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firefx problem

Lately my firefox has been behaving adly. When I type in a URL and click enter it takes a whle to load. The status at teh bottom says waiting for ..... and the ame goes when I type a search in the built in google pansearch panel. This only happens sometmes, and when it happens, and I wait for...
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- Aug 17, 2007
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CDRW drive installation problems

Hello. I need some help. I just got a new ECA motherboard with 512 mb of ram and AMD Sempron 64 bit processor. I used a IDE to laptop drive converter to install my laptop harddrive which already contains windows 2000 on it. So I piece everything togethehr and setup bios to boot cdrom first and...
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- Nov 6, 2006
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- Forum: Computer Building
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AT/ATX power question

What does the 5V loop power? And what does the 12 volt loop power?
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- Oct 17, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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AT/ATX power question

A question about the AT/ATX power supply specifications. the 4 pin connector on some low power mainboards has a 5V pin, 2 ground pins, and a 12 V pin. Thisis connected to one of the power sources of the many ATX power supply sockets. What is so special about the voltage/current recieved from...
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- Oct 17, 2005
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
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chekcing usb flash memory bootability

Is there some way I can fgure out wether or not my computer can boot flash from usb? IS there some tool avaialble to check so? Would loading a DOS boot disk onto a memory flash card and plugging it into a usb reader and then seeing if it works work?
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- Aug 12, 2005
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Computer Building
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itx power supply

can someone please tell me where an ITX form board gets the power from, and where on the board the power supply inlet is and what it looks like?
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- Jul 26, 2005
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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win 2003 system tray problem

I have a problem with my windows 2003 system tray. The clock is showing in the bottom right corenr where the usual windows clock is supposed to show up, however other things that are usually supposed to be in the system tray like the speakjer icon and other tray items are not showing up, all...
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- May 4, 2005
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Operating Systems
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windows 2003 compatibility

is it possible to revert from 2003 to xp?
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- May 2, 2005
- Forum: Operating Systems
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The worlds oil supply

precious oil, peopel are suffering for energy sources and cruise ships have to waste it by the gallons just to move some people across the ocean so that they can enjoy time at the sea on a swimming pool on a huge ship. Sheesh
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- Post #49
- May 2, 2005
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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windows 2003 compatibility

I have windows 2003 server edition and I find that certain programs wont run and theys ay that I need this OS or that in order to be able to install. I tried the right clickinga nd changing its compatibility settings under teh compatibility tab and that still wont work, is there anything else...
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- May 2, 2005
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Operating Systems
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have 2 wifi routers, what to do

I have 2 wifi routers, one wifi b and the other is wifi g, the wifi b is just sitting there unused. what interesting things can i do with these two routers? Anything interesting or beneficial or anthing that is interetsing and not beneficial? Can I extend the range of my home network by having...
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- Apr 24, 2005
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Networking
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ati tv tuner card as video mpeg recording

do these cards have this PAL/NTSC restriction?
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- Jan 23, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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ati tv tuner card as video mpeg recording

Hello evceryone, I have a question. I have some old video camera tapes from the past. i want to "put them on my computer" so that they will be preserved and their quality will not continue to fade like the magnetic tapes in which they are currently stored. I would like to store them on my...
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- Jan 23, 2005
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Computer Building
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firewall question

hi i use sygate firewall. i have a question.i run win2k. there are these 2 items that keep bugging me as the firewall keeps telling me taht they are trying to access the net or something, these dont seem like progarms i installed, but they seem more like win2k things, anyways, i do not let them...
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- Jan 16, 2005
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
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alternate shells??

are there any alternate sheels to the default explorer.exe that comes with windows that can make my ssystem much faster?> i.e. less clutter and very down to earth? and very low system usage?
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- Jan 15, 2005
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Operating Systems
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windows boot.ini boot linux?

I installed linux on an already win 2000 installation and dual boot with linux GRUB boot loader. Is it possible to use boot.ini file from windows to boot a linux partition? I understand that i will have toc hange the boot sector for thehd so that it willl normally boot windows 2k. but how do i...
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- Jan 15, 2005
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Operating Systems
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start menu programs chevron

my start menu/programs shows a chevron that i have to click in order to reveal other items in the start menu, this is rathre annoying. how do i get rid of it so that it will just show me all teh menus?
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- Jan 15, 2005
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Operating Systems
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optical mouse problem

hi i bought an ultra cheap namesless brand optical mouse, which claims to have 800 dpi resolution. the problem is that it doesnt even feel like its got 800 dpi resolution (how high is 800 dpi resolution? is that old, present, or futuristic). some of the symptoms are that the mopuse feels more...
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- Jan 9, 2005
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
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ibm os/

The last time I used this OS was on some old junk pc. Can someone tell me more about this os and what this os is primarily used for nowadays? How windows compatible is it? Does it boot real fast?
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- Jan 9, 2005
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Operating Systems
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windows 98 SE boot time

a fresh installation of windows 98 SE on a 1 GHZ (assume celeron processor) box with 256 mbmemory, how many seconds do you think it would take for win 98 se to load up fully that is hard drive stops churning at desktop present. ignore bios post and all that what do you imagin is th fastest...
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- Jan 7, 2005
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Disk size question

