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so i have a few lap tops and a few desk tops that use, one in my rig 2 at my house and 4 at my office, im looking for a reliabe cheap external hard drive, i have never used one, and never owned one, so i have little clue on what im looking for when buying, i have been shopping on ebay, if anyone can shed some light on a brand or anything it would be most helpful. thanks!

Looking for a decent laptop for under $650 ($500 or less would be ideal) and I'm laptop dumb. I don't do any gaming. I don't download movies/music or do any video editing. Just needs to be used for basic uses......Microsoft Office, internet (I'm going to purchase a wireless router aswell), and eventually I want to get the software and hardware for a MLS measurement system. So processor, RAM and HDD don't need to be industry leading, but I also don't want something that will overly limit future uses. For example, I would probably take a higher quality videocard over a huge HDD. I want a minimum screen size of 15" and DVD RW (which anymore seems to be the standard). I'…

Most of the old school ssa folks know me pretty well and I've been working on a project for while now called Alchemy Computers. I am located in Tulsa, OK and in a nice central location for shipping purposes. Alchemy Computers is a new computer line based around the mid-high end gaming market primarily. We do have some low end desktop systems that will be comming into play here over the next few weeks as well for the more budget friendly gaming market. Our aim is to build a unique computer to each individual. What that entails exactly is a more personal computer buying experience. Computer systems that are designed to fit the exact needs of the consumer and not fill them w…

Well we have one for XBOX Live, why not for those of us with PS3's? Mine is: BigEDawg I reallly only play call of duty 4 online at the moment.

I'm in the market for a 22" LCD monitor for my music server. Constraints are that it needs to be under $350 after any rebates, and I don't want a lot of backlight bleedthrough. What would you guys recommend?

Got a PS3 a week ago and now I'm looking for some games. Anyone know how the interface is for the racing games? Better than the Wii? I like RPGs and racing games mostly. I've just about beaten Ghost Recon 2 and like it OK. Will probably get Rainbow 6: Vegas here soon. I also have a Wii. Looking for a good game or two for it as well. I have Tiger Woods '08 and play it a lot. I've beaten Resident Evil 4 3x over. Liked that one though it's not my typical genre. I've heard that the interface for racing games is a good bit flaky so I'm shying away from racing games for it. I got Super Mario Galaxy for the wife for Christmas and I'd like to find some other games that…

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i am pretty sure i know what i did, but have no idea how to fix it...i uninstalled Total Video Converter and when uninstalling, it asked if i wanted to uninstall some files and me not thinking just figured they were something worthless... well to make a short story shorter my DVD won't play anymore with any program i use any idea how to fix this? i already tried to reinstall total video converter and it still doesn't work!

First off, I don't know much about computers so take that into consideration when replying please. Anyways, my new harddrive came in for my OmniFi. I pulled the old one out, plugged the new one in, partitioned it for FAT32, plugged it into my Omnifi, and well, it creates a file called "\USR\newroot.xml", but it need's to be "\USR\root.xml" instead. Now, everything went fine until I plugged it back into my computer to change the file name. I cannot find the drive on my computer anywhere. It does not show up on the My Computer tab, but if I go to "safely remove hardware," it shows up. Anyone know what my problem is and how to fix it? Thanks in advance!

I play these games online- Company of Heroes C&C Generals Zero Hour Call of Duty Call of Duty 2 Warcraft 3 every now and then Just wish I had more time to play them What does everyone else play online?

I'm going to be getting some money in shortly, and I figured I'd put it towards my music computer to finally get it where I'd want... As it stands, I've got a Dell Poweredge 600SC running XP. 2.4GHz P4, 512MB cache, 256MB RAM. Hard drive right now is a Western Digital 250GB IDE, 8MB cache. Obviously, that's nowhere near enough storage for me. I was thinking about taking advantage of that guy that's selling WD 250GB drives over on CA.com for pretty good prices, Sean's mentioned before that the 2MB cache of those shouldn't cause a problem when searching/during playback...I have three open bays, what would be the easiest way to combine three drives so it looks like one ~750G…

<-- Noob I haven't ever had a wireless connection before as my old house was completely wired, considering this I am not sure of the proper & logical way to secure my wireless network. Amusingly, I can use my neighbors both here and at my old house but considering the price of routers these days wanted to install my own for flexibilty. So, any recommendations or primers on doing this the right way? I figure I am not the only one here not in the know so I thought I start a thread. Any input would be appreciated!

