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Memory issue with i5 3570k and Asus P8Z77-V LX mobo...

Doesn't help directly, but for reference I have the very similar P8Z77-V-LK and have no problems with a set of Mushkin 997046 (not on the list) in the blue slots. Running using the XMP profile.
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- Post #7
- May 16, 2012
- Forum: Motherboards
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The PC and Skyrim - An Issue of Porting

Look, if you think Oblivion was one of the best games ever you should have no problem with "console ports", of Skyrim or anything else for that matter. As a fan of the series since Arena, Oblivion completely broke my heart (although it was still an enjoyable game that I didn't feel ripped off...
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- Post #32
- Apr 20, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
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Post your videocard history.

lol...this is probably screwed up, but off the top of my head. 1. A long list of nothing that ever mattered much as long as it wasn't a "windows accelerator" 2. Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo1) - MW2 and QuakeWorld: OMFG!!!! 3. Intel i740 4. Radeon DDR 32 5. GF3 Ti200 6. Radeon 9700 Pro 7. 7800GT...
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- Post #99
- Mar 31, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Upgrade/Fresh build for moderate gaming

Any brand recommendations for ATI cards? My last ATI card was back when you could still get them ATI branded.
- jfunk
- Post #10
- Mar 31, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Upgrade/Fresh build for moderate gaming

Just to be clear, I know I wouldn't be gaming on the IGP, I just meant as something to keep the machine running on during a GPU RMA or something like that. I was thinking the value of it would more be about the possibility to eventually use the mobo in a media center PC once I'm done with it...
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- Post #8
- Mar 31, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Upgrade/Fresh build for moderate gaming

Thanks for the suggestions so far guys. Thanks, it's nice to hear from somebody that did the same upgrade. This has I think convinced me to at least try the GPU upgrade first. As stahlhart mentioned, it can't hurt. I can always just move the GPU over if it doesn't cut it. I also want to...
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- Post #5
- Mar 31, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Upgrade/Fresh build for moderate gaming

Man, it's been a while and I'm out of the loop. Not sure what's going on with all these chipset options. Anyway, my machine is starting to get a little long in the tooth and I'm not sure how to proceed on a limited budget. Current setup: Core2 E8400 3Ghz Asus P5Q Pro 4GB (2X2) Mushkin...
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- Thread
- Mar 31, 2011
- Replies: 13
- Forum: Computer Building
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Xbox 360 controller for windows.

Sorry to res this old thread, but I just bought a wired 360 controller to use on my PC. Everything works fine, but the green lights around the "X" button won't stop flashing and it's kind of annoying. Is there any fix for that? Thanks. j
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- Post #22
- Jan 17, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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Batch file to move all subdirectories except one

Hey all, thanks for the help. Sorry I was MIA for a while there, had some priority stuff come up and this kind of got pushed aside, then I went on vacation. I completely forgot about Robocopy! Thanks for the reminder, that will certainly do the trick...I actually have that installed on...
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- Post #10
- Aug 1, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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Batch file to move all subdirectories except one

Not sure how to do this. I have an application that produces various files inside folders named by date. It also produces index files named by date in the root folder. I want to have a scheduled task to run at the end of every month to move all of the folders to a different location...
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- Thread
- Jul 17, 2009
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Programming
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Street Fighter IV PC - $37 on Amazon

Can you guys provide some links to places to check out sticks? I haven't played fighting games in ages (SF2 and VF2) and I'd love to play this. Not sure how much I can justify spending on a stick I'll probably wind up never using, but I'd like to see what's out there. Can you play this...
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- Post #32
- Jan 29, 2009
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Sins of a Solar Empire for $20 at Target

If you know RTSs, it's really not that hard. It's actually very slow paced compared to most, so you shouldn't have much trouble. You're not going to know what's going on the first time or two, since it's not quite the same as the standard Warcarft style, but if you have any experience with 4X...
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- Post #24
- Jan 29, 2009
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Sins of a Solar Empire for $20 at Target

