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For a variety of mostly good reasons (getting my mum's work vpn to stop crashing the computer, for instance) I have just reinstalled windows xp on my desktop. i used a custom windows cd made with nlite from my original xp disk, made just as i've created all my other installations (streamlining...

I'm working on a visual for my humanities class and want to have two images, one on top of the other, and have the top image be transparent. i searched google but nothing useful seemed to come up.how do i do this? if you need the .psd file i'm using, i can post it

i'm staying with a friend in france; and his computer only has dial-up, but when i used it i felt that it wasn't working quite right. i hit ctrl+alt+del, and the window comes up and immediately disappears. the same goes for norton liveupdate. the norton personal firewall works (but has never...

I keep getting random crashes of my programs. I get and error message looking like this: This crash was in autogk, but I also have got them in firefox, itunes, jedi academy, exact audio copy, and limewire. What's going on? The prime95 blend and large fft stress tests both run for at...

When I try to listen to pink floyd's The Wall or Dark Side of the Moon (ripped with eac and lame standard vbr), there are tiny pauses in between the tracks when played in itunes or on my ipod. is there any way to remove these pauses? they may be tiny but these albums are continuous music, one...

So I use the kx drivers with my sb live! 5.1 sound card, but i have heard that the youp pax drivers are just as good for music, less difficult to use, and work very well in games (kx aren't great there). so my question is, which should i use? how do i learn more about youp pax drivers? are...

'm looking for some nice headphones. They will be used with a diskman, an ipod, and my computer, mainly for music listening (i listen to all genres except metal and techno, mainly classical and classic rock) and some movie watching, occasional gaming (cs:s, jedi academy, wc3). they must be...

i have an sb live! 5.1 sound card and the latest kx drivers installed. i like the drivers (i've had 'em for months, no issues), but i have heard that i can make the sound even better by tweaking the settings correctly. As anyone who has tried the kx drivers before will know, this tweaking is...

Suddenly I can't open any drive or folder without right-clicking and hitting "open." i checked in folder options for drives and folders and double clicking them now opens winamp, not the folder/drive. how do i reset the default double-click action to open? in mom's acount it opens a search...

i have an abit kv8-pro mobo and i am reinstalling windows on my sata hd. i put the latest sata drivers for my southbridge (via vt8237) on a floppy (i use a usb floppy drive) and rebooted with xp cd in cd drive. setup allowed me to use the drivers on the floppy to find my southbridge's sata...

i have three optical drives, one is a new external plextor dvd-burner which works great, and the other two came with my gateway 2.5 years ago. i am sure that there are newer firmware versions for them that might make them a bit more reliable and generally better functioning. one, the more...

i was just using my computer (word and listening to music), when i got a bsod id never seen before. PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA STOP: 0x00000050 (0x99B62015, 0x00000001, 0xBF803195, 0x00000000) Win32k.sys - Address BF803195 base at BF800000, DateStamp 4225191e The fact that it's a...

alright, so there are way too many drivers to choose from for my new sound blaster live! 5.1 sound card. there are the creative official drivers, the kx drivers, and the youp-pax drivers. i have heard the creative drivers are really bad, so i want to use one of the suppossedly better...

in looking into a mid-range gaming soundcard and mid-high end headphones(for cs and lots of music of different types) that are either stereo or 5.1 surround, i came across a newegg link to this Plantronics DSP-500 usb headset, which uses a built-in dsp and alledgedly (spelling?) is very good. As...

i'm going to be diving into linux, and i think i'll be going with ubuntu. what is all this hoary, warty stuff? i downloaded warty for a64. was this a good decision? where can i find a good install guide for ubuntu, it doesn't sound completely intuitive? how exactly do i use apt-get...

i've heard that the next mobile procs from amd (turion, i think) will be for socket 754. is this true? if so, all we'd need for them to work in our desktops would be an updated bios for our mobos so that they would support the new chips. does anyone know when these are coming out? i think socket...

is this oc helping mem perf? stock of 204 mhz, 2-3-3-10-1T (used everest for these tests): latency 50.0 ns read 3149 MB/s write 1183 MB/s oc to 225 mhz, 2.5-3-3-10-2T latency 55.2 ns read 3416 MB/s write 1271 MB/s is it better to have lower lat or higher read/write? i know...

i received a new alienware sentia laptop last week whichi set up for my dad. everything was great until tonight when he turned it on. lcd appears broken, gets power but is most of the time black and sometimes has colored, mainly white lines, both horizaontal and vertical, swimming across it...

until recently i had the computer set to automatically restart instead of display a bsod when there was a critical error. whenever i overclocked my memory t 210 mhz (stock is 204, cpu would be 210x10), 2-3-3-10-1T (2-3-3-6 is spd timings for this ram), 2.8v (board overvolts to 2.89), the...

this may be in the wrong section, but what exactly is folding? people are always saying to others "with a rig like that you should get folding," and there was a folding contest going on here (is it still happenning? can you link me to the thread?). i've researched it on google, but i don't get...

when using my comp, i like to hook up my ipod to my comp and play the music on it through itunes, cause i prefer to use itunes than have to kep picking up ipod and finding the next playlist i want to listen to. i just had to reformat my comp, and, when i hook up my ipod, i can play music i took...

just got my new hd last night, and windows is up and running and i'm ready to oc again. the settings i've tested are cpu and ram @ stock, cpu @ 225 htt with 1:1 ram @ 2.5-3-3-10-2T, and cpu @ 235 with ram set to run at ddr333 (so it ends up something like 190 mhz) at 2-3-2-10-1T. all of these...

my comp has an enermax 420w psu, which has very good ampage on the3.3 and 5 volt rail, but only 15 amps on 12v1 and 14 on 12v2. for my sys, that's not really enough. i have a spare400w psu from powmax with less power on the 3.3 and 5 volt rails, but 25mps on the 12 v rail. now that's more...

can someone please test agp aperatures of 64, 128, and 256on their 6800nu? my hd is now dead, so i can't. please use at least one 3dmark program, as well as a gpu intensive game like doom 3 or hl2, and say which drivers your using, mention any overclocking you're doing. thx very much...

how effective is the leadtek 6800nu's hsf? i oc mine and have unlocked the vertex shader (pipes are defective) and want to make sure that it is getting well cooled. i am uncomfortable removingthe hsf, but my neighboris a comp tech, aand i'm sure he could help me apply as5 if needed. would an...

yesterday i was using my computer, which was happily and stably running. my parents called me down for lunch, so I shut comp down. came cak up 45 minutes later, bios can't find a had drive on the ide channel it is suppossed to live on! I can't get past the boot, becasue allegedly there is no...

would anyone mind giving a fully detailed summary (i know that's an oxymoron) of the halo 2 plot for those of us who played the game on pc?

how dangerous is it to flash my leadtek 6800nu with a bios bringing the gpu voltage up from 1.2 v to 1.3 or 1.4 (i think on 6800nu's I can only do 1.4)? Is there a high chance of ruining the card? Could raising the agp voltage, instead of helping overclokability (now i've got 395/900), help...

When I run my ram (see sig for type and timings) @ 1T command rate, I get random reboots quite often, while this does not happen when set to 2T. Why is this? The ram is running 1:1 with fsb. I run 1T with ddr333 if ocing to 2.4ghz, but I find it to not be as stable or responsive as ddr400 2T...

I have an a64 3000 newcastle cg stepping on an abit kv8 pro rev 1.1 bios 17. oc'ed to 2.4 ghz vcore 1.675. using onboard audio, sometimes, sound will crackle a bit. could this have anything to do with the oc? would raising the vcore help (i need to anyway), or should I lower to oc?