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hi, ive got a dell inspiron xps and i would like to know if its possible to use the monitor on the dell as my primary monitor for my desktop computer? im going to college and instead of carting a crt monitor over there i would like to bring my …

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Help i have a Sony PCVRS-210 computer and it's bios wont let me disable the onboard graphics card!!! Does anyone know how???

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Hey everyone. I have an ATI Radeon 9500 pro, and I'm just wondering if it is possible for me to diable a feature called SideBand Addressing? I could not find it in my BIOS, and I could not find it in the SMARTGART section of my ATI Catalyst Control Centre …

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I do graphics, so i know a thing are two about graphic cardz, i'm also into gaming so i know about my graphic cardz!!!!! but a few days back i got the splinter cell chaos theory, i played pandora tommorrow fine, but when it was time to run this new …

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I know very little about hardware and I was wondering if someone could tell me about what AGP is all about. I have a x4 slot and want to know whether x8s will work in it. Also, what does x4/x8 mean? If you can help me with this, please could …

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HI im tryin to put all of my old VCR videos onto the computer. I have a sony VCR which unfortunately doenst have an S-video port. I actually have two video capture cards in my pc... a Geforce 5600, and a pinnacle media centre 300i.. both of these have S-video.. …

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Hi, I took a quick look to the Thread to find if there is a problem similar but I didn't find it. I want to know if someone had this problem or knows how to fix it. My monitor start normaly. After 5 mins or more, the screen turns black …

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I just bought a used Samsung SyncMaster 753DF 17 in. monitor yesterday, and it works great, the image is nice and bright, the color is great (this was an upgrade from an old CTX monitor with 11.5 in. image size), but no matter how I adust the settings, there is …

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Hi there. I have recently managed to crack the screen on my Compaq Evo N800... I was wondering if people knew what other laptops had screens which would be compatibile with my one, if there are any? Would anyone know if a Compaq Armada screen would work for instance? Any …

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I have installed a new AGP card a Chaintech nvdia Ge Force 4200 128mb. This replaces a PCI card. The monitor does not recognise the card and will not boot up. If I re-install the old card into its PCI slot and plug the monitor in to the new AGP …

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Ever since last night my monitor has been acting strange. When I turn it on the backlight comes on for like half a second then it just goes off, this happens every time I press the power button on ; if I leave it on for 10 mins (It's on …

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I have a IBM Thinkpad 390X and the display is very dark. If I connect to another monitor everything works fine. I believe that the computer has been dropped by the previous owner. I'm thinking that the problem is either the CCFl tube or the inverter. That being said I …

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Hi, I have a laptop with a dead lcd screen. When I put a bright light on the screen everything was there and seemed to be working fine. Is the problem my ccfl or possibly the inverter board? If the the problem is in my interter board would I be …

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Hi all, I was wondering how safe it is to exceed the recommended refresh rates on a monitor? I currently have a Viewsonic G220fb with an NVidia Ti4200 card, and overriding the refresh rate of 75hz to 100hz (at 1280x1024) via the Nvidia control panel. I'm finding that 100hz is …

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My previous screen had a slightly unstable image in the bottom left & right corners. Then it blew up. So I went and bought a 4 year old Dell "19 Flatscreen monitor. I got it home, hooked it up to my case and the image on the desktop around icons …

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I've just recently added the above graphics card & when I plug my camcorder into the firewire port my PC doesn't detect it. When going into the Device Manager it says that my IEE 1394 device has a 'Code 10 Cannot Start' error, this also applies to the WDM device. …

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My monitor - a Viewsonic E70f has developed a pale green patch in the top right corner. The green area is only faint but it has appeared since I installed a new video card. (Chaintech nvdia GeForce 4200 128mb), The monitor is only a couple of years old. Any ideas? …

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Can anyone out there tell me if it is at all possible to convert a Netpliance I-Opener so that I can just run the display as a second display unit on my computer? I found it at a garage sale. The seller gave it to me free (he was going …

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My friend asked me this question recently. I didn't know what to tell him. Mike: Hope you can help as I can't get anywhere with Dell, their free support is limited to OS problems and can't touch third party's hardware/ software - even though they installed it. So much for …

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I installed a demo of EA's Battlefield 2 on the PC earlier today and ever since the screen has been, well messed up. The game crashed at startup complaining about the grahics card. The icons are now huge. I've switched res and this does solve the problem but the screen …

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HI, I was working on my laptop for few hours..and suddenly now screen went blank... and wont comeback... i tried rebooting it but still no avail.... it wont show even the initial bios setting.. i tried to connect it to desktop monitor still blank.. but hard drive light wont go …

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ATI now has their own answer to Nvidia's SLI... [URL=http://ati.com/products/crossfire/index.html]The Crossfire!!![/URL] That's cool!!! It's supposed to kick SLI's butt. :D What do you think?

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I need to set my ATI all in wonder 9000 pro to output composite sync to feed my NEC 9PG CRT projector. I can do this with Dscaler/Powerstrip for Sat dish signal but need to set it at the AGP card level for DVD playback. Anyone know how to change …

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Hi. I have installed a new Motherbaord- a Gigabyte GA-7dxr and an AGP video card- a Chaintech nvdia Ge Force 4 T14200 128mb. It all works fine running on the new card until I remove the old PCI card. When I try to boot up without the PCI card installed …

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I 've had a flat screen monitor for about a year and recently it has been acting really weird. The screen would flicker and the desktop setting is "out of bound". It would flicker and the settings will be back to normal and then flicker again and it would be …

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I have an Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb card. I recently decided to disconnect my extra case fan at the back. It has worked normally for a few weeks. Yesterday when I turned it on, it got some way towards loading windows (I saw it at the grub bootloader stage) and …

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hi, my monitor is 17" viewsonic G73fm. i saw its specs on the net which said that it supports 100hz at 10/7 res. a friend of mine told me that its unsafe to operate at 100hz. what could possibly go wrong? thanks kind regards omw

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Hi, For the last 10 months or so, whenever booting up, my NEC monitor would flash a quick 'Out of Range' message, then go black during boot (but my TV would display). Then, once into windows, the LCD Monitor would come on, and all was well. This morning, the LCD …

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I have 19in flat screen CRT monitor 3 years old. My monitor screen changes colour, when I move my data cable, connections are fine, looks like there is an internal damage to wires between the connector and the shield (in the cable).The cable on the monitor side is soldered inside …

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How much would this sydtem be worth roughly Athlon AMD64 3400+ (939 venice) 2gb pc3200 crucial ram x850xt PE PCI-E 160gb HD 7,200 rpm Acrlyic case with lighting mods etc.. 600watt psu Liquid cooling Chaintek Mobo (pci-e, i think its a cf4 or sumthin) Thanks

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