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The USB WiFi adapter for my Series 2 TiVo is WEP only. I tried using a newer WPA based adapter but it refused to work with my TiVo even though it was on the approved list. Until I can completely replace my TiVo I'm stuck with having to go with WEP on my wireless network. Everything else I have...

My father has a quad core machine with 3 gigs of RAM, Vista, and an 8800GT that is starting to die. He wants to replace it with an ATI/AMD card since he's had some issues with NVIDIA drivers in the past. The PC has a 425W power supply. Is there something from AMD that is at least as good as...

I've been mulling this over for a while and had decided to wait until Windows 7 came out. I've settled on Maingear as the source for either their small case, or the regular old minitower. They're both within about $150 of each other and I like the idea of finally having a small PC. I'm a bit...

I currently have a P4 that is getting pretty long in the tooth. I am not looking for a cutting edge machine but something that is at least a bit expandable over the next few years and will be capable of running current PC games with a decent detail and performance level. My monitor is 1440x900...

Now that I have the single core version running properly on my quad I was curious if the multicore version can be configured to use two cores, and only two. It looked like an all or nothing proposition. I was a bit intimidated by the instructions for the two multi core installs and was unclear...

Last year the PSU in my Dell was on its last legs so I replaced it with a 430W Thermaltake. (Yes, I know now that it's shit.) But it has been working fine so I didn't have a problem with it. Until now. I'm upgrading from my old 6600GT and it turns out the Thermaltake's single 12V rail provides...

Like other people I am encountering on the support forums my shiny new 9600GT is freaking out at unpredictable times. Without warning it will blackscreen my computer with the sound endlessly looping in the background. See here at evga and here at nvidia. The current thinking is that it is a...

I have a P4 3.2 with 1 gig of RAM running a 6600GT. It will still be a while before I move on to a newer machine and I'm curious if anyone can suggest a video card that would be the most effective and efficient upgrade. I used to play Oblivion on this machine and typically had to turn most...

I know this isn't tech related but I just got a nice coupon in the mail for 15% off ProFlowers. They've become my favorite place to order flowers because you don't get the crappy local florist stuff where they shove a few wilted flowers in a bowl and leave it on someone's doorstep to die. It's a...

Tomorrow I have to move my Dad from his XP machine to one with Vista. I'm curious if anyone has experience using Easy Transfer to transfer user accounts, files and settings, and the beta Transfer Companion to move programs. I plan to just do this over his home network. I can do everything...

I bought a Dell XPS 420 with an 8800GT for my father for his 70th birthday. In the Nvidia driver properties I don't see an entry for custom resolutions, like I do on my own machine with a 6600GT and no entry for the temperature of the card. I downloaded the latest nvidia drivers with the same...

My father is getting a new machine with Vista as his 70th birthday gift. He's a power user type who installs and tweaks things. What would be the best way to set up the accounts for this new machine? If I make a separate admin account what access level should his own account be to allow him to...

My brother and I are buying my father a Dell XPS 420 for his 70th birthday. He's a gamer and is using a pretty old Alienware machine right now for Half Life 2 deathmatches. I've ordered it with an 8800GT but I'm interested in adding the Accelero S1 cooler to help keep the noise down. He has a...

My father is turning 70 in January. He's been a gamer since the old Speedball 2 days, but didn't really dive into it until Doom 2 and Duke Nukem. Every day I talk to him he tells me about his latest Half Life 2 deathmatch, and even sends high score screenshots to me. He has an old Alienware...

I'm encountering the same kind of major slowdowns the website was suffering from back during the database problems. Is it just me? The site is very slow to display forums, thread lists, posts... etc. Thanks

After I updated from a fairly old driver for my 6600GT to the current version I decided to use the Nvidia color profile tool to tweak the way my display looks (gamma, color balance, etc.) I couldn't get it quite right and eventually decided to just go with an unmodified profile. Except I...

I've been looking at the Halo 3 screenshots and they are really, really nice. I read that the game itself is not antialiased and saw some screenshots that reflected that. They appeared to be almost as low res as Halo 2 played on the 360 and that got me concerned. When I try to play Halo 2 I...

My boss was complaining to me the other day because someone had sent him a file he couldn't open. It had a weird extension on it I didn't recognize and having been a PC user for over 20 years I've seen alot of extensions. So I go online and find out the file was made with Microsoft Expression...

I've started folding with the console version on a PC here at work that does pretty much nothing 95% of the time. How can I check progress without screwing anything up? Someone made a reference to a "folding spy" but the link to Sourceforge was dead. It's been several days and I'm...

I was thinking that Home Premium would be good enough for me, but I use RDC under XP to connect to the servers at work so I can do support after hours/weekends. In the comparison charts it looks like I would need Ultimate to use RDC. Am I just misinterpreting the chart? If I get Home Premium...

There's a PC that sits behind me at work and does pretty much nothing so I tossed the folding at home client on there running as a service. My only concern is that if someone needs to use it most of the CPU will be getting eaten up by folding. Is there a way to set the service so that if there...

I'm running a Dell Dimension 4700, Prescott P4 3.2 with 1 gig of RAM. I currently have a 6600 GT installed but when running games like Oblivion or LOTRO I have to turn viewing distances and effects down to the barest minimums to maintain a decent framerate. Is there any value to upgrading...