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Photo of my new pagefile.

Yeah bwoiee.
I have no idea what possessed me to do this, but I bought a 300x CF card and a CF-to-IDE adaptor to use it with, then I set it to be my Z: drive and put a 1.8GB pagefile on it. I figured it would benefit from the virtually-nonexistent random seek times that FLASH [...]

Two XP choices on startup – only one installed

Ok, its now my turn to be called a noob and a dumbass, because I have a stupid problem I cant google.
I just got a laptop, dell 5100 from the parents. its an old 2.4ghz unit that needs a reinstall of windows. I reinstalled XP pro, everything went smoothly. Then when I restarted the dell, [...]

I just reinstalled windows xp just to find out i have less space

My laptop has a 60gig hardrive (52 in ntfs terms). So I decided to reinstall XP, thus deleting everything because my laptop’s performance was shitty at best. I was getting highly variable fps on old games.
So anyways, everything went fine, but now I just realized my computer has 36 gigs of free space. Where did [...]

Recommend a new laptop for me. v. help

Got around $1500 to spend towards a new laptop. Can you all recommend something for me? I’m thinking about an xps What do you want to use it for? Desktop replacement/gaming, sager laptops from a vendor like pctorque will be your best bet.
I think the XPS line is overpriced for what you get. [...]

Website ‘Media Player’

Do any of you know if it is possible to make it so if any .wmv / .avi file is clicked on my website, it is automatically loaded either in that window, or in a popup.. instead of prompting user to download?
People upload files to my website, and want to be able to play the [...]

i NEED a raid card

for home media server
needs to have 8 ports
<$300 ?

i noobed myself by trying to let the mobo handle the raid.mobo raid from most consumer mobos is fail and aids.
the only mobos that do decent raid are server-grade boards.here’s my recommendation… assuming you mean SATA-II and you have a PCI-Ex4/8/16 slot available.
I have a rocketraid card [...]

did no one else anywhere ever notice..

that 8gb of ram costs like 150 quid – maybe 200 us dollars or less?
i was considering buying a wee ssd at some point for an OS partition, but fuck, i could just get fuckload of ram either. access times would be immense.
i could copy my os partition to a ramfs. i know operating systems [...]

Computer Getting BSOD

My computer keeps getting a BSOD after its on for about 10 minutes. It BSODs, i turn it off, and it doesnt turn back on for about 10 minutes. Any idea what the problem is? i recently had a new hdd and mobo put in.It would help if you’re tell us what [...]