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How much will performance be degraded if you install PC2700 DDR RAM on PC3200 Mother Board?
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How can you get rid of a radio signal that is transmitting through your computer?
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Can an ATi Radeon 9200SE 128MB DDR SDRAM AGP 8X work on a 4X AGP KM133A AGPset which has a AGP 2.0 compliant?
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What is the difference between hard and soft modem?
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What is wrong if you build a computer with 1.7 mHz AMD processor but the computer says it is only running at 1.1 mHz?
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What is the basic difference between SDRAM and DDR RAM?
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Do you need to replace your video card if there are diagonal lines going across your screen?
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How do you format a hard disk on low level?
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Can you access audio and video files with an 80486 machine?
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What is best AMD ATHLON or Intel?
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Is it possible to use a PC without a monitor and keyboard and operate it from another PC on Ethernet network?
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What is the difference between DVD writer and DVD RAM?
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What are the types of RAM?
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What are the latest major inventions in computers?
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What is the plural of 'mouse' on a computer?
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Can you recommend a dual processor motherboard preferably an MSI board that is reasonably new?
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What is the difference between SDRAM PC133 and PC133 SDRAM module and what sort of RAM suitable for Gateway computer?
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How do you disable the BIOS for a ATI PCI graphics card?
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How does computer memory work?
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What is the big difference between a 533mhz front side bus and an 800mhz front side bus?
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Can you upgrade the motherboard in an IBM Aptiva 2139E5U?
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Why would burning to a CD-R not work with your CD writer but you could burn a CD-RW?
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What is meant by 'fixing errors'?
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What is 'CMOS'?
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What is the difference between a boot partition and system partition?
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How is the data erased from a hard disk?
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What is SD RD and DDR RAM?
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Can you install a new gforce video card and memory for gaming on your HP laptop ze4000?
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Which is better to use a total of 384 MB SDR or a single 256 MB DDR?
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What does the command scandisk do?
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Where do you enter the port numbers in your CompUSA router to make your Netmeeting program work?
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What is the architecture of DVD RAM?
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If you replace your graphics card with a newer one should you reformat?
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Do you need a USB PCMCIA and a USB 2.0 hub if you want to connect an external hard drive to a laptop?
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Which way to connect a cardbus in a Thinkpad 380ED PCMCIA slot?
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How do you delete taskbar icons?
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How many types of RAM are there?
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What does the message 'a hi-speed usb host controller needs to be installed' mean you need to do?
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Why cant you play a DVD on a CD drive?
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How do you get the 'add new hardware' screen to show up where you can click cancel when you install a usb device instead of having the hardware wizard automatically install it with Windows drivers?
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How do you format a CD-RW?
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What are the precautions taken before installation?
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How do you find your usb version?
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Can a HD cause a power failure in the PC?
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How do you install hardware raid 0 in a computer?
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How do you get a Toshiba 460cdt laptop to detect RAM?
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Can you redirect data sent to a printer parallel port to a USB port?
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How do you link a laptop to a PC with a parallel cable?
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If you have more than 2 usb ports on your computer do you have to download 2.0 driver for each set of ports?
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How do you install a hi-speed USB host controller?
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Which is the most accurate portable digital voice recorder for transferring a voice to the computer?
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After changing a old hard drive for a bigger new HD how do you transfer the data from the old HD to the new HD?
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If the color red has totally disappeared from your desktop why has this happened and what if anything needs to be replaced?
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How do you get drivers for hp pavilion dv6000 for xp proffesional os only for network adaptor and webcam?
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Why would a DVD not play on your computer?
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What is the difference between the functioning of processor chip and chipset?
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Which external CDRW would be best for an IBM 380 ED Thinkpad Sys Cofig 166 MHz Pentium MMX 48 MB RAM?
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What is 'setup' where is it stored or processed?
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What would happen if Windows XP were installed on two drives?
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How do you format your PC if you do not have a floppy drive installed?
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Can an ATI Radeon 9250 work on a TYAN S2090 motherboard?
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How do you correct a second hard drive that has 120GB but only shows 19GB when checked for it's capacity?
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How do you remove the memory module from a Toshiba 460CDT?
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What are the five elements of a computer?
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How do you create different drives on a computer hard disk?
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How can you play a DVD in a CD-RW?
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Is ATA100 hard disk compatible with ATA150 mother board?
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What is the difference between a microprocessor and a microcontroller?
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Why does a laptop freeze when connecting an external USB or Firewire drive?
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If SD RAM is only half the speed of DDR RAM then why are SD memory cards more expensive?
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