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    upgrade advise please

    Hi i wonder if you can help me out here I have a limited budget to perform an upgrade with (£500) My current system is CPU: AMD +3200 MoBo: Abit UL8 1gb PC3200 DDR SDRAM Nvidia 7600GT 256mb (AGP) SB Audigy 2 platnium x2 Maxtor 6Y120L0 120gb HDD (IDE) 500w PSU Would it be worth just...
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    Youth Group PC suite

    This will sound a bit like scrounging I need some help if possible the Belfast Youth Group I do some work with is looking to get a suite of PC's however they don't have a lot of money to play with and i was wondering if anybody here could either point me in the direction of somewhere in the...
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    Help totally confused

    Right i'm lost here, haven't a clue what is up so suggestions please My symptons are complete system lockup at various times doesnt seem to be anything specific ie when i'm playing games which would point me towards conflicts or drivers. I sorta upgraded i installed 2 case fans, a HDD...
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    Hardware suggestions please

    Thanks for viewing :) I got my hands on a Realtek RTL8029 5 port "PCI" hub and now i want to see if i can get a similar product. The realtek is only 10 not a 10/100 and seems to only work in half duplex so i was wondering if anybody knows of a 10/100 version. You may ask why do i want a...
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    USB - Power surge on hub port ???

    HELP !!! I just reinstalled and I keep getting the following message "Power surge on hub port" now my USB ports won't work. How for the weird part I've put in a higher spec PSU so power ain't the prob (unless it fried the ports) I haven't connected anything to the ports so there is no power...
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    Sound Card Advice, pretty please

    I need some advice from the Hardware Gods After Upgrading my Mobo etc I've been having real probs with my soundcard. I have a SB Live 5.1 Plat it keeps BSODing and I was wondering if there is an alternative out there. I really want to have a "live drive" type thing. (I've tried the VIA...
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    Task Manager PROBLEMS !!!!

    HELP !!! it's gone wrong very very wrong !!! Taskmanager now looks like this I hve admin rights when it should look like this Any suggestions
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    Daft question about DMA

    OK here it is I have a CL Soundblaster live 5.1 Plat and I have been advised if I want all the pops and crackles to stop I need to DISABLE DMA on my HDDs. I was under the impression that if I do that then the disk performance will go down, is this true or am I being totaly thick ??? I have...
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    NOCHEX email scam !!!

    FYI I just recieved an email from NOCHEX asking for my credit card details (I HAVEN'T REPLIED) I have used them before but the return address is NOCHEX Account Departament <resist.x@ajacied.com> It's SPAM This is on thier official forum You may have received a spoof email...
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    I need some advice on hardware !!!

    Thanks for reading this ! :) I'm on a real tight budget and I need to repair/upgrade my machine the MoBo is about to die on me and I'm not too sure what to go for AMD or Intel. I have/had an PIII 500 with PC100 memory SB Live 5.1 GeForce 2MX Adaptec SCSI card 3Com 3c905b NIC...
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