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    How much is my Macbook worth now?

    I have a late 2007 Macbook White, but I accidentally spilled water on the keyboard and now when I type e, r, t, y, u, o, q, w.... this happens... q1w2e3r4t5y6u7o9.. Also, the left arrow key, semi-colon key, and apostrophe key do not work. The battery life is at about 60% capacity (3030mAh)...
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    Reformatting Macbook

    Hi, my friend's macbook is running a little slowly and I'd like to help her reformat it. She doesn't have her original DVDs. Can I use mine on her macbook to reformat? Also, if that works, can I also install my Snow Leopard onto hers? Thanks!
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    Westinghouse 22" Monitor Screen Turns White After Prolonged Disuse

    I have a Westinghouse LCD monitor, 22". It is roughly two and a half years old. The monitor works perfectly throughout the day, or if I leave the house for just a couple hours and come back. But, I've noticed that in the past week or so, after leaving the computer on (the monitor is turned...
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    Building New Computer. How's this look?

    Budget is around 1000 dollars, and this comes to around 1050. Motherboard: DFI LANPARTY DK P35-T2RS LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136043 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache...
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    Computer won't turn on.... again.

    So, I after doing some troubleshooting with my friend, we thought that it was the motherboard that wasn't working. I RMAd it and received it today. I put together my computer again, but.... again I came to the same problem: Everything turned on, cpu, fans, psu etc. But, the power button on the...
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    Computer won't turn on - Help!

    I generally leave my computer on 24/7 and when I returned from school, my computer was off. I checked the power switch on the back of the computer and it was on. Despite this, the front power button does not turn the computer on. However, after turning the back power switch off and then on...
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    Any way to determine how many watts my Laptop outputs?

    I am going on a long two week road trip later this summer and wanted to get one of those car adapters, but I wasn't sure what continuous/max voltage I should purchase. Well, actually I want to use two at the same time, since my brother is there as well. Mine has an AMD 3200+, some crummy...
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    Are these headphones very good?

    I was looking at headphones and came across these. Does anyone know anything about them? Are they good? They look to be of a high quality, but I wasn't entirely sure.
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    Friend having trouble with Vista... Help Please

    My friend said that whenever he tries to boot up Vista, he gets the following error: "BOOTMGR IS MISSING PRESS CTRL-ALT-DELETE TO RESTART" He said that he deleted the partition on which Vista was installed, created a new one, and then installed Vista again on that. But, again, this error...
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    Problems Logging Into Windows XP

    On my father's computer, whenever you try to login to *any* account (other than administrator in safe mode), it shows the desktop wallpaper for a few seconds, then automatically logs you back off. Is there any fix to this? Or is a reformat inevitable?
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    Not able to record sound through Fraps

    I'm using onboard sound with an M2N-E AM2 motherboad - the HD audio one which uses one slot, not the individual audio plug-ins that take ages to install. Is there any reason as to why Fraps, or any other software cannot record audio coming from the PC itself? I've tried setting it to microphone...
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    Set resolution too high...

    Hi, I was checking to see how high my monitors resolution could go to, and I accidentally went too high. It boots up, I can see the bios and everything, but once windows loads I can't see a thing. How do I fix this? By the way I'm using an ASUS M2N-E Board, when I try to boot in safe mode, with...
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    Urgent Help Needed With New Build

    Me and my friend just built my new PC. The only problem is, sometimes, when restarting the computer (or after changing the bios), I get the following: A long beep, followed by silence, and then quickly two short beeps. (- . . ) It seems like this is a problem with the RAM. We've tried...
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    Question about the ASUS M2N-SLI nForce 570 Motherboard

    Is this motherboard a good deal? I'm planning to pick up an am2 x2 processor ones the prices drop (please don't make this into a discussion about conroe...). Another question about that board, if it's good, what is some good RAM that would be compatible with it? I'm trying to keep the price...
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    AMD AM2 5000+ - Newegg Availability Question

    Currently, there are no AMD AM2 5000+ processors on newegg. Do you think they will be available once the price cuts on the 24th arrive? Also, I haven't found many other websites that sell this processor, will this change at all after the pricecuts? And a second question, will most websites...
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    Odd sound when using headphones with Laptop

    Whenever I have the main volume control slider all the way up, while using headphones, I get a high pitched screaching sound. Also, whenever I even have my headphones plugged into the headphone jack, I get a scratching sound. Is there anyway to fix this?
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    Anyway to backup Firefox favorites?

    My firefox is really screwed up right now, I want to reinstall it, or if this persists use another browser. I have a lot of favorites, some of the unfortunetly got cut off because of some bug or smething. Is there a way I can backup or save the favorites in Firefox so I can put them back when I...
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    Laptop seems to overheat or get high temperatures, even when idle.

    I'm not sure if this will help, but the model is Compaq Presario R3000. As I write this, the laptop is running terribly high at 77 degrees C. This seems very high, since I'm only running Firefox and Everest in the background. Just before, I believe it overheated since it shut down while I was...
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    A 7900GT question.

    I'm going to be building a PC in the summer (I have the biggest piece of crap right now). Would a 7900GT (I'll definitely be overclocking it) be able to play games at mid-high until the second generation DX10 cards? I don't really feel the first generation are necessary - one, DX10 won't be...
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    Possible to "extract" LCD screen from old laptop and use it as a standalone monitor?

    An odd question I'm sure, but I was wondering if I can somehow take apart an old laptop, and use the LCD monitor as a standalone monitor for another machine.
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    Sound "messed up" on laptop.

    Whenever I move the screen up or down, or whenever I apply pressure, sometimes a small amount, to the laptop (under the keyboard, right and left to the mousepad), the sound stops in either one or both of the sides. But, if I apply pressure to where the headphone slot is, I can get the sound back...
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    Odd problem with laptop monitor

    Just a little bit ago, I notice this (Note the lower right hand corner, the white line, and the white blob): Is there anyway to fix this by myself? Will it grow? I suppose I can live with it, but it is a nuisance.
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    Question: Which Harddrive would you recommend?

    I'm going to be building a new PC, with the help of my friend, and I was wondering which of these two harddrives you recommend. I'm asking because I am sort of tight on cash, andthe 8MB Cache, $10 dollar difference is what I don't understand, is it really worth it? Will it just reduce waiting...
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    I think i wanna get a 6800 128mb i think i can squeeze the money out... but first

    EVGA NVIDIA GeForce Video Card 128mb eVGA nVIDIA GeForce 6800 Video Card, 128MB GDDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model "128-A8-N343-AX" -RETAIL Specifications: Chipset/Core Speed: nVIDIA GeForce 6800/325MHz Memory/Effective Speed: 128MB DDR/700MHz BUS: AGP 4X/8X Ports: VGA Out(15...
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    Buying new vid card cant decide between these two help!!!!

    ok so ive learned a bit more about video cards and stuff and found these - which one would be the best to run newest games? ------------------------------- MSI ATI RADEON X600 XT Video Card, 128MB DDR Chipset/Core Speed: ATI Radeon X600XT/500MHz Memory/Effective Speed: 128MB...
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