I have an 80 GB HD, a P4 1.8, and I barely use more than about 8 GB more than what space the OS occupies (windows 2000 for me). If I reduce the disk size to say a lesser amount and leave all tyhe unused space which I probably will never use as unpartitioned space and leave my c: as about 5 GB...
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- Jan 2, 2005
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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occassional cd drive spinning

While running Windows XP and multi tasking, I notice that the CD drive (or at least I think it is the CD drive) starts spinning and that moment things slow in the background and generally for a few seconds. how do I stop this?
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- Jan 2, 2005
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 2003 logo/driver signing question

Hi, I am using Windows 2003 server, and would like to install Direct x 9c. I downlaoded the install file and opened it, after the installer initializes some things, a windows message pops up saying that this does not pass logo security testing or something. Now, this is a familiar box, but...
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- Dec 31, 2004
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Operating Systems
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UPS question

What is the advanatge of a sine wave one?
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- Post #14
- Dec 30, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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UPS question

Thankyou all. very informative responses. However, what about for a system that uses no monitor, just an economic (in terms of power consumption) box? Here is an example of one, a 200 Watt power supply powering a Celeron chip 2.0 GHz and a DVD ROM drive and 2 USB powered things (like a cheapo...
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- Post #13
- Dec 30, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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UPS question

Hello everyone. I want to buy a UPS. And I have a somewhat silly question. I am looking at buying an average UPS, nothing expensive, but just the average UPS. MOst say that they can power to around from about 30 minutes of backup. I am assuming taht they mean that that is 30 minutes of PC...
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- Dec 30, 2004
- Replies: 13
- Forum: Computer Building
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video card to in-car lcd tft monitor

I have a video card withvideo out of normal and the Video in/out RCA composite wire or whatever it is called. I am also looking at an LCD TFT ~6 inch screen for general toying around purposes. Its resolution according to the specs is something like 1024 (I think) x (some number) . My question...
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- Dec 29, 2004
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
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system resources ? when in 32bit colour mode?

When you set your video mode to 24 bit mode, 32 bit mode, and the such, does a higher bit mode number mean that my system will take up more resources or whatever and will it reduce performance? Sorry for such a noob question, but I was just too curious.
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- Dec 26, 2004
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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hibernate mode power consumption

Hi, compared to when at normal operating state, how much power does a computer in hibernate mode consume? And also, on a new Windows installation, on a 1.0 GHz machine, about how long would you expect the machine to get out of hibernate mode once it has entered hibernation mode? Assuming this...
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- Dec 25, 2004
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
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question about explorer.ee

Thankyou, I would greatly appreciate any help on this
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- Dec 22, 2004
- Forum: Operating Systems
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question about explorer.ee

Hello everyone. I have a question about teh exlporer.exe process. I am creating a custom system for myself which will use a visual basic application upon startup of the system. When a usual Windows 95+ system starts up, the epxlorer.exe loads up? I read somewhere that the explrer.exe process is...
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- Dec 20, 2004
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Operating Systems
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linux live cd question

Suppose you come across the time when you need to use your credit card over the internet to do something like pay for something or buy something, its usually though of as kind of risky. Especially in Windows with all tehse spyware and all that running around. I was just thinking, would it not...
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- Dec 2, 2004
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Operating Systems
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windows 2000 afterclick menufade removal

Hi, Im running win2k. I used tweakUI to remove all the menu fading options. Theres one that I cannot seem to remove, and that is the menu fade effect after clicking on something such as the shortcut icon on one of teh submenus in the sartmenu, or the save button in thefile menu. that is, after...
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- Nov 21, 2004
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Operating Systems
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speed fan question

Hi, I have been playing around with Fan Speed for some time, and did various things. Notably lowering fan speed to ridiculously low lels to reduce fan noise. Sometimes the machine restarts by itself, when I think the fan speed was set so low. Can setting fan speed so low cause your...
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- Nov 17, 2004
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
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Any electronic engineers in here?

Sorry if this topic is out of place, but anyone in here an electonics engineer who can tell me what the difference between electronic and computer systems engineering is? Thanks
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- Nov 17, 2004
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Computer Building
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setting network high speed internet bandwidth limits?

Hi, before asking my question,let me give a few words about my current setup, wo computers using theinternet. HIgh speed internet. Being wirelessly distributed by a Linksys Wireless b router. ONe of the computers gets its connection from wireless, the other diretct network cable from the...
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- Nov 14, 2004
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Networking
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dual processor systems

what are the dual processor systems available for today's consumer home/business pc market? What is the INtel Xeon processors main purpose?
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- Nov 6, 2004
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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the various DVD formats

hi. please help out this noob here. there are a lot of dvd formats out tehre. DVD -R/RW +R, i am confused. can someone generalize what each one is? i understand CDRW and CDR.
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- Nov 4, 2004
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Computer Building
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question about memory thing.

Some time ago I used to do something like turn of page file memory or something like that, not sure what it was, but i think it had something ot do with turning of the thing that the os uses to write memory to the HD instead of the RAM itself, or something like this, andit was suppose to...
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- Oct 31, 2004
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Operating Systems
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alternatives to smoothwall

hi, are there any windows alternatives to smooth wall, any free oens?
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- Oct 30, 2004
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Operating Systems

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