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    XPS M170 vs. Precision Mobile M70

    I know that hte XPS screen is bigger, but I'm not really sure which notebook would be better overall as far as quality and durability. I've been unable to find any documented specs for the response times for either screen. Looking at the WUXGA on the M70 vs the one on the XPS. Any help would be...
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    BF2 wont allow me on servers for "modified content"

    like the title says. i haven't modified anything though. does anyone know why i get this error? i Googled it and no one seems to know what the deal is but a lot of people have the issue.
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    Which scaling method for my LCD?

    I've got a Dell 1704FPT using DVI from my graphics card as the input. If I'm playing a game at 1024x768 which method of scaling should I use in the Nvidia driver control panel??? The two best options seem to be Monitor Scaling or Display Adapter, which one is preferable?
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    6600 256MB OC's

    does anyone else have this card and how far can you typically push this core/ram from stock speed safely? mine is the fanless heatpipe one.
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    Is she gonna blow cap'n!?

    now that i got your attention, i've got an AOpen Pentium M barebones with a 270W passive PFC PSU with these specs.. AC Input 115 / 230 VAC, 50-60 Hz DC Output +3.3V +5V +12V1 +12V2 -12V -5V +5VSB Current (A) 17 18 8 14 0.3 0.2 2 Max Power 115W 96W...
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    need a motherboard for this....

    i need to find a motherboard for 4 p3 Xeon 500mhz at once if such a thing exists... can someone please help me out here?
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    I came across this...

    http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ while browsing IBM's technical papers. Does anyone here do it? Edit: I've also come across a bunch of other DC programs that look very promising! Check these out. Does anyone on here do these? http://www.find-a-drug.org.uk/index.html...
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    VIA Eden processors

    I've been considering one of their Mini-ITX embedded solutions for a F@H/multimedia box attached to my TV. Are these any good? Does WinXP install on them easily? Are there any issues with them in general I should know before buying them?
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    fruits of your labors?

    when are we going to see some real-world benefits from F@H? are there drugs made using the research all these computers have done?
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    backing up bootable? does it still work in XP?

    when i last backed up my hard drive from one HDD to another i had windows 98, which was before all this activation crap. i just dragged C: to my new hard drive, which was installed as a secondary drive and it transfered everything to it, including the whole OS and it was a brand new bootable C...
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    Pentium M Vcore and temps!??

    this is sisoft sandra reporting some serious problems... nothing seems to be a miss though and everything is working fast as far as i can tell... the bios reports a temperature of about 105F
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    Pentium M FSB

    I was looking through Everest and came across something perplexing. Why does it say my effective FSB is 100Mhz? Shouldn't it be 400? 100QDR? Field Value Motherboard Properties Motherboard ID 12/16/2004-i855GME-W8362-6A69YABBC-00 Motherboard Name Unknown Front Side Bus Properties Bus...
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    chkdsk wont run, neither will diskeeper

    i get an error message that says that the hard drive is not mounted. how do i "mount" a hard drive? what the hell does that mean!?
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    Brick Wall SPS causing overvoltage?

    I had my SmartUPS 750 running through my Brick Wall surge supressor, but this morning I saw that it had a continuous overvoltage light on the UPS. I unplugged it and it didnt go away, then I unplugged the Brick Wall SPS and plugged it back in. After this it got rid of the light. Is there any...
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    Dude i'm not gettin a dell ever again.

    I got my Precision Workstation today. dual xeons and a quadro 3400. i booted it up and boy was it fast, for an hour before the DVD drive refused to open, and when i rebooted it said no hard drive was installed. dude i'm sending it back and buying myself an HR Giger statue with the money. it will...
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    power save issue. monitor or PC?

    i've got a dell 17 inch flat panel with DVI input and it was working and going into screen saver and then power off mode like it should for a while and suddenly stopped doing it properly. ive reformatted once but i cant make the issue go away.
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    Dell monitor will not enter power save mode.

    its the 17in digital flat pannel. everything in windows is configured so that it should go into screen saver after one minute and power save after 3. what is the deal yo.
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    taking forever to defragment.

    i just built my new Pentium M computer and its got everything up and running, and it does everything CPU or GPU intensive REALLY fast, but when it comes to the hard drive its a Seagate 120GB 7200RPM drive that I had in another computer and it worked REALLY well and fast. now this thing is just...
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    64bit conflicts with games

    I haven't received my Dell Precision Workstation and I was wondering if there will be a conflict with most applications and Windows 64bit and the emt64 on the processor. Will my games work? Will PS work?
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    netgear router issue

    My friend has a Netgear wireless G 4 port router that's currently running one PC with CAT 5 connection and one on the wireless. Sometimes the wired connection will not allow access past the router or even see the router. The wireless works all the time. When I shut off the cable modem and the...
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    Pentium M at 241 degrees F?

    thats what my Everest is reporting. is that possible?
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    Stupid AOpen, stupid me...

