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I bought OEM XP Pro from NewEgg a few weeks ago (I'm not ready to buy in to Vista, heck, I was running Win2K until a few weeks ago). It comes with a Certificate of Authencity (COA) sticker that you're supposed to attach to the PC box, and the install CD. No worries. It installs and activates...

I'm running Crucial Ballistix DDR-1000 in my BX2 / e6600. Only a mild overclock (at 3.0GHz), but it has my RAM at 500MHz with the DDR-800 setting in the BIOS. Runs well... I have it at 2.0V RAM, but it'll run at 1.84 volts at that speed with 5-5-5-18 (default BIOS) settings.

To be honest, I haven't seen what VT in the CPU has "bought me". I run VMWare Server VMs in a P4 3.2GHz machine at work, and a VM in my e6600 at home. I don't see a whole lot of difference in VM "quality of running". Everything seems to be appropriately responsive, but it's not like the 6600...

I spent about 8 hours trying to get Linux going on that PC. First, the ATI Rage128 card didn't work (locked up during Ubuntu Edgy install, right as graphics kicked in). OK, so I replaced that with an nVidia 5200... Next, the sound card didn't work right... I use Pandora for music, and...

I'd think there would be an inf file on the support web site, bundled in with the windows drivers for the wireless adapter. Your experience sounds much like mine... but I did have an inf... and never did get it working with my Trendnet USB wireless adapter. Had to throw in the towel on that...

I just loaded MythDora 4.0 on my dedicated MythTV system this weekend. Runs great. Nice upgrade from 3.2. I use a cheap Chaintech Nvidia FX5200 AGP card. It gets a little hot, that's my only complaint. I had to put a fan on it (it was fanless). Around $35 at NewEgg. I tried originally to...

I found VPC2007 killed one of my critical apps (a monitoring system that maintains constant connection with a server). VPC killed the connection and I no longer got real time updates (errr, or any updates at all). Innotek's VirtualBox and VMWare Server both work just fine on the same machine...

My GE cordless phone kills our wireless. My wife kept calling me, "my computer connection is down".... only for it to start later. You on the phone - or someone near you have a 2.4GHz phone?

you need to go in to xorg.conf and put "1280x1024" in front of all of the lines for the monitor settings. There's about 6 of them. I think you should be able to do this: Fire up a terminal cd /etc/X11 sudo gedit xorg.conf (type in your password) Now edit the file - add "1280x1024" to...

I had to look in to it (as I've never used it), but Remote Assistance is what's available in Messenger. The user has to initiate a Remote Assistance request to the 'expert', and then the 'expert' can get access to the machine. It uses Remote Desktop technology, but isn't quite the same thing...

Remote Desktop and IIS are biggies for me, and they're only in Pro. VMWare Server (the free edition) requires IIS. Allows me to have my Linux virtual machine for linux oriented utilities. Remote Desktop works much better than VNC - it's much smoother. TightVNC works, but it's clunky at times.

I went through 2 sets of the 5.1's in under a month. Amp died on both of them. This was in 2005. Went to a Pioneer receiver (with SPDIF) / JBL speaker setup, happy ever since. At work I have a 2.1 setup that I got on ebay for 15 bucks - the connector was broken that plugs the satellites in...

Yep, even my Win2K box at home has Remote Desktop Connection software, so I can remote in to my XP machine at work. I got it off the Microsoft web site. But Vista Home (or XP Home, or Win2K) does not support the other way around - can't remote desktop in to a VH machine. Then again, that's...

How is 5.x on the same net as 3.x with a 255.0 mask? ;) I kludged my way around this by using VMWare, creating an XP virtual machine on my PC, and installing the VPN software on the XP irtual machine. This way, the virtual machine has access and is connected to the remote VPN, but my machine...

I never have looked, but I wonder if my HX520 fan is even running. ;) I have 4 fans (one in the HX520, and 3 Yate Loon 120mm), and 3 hard drives... and could not imagine my PC being any quieter. I hear the hard drives over the fans, and that's only the light chucking during seeks. My ceiling...