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Solved: What size PSU needed? New Build! Specs provided!

It's Friday!!! Got a question for you this morning. I'm putting together a system that I'm planning to purchase in the next few months. Haven't gotten 'serious' yet as I'm waiting to see if anything...

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Solved: HP pavilion a1420n hell!

Could someone help me find a audio cable wiring diagram for the front panel audio on an old HP pavilion a1420n case? I've tried HP and their sites (yes sites:mad:) are all useless... I got a nice...

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Keyboard problems (I think). Could be USB or power?

Hi, I recently installed a new case for my pc and when it switches on it says Do you wish to boot at 38528mhz system bus and reduced processor speed (Y/N) press [y] to continue or press [n] to...

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Cooler Master Case

What is everyone's opinion on this case? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119233 I need it to fit an ATX mobo, which I know it will, a GTX 660, and a Cougar 1000w PSU which I already own.

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Laptop doesn't start-up

Helloo, I tried to turn on my laptop today but the only thing that was turning on was the fan on full speed. I had to shut-down and turn on at least 3 times before i could see anything on my screen....

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Seagate NAS device

So, have one of these Seagate NAS devices 2 x 2TB harddrives ( RAID 1 ) also has a hotswappable sata drive I can insert to do "one touch backups" from the RAID to this drive OR there is also a USB 3.0...

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Laptop graphics problem

Hey guys, My dad's laptop has recently had a problem with it's graphics interface. The screen has taken on a "chequered"/almost tartan quality for no apparent reason (no falls, spills or apparent...

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processor help 13 or amd

need processor help? amd a4 quad core /8gb/1tb/4078 total memory/512mb dedicated memory/3552 shared memory or i3 -3110m/4gb/500gb/no dedicated graphic card

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processor and ram questions

Awhile back I got a Biostar 945GC-M4, Socket 478, Intel Motherboard http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/...hp?S_ID=440#dl and now I have a processor that is listed as...

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Sony VAIO motioneye webcam not working

I have a Sony VAIO VPCEB390X with Windows 7. Recently I have tried accessing my webcam, and got an error message stating "Camera not found. The camera is either being used by another application or is...

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Toshiba L310 Laptop speakers not working

Hi, My laptop’s audio has stopped working. Initially there was some crackling in the last 2 days and now there is no sound when I play any audio and video. I’ve tried reinstalling sound drivers andVLC...

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Traveling Cursor

My friend has a Dell D610 laptop that has Windows XP Home installed. It has just recently developed a wierd problem ......The cursor travels all by itself and actually gains speed after a while. I...

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Proposed PC upgrade advice request.

TSG system utility Info. OS version: M/Soft Win XP Home Edition SP3 32 bit Processor: Intel(R)Celeron(R) CPU 1.80GHz,x86 Family i5 Model1 Stepping3 Processor Count 1 RAM 1022 Mb Graphics card...

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Windows Vista won't Recognize Firewire DV Cam

Hi all, my wife wants to hook her old JVC camcorder to her laptop but it does not "see" the camcorder. I bought a 4 pin male to male wire for the purpose, and have no trouble feeding my XP 'puter the...

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New Build

Hi, Further to a post I made in June (Upgrade) I've made further enquiries and come up with the following components for a new computer. I've got most of the HDD's I require but I added an SSD but I'm...

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Solved: Should I Partition 1.5T Drive or Not!

Hi, I am using a Window XP Pro 32bit computer, as I need to store all my movie onto a large hard drive, I have this conundrum should I partition a 1.5T hard drive into several drives or should I leave...

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Trying to install PCI video card... things are not happening like they should

Hi, I have been struggling with this issue for hours over the last couple of days and I'm stuck. Trying to install a PCI video card (EVGA GeForce 6200) into my system. Tried the standard approaches,...

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OVTBoot.dll error

My VuPoint FS-C1-VP film scanner show an error message in Device Manager. When I try to update the driver, I get an OVTBoot.dll error. Any suggestions for findingthe correct driver?

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PC Randomly Freezes with no warning what so ever

So the titles says it all,my PC is a Windows 7 Ultimate,Graphics Card:Nvidia GeForce 670,My Motherboard is a MSI H67MS-E43. Essentially,Whenever I run my pc,i have a time span of inbetween 1 minute to...

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gpu purchase advise

hello, im looking to buy a geforce gtx 770 gpu. there are various versions of the card all with various clock speeds. the only difference i can see are the clock speeds, am i correct in saying this?...

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