Some clarification. Impulse is required to get the patches for the game, but not to play the game. The comparisons to Steam are somewhat incorrect in that regard. If Impulse disappears tomorrow, it won't affect your ability to play the game.
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- Post #20
- Jan 28, 2009
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Restaurant.com - 70% off

Err, apparently you haven't been paying much attention to what's happening around you in the world for your entire life. It's completely legal, at least in every state that I'm aware of, to not pay wait staff minimum wage specifically because of tipping. It's considered part of their pay, even...
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- Post #50
- Jan 28, 2009
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Fingerprints on "New" Asus p5q pro

I just got this board from them last week. My static bag was not sealed, no stickers or tape. Everything looked clean on mine, except the CPU socket cap was dislodged. No damaged pins though. So far everything is rock solid with it.
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- Post #5
- Sep 10, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asus P5Q Deluxe, XP 64-bit and AHCI/SATA problem

I haven't done any research into this at this point, but just off the top of my head why don't you try installing in IDE mode, then enabling the AHCI driver in Vista post-install, then change it to AHCI in the BIOS. Should work.
- jfunk
- Post #2
- Sep 7, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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ASUS A8V Motherboard question

Yes, you can just plug on drive into your SATA ports. You do not HAVE to use RAID, it's just an option.
- jfunk
- Post #2
- Sep 7, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Aus P5Q Pro no video signal on warm restart until monitor power cycled

Just upgraded my system. Still using the same video card (EVGA 8800 GT). Whenever I warm restart the system, I do not get a video signal to the monitor until it boots fully into Vista (as soon as the desktop screen comes up the monitor detects a signal and wakes up). If I cycle power on the...
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- Thread
- Sep 6, 2008
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 mobo & Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 LGA 775CPU = $269.98 + FS

Looking for parts right now, so I was tempted, but I think I'll just go for the e8400 instead. I don't really have any use for quad core ATM and the e8400 should outperform this at stock speeds for gaming, correct?
- jfunk
- Post #5
- Aug 15, 2008
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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XP SP3 breaking random printer drivers

Has anybody else experienced this and/or have a fix? I recently installed SP3 on two groups of machines. In group one, all identical machines with the same software image on them, several machines wound up with broken print drivers of various HP deskjet models. In each case, you just get...
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- Thread
- Jun 3, 2008
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Operating Systems
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8800GT or 9600GT

Yeah, I think the only confusion here is people are talking about the 256MB 8000GT for some reason. Why? The 512 8800GT can be had for less or equal to the 9600GT right now (around $150), so what gives? Whether it's 10% or 20% faster, it's still faster and it costs the same, so why choose the...
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- Post #36
- May 17, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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EVGA 8800GT w/ 2-slot cooler for $162 shipped AR

Yeah, I saw that. Tempting, but I can't bring myself to gamble on ECS though. I considered the MSI GTS for $194, but since I keep my cards for a long time (my old stuff goes into the wife's PC), in the end I decided to stick with the EVGA warranty. Would have preferred the GTS obviously...
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- Post #3
- May 17, 2008
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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EVGA 8800GT w/ 2-slot cooler for $162 shipped AR

Haven't seen this posted. Cheaper than a GTS, but with better cooling than the average 8800GT. Not sure what the difference between this cooler and the Akimbo cooler is, but this is much cheaper. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130357
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- Thread
- May 16, 2008
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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How LONG can SLI setups last......

You'll get better performance on average over the years by buying a single $200-250 video card every 2 years than by spending all that cash at once up front. 10 years ago gaming PCs had Riva TNT or Voodoo2 in them, and that was only for the hardcore. EVERYTHING still had software rendering...
- jfunk
- Post #18
- May 15, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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MSI and Gigabyte one in the same?

