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  1. slimTech

    Please suggest me the Laptop brand

    thanks for ur suggestions.. the primary usages would be running the autocad, google sketchup, revit.. mainly for design softwares..
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    Please suggest me the Laptop brand

    Hi.. I am planning to buy a laptop. Could you guys, please suggest me the brand to buy which will get me the best deal. Budget is Rs.50000. Previously, I was looking for HP (model not decided) and Sony Vaio. But recently, have got some negative reviews for both and got stuck...
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    Western Digital or PC Problem !

    try after disabling 1394 Net Adapter, if there
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    LAN

    btw which net r u going to use, i mean isp? some isp like mtnl requires router to connect to them. if so, u can make a lan through that router only and connect two PCs, one through usb and other through the lan socket.
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    Blue Screen Error

    @PraveenaG - This is hardware troubleshooting forum not career troubleshooting. There is a separate section for these things to be posted. There are many causes when we get the BSOD messages. The common cause is device driver confliction or incompatibility. Bluescreens can also be caused by...
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    Buying a New External Hdd..Please Help..

    What do you think guys which one is better, USB powered or non-USB powered? As far as compatibility is concerned, I think USB powered will have to compromise...
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    SONY DVD RW Problem

    what kind of stuff is ISO Buster? does it help reading all DVDs?
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    SATA HD... hates my Creative sound card?

    install xp on SATA making it as primary. SATA is much more faster than IDE and that makes difference. try changing the slot of sound card and SATA.
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    SONY DVD RW Problem

    thanks dheeraj. from liggydee.cdfreaks.com, i couldn't get the right firmware for SONY RW AW-G170A. i downloaded a firmware from binflash.cdfreaks.com but the version is not updated one it seems. it is v1.45a and the current version of my DVD drive is 1.62. is it fine to flash with this one?
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    SONY DVD RW Problem

    Thanks! i cannot exchange it as it is out of the warranty period. anyway, i will try flashing it with the updated firmware. the power might not be the problem, as it reads some dvds, cds and writes well. can anyone tell me, the flashing of firmware, updates the drivers in OS or the drive itself...
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    SONY DVD RW Problem

    Hi I hav SONY DVD RW AW-G170A drive on my pc running XP SP3. It does everything right except reading the DVDs, it reads some DVDs though, only 1 out of 10. And when checking on another pc (my friend's) running Vista, it reads all the DVDs :confused:. I don't understand where the problem is? I...
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    Pen Drive capacity has decreased by 480MB

    thanks to u all as told by NucleusKore, I couldn't get the Gparted live cd. Only I was able to downloaded a file gparted-0.3.7.tar.bz2 from *gparted.sourceforge.net/ that contained c++ source files. Please suggest. I tried with the bootable cd, but it only displayed the partition that...
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    Pen Drive capacity has decreased by 480MB

    Hi I have got a 2GB My Flash pen drive from A-Data. It came bundled with usb utility that helped create partition as public and secured (one for both). At this time the capacity was 1.88GB. I created a secured parition of 250MB and rest for public. It worked well for two or three months until I...
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