Recent content by Petemj23

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    512mb GDDR5 vs. 1GB GDDR3 for HD video editing with Vegas

    Hello everyone, My knowledge of videocards is very limited. I've been using my integrated graphics, but Sony Vegas needs some help. I'm looking for something in the $100 range. I've narrowed it down to the Nvidia 240 chipset. The two cards I'm looking at both have this chipset but one with...
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    Printer sharing problem

    I'm hoping someone could help. There is probably an eazy fix. I have a Vista Ultimate x64 machine with my old printer (canon i550) connected. I want to share that printer with another machine on my home network that is running XP x86. I go through all the wizards and I can share files. But...
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    33% RAM being used at idle

    thanks for all the sugestions everybody. I'm still struggling with this darn thing. This is a less than week old fresh install, so there is no bloaware. Just a few standard programs installed such as comodo firewall, vlc media player, malwarebytes anti maleware, Sony vegas, iTunes, adobe...
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    33% RAM being used at idle

    Hello, I was wondering if someone could help. I was editing in Sony Vegas today and noticed very sluggish performance. I noticed that 1/3 of my RAM is being used when my system is at idle. I haven't noticed that before. I've ran a Malwarebytes AM scan and that didn't turn up anything. I'm...
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    Change system drive letter back to C: Help

    Hello everyone. I hope someone can help. I just upgraded my "guts" (mobo, ram, cpu) and am trying to get all set up. I installed windows XP on a brand new hard drive on a newly created partition. On the setup screen, it says C: Partition1 [NTFS] I left some unpartitioned space on the new drive...
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    System drive letter change help

    Hello everyone. I hope someone can help. I just upgraded my "guts" (mobo, ram, cpu) and am trying to get all set up. I installed windows XP on a brand new hard drive on a newly created partition. On the setup screen, it says C: Partition1 [NTFS] I left some unpartitioned space on the new...
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    Drives wont show in My Computer or Disk Management

    Please help!! I'm pulling out my hair! Drives I connect via usb will not show up in My Computer anymore. I've tried my external HD, Flash drives, my ipod, and my digital camera. When I plug something in, Win XP plays the sound like normal but nothing happens. And the ipod charges like...