Recent content by Sad Panda

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    CPU fan on my laptop won't start. What do I do?

    [*** am I supposed to get the dust out?
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    CPU fan on my laptop won't start. What do I do?

    I was vacuuming the dust out of my Toshiba M105 laptop while it was running. I tried sucking the dust out of the CPU fan and it immediately stopped and Ubuntu automatically shut down. I've tried rebooting and so on, but I can't get the fan to start. When I reboot into windows, it runs okay...
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    New MOBO powers on but screen is dark.

    I tried my friends PSU with an 8-pin ATX connector. No luck: pp_led3 is lit - no output to screen. Should I go ahead and RMA this board?
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    New MOBO powers on but screen is dark.

    I got a new Jetway MOBO and tried plugging two different power supplies into it, but nothing appears on the screen when I power it on. The new MOBO uses an 8 pin CPU connector, but I only have a 4 pin. According to the internets, this should still work if I don't use to much power. All I can...
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    Vista to Windows 7 Free Upgrade Plans Leaked?

    I plan on getting my upgrade for free, except I'm not upgrading and MicroSoft won't be giving it...
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    SATA HDD Installation

    With XP: Yes With Windows 7: No I use windows 7 and I love it, you should too.
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    Best PCI uses?

    John Connor uses them to plug the neural chip of a terminator into the L.A. traffic system.
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    Hynix Produces 40nm 1 GB DDR3 for Q3'09

    GreatWalrusI assume this won't be limited to just 1 Gb chips, right? 1 Gb = 125MB, so the answer is no.
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    500TB MP3 Player in the works?

    Why must the news media refer to every storage device by the number of mp3s it can hold? Seriously If you have terabytes of storage, you're not putting mp3s in there.
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    Which Blu-Ray DVD-ROM Ripper works well in Linux?

    I'm looking to start ripping Blu-ray disks and need a Blu-Ray ROM that works well in linux. I will be using the DVDFab HD trial edition. This is the one i'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136154 What do you guys think? Any place, I can get a drive...
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    Promise NS4300N: NAS For Small Offices

    asdfzxc@sad panda:you'd still have enough left over to buy a real RAID card and absolutely blow these things out of the water.4-port Hardware RAID cards going for under $300 on newegg. What's wrong with getting a MOBO that does RAID for you?
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    Promise NS4300N: NAS For Small Offices

    Seriously? You want us to pay 420 bucks for a POS that will underperform a standard desktop machine you can put together on Newegg for less? MicroAtx MOBO with onboard video = $80 Dual Core CPU = $60 2 Gigs of DDR2 800 Ram = $24 Case with 6 HDD slots and 4 external slots = $40 Linux Operating...
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    Returning Xbox 360 to target...Can I keep the Hard drive?

    Okay, so I finally got around to return it today. The dumb bitch who I gave it to, didn't even ask about the hard drive. She did, however, open up the Kung Fu Panda case and made sure I hadn't pilfered any of the two retarded games that came with the xbox, lol :lol: :lol: So now I got all...