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Leaking Motherboard Capacitors by
Mooreslaw
Greetings. Just read an article that states Abit is facing a class
action suit for delivering motherboards with capacitors that may fail.
Does anyone know if the MSI Neo series is affected?
Thanks.
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March 11th 05 12:29 AM
by kony
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What can the collective say about a UPS? by
Bob
On 10 Aug 2005 15:38:26 -0400, mmX
wrote:
Advice, comments, complaints, questions, concerns... all welcome.
Take it back, get a refund and buy Tripp Lite 750 VA Internet UPS
(UPS-INTERNET750U) for $62 from Directron.
Then call Tripp Lite in Chicago and talk...
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August 13th 05 04:34 PM
by Bob
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Need Advice by
Andy
To All Cognoscenti,
I had a desktop computer built by a local outfit 22 months ago. It's
equipped with a Maxtor 6Y120PO hard drive in a slide-out cage. Shortly
after taking delivery of the unit I discovered that the tiny fan built into
the front of the slide-out cage was missing. An inquiry to...
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August 14th 05 02:33 AM
by Andy
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How much is this setup worth..? by
J
I just upgraded my computer, and a friend of mine with very basic
word-processing needs wants to buy my old one. I'm looking for some
recommendation on what to charge him for it.
One thing worth mentioning here is that this friend sold me his car two
years ago, and didn't give me anykind of...
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Problems with BIOS Update by
ed.
Hi, All
I piecing together a MB from componets and without hesitating Flashed the
BIOS to the latest edition. The upgrade displayed "success", I then
rebooted the computer and I directly went into the CMOS. And it looks like
two items are missing.
The CMOS does not show any temperature...
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When Do You Need A HDD Cooler? by
Gary Brown
Hi,
I will be buying a 250GB HDD, brand undecided. Will
it need a cooler? It will be for archiving so accesses
might be few, if that matters.
Thanks,
Gary
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September 30th 05 02:52 PM
by kony
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ati radeon x800 pro disappointment by
spawn
Hello,
Recently I have replaced my graphical card. The old one was a geforce
4200 Ti, the new one ati radeon x800 pro and I am very disappointed.
For example I can't play doom3 at 800x600 without AA/AF !!!!!!!
Tomshardware mentioned a framerate of 84 fps, if I run the demo I have
have a framerate...
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October 18th 05 03:43 PM
by kony
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Raid drive dead, now what? by
Michael C
I'm using 4 drives in a raid 1 config (2 for the OS and 2 for data) and one
of the drives is already dead. I removed it and the machine is still running
fine. I'm sending the drive off for RA and should have a replacement soon.
What do I do when I get the new drive, just shove it back in? Or do I...
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insulating sheet for hard drive PCB by
[email protected]
Hi,
I just had to buy a replacement for my dead laptop hard drive (Hitachi
Travelstar in an Armada E500). The original drive has its printed
circuit board insulated with an adhesive sheet of silver-colored
plastic. Does anybody know a company that makes this kind of insulating
sheet, or, even...
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Real bus speeds of Via 266 chipset and DDR by
Jon D
I'm posting to get some advice about REAL bus speeds.
I want to know how much my chipset and processor would benefit from
different memory. The trouble is that I have become confused by
"effective bus speed" and "actual bus speed" and "nominal bus speed"
and so on.
As you may be tired of hearing...
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July 28th 05 11:43 PM
by Sleepy
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June 25th 05 12:55 PM
by Bob
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Simple Hardware Clock question by
[email protected]
Ok, so I just read that the clock synchronizes other hardware
components of a computer szystem; meaning that, because the processor
is faster than the RAM for instance, or the hard-disk, the next CPU
instruction is delayed till the next clock tick, in order to ensure
that each component completes...
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on speed - any good or not? by
Geezer
Theres a lot of very seductive ads in the uk press at the moment for
onspeed. Does anyone use it or have any evidence that it works?
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February 22nd 05 08:43 PM
by kony
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bad capacitors? by
Zdenek Sojka
Hello,
can be these caps reason for my PC instability? Even on 1.85V is my Duron
1300 producing faults at Prime95...
http://www.volny.cz/smatt/caps/
MB is Abit KT7, VIA KT133.
Thanks
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March 23rd 05 03:45 AM
by kony
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BIOS update problem by
Bobby
As some of you will know, I've been having problems with the new SATA hard
disk.
So I tried to upgrade the BIOS of my Asus K8 SE Deluxe motherboard. I used
the flash update tool and everything appeared to work perfectly - but now my
PC doesn't work at all.
It resets either during boot or at login...
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cannot get into windows or safe mode... by
[email protected]
on ibm thinkpad laptop 380 ... and occasionally get: exception oe
0028:c001539a in vxd--- . it has the original windows 98 with fat16.
i recently installed a backpack cd-rw and canon bjc-2100 and then this
started. it shows the windows 98 screen and then goes to the "windows
did not shut down...
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April 6th 05 08:42 PM
by Shep©
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hardware making resonating noise by
MDX
Hi
I have a WD carnivar 80GIG 7200RPM harddrive. It is pretty quiet when it is
actually reading/writing data. However, when it's idle(like now, i am just
typing), it is constantly making this resonating noise, which is driving me
nuts. I feel like I am next to a drill all the time. Do you guys...
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AMD-K7 Upgrade by
Bennett Price
I've got a roughly 5 year old PC with an AMD-K7 600 MHz Slot A CPU. Is
there a faster processor that I can just drop in to make the machine
faster? I'm not interested in overclocking. Do all the Slot A CPU's
take the same heat sink configuration or, assuming a faster CPU would
work, must I get...
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Midi and gameport issues by
Shep©
On 6 Jun 2005 14:38:24 -0400 He understood Liz1 so well askolepaul
wrote :
I’m unable to resolve the following two problems. In my Device
Manager I constantly have two conflicts, one being the MPU-401
Compatible Midi Device and the other being Gameport...
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June 12th 05 12:03 AM
by Shep©
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XP failing to install by
[email protected]
This really is about hardware.
6 months ago my son in London tried to re-install XP. He couldn't get
the HD to format. The system hung part way through.
Assuming it to be the HD he bought a new 160Gb HD but got the same
result. The next thing was to check the memory by taking out one of
the two...
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December 20th 05 08:31 PM
by
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