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Kill A Watt $26 only - reduce you power bill

Even cheaper: http://www.ambientweather.com/tdp4400.html
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- Post #4
- Oct 7, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Help! Need to find BIOS for an old board KK266-R

I'm trying to upgrade an old PC at work. It's got an Iwill KK266-R board with a Via KT133A chipset. After doing a little bit of research, I've discovered that I need to update the BIOS before I can upgrade the CPU. Unfortunately Iwill's website does not support this board any longer, and...
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- Jan 12, 2005
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Motherboards
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Unable to use Hyperthreading on DFI Lanparty Pro875b

HT is not working because Task Manager shows only a single CPU. HAL comes up as "Standard PC". During one of several clean installs, it came up as "MPS Uniprocessor". I couldn't get either to do a driver update to a HT version. Also tried F5 during installation. Two choices: Standard PC, and...
- Yamyam
- Post #4
- Jun 19, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Unable to use Hyperthreading on DFI Lanparty Pro875b

Argh! I can't get hyperthreading to work on my Lanparty pro875b. I've reinstalled Windows XP Pro a couple of times, installed various windows updates including SP1, switched several ACPI settings in BIOS, confirmed and re-confirmed that hyperthreading is enabled in BIOS, and tried to update the...
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- Jun 18, 2004
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Computer Building
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Unable to enter Standby with TV Wonder VE

My system is unable to enter standby because of my ATI TV Wonder VE driver. I'm using the following drivers: MMC-8-1-0-0-dao-mdac; mmc-9-0-0; tvw-pci-ve-driver-1-11-00. These are the most current drivers from ATI's website. Has anyone else had this problem? Any advice?
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- May 1, 2004
- Replies: 0
- Forum: TVs
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Startup resolution stuck at 640x480

Yep, tried that. I think I found the problem: late-model Radeon cards sometimes become unstable if the WinXP advanced performance control panel is set to "Server cache" rather than "application performance." I can't find much information about WHY this is a problem, but I changed my setting and...
- Yamyam
- Post #5
- Mar 4, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Startup resolution stuck at 640x480

Hmm. I spent most of last night trying several AGP/chipset and videocard drivers, but none of them worked any better. I guess I'll start jiggling cards cables tonight. This seems very strange, because the exact same hardware configuration was just fine a few days ago, before I began the latest...
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- Post #3
- Mar 4, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Startup resolution stuck at 640x480

Help! My monitor always defaults to 640x480 resolution at bootup. I can change it later, but the next time I reboot it resets to 640x480 again. How can I make it remember its resolution? My configuration: Athlon 2400, Asus A7N8X-E, Sapphire Radeon 9600, 512 Mb RAM, Raptor drive. WinXP with SP1...
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- Mar 3, 2004
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Computer Building
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How to connect front USB if not supported onboard?

Well hmmph. I checked Pricewatch and couldn't find anyone else selling it. The best I could find was a Soyo "Bayone" USB/Firewire kit for $30, which kinda defeats the whole purpose of using an old motherboard without USB headers...
- Yamyam
- Post #3
- Dec 10, 2003
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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How to connect front USB if not supported onboard?

I need to find a PCI card that has two (or more) internal connections for my case's front USB ports. USB 2.0 would be nice but I'd settle for USB 1.0. These cards were all over the place last year, but lately all I can find is cards with several external (rear) ports and possibly one internal...
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- Dec 10, 2003
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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Digital sound on K7S5a?

Does the K7S5A have digital sound outputs? I've found a good price on some digital Boston Acoustics speakers but I don't know if they'll work with my K7S5A board. I don't know the board revision, but I got it several years ago so it's probably the oldest one.
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- Thread
- Oct 21, 2003
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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Samsung Laser Printer ML-1710@OD $79 AR

Right.... but is the lower-capacity "starter" toner cartridge the same as the higher-capacity "replacement" toners? If I get a refill, is it going to overfill the starter cartridge?
- Yamyam
- Post #26
- Oct 4, 2003
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Samsung Laser Printer ML-1710@OD $79 AR

It's loud while it's printing and for a few minutes afterwards, but then it powers down and is silent. It's right at home beside my ultra-quiet PC. Has anyone here had any experience with the toner refill kits? I'd like to find out whether the 1000-page "starter" toner that came with the...
- Yamyam
- Post #15
- Oct 1, 2003
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Anyone own both the Seagate Cheetah 15k.3 drive AND a Western Digital 8 meg screamer?

Cool. Please elaborate, Shuttleteam. I've been looking for some good info on this subject.
- Yamyam
- Post #26
- Jul 5, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Anyone own both the Seagate Cheetah 15k.3 drive AND a Western Digital 8 meg screamer?

Shuttle, the only SCSI cards I've seen that include substantial cache are the high-end enterprise cards, which are configured for fault-tolerant RAID setups. Does their firmware really include cache management algorithms for JBOD and RAID0 (ie, aftermarket enthusiast) configurations? Just having...
- Yamyam
- Post #23
- Jul 5, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building

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