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    simple/non-destructive fix for ultrascan 17es monitor?

    ok. long story short is ive got this dell ultrascan 17es monitor here that im trying to get working in a dual monitor setup. had to buy a new vga cable for it and dell has the pinout of the monitor buggered so standard vga cables dont work. heres proof...
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    narrowing down a graphics problem

    ok. this is confusing. you know how when you get a corrupted graphics driver or something along those lines where some oddities show up on the screen such as slow screen refreshing (windows booting up into the welcome screen does a slow fade from black. switching tabs in firefox takes a few...
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    PCI or CNR? (56k modem question)

    quick question here. im at my cousin's house right now and she has this old CNR slot 56k modem laying here she wants to sell. ive been meaning to ask her to trade off for the PCI modem in our computer now since i need the extra PCI slot and i have an open CNR slot. currently the only thing we...
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    Recommendations for Radeon Tweaks

    Simple question. currently have a sapphire radeon 9250 and just curious as to what tweaks you all can recommend just to squeaze a little extra power out of it. not like it needs it since it runs the games i play just fine. but couldnt hurt, could it? :)
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    gpu cooling solutions?

    hi everyone! im back! its been a LOOONG time hasnt it? almost a year now according to my last post's. anywho, to start my return, i have a pressing question for you all. for those who havent been around me in the past few months, i have made a few upgrades to this computer. one of which is a...
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    ripping sounds/music from gba rom (not wav/mp3)

    i know this has probably been mentioned before (probably a few times by me as well). but, im wondering if anyone has found a way to rip sounds and/or music from a gba rom instead of recording it to a wav/mp3
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    Nightmare Returns! (version .25)

    ok. long story short. in version 0.1, chanka would crash as soon as i hit start. would never show the DC logo. version 0.2 and 0.2a this was fixed. despite the shitty framerates, it ran. i was playing sonic adventure 1 & 2 and a few other games just fine. now in version 0.25 my nightmare...
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    WinXP Boot Error

    I am just now getting this error when I boot up. I had to restart due to my soundcard cutting out on me. it oesnt even go to the load screen for XP, it just says something about a missing file in C:\WINNT\system I dont know whether its a file in the WINNT directory thats missing or it has...
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    possible CMOS/BIOS fryup!

    well, my old computer (the 333MHZ one) is the one with this issue. its been sitiing dormant in my room for almost a month now. if I can fix it, im planning on using it as a linux/win2k/win98 box for both my own personal use and possibly some kinda webserver. here is the issue in detailed form...
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    Roadrunner (Cable) questions

    ok. I just switched from DSL to cable because cable is substantially faster. one question though. the guy who came in and installed it said I had to run the roadrunner install cd. I did. but now I got 2 programs running (RoadRunner Medic and Support.com) which seem to be slowing down my computer...
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    SVGA -> TV adapter?

    is there any way I can use my TV as a computer monitor without buying a whole new Video Card?
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    Dual Boot WinXP Home and Linux

    well, I think im finally gonna try and use Linux. couple things I wanna point out first. 1. got 3 HD's. 1 currently installed (40GB), another I can chain with my CD drive (60GB), and the other one im out of luck cuz the IDE cable on the current drive is just a single channel. 2. current HD has...
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    ISO File Sharing Networks

    Does anyone know of any p2p's that specify in CD ISO's?
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    Half-assed Benchmarks

    just recently I had to get a brnad new computer due to the motherboard croaking in my old 333MHZ machine. now I got a 2GHZ, 256 MB DDR RAM computer running winxp home. the video is intel and has 64MB. sound im not so sure. I just moved all my emulation stuff over and ran a couple N64 roms. here...
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    Music Extraction from GBA roms: possible?

    is there some kind of program avauilable that will let me see the contents of a GBA rom and possible pull the music out of the ROM that way? I know I can use VBA and just record the music that way, but that would take forever, so I need a quicker method.

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