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    Athlon 64 3700+ 754

    I am looking to upgrade my desktop that is showing it's age and was hoping to do it on the cheap, as I am not making much money these days. I currently have a the 3000+ and was looking to upgrade it the 3700+ as that is as far as I can go with this mobo. The problem is, I can't find this...
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    Toshiba Satellite X205-S9800 Problem

    I have a big problem with my laptop, one or both of my cooling fans is out and my laptop is overheating. I cant afford the downtime of shipping out to toshi for 2-6weeks for repairs. Anyone know of anywhere I can buy replacement fans for it? I have searched the net and have't come up with...
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    Intel i7-940 or Core2 Q9550, that is the question....

    I am going to be upgrading my trusty desktop once again in the next few months, and I again am looking to "Future proof" things as much as possible. Right now I have to get past the debate of which processor to run. I have settled on Intel (sadly I really like pulling for AMD when they were...
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    Laptop Graphics Driver Issues gaming

    Hey all, I am having a problem with my graphics on my Toshiba Satellite X205-S9800 with a Nvidia Geforce 8700M GT graphics. The problem is finding stable and good performace drives for gaming. I have tried a bunch, and most are not stable. Any ideas on some solid drivers would be great. Thanks
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    laptop motherboard question

    I recently bought a Toshiba Satellite x205-9800 http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_outFrm.jsp?moid=1909336&rpn=PSPB9U&ct=DS&soid=1944955&BV_SessionID=@@@@1577126883.1205683863@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdadedijhjddkcgfkceghdgngdgmn.0 and I am trying to find out what the motherboard will...
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    Graphics Card upgrade help

    Hey all, for x-mas I want to upgrade my gf's graphics card on her laptop but I am finding it difficult to get info as to if it can be upgraded or not. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A55-S106. I have tried toshiba's website but I can't seem to get any info. Any ideas as to how I can find...
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    changing system name

    When I was having problems with my system and installed XP Home on a backup harddrive I just named my system quickly planning to change it later if it worked, but now I can't remember how to do it! C:\Documents and Settings\Willie aka Hop Along\Desktop How do I change this system wide?
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    Puzzling Hardware Failures

    I recently took my computer out of storage after a year, it was fully working when it went in, but had now where to keep it or use it as I am OTR truck driver now. Well, I decided to set it up at my GF's house, and be damned if it would power up. I traced the problem to my "brand new" PSU that...
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    User Account Problems

    When I setup a new user account I run into a ton of problems. The most agravating is that when logged in to a user account, if I try to close a internet window (clicking the "X") the browser crashes, everytime. When I use the guest account it will only access the intRAnet and cannot access the...
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    Looking to get a laptop

    I am looking to buy my first laptop and am looking to get something full featured as a replacement for my desktop. (I am now an long-haul truck driver) I need alot of storage space, wi-fi, good graphics for games, large screen. Can you mobile folks out there shed some light on some good...
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    Looking for bluetooth keyboard

    Hey all, I am looking for a bluetooth foldable/portable keyboard for my Motorola V710 cell phone. As my phone will soon become my only access to the world I would like to get a keyboard for updating my blog. trying to type a post with the keypad takes forever. Any ideas?
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    Need Fast Help, Can't burn a audio Cd that will work in my car!

    I rented a CD-RW to make some audio cd's for a long road trip I will be taking. It is a Iomega 52X24X52. Problem is everything that I burn from my MP3 collection on my PC to CD-R's won't work in my car! I have burned tons of music cd's in the past and play those in my car all the time with no...
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    Wholly PC implosion batman!!!

    Well this past weekend (friday actually) my PC decided to have total meltdown. The scary part is I am not sure what is causing the problem. I have a guess but that is all. It all started when I came home and found my PC locked up in the middle of a backup, so I rebooted the machine. I...
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    XVid movie problem

    I downloaded a copy of a movie that I own, actually I somehow own 2 copies of it, anyway, I Dl'ed it off a bittorrent site. What I ended up with is about 25 .rar files each containing a .avi all named the same. How do I deal with this? Is there a batch program that combines all these files...
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    Trojan/hijack problem NEED HELP BAD!

    Hey all hope you can help me with this. I downloaded what I thought was a codec to watch a vid, turns out it was a trojan. The trojan is listed by AVG as Collected.6.BC It aparently also has a very nice browser hijack built in called "startsearch" that sends me to startsearch.c0m (DO NOT GO...
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    Web cam questions

    Can anyone recomend a Web Cam that can be connect to a laptop that will take pics at a specific interval and then upload to a webpage? How would this be done?
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    I started a Blog today!

    Well today I broke down and started my first blog. http://mavericsadventure.blogspot.com/ So if you get a chance stop by and let me know what you think. Also if your a CSS god/godess could you tell me how to make the main posting section wider?
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    MSN homepage down for the last week?

    Anyone else having this problem? If not how do I fix it? Been like this for over a week now.
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    Quick Mobo question

    A friend of mine is going to give me a X700 vid card when he upgrades to the X850. Problem is, is that the X700 is a PCI-E card and my current mobo doesn't support it. Which means that I would have to buy another new mobo (I just got this one :dead: ). I am also concerned about my processor...
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    WinXP services problem - URGENT

    I have a problem. I was trying to use windows fax service but it kept crashing. After investigating the problem I decided to try removing the service and re-installing it from the "add/remove windows components". I sucessfully (or so I thought) removed the fax service and went to re-install it...
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