Recent content by Matthew Thompson-1279937

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    Best Audio Card?

    Appreciate the help! I am gonna find the nearest place for audio and check out some speakers in my price range! I am willing to pay about 500 for a pair.
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    Best Audio Card?

    Those are nice! Christmas is coming so I will def be looking into those. 500$ or less on speakers and you recommend those right? Thanks! What about Focal? I will be adding the Asus card in a week or so!
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    Best Audio Card?

    Ok say if I were to buy a new Sound System? What would be a good sound system that's worth getting with the ASUS Xonar Essence STX 200$. It produces 192KHZ.
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    Best Audio Card?

    Hey guys I am wanting to purchase an Audio Card. Why you ask because I have a bunch of bought Music FLAC and want to play them with the best hardware. I have 200 to 300$ for this card. Can someone give me the Best Buy for this price range? I also have Harmon Kardon Soundsticks iii so I am...
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    Best Graphics Card?

    Perfect! Should I use Amazon or New Egg? As to which brand! I've used Asus and EVGA. They seem to be more reliable! Thanks again!!
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    Best Graphics Card?

    Hey guys I am wanting to add a GPU to my new build and am wanting to get an idea of the latest good cards out there. I am looking at spending about 300 to 350 for this card. Could anyone recommend a good buy in this range? Ive used ATI cards in the past and have never used NVIDIA, I am not picky...
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    Fresh Windows Install Hard Drive Not accessable

    Ok thank you for the reply. I am unable to access the drive to transfer files to another drive. Any idea on how to get to those files?
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    Fresh Windows Install Hard Drive Not accessable

    Ive done this also http://smallbusiness.chron.com/disable-write-protection-hard-drive-54089.html and nothing.
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    Fresh Windows Install Hard Drive Not accessable

    I don't want to use Linux anymore. I just want to access my Hard Drive? Do I have to install Linux just to view that Hard Drive?I don't want anything to do with Ubuntu right now.
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    Fresh Windows Install Hard Drive Not accessable

    I can get to the Disk Management but it says read only when i go to extend it and it says the same thing "media write ptrotected" when i try to open.
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    Fresh Windows Install Hard Drive Not accessable

    Hey guys I just installed Windows 8, I came from Ubuntu. Well I now cannot access my Hard Drives, the only one I have access to is my SSD which is where the OS is installed. I have a 4TB Internal drive that when i go to My computer and click on it says "Location is not available" in the headline...
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    Cable vs Fiber

    I am gonna keep Directv right now. They have treated me very well. I just checked AT&T service and the map shows that it's been confirmed in St Louis so I should be expecting it soon. They have spray painted are driveway because we are the first house on our road. Thanks everyone!!
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    Cable vs Fiber

    Yes they are actually starting with the largest city closest to me, which is St Louis and we are 30 miles away. The 1 Gbps service will roll out early next year. So I am hoping to eventually get that service. There are 3 family members in this house. For the most part at one time there would be...
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    Cable vs Fiber

    Hey guys I currently have Charter Communications 100 Mbps service and AT&T is laying new Fiber Optic Cable in my area. Well my question is there packages currently run all the way up to 50Mbps. I would get the best package and all. I know there is latency with Cable and the more users on the...
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    CD-ROM making grinding noises

    Ok I have a Sony Vaio vpcfll90x laptop that the cd-rom is making grinding noises for about 15 seconds after closing drive? It also will not read anything. When I double click on the drive to open the contents loads for 5 seconds and then spits the drive out asking to insert a disc. All the...