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    New HDD - Which One ???

    Seagate, Western Digital, or Maxtor. Go for a model with 8Mb Cache. Buy Samsung if you want to throw your money down the drain. Even better, just throw/ burn the cash, but dont buy samsung. Prefer Seagate coz of the 5yr warranty. A trip to mumbai to buy it would be worth it I guess.
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    My Queries regarding Tv-Tuner Card. Needs Advice from you.

    Pinnacle PCTV Pro is quite a good card, you can even capture tv directly as DivX/ in formats to burn to DVD/ VCD. Only problem with Tv Tuner cards is that the signal strength in your cable line must be good, or else the fag end of the UHF signal band gets all blurry. Also the Remote with PCTV is...
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    Which is the best 17'' monitor?

    Sony 17" models are way better than all others. excellent dot pitch and 1600x1200@85Hz
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    Blue error Screen in XP

    Some device driver is either faulty or incorrectly configured. The solution is in the support section of www.microsoft.com, I am assuming you are eligible for tech support from ms.
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    I cant play Farcry on 915G chipset

    try increasing the amt of shared vid memory to 98/ 128 mb
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    Rate this configuration.

    Check this out, I am getting this config for a friend in Mumbai... Intel PIV - 3.46EE ASUS P5AD2E 925XE 2 Gb DualDDR2 Cabinet with 450W SMPS Asus 9950 AGP ASUS/ LG DVDRW 16x Dual layer 100Gb SATA Drive 6.1 Speakers from Creative Microsoft wireless mouse and keyboard 17" Samsung...
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    What is PPP Multilink Framing?Will turning it on help?

    multilink framing is only reqd for some dumb nw configurations, dont bother your head about it, it will not affect you on/ off.
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    Dvd Combo Problem

    bad xp installation/ virus
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    Convert Ur Single Layer DVD RW Drive Into Dual Layer

    check out the article on this at tomshardware.com
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    2.8 grancell & 915 intel (what the hell) !!!!!!!!!!!!!

    you can run win98 on 915 with 2.8ht, contact your vcendor, or refer to your mbd manual
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    Convert Ur Single Layer DVD RW Drive Into Dual Layer

    May not be possible to do this for all dvd drives, only drives with the latest tech. can be upgded ( Akshay please change your avatar / size. Its much above the forum limits - [deXter])
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    Bluetooth driver

    too simple, search for the drivers on the net (eg. driverguide.com)
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    Problem wih my Net connection

    PUT - ath=150 - as advanced setting for the modem, this should work, you can try out higher values but above if you need more than 250, then better get your phone line fixed or figure out what electrical device is interfering with your phone line, cud be a cordless phone ar an...
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    Which Hard Drive??

    SEAGATE HAS STARTED A FIVE YEAR WARRANTY ON ALL ITS PRODUCTS. BEST TO GO FOR SEAGATE NOW SINCE IT WAS ANYWAY THE MOST RELIABLE DISK DRIVE SYSTEM.
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    Cannot partition hard disk. Help required

    avoid a low level format, it may destroy your disk, get professional help instead if you wish to recover data, or use rstudio fat/ntfs and get your data out and then try out all this shi.-.t
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