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    TV Tuners...

    Looking to get a TV Tuner, but confused on what to get. I want to be able to connect only my digital cable (Insight). I have an HD monitor, and getting HD channels would be great. I'm confused only as to this digital conversion thing thats happening. What technology would I need? I think analog...
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    I feel dumb to ask this but....

    Okay I acquired a p4 Motherboard and CPU, it is a socket 775 board... I dont have no idea about Intel boards... I mainly use an old Athlon XP board... The power supply hookup on the board is bigger than normal... I wen t to a shop, and they sold me a p4 compatible PS, but it is still to...
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    2 Problems in one!

    Okay.. Rough times on this again. I removed the Bad stick of RAM, Windows installed fine. I removed my SATA Controller because it was freezing the system at BIOS. Booted windows a couple times fine. But now, its getting to where it should boot windows and My computer tottally restarts itself...
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    2 Problems in one!

    OMG, thank you all so much! I pulled the 256 stick of Kingston Value Ram (which has always given me alot of problems in past machines) and windows is installing fine. As for my second issue, I don't need to install the card onto this POs machine now, since i got mine up and running! xD Thanks...
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    2 Problems in one!

    I am trying the RAM thing right now, I will keep posting on progress. for burtsbees answer, the power itself keeps reseting. And @ paparazi. If it was a comaptibilty prob with card would it not show anything at all? I mean it does get to the windows boot screen
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    2 Problems in one!

    Man, oh man. These problems have got me on edge... My main machine is this: AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 784Mb DDR RAM, ECS K7S5A Motherboard (Upgraded BIOS to run my XP 2000+) 20Gb WD IDE HDD, 40GB WD SATA HDD, SATA RAID card, Geforce FX5200 PCI, WINDOWS XP (so if you hear me talking about installing...
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    Sata RAID Problem

    Thank you so much. That cleared up the problem and the Hard drive is up and running! Yay!
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    Sata RAID Problem

    P.S. This is the link to the PDF manual for the card. http://www.avlab.com.tw/manuals/5303-0283-001%20SATA%20II%202-channel%20RAID%20PCI.pdf
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    Sata RAID Problem

    O.K I got an Initio RAID card. (Don't ask model number I don't know). It's a PCI card. I also have a SATA Hard drive that I want hooked up. I have the card because my motherboard don't have a SATA controller. I plugged in the card, installed all nessesary drivers. When I go into the Raid BIOS on...
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    Windows XP Something is wrong here

    Ran the Chkdsk and defraged. It seems to have stopped since i ran Windows update, so maybe it was a pat problem of windows. Thanks for your help anyways.
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    Windows XP Something is wrong here

    No, Windows is clean and all the Display settings are windows default. I have found that if i turn off the windows screensaver, it still does it abter the computer goes idle. My HDDLED goes crazy and i can hear the hard drive turning. Since it is a completly clean install, everything is...
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    Windows XP Something is wrong here

    Ok I have Windows XP Pro SP2, and today I had to do a complete Format reinstall. Now for some reason on this clean install everytime my screensaver comes on the hard drive goes nuts and when i take off the screensaver and imediatly go into the task manager i see the HelpSvc.exe is taking up 100%...
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    New Vid Card in Optiplex Gx240

    P.S. its the laydown case not the tower
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    New Vid Card in Optiplex Gx240

    I'm working on this dell i bought from a guy for 20$ , i upgraded everything else, but when i removed the stock vid card i noticed the end (that meets the case) is smaller than normal, will I be able to stick another card in this thing? and what speed AGP is in it?
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