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I figured I wouldn't get much support from them since its been a while since I made that purchase. But I just sent an e-mail to them to see if they could possibly aid me.

This is a revival of an old thread back in 2009: http://www.techist.com/forums/f77/lga-1336-retention-bracket-installation-problems-210866/ My rig finally started giving me grief after 2 years of great operation. The right side is a retention bracket for lga 775 The left side is a retention...

I am trying to get win7 onto an emachine t3604. That machine will not read DVD's so I can't get the system to boot by DVD.(cannot boot from cd code-5) So I took the HDD out of the t3604, and put it in my system that does allow booting from a DVD. I installed win7 and tried putting the HDD back...

I solved it guys................................................... Somehow the cables to my HDD and GPU became slightly undone...Fixing that and all the driver B.S. solved the problem completely I'm back at 190-240 fps.

I tried uninstalling the drivers for my ATI card and downloaded earlier drivers. It solved the problem for minutes before going back to 15-40 fps. Should I use a driver cleaner to ensure that all of the driver data is being cleared?

I have: ATI Radeon HD 4870 i7 2.67 ghz 3gigs DDR3 win7 ultimate 64-bit These specs are pretty good for playing HoN, LoL, and TF2. I usually get around 190-230 fps in all those games, but recently I've been experiencing a huge fps drop in my games and I couldn't figure it out. So I re-installed...

I'm trying to sing to people in mumble or vent, but I don't know how to get the autotune program to be my microphone out.

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my enter key doesn't work in the address bar but everywhere else it works. anyone got a fix?

I was thinking along the lines of a open source operating system being able to do everything a Windows operating system can do. For the purposes of gaming where the resources can be allocated more efficiently since there are less places for it to be allocated to. Although I'm a nub programmer I...

I'm trying to get my electric guitar to play in to the computer through a cable instead of my headsets mic. I've got an onboard sound card, and a 3/4 cable going into my amp already. What other cables do I need?

I just meant on a graphical level... how files are presented and organized. Although I wasn't being open-minded to the programming syntax and kernel level processes. I didn't think it was necessary to mention it since OP wasn't really asking about it.

I hope I'll still be able to reload my shotgun with perfect hand eye coordination at an unreasonably fast speed.

If you game, you should probably use a Windows OS. Although it is possible to game on a linux OS. You will run into lots of compatibility issues (unless there have been improvements). If you weren't gaming it would be a crime not to use Linux The basic structure of Linux is similar to...

when Windows cleans your disk... whats really happening? I have a 1TB HDD and now the capacity is 931 Gigs Does Vista take 70gigs? or is that my trashed files still taking up capacity?