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My Machine 64-bit? by
Jethro
How can I tell if my machine is 64-bit? Put it another way, how can I
tell if the mobo/cpu should take a 64-bit install of W7?
Thanks
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External IDE Drive problem by
jvalh[_2_]
Greetings experts :-)
About a year ago I bought an external IDE drive and it has had very
little use. I had not used it for about 6 months and now it seems not to
work. The HD enclosed was a 320 GB WD3200AAJB, WD Caviar Blue. The white
light came on with the switch but there was no sound from...
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Two OS on boot-up by
Petrus Tax
Hello,
Recently I installed XP Pro after having reformatted the HD (which before
carried XP Home Edition). Now I get on boot-up both OS announced, XP Pro in
the first line, XP Home Edition in the second. If I wait 25 or so seconds,
XP Pro loads, but if I push Enter, it loads immediately. If I...
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My Machine 64-bit? by
Jethro
How can I tell if my machine is 64-bit? Put it another way, how can I
tell if the mobo/cpu should take a 64-bit install of W7?
Thanks
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March 31st 11 10:55 AM
by Paul
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Boot order for flash drive by
Jon Danniken[_4_]
Hello,
I am trying to run memtest86+. I have a flash drive, upon which I loaded
the boot software from memtest.org.
Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get it to boot.
In my BIOS, I have boot order options for USB which include usb-fdd,
usb-hdd, usb-zip, and usb-cdrom. I tried setting it to...
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March 31st 11 01:31 AM
by Paul
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New Machine by
philo[_4_]
A friend of mine needs to buy a new desktop or tower and asked me for
advice.
Though I've been building machines for many years I have never once gone
out and purchased a new one...so have no idea what's good now days.
I really don't have time now to build a new one...nor do I think I'd
save...
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March 31st 11 12:58 AM
by Paul
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Re-Use Dell Monitor by
TheScullster
Hi all
Is there any reason why I shouldn't use an old Dell flat screen on a new Win
7 64 bit PC?
The screen has a VGA cable which currently has a plug-in converter to adapt
from VGA to something clever at the graphics card.
Do modern Win 7 PCs still come with VGA out ports as standard?
Will the...
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March 29th 11 07:13 PM
by Jim T.
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What would cause a computer to simply stop? by
Doc[_2_]
The major components are a Gigabyte mobo, Antec Earthwatts 380 watt
PSU, 2.33 gig Core2 Duo, XP Pro, 320 gig WD Caviar PATA C: drive, 320
gig WD Caviar SATA aux drive.
After replacing some bad ram a couple of days ago, the machine was
running like the proverbial Swiss watch until today when it...
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Distro for HP by
Doomed Soul
I installed Xubuntu on a HP dc5700 s 64bit. Maybe some of you remember
me, but I almost had everything working and when I downloaded my last
fix it screwed up more than it fixed. Instead of trying to chase my
tail around any further I think I would be better off just starting
over with a new...
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Faking a PWM fan by
Keve Nagy
Hello Everyone,
I need your help with a hardware electronics question.
There is a standard PWM 4-pin male connector socket on my motherboard
for case fan. I replaced the factory case fan and CPU fan with a far
more efficient and silent CPU cooler, so now there is nothing connected
to the case...
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DVD problems w/ Ubuntu by
Doomed Soul
A few months back I Formated a HP Compaq dc5700 (small form) buisness
comp and
Installed Xubuntu on it, and this is my first experience with Linux. I
had issues with the cd/dvd right off the bat and posted about it a
while back. Well I got most of it working now. Took me 2 weeks to get
cd audio...
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Router education by
Motor T
I want to provide Internet access to a 2nd home PC without having to
drag the modem and cable clear into the next room,(40ft.). I have been
told I can use a wireless router and it will just locate the signal
from the 1st PC and connect using that. I have no knowledge concerning
routers and have...
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March 19th 11 03:22 AM
by mm
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Looking for laptops by
Jgke
To be exact, mid-level laptops with the price around 500-600€ / 600-700$. Model is enough, I'll later search within my own country's shops ;)
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March 14th 11 05:02 PM
by Jgke
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New XP build finally ordered :) by
John
I finally settled on:
Board:
ASUS P5KPL-AM EPU LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
$63 (w/ shipping) Item=N82E16813131615
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131615&Tpk=N82E16813131615
Processor:
Intel Core2 Duo E7500 Wolfdale 2.93GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W...
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March 13th 11 06:25 PM
by John
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Laptop questions by
Roy[_5_]
Hello group
As It pertains to hardware I would like to know.
Supposing you use the particular laptop as your main computer 7 days
a week.
Which is better for a notebook in terms of longevity of its
components ( level of depreciation also) : having always too boot up
when and then power shut...
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Same laptop - different question by
Menno Hershberger
This is the same laptop I just posted a hard drive problem with a couple od
days ago. An HP Mini 210 1U80NR.
I put in a new hard drive and the customer provided me with a Windows 7
installation CD. Everything went fine except for the display driver.
Windows update can't find it. HP support...
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Need driver help by
Doomed Soul
I just formated a HP Compaq dc5700 (small form) buisness comp and
Installed Xubuntu on it. I am finding out that getting drivers for
this thing isn't as straite forward as windows. I went to HP site and
(no suprise) no support for linux there. I tried the internal search
for drivers tool and it...
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BIOS Problem by
shafi2
Hi, I am a newbie here - need some help.
Yesterday, after putting the PC on I was able to go to windows without
any problem, however I got a message that New Hardware Found - Find
and Install Drivers. I noticed that It was referring to the SCSI
controller device.
Then after a while I had to restart...
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March 8th 11 06:31 AM
by shafi2
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OT - Large ISO by
[email protected]
This may be OT but I didn't know where else to post this.
I found a hard drive with an installation package on it consisting of
two ISO files in two separate folders. The ISO files are each over
7GB in size and extract to folders larger than that.
I tried installing from the extracted files from...
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March 7th 11 04:39 PM
by Paul
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