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the_d @ 07-24-08 15:47
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thcn @ 07-24-08 14:15
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monkeydeathsquad @ 07-24-08 11:12
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MadDonkey @ 07-24-08 09:31
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> Anyone have firefox 3?
Posted by the_d - 07-24-08 15:47 - 1 comments
If so, click on the Favicon in the address bar, click on the "Security" tab and take a screenshot.



I need a life. tongue3.gif
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> Media Player for USB Drive
Posted by Erick - 07-24-08 14:37 - 0 comments
I have a 2 GB and 4 GB usb drive and I was wondering if I could install a nice media player program along with codecs that could play DVDs and video files of all types. I'd do this so I could port the drive around to any other PC and be able to play video files from the drive or the PC it's connected to with no problems. If that's possible which media player would work best with a portable drive? Thanks.
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> Help- Computer will not start. CMOS problem?
Posted by thcn - 07-24-08 14:15 - 1 comments
Hi-

My computer started acting up yesterday. When I turned it on, the monitor would turn on. Then, it would begin going through its normal status checks and things, and hang up during the process, right after finding the "Primary Master" "Primary Slave" "Secondary Master" and "Secondary Slave"...

It listed three of the devices and no "Primary Slave".

Then it would freeze, and no matter what keystroke I made, it would not budge.

My dad suggested replacing the CMOS battery, which I did. The comp is seven years old, so it was about time.

I popped in a new CR2303, or whatever the right kind was.

Same thing happened again.

Can I have lummoxed something in the setup? I can still get into the CMOS setup by pressing "Delete", but it always hangs up after checking the slaves.

Thanks, if anyone can help me!
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> New Mobo Help
Posted by monkeydeathsquad - 07-24-08 11:12 - 3 comments
Hey all,
I'm in the early stages of building my first computer and I need some advice on the type of Motherboard I should choose. I have already bought my processor, it's an AMD 64 X2 5600+ 2.8 Ghz, and am looking for a mother board that will work with it (obviously). I have done some research on different makers of motherboards and can't seem to get a straight answer. I'm intersted in getting one that is Phenom ready just in case I ever need to upgrade, but I'm not 100% sure if I even need to bother. Anyway, any advice and opinions on the topic would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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> Removing Outlook so I can reinstall it (corrupt PST file)
Posted by MadDonkey - 07-24-08 09:31 - 1 comments
Hello,

I use Windows Vista and have been using Outlook 2003 for a while. (Note that this is "Outlook" and not "Outlook Express").

For some unknown reason Outlook started repeatedly crashing a few days ago (wouldn't let me do anything, it'd just crash as soon as it opened). After some unsuccessful attempts to fix the .PST file which I believe got corrupted (even the .PST fixing programs I have tried have crashed while attempting to repair it), I decided to give up and just install Outlook 2007 instead and abandon the contents of my inbox. Note that this is pretty annoying for me, but as I have tried for hours for a way to salvage the contents of my inbox with no luck, I have now given up.

So I want to start from scratch. I uninstalled Outlook 2003 and installed Outlook 2007 instead. But it still won't run, telling me my Outlook.PST file needs fixing. But the thing is, I am ready to just erase it all and start with an empty inbox. I want my computer to forget that I ever had a previous version of Outlook installed on it. How can I do that?? I have tried removing the Outlook.PST file in the hope it would then start with a blank one, but no can do, it tells me the file is missing and refuses to start.

Help would be GREATLY appreciated
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> Help fixing the CD/DVD RW drive
Posted by CarnageA - 07-24-08 07:03 - 0 comments
I will get straight to the point.
Half a year ago I discovered that my CD/DVD drive is dead (haven't used it for a long time). Tried to roll it back, reflash it and generally -fix it via my newbie knowledge but it just would not work. Browsed the internet for the solution but could not find any. I am asking for help because now my computer got very buggy and I would like to perform a system recovery via a CD. Any help/hints/pointers would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Here are the specifics:
-Operating system:Windows XP
-CD/DVD drive: NEC DVD+-RW ND-3530A
-the drive is detected in the BIOS
-the properties of the drive state that it is working correctly
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> great problem
Posted by astars - 07-24-08 06:07 - 1 comments
dear everyone
iam new member in this amazing fourm and i want some one to help me with this problem
recently i installed software called free hide folder on my laptop OS windows vista and it is work very good yesterday when i try to open my private folder and open free hide folder software he ask me to enter my password every timei enteed pass tell me that is invalid password password is wrong what can i do to enter my file plz anyone tell me if i change my windows this problem will solve or not i will wait for ur help


anyway thank u very much for help
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> Hard Drive File Recovery
Posted by Stu - 07-24-08 02:01 - 1 comments

Hi All,

Recently i thought that my PC was getting a bit slow so thought i would completely reinstall windows and start a fresh, but i did not want to do this on the HD that windows was running off at the moment, as i have lots of valuble data on there. So i thought i would use my secondary 500GB SATA HD instead, also with a lot of valuble things on there ie. music, films etc.

