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What is the difference between a chipset motherboard and an original motherboard?
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Is SD RAM or D RAM faster?
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What will happens if you put a DDR400 Memory in a DDR333 Maximun DIMM?
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How can you remove a black 1.5 inch border around the viewing area of a Toshiba 460 cdt?
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What motherboard brands support a dual ram?
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What is the difference between clock speed and bandwidth?
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Logitech mouse is working with Windows 98 but is frequently not detected in Windows XP what is the reason and the fix?
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If you are installing a second hard drive into a computer will it still work if you can't change the jumper to slave?
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Why would Windows XP not start after an improper computer shutdown due to a power failure?
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How do you remove the 2 inch black border around the LCD on a CDT Satellite Pro Laptop?
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What is the difference between a chip set and motherboard?
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What are different types of cpu registers?
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The video when a cd is inserted in the CD Drive is inverted after a second CDRW drive was installed how do you fix this?
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What do you do if your computer will not recognize any hardware?
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Is it possible to have a dual OS in a single dual processor motherboard?
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What is a cheap mother board - cpu combi having agp 8x support and bus speed of 800mhz?
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Is it possible to burn a copy of a burned CD?
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How can you change the default position of the dialog box that comes when you click for net connection?
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What is the best performing graphics card to go with a P3 socket 370 Via 694X chipset AGP 4X and 768MB of RAM?
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Why establish a formal evaluation criterion when considering the purchase of hardware for the organization?
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How do you remove a partition on a hard drive running Windows 98 without reformatting the hard disk?
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What kind of memory is used in Palm Pilots?
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How do you clean up your computer to get more MB?
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Is it possible to use pc3200 ddr ram in a pc designed for pc2700 ddr ram?
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What is a kermit modem?
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Will an Intel 850MD motherboard support 8x agp cards?
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How many hard disks will one motherboard support?
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Will a Radeon 8500 64Mb 4X AGPrun on a new Asus A7N8X-X 8X AGP 3.0 slot?
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What are the four other ports behind the cpu or system tower which resemble the port for a speaker?
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Where do you plug in speakers so that the output comes from the computer hard drive instead of its CD player?
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What would happen if the processor speed jumpers are set wrong?
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What is a server?
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What is a graphics card and what does it do?
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Why would the system power on when the power switch in the back is flipped but does not boot until the front power button is pushed?
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Is 512 SDR RAM or 256 DDR RAM better?
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Where can you get a ECS P4VXASD2 driver?
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Can you replace your BIOS chip to upgrade your computer?
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Does the red line on the cable go to the inside or outside when connecting a new hard drive to a computer?
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Why would your computer search the diskette for drivers instead of the hard drive when Windows XP detects new hardware?
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Can you download Pixel Shader 2 or higher?
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How does one assess if a computer is powerful?
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How does a DVD work?
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Is DDR and DDR2 memory compatible?
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How is a virtual port connected and used?
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Will an AGP 8x work with an AGP 4x motherboard?
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What kind of memory can you put in a IBM Thinkpad 380 tried pc100 and it didnt work?
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Is there device that you can use to backup your whole computer including OS and programs etc?
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Will 7200 RPM hard drives work on an old Pentium 233MHz MMX computer?
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Everything is OK but your PC is not connecting to internet and firewalls are off why?
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How do you install a USB2 PCI?
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If the display icon on your control panel gives only the option of 2 or 16 colors can you change this without purchasing a new video card?
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What can you reuse and what do you need to upgrade a PII 350 running Windows 98 to a Pentium IV 2.4 gig running Windows XP?
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How do you set up speakers so that they work and fix a CD-Rom drive after restoring your computer's operating system?
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How do you find out what kind of graphics card you have in your computer?
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Why does your computer restart when you insert a CD in the CD-ROM drive?
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What is a wireless adapter?
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My DVD RW drive will not read cds or dvd movies?
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How will a Sapphire ati Radeon 9600 xt 256mb ddr agp do for Doom 3?
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Who are four scientist from the Caribbean?
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How do you get the blade of awe?
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What do you do if your mp3 player that used to work on your computer now causes the computer to make a grinding sound and freeze?
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What would you need to record your voice and possibly some background music on the computer so CDs could be burned with that recording?
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How can you fix your dvd rwcd-rw drive that will not record anymore with cd-rcd-rwdvd rw and does not give off sound?
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How do you change cache memory?
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How do you remove write protect from a DVD that you want to overwrite the old files to back up the hard drive Thanks?
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What is the difference between southbridge and northbridge?
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When you buy a new graphic card how do you install it?
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How do you hook up old CPU to access from new computer as spare storage drive?
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What causes Keyboard to stay lit when pc is off?
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Is it possible to connect a USB2.0 PCMCIA card to a Toshiba T2130CS Notebook?
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