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    Hard Disk/SMPS Trouble

    thanks for the price quote, but is it PCI or AGP? My mobo does not support PCIe... I need a New Mobo... :)
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    Can I Replace Laptop HDD Myself ?

    Yes you most certainly can replace the hard disk yourself. If you have the manual for the Laptop, it will have instructions on opening the harddrive casing. You don't even have to dissassemble the laptop, you just need the right sized phillips screwdriver, one screw, one cover, thats usually it...
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    Compatability of a Power Supply ( SMPS) with a home UPS

    In theory, it should since it will never be taxed to the full 1000 watts. But are you sure that its 1000watts? I mean insn't that over-kill?? cause you would hardly never use that kind of power!! Even with you computer taxed to the fullest, having a 1000w SMPS would not solve any problems...
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    Compatability of a Power Supply ( SMPS) with a home UPS

    You said that you have two (2) 512 MB RAM chips on your computer, most frequetly, they can be the source of trouble. Maybe the timings on your chips are mis-matched, or they are of different brands, have them checked out. If you replace the 2 chips with one DIMM of 1gb, that should eliminate...
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    Hard Disk/SMPS Trouble

    Well I changed the SMPS, got a new one and I as far as I know, both SATA and IDE drives consume the same amount of power, its just a difference in the connectors, they are thinner, so they allow for better air ciruclation in the cabinet. Just when I plug in the drive, the system powersdown, so...
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    Hard Disk/SMPS Trouble

    My computer is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ based machine running on an Asus K8V-MX motherboard with 512mb Ram. Recently, one idiot who was visting my room (and I was away at the time) plugged the computer directly into the mains, bypassing the UPS. Apparently there was a power surge and the computer...
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    How to Control Your Laptop with the built in iRDA Port

    Can Get Software!! Well, yeah, thats part of the problem. Unfortunately, I don't have an IR-DA enabled phone. And I can get the correct software from somewhere, I mean there has to be something out there that enables you to use a standard remote contoller with the built in iR Port.
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    How to Control Your Laptop with the built in iRDA Port

    Can anybody tell me if its possible to contol your laptop with the built in irda port and a standard infra red remote contol that you get with TVs or with vcrs?
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    iR Control Your Laptop

    Hi all whats up? I have a Toshiba Satellite A-20 S-108 and it has a built in Infra Red Port. I was wondering if there is some way I can use that iR-DA port with a standard-over the counter remote control, like the kind we get with TVs, MP3 players etc to control some basic windows operations...
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    Some DVDs don't run!

    Hey People whats up? I have a wierd problem, I have a DVD combo drive in my Toshiba Satellite A-20 Notebook computer. I have PowerDVD, WinDVD6 Platinum and Windows Media Player 10 insatalled and running on a copy of WINXP Pro SP2. Most DVDs run fine, however, some dont. When I put them in my...
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    TV Tuner for a Laptop

    Can you give me exact specs for that usb card please, cost and where can I aquire one for my laptop?
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    Direct Cable Connection Between 2 Laptops

    Hey guys thanks for all the help. I've already tried the IR, it takes like 15 minutes per song, and you gotta do it 1 song at a time! But Thanks for that modem link, I tried that, by tyring on dial up server in the win98 machine, but forgot the line simulator, I'm gonna make that tomorrow and...
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    Direct Cable Connection Between 2 Laptops

    Is there no one out there who knows how to do this? Tell me something, is there a parallel to usb converter out there? Basically I want to spend as little as possible and still get my work done.
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    Direct Cable Connection Between 2 Laptops

    Hi! I need help. You see I have 2 laptops, one is an old Nec Versa running Win98 and the other is a Toshiba Satellite A20 running Windows XP Pro. The Nec belongs to a friend, he as about 1.63 GB worth of MP3s on it and I have to transfer them onto the satellite and burn them onto a CD. I need...
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