem and would it be covered under warranty?

I haven't had any major problems with my computer latley but when I turned on my computer and logged in it restarted. It booted back up and logged in and it diden't restart this time. I looked in my event viewer and found a pair of those red stop errors happening a lot. One of the errors says...

I plan on buying a shuttle in a couple months and I am going to use it to lan so I would be just putting my cpu and components from my desktop into it. I have an AMD 64 3200+ socket 754 so these are the only 2 choice of shuttles I have. The problem with the SN85G4v3 is that it has that memory...

Fixed it. If your wondering how I fixed it I booted up my laptop using a program called erd commander. Copied the font files onto my thumb drive and .reg file for fonts located in hkey_local_machine/software/microsoft/windows nt/current version/font then i loaded up erd commander on my...

I have an abit AS8 motherboard with a Pentium 4 2.8 ghz 800 mhz fsb. I bought a vantec gsn-7015 heatsink. I thought this will be fine to cool it but when I went to turn it on the heat alarm went off and shut down. I had enough to time to go to look at the temps and saw it was around 100* C and...

I am trying to connect from a windows xp pro computer to a windows 2000 pro (not server) computer. I have installed remote desktop connection software on the windows 2000 pro computer but I am not sure how to make that computer the host or if its even possible.

I just got a sapphire radeon 9800 pro and im wondering if i should install the omega drivers. i am not going to overclock my card and i dont have the cooling for it. I mainly play cs, cs:s, and other hl based games. also ut2004 sometimes. so im wondering if i should just stick with the offical...

Ive narrowed it down to 2 cards the GAINWARD nVIDIA GeForce FX5700 ULTRA and SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON 9800 PRO http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-128-188&depa=1 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-268&depa=0 Ive heard good things from both...

I posted my pics before of my thermaltake v1000a case and its a mess. http://scottyk87.dmservers.com/case/ Well I have it opened right now and with 7 fans, 4 fan controlers, the hardcano, and the thermaltake light in front and a 300 watt psu its a pain in the ass. i have 1 hard drive, 1...