    Today I got my SFF Pentium M and assembled it, but I failed to notice that the PSU was set to 230V since I live and ordered it in fucking America you know I just assumed they'd have it set to our fucking voltage being that ITS BEING SOLD HERE! Anyway I ran it for about a minute or two like...
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    They Broke My Brick Wall Shipping It

    title says enough. but Brick wall is sending a replacement.
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    Dell Precision Workstation 470 PSU

    I just ordered one of these but its still in transit. Does anyone know what brand the PSU is? All it says on the site is 550W, which is hopefully enough for dual 3.0 Xeons and a Quadro and 2GB of ram. Its in some kind of small form factor case so I don't know if its a standard size yet or not.
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    Just ordered Dell 1704FPT

    anyone got this and how do you like it running from the DVI input?
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    Dell 1704FPT

    is its image quality the same as the 2001 and 2045 and is it worth the money. are there better alternatives for cheaper? i need color accuracy, small footprint and good response time.
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    Best 17" LCD w/DVI input

    I'm building an extremely low voltage computer with an LCD monitor. I need to know which would be best for color reproduction and video/gaming. I'll be watching a lot of movies on this computer.
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    where do you get your low V xeons from?

    i was wondering who the best server hardware dealers would be for someone without a reseller's account, and specifically where to get low voltage xeons at.
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    Just ordered a brick wall...

    anyone use these and if so how do you like them. i got the 8 outlet model.
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    CM Cavalier problem

    Ok I have the Cavalier with that stupid analog dial thing on the front and I can't figure out why its not working. i have it plugged in the way it should be and it just never works at all. Same with the one on my dads cavalier.
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    different in the box than on the box

    i went to get a cheap videocard today for my backup box, and i picked up a PNY 5500 256mb. in the drivers and bios it says its a 5700 ve. what's the deal with that? whats the bus width on its ram? anyone know why its not what it was supposed to be? it was new from the factory i think.
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    opinions please

    I just ordered a Dell Precision Workstation 470 with the following equipment: dual 3.0/2MB cache 64bit Xeons 2GB DDR2 ECC Quadro 3400 250GB 7200rpm SATA Data Burst Cache HDD SmartUPS 750 if anyone owns a Dell workstation i'd like to know what you think of yours. i do a lot of...
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    2X 2.8 vs 1X3.0 xeons

    im having trouble deciding between a dell precision workstation 470 with dual 2.8 1mb cache xeons and a single 3.0 2mb cache xeons. i dont really know the difference between the two processo?rs other than their cache size and there's very little info about the differences, such as whether they...
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    dual channel with different brands

    Right now I've got 2 x 512MB running in dual channel. I know you're supposed to have matched RAM for that as far as latency etc goes. I want to add another GB to it, but apparently they don't sell Infineon RAM in New Zealand. Do I run the risk of data corruption if I don't use the exact same...
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    diskeeper 9

    Why is it that Diskeeper 9 takes longer to defragment, and also requires network permissions in order to work? Does it send any data over the network when its defragmenting?
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    friend wants an aimbot

    my brother whos incredibly good at UT2003 and gets accused of cheating wants a real aimbot for some reason. he doesn't have a non-free email account so he cant join hardforum to ask himself, and no its not for me. i wouldn't normally ask but hes been bugging me constantly and i want to get it to...
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    333 vs 266 fsb

    Will a Antlon 2600 with 333FSB work on a motherboard with 266FSB? Is it dependant on the specific board or would it generally work with the lower FSB? This particular motherboard has a VIA KT 266A chipset.
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    Nvidia drivers revert to old ones after crash

    The other day I was trying to unlock my hardware masked pixel pipelines on my 6800nu, and when it started artifacting i tried to stop the 3D demo I was using to test it. It crashed and I had to do a hard reset. When I started up again, I re-masked the bad pixel unit and then I noticed that my...
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    Far Cry texture corruption

    I've got a 6800nu with 67.66 drivers and, in Far Cry, I get major texture corruption and hitching. There's a huge black square that follows the characters and nothing looks quite right. This is the only game I get any sort of problems with. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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    probot and APC PowerChute software

    I recently got an APC Smart UPS and the Power Chute software that comes with it. After I installed it I noticed pbagent.exe and PBSERV~1.exe constantly running. edit: never mind i didnt read it correctly. pbagent is a keylogger but pbeagent is power chute business edition. sorry! delete post.
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