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this. I'm shopping for an 8800GTS 512 and just looking into if there are any companies other than EVGA and XFX that I should consider (so far it doesn't look like it). But, when I looked into MSI and Gigabyte to see their warranties, I couldn't help but...
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- Thread
- May 15, 2008
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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LCD light bright at bottom, dark at top

It's definitely one light and all that, but the alignment to a certain sheet could be an issue. Can you be more specific as to what sheet you are referring to? Is the reflector plate supposed to be between one of the actual LCD layers? I have the reflector sitting between the clear glass pane...
- jfunk
- Post #3
- Mar 7, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
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LCD light bright at bottom, dark at top

Dell Inspiron 6000 15.4". ltn154x2-l02 panel. Had a bad backlight (pink). I've never done it before, but I figured for $30 why not try to replace the backlight and see what happens. I managed to get the swap done, but I'm not sure what I screwed up or even if this problem existed before...
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- Thread
- Mar 7, 2008
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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Free Cable TV online

mfl
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- Post #183
- Dec 2, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Vista DHCP problem

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Turns out it was Norton Security Suite. I was getting General Failures even trying to ping loopback. Started getting these "file not found" errors when attempting to do a /release. Then I noticed that Norton had last done an autoupdate during the...
- jfunk
- Post #5
- Nov 8, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista DHCP problem

OK, I'm sure you've all read about the issue with Vista not connecting to some home routers properly. A client has a real bad case of this that I cannot fix and I'm looking for ideas. I've already done all of the following: Microsoft's registry fix...
- jfunk
- Thread
- Nov 7, 2007
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Operating Systems
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AMD x2 3800+ socket 939 Toledo (OEM): $69.99 shipped at Newegg

Consider the 4200+ as well if you're looking at the combo. You get $30 off instead of $15, so the combo is only $20 more total: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819103053
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- Post #10
- Jul 10, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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The 16-Ton Monty Python DVD Megaset $34.98 + $1.00 Shipping

Myself and two friends who ordered also received an email today stating it was delayed until the 22nd.
- jfunk
- Post #30
- Jun 5, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Weird problem with ntbackup

Forgot to mention, I'm backing up to files on the local drive, not to tape or elsewhere. Still tried your suggestion, but no change. There are no ntbackup entries in the application log for the jobs that don't work properly. (nor any entries of any kind in either the application or system...
- jfunk
- Post #3
- Mar 7, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Weird problem with ntbackup

I have a NAS running Windows Storage Server. It has mapped drives to several old Netware servers that it backs up using ntbackup every night. For some reason, I can't get scheduled backups to work against one particular server. The backup starts and exits with no error after about .03...
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- Thread
- Mar 7, 2007
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Operating Systems
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corrupt profile in xp?

You should be able to see your old profiles in C:\Documents and Settings\ and can just copy the files to the new one. (I believe the new profile it made for you will be called "user.001" or something like that.) This won't do anything to correct any problem that may exist that caused the...
- jfunk
- Post #2
- Mar 6, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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my XP is acting strange

Do you turn off your on-access virus scan when running apps. I've seen the mouse act like that on machines during heavy disk access with on-access scan running.
- jfunk
- Post #2
- Mar 6, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Trying to setup newsreader on Freespire

Yeah, I'm sure the server works (newshosting) and the files are there, I can download the same files on my windows xp machine just fine. I'll give pan a try.
- jfunk
- Post #7
- Mar 6, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows XP: How do you add a program to execute using Start --> Run?

Geez, sorry...he had just said that regedit was a little above his head. Is there some particular reason that he should not use the path statement?
- jfunk
- Post #7
- Mar 6, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows XP: How do you add a program to execute using Start --> Run?

It can only see exe's that exist in the PATH set in the Environment variables as talked about above. It doesn't get much easier than changing that setting, you just click edit, stick a semicolon at the end of the line and add the path to the folder where Opera exists. Alternately, you could...
- jfunk
- Post #4
- Mar 5, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Boot to DOS?

There's a lot of stuff you can configure in DOSbox. I play some old games via it with no problem, but I've never tried something like giving hardware access to anything. Most people that have performance problems don't realize that you can adjust the speed. Not saying you didn't know...
- jfunk
- Post #5
- Mar 5, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems

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