So what i did was to disconnect my main 80GB IDE HD that windows was running off and make the SATA drive my main one. So i booted up off my windows XP disk and started to go through to setup process, it came to a section where it talks about partitions and the setup wanted to format my drive, upon reading this i stopped the setup, as i did not want to lose my data. I put my PC back to its original state and loaded up XP as usual to find that my secondary HD does not have a name like before and when i double click on it, it says: this drive is not formatted, do i want to format it now.

So i was just wondering if there is any way of retrieving the data i had on it before, as i did not think installing windows would have lost me this data

Your help on this would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
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> Data theft problem
Posted by QuestionBoy - 07-24-08 01:54 - 2 comments
USB Security

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Do you think that nowadays the Data theft can ""get"" the valuable and

secret information much more quickly and convince becoz of the larger

volume and faster speed USb flash disk appear???

My office's client data also almost stole by an evil officer by this tiny thing!!!!


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Could we have anything to do to solve this serious problem!!??
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> Video/Graphics Problem
Posted by Frankenstein8 - 07-23-08 22:42 - 1 comments
Hello all,
Hopefully someone on here can give me a hand with this. I've got a Gateway 420gr desktop, that I have rebuilt because in blew up about a year ago. I put in a new motherboard and hard drive and every thing is working fine so far. Except this, every now and again I get a surge in my monitor that looks like...i guess you could say a short, but it doesn't last long at all. A second if that, but it does 2 or 3 times and it's done for a while. But it does do it over and over. I am wondeing what the cause of this is. I have checked my settings and everything seems ok. Could this be a driver problem? or is it the monitor? Could it be the video or graphics card?
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Justin
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> Audio/Recording issues
Posted by rra_incognito - 07-23-08 22:18 - 3 comments
Audio Problem
Sounds in my browser, such as the audio from youtube and revver are much quieter than the output from non-internet related programs, like frostwire and WMP.

Recording problem
My voice comes through very quiet in Counterstrike, Skype, and Teamspeak.

Is there a program that i could download that would increase the volume/mic volume without distortion?

Headset:Plantronics .audio 370
Sound: Onboard Realtek HD audio (Asus P5N-E)
OS: Vista... I use a different sound card for XP

Thanks
mike
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> System Crash :(
Posted by zimbra - 07-23-08 21:23 - 4 comments
I have a hardware/ softwear problem ( I think hardware) where my whole system crashes durring more processor intensive games. The game simply freezes up for about 4 seconds then it's lights out. I am haveing this problem with a new system I just built (it's my first build so forgive me if I'm a little clueless). The system is a quad core barbone kit that had everything, but cd drive hard drive and os. Thats important because I recycled my operating system, hard drives and cd drives from my old computer (a compaq persario). I'm using a 2002 version of winows xp home with service pack 3. I think it could be a hardwear problem because the games it crashes on (c&c 3 and civ 4 mainly) worked just fine on my previos computer, but I think it could also, maybe, be a softwear problem because my version of windows xp is a compaq tweaked version (slightly modified for a few features to make it a little different). I was wondering if maybee that factor may play a role. And by the way, when the system re-boots there is NO error message, just hap-happy windows. It's not an overheating problem either because the CPU temp is well within max limits (53C@ max Load).

My system:
Intel Q6600 2.4ghz
Intel DG31PR Motherboard
Power Up GEN-6803 800w psu
2gb corsair ddr2800
Windows XP home edition v2002 w/ sp3

Please Help! I would hate to have to return my new comp,
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> LAN not connect
Posted by wuster - 07-23-08 16:14 - 4 comments
well
i have a gateway laptop.... i usually connect it to my dsl LAN connection... to get internet... it usually works but this time it says i need to renew my IP address.... how do i do so..?

i am new to this site.

thanks for any help....
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> What happened to my flash player and why can't i download?
Posted by jurnalynn - 07-23-08 15:34 - 8 comments
ok after weeks of trying to find the answer to this question i have come to the conclusion i can't figure it out myself......i have windows vista and i used to have flashplayer now its gone i have tried downloading it several times i can't i have downladed javaserveral times just in case it was a problem with that............can anyone help please
thank you
Laura
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> wireless router help!
Posted by turnpikesteven - 07-23-08 15:22 - 7 comments
hi, today I got home from work and my wireless router is not working. Well, it's flashing. No signal coming from the modem into the router. Signal is fine if I go direct from the modem to the pc. Cable is fine. Now, I've tried resetting the router, unplugging it for a while, etc. Any idea how to get it back up and running? It's not all that old maybe one year. It's a WBR-2310.

Also, I have another D-link wireless modem here, but I don't have software for it. Can it be used without software installation? I tried just plugging it in to everything and all I got was flashing...

Thanks so much for any and all help!
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