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    Does this kind of laptop screen/graphics card exist?

    A user purchased two sony 19 inch lcd's and wants to hook up both to her laptop and not use the built in LCD. Well we've tried this and it doesn't work because of the limitation of the chipset (ATI in a Sony Vaio). Does anyone make a laptop with a chipset that would be able to drive two...
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    WTB: P4 CPU

    I'm looking for a pentium 4 cpu for use in an Asus p4800D-E. Doesn't really have to be a screamer, 533 bus is fine so something around 1.6 ghz or above would be fine. Heatsink would be preffered but not required. Let me know if you can help, thanks! :)
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    Booting to external Firewire

    I thought i'd mess around with booting osx off of my ipod for fun but ran into a snag. I wiped the ipod and used disk utility to copy an image of my tiger dvd to said ipod. When i go to reboot the computer and boot to firewire by holding down t i get a firewire logo that bounces around the...
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    iPod Engraving?

    I don't suppose if anyone knows any way i could remove my engraved name from the back of my 20g ipod? I've been entertaining the idea of selling it and i doubt anyone is going to want to buy it with my name on it. It does have a skin on it (black) so you can't see the name but still.
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    Quick iPod question

    *delete me please* Yeah i'm dumb, read the faq next time moron...
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    MSI board blew up, recommend me a non-crappy one?

    Ok so for a little back story: Got new motherboard to throw a 3.0e Intel into just because i i could. Motherboard i purchased was an MSI 865PE Neo2-p. Woke up this morning and could not wake monitor up by moving mouse or typing on keyboard. Long story short, all of my USB ports managed to fry...
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    Pentium 4 Motherboard and CPU

    ABIT BG7 Motherboard, works perfectly and is a very nice little board if you wanted to build a spare machine for running Linux or whatever. Comes with a pentium 4 1.6a ghz cpu but NO heatsink. I ran the CPU at 2.0 ghz for close to 4 years without a problem if you felt so inclined to overclock...
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    Quick apple student discount question

    Does anyone know if there is a limit on how many ipods one can buy using a college student discount? The webpage doesn't list anything besides the limit of 1 on laptops, towers, etc. thanks
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    FS: Brand new un-opened Apple AV Cable

    Brand new, never been open or used. Bought the wrong cable from the apple store and it would cost more to send back in the alloted time frame (ten days is not enough Apple :rolleyes: ) So i'm offering it up to anyone here who might need one. 19 bucks if anyone wants it, no sales tax like...
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    SmartFTP issue

    seems i can connect to ftp's on my school's network but anything external is a bust. this used to work and i know people can still do it but now i'm getting this message everytime: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine. i'm thinking maybe service pack 2's...
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    Who here is a long time mac user? Tech question inside

    Ok so this is an odd question but maybe some old-skool mac tech can answer it. I've been reading up on Apple's ADB cnnector system that they used to use for keyboard and mice before the invention of usb. So far i've found that these ADB connector are phyiscally identical to normal s-video cables...
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    So i broke my iBook, help needed

    well i broke my first mac last night, not quite sure how, here is what i was doing. I was in the system control panel adjusting the power saver options when the window wouldn't come out of busy mode (little spinning color wheel thing). I tried force quitting the application which didn't do...
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    AOL instant messenger no idle?

    for some reason whenever i check the "allow users to see how long i've been idle box" it unchecks itself. anyone else have this problem, it's getting annoying. Using the newest version of aim and os 10.3.4
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