i've got avg, and ad-aware....tried hijack this(though to be honest, i couldn't find the file that avg points out) and it's still there. also, i can't use system retore. says it can't restore to earlier date, even though it's turned on and there were (i turned it off and then back on to dump it as i read somewhere) restore dates. a little help please. yep, i'm a noob and i suck with this kind of crap. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Built myself a new computer finally... had my old one since 2002 and it was overdue to be replaced. The old one is still stable as can be but is showing it's age speed-wise on newer programs. Anyhow... on to the specifics: Intel e4300 1.8 Ghz Dual-Core over-clocked to 3 Ghz (1.325 volts, stock voltage) Massive Heat-Pipe based heat-sink with 120mm fan (forgot brand... copper base and aluminum fins) ABIT AW9D-MAX Motherboard 2048 MB OCZ Reaper 1066 DDR-II RAM (2.1 volts) 2x Seagate Barracuda Perpendicular technology 250 GB SATA Drives 2x Sony DVD-RAM Drives (SATA interfaces) EVGA Geforce 7800GT Video Card (all stock speeds, I don't really play games) Viewsonic 19" LCD Scree…

can anybody recommend any software to do it? i'm looking for really good SQ for it. i been recording music onto my minidisc player then putting it back on my computer in mp3 form using audiograbber. it works but it takes a long time. plus the minidisc make the music sound a little "too compressed". help?!

go to: about.config and set: ui.key.contentAccess to 4 1) Type about.config in your browser address window 2) In the filter area type ui.key.contentAccess 3) Double click on the ui.key.contentAccess and set the value from 5 to 4 4) Close window Alt+s should work to add a reply again now.

I'm buying my 13 year old daughter a keyboard for Christmas and I think she would enjoy hooking it up to her computer and mixing/composing some music with it as well. What INEXPENSIVE (well under $100) would you suggest for her? I need something that would be easy to learn and use but powerful enough that she wont get bored with it in a month.

anyone have an account? i want to download a game and dont feel like waiting weeks on end to download every 100mb rar every 4 hours please and thank you!

Okay, so sometimes when I try to open certain pages, they'll load and as soon as they're done loading, FF closes. It will keep doing this, and it's completely random. One minute, it works on one site, then it won't. . . Anyone know what could be wrong?

1) on my second computer, the ethernet card says it's working, yet we can't get online. we compeltely restored it about two weeks ago, i've upped my dsl to 3mbps down, 768up and at first the computer worked fine. (we had to retore it due to the exact same problem) now, it's not letting the computer log on. says it can't find or refresh the network address. says to contact the network admin or ISP. how do i fix this? 2)where does one find movies to download? like the ones that just came out or aren't out yet? wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

i uploaded the mercedes benz mixed tapes 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15 on oink in case someone wants them tomorrow i'll be uploading the rest. if, by any chance, you have what i'm missing (1-6, 8, 10, 12) please tell me

So, my daughters PC needs to have RAID drivers installed for it to read a SATA drive.....and M$ in their infinite wisdom, has made it so you still need a floppy...booo..... So I decided to try to make a slipstreamed version of XP for my install. After hours of searching on the web for more information, I found a program that makes all the changes that a guy needs to get this done. nLite is what it is called. And, boy oh boy does it work. I am happy that I found a piece of freeware that actually works. So, if anyone else is interested in doing the same, may I suggest looking into this program.

Ok, so the old man just got connected to xbox live today . Played a couple of games, (burnout, forza, and guitar hero). How do I get world rankings. My ranking is just a - on the screen. Also, how and the hell can I play Guitar Hero online. I know these may sound like dumb questions, but you have to remember that it wasn't till college that computers got integrated into the classroom. HELP!! I'm trying to catch up with the youth. Thanks.

so, after much consideration i decided to pick up 512MB ddr1 and add to my existing 256MB same manufacturer, same speed, only trouble is, windows won't start. tried only the new memory and windows freezes at some point during boot. the old ones work like a charm. anyone have any ideas ?

Well, I can't quite figure out how to make Winamp do this. I want to be able to have it random shuffle through albums, and then play through the album in order...and then once its finished with that album to move to another random album. Winamp seems to let me randomize from all the files, not really useful. Are there are players out there that can support this? And if you recommend Foobar, I want a link to something that's already configured