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i have noticed a nice performance increase. hows the update been for you?

Donky please dont show her this thread. seriously thats a bad move. i agree with swansen. you have to let the situation play out a bit. its too easy for her to shut you down on account of the other guy. try to get to know her. seriously the best relationships start out with a good friendship. my...

update ---> i have run the Phoenix bios self test and the result says "#1- 07 fail" YAY!!! i know exactly what that means.... no seriously how must i know what that means? i dont see the point of error codes like that. can anyone who does actually know how to find out what that means please...

Hello :) I was reinstalling XP on my fathers laptop/notebook. Its realtively new, a HP Compaq nx9010. there was nothing wrong with it apart from being a very old and congested install of windows. Booted from cd (xp pro) and because i thought there was nothing wrong with the HD i chose...

hey all i have been asked to find an lcd display for an elderly woman. she has not set down a budget but i would like to keep things reasonable. the question is: what is the optimum display out there for word processing, browsing and just general computing use. in your suggestions please...

also how would the results look if it was 4gb of the cheaper (667) vs 2gb of the more expensive (800) systems

Hi all this is a bit of a jumbled up kind of question but i hope you can help me anyways when building a system i allways look for the best mix of components to get the maximum price to performance ratio. i can get 2gb of corsair value select ddr2-667 for the same price as 1gb of the...

hey all i have been really busy for a long time and hardware has changed so much in the meantime. i'd really like to get reaquainted with the trends and general ideas. so if anyone has a little time to re-educate me because i need to build several boxes soon. SO! the questions at hand...

Hi All here is my setup: Onboard Soundmax Soundcard >> an amplifyer(that i rebuilt at home becuse some of the circutary was broken) >> 4 speakers. Now this lot has been working perfectly for ages, but now when i push the volume up high (but not more than it could handle before) it starts...

Hey all. My computer is doing some really funky stuff and its getting irritating so i'm hoping someone can diagnose this one When i start the computer the programs that are set up to start on bootup (i.e. the apps in the startup list) like AVG, some IM's (gtalk and skype), the sound and...

i was also worrying about the "ears on their way out bit" so big relief there... :)

Ferg you beauty! that was a dumbass moment. as soon as i saw the word "wave" i could have drop-kicked my head! the wave channel was down in the soundmax controll center. All fixed :) big up to HWF!!! (and ferg :P)

Hi my computer seems to be playing sound at a lower volume. When i have my headphones on maximum and ALL the sound setting set up to maximum it still isnt loud (and with it set like that it used to hurt my ears) Does this mean my onboard sound card is kicking the buxket?

- Capture the video to the computer as MPEG-2 using hardware capture devices that convert the VHS to MPEG-2 as they capture and then author and burn a DVD. A one-hour video is captured and compressed to MPEG-2 in one hour, but you are generally limited to doing "cuts-only" editing of the MPEG-2...

Hi All. It has been ages since i posted here so i hope all is well :) My grandfather has started realising that computers are actually worth while and he wants me to find out how he can use his computer to convert VHS video to DVD format Please help me out here because i am well and...