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Yesterday I noticed by accident that my Viewsonic VP930 has a dead pixel. :( It's pretty bright with hues of blue or green when looked at from the usual viewing angle, but when I look at it from different angles it looks red or more blue or green. I did a more thorough search and found another...

Hi guys I have always used your advice before and have been very happy with my purchases, recently I got a Radeon x1800xt which I enjoy very much :-) Now because my dell monitor can only display upto 1024 768 resolution I want to get a monitor that can be worthy of the card, I was thinking...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.dcameras (More info?) hi, we just got a Nikon Coolpix 8700. For the price, we expected the world. My wife is the real camera buff. She was very disappointed with how slow it auto-focuses and shoots. By the time it shoots, the subject will have moved...

Archived from groups: mtl.forsale-vendre,mtl.vendre-forsale,can.forsale,tor.forsale.computers,comp.periphs.printers (More info?) 9093 quebec 7755 boul. st laurent(across from jarry parc) 8000 sq/ft of stock 514-948-3451 22,000 sq ft wharehous henri bourassa PRICES $CAN BULK deals for...

Archived from groups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk,alt.comp.periphs.printers,comp.periphs.printers (More info?) Hi all. I've a problem on my Epson Stylus Photo 830. It won't print black. Well, it will, but I'm talking just barely. I've tried numerous head cleans. I heard the head cleaning cycle...

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) It must do A3 and print to DVD/cd and be a good photo print. And also have cheap ink catridges like the Canon printers. Would have got the Canon I6100 but it don't print to CD/DVD :( WHY CANON WHY :p Now Canon have make it hard for me...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.webcam (More info?) Hi, I have an Axis 205 network camera which is supposed to deliver 30 frames per second in all resolutions. However when I view the image in my browser locally (not via. the Internet), it's refreshing only once or twice per second. Any...

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) I've read a heap of material regarding the refilling of these particular carts. Of all, they seem to be the easiest to do. But. . . I wonder about the need (or desirability) of opening the "air vent" that's located atop the sponge...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.dcameras (More info?) Tried to create a slide show using NeroVision Express (newest upgrade of Nero v 6.6). Created a CD but with no bat or exe file - therefore no way to run it. Several folders were created on the CD but none had any executable...

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) I've got a Samsung ML-1210, only a couple of years old, very little-used (I'd be surprised if I've printed 500 pages off it), but now the gravity paper feed is pretty much kaput. Apparently the rubber gripper doesn't: after a couple of...

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) Anyone know of a source for Windows XP driver software for an elderly Epson Stylus Color IIs printer? Bruce.

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) Setting up my new i960 now. Is it n3cessary to remove my old printer from device manager-using WinXP ?

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) Having just changed the black cartridge, I only get very streaky black prints, and even less colour. I presume this is due to 'clogging', I have read about it before, but solutions seemed to be inconclusive. How strong should the ammonia...

Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?) I just bought an Epson Photo Stylus R300, on the CD in a directory named PCDATA, there are files listed sample1.ec3, sample2.ecs, etc.. I've searched the manual, online help and the Epson support website and can not figure out what...

I have a philips 107s 17" monitor. The maximum refresh rate for it is 60Hz at 1280x1024. But if i untick the "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display" under the display setting, i can go to higher refresh rate. Will the monitor get burn or something if i choose higher refresh rate than the...

I've been having a problem with my mouse the last couple days. If the cursor isn't moved for about 2 minutes, then the cursor will stick whereever it is. You then have to click a button to reactivate it. Does anyone know what could be causing this? I have no idea. I have turned all my power...

I am in need of finding a good monitor. 17"+ with as little ghosting as possible and a dvi is a must. i have heard that the tft7020 from compaq should be good, but when i called them up i did not get the college discount. So i decided that i would try to stay away from compaq, but if thats the...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev (More info?) Can anyone tell me where to get and download a "twain" driver?? My scanner says i need it on my computer to be able to install it.

Hi, I just built a new computer. When I boot it up, I need of course to have a boot record. So I put in my xp disk but nothing happens. It says boot record not found. I have changed the boot device order in the bios to have the cd drive read first. I dont know what else to do. Any help is much...

My Fx-8120 has been under-clocking itself recently. It happens seemingly at random, and I can't find any explanation for it. My first two cores stay at the regular clock speed of 3.1 Ghz, but the other 6 down-clock to 1.4 Ghz. They return to normal after a restart, but not for long. Why is this...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.misc (More info?) I managed to get TS setup so that it auto-launches a application when anyone TS into the server, but that also means that admins get the same restrictions. What I need is to setup all users except admin level...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (More info?) I'm running a query/report for specific users/computers from the Group Policy Results Wizard, but the I'm receiving the following error message: The RPC Server is unavailable. Your help is this matter is appreciated.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (More info?) Hi, I knew it by chance that a user who didn't belong to BackOffice Internet User group could access the Internet from his user account. I believed he used other users account/password when IE prompted him for user name...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_deployment (More info?) Does anyone have RIS working on a VLAN Network? If so, I cannot get the RIS sever to work but only on it's own segment. Also, will RIS be affected if there are more then 1 RIS on the network? Just wanna get the...

Has anyone had their machine reboot in a continous loop? For some reason when I install W2K as soon as I start to install my programs this happens. I'll reboot and when it begins to load the programs, screen goes black and reboots on its own, over and over. It will boot up in safe mode but I...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion (More info?) My cd drive has stopped reading cd's and my computer freezes every time I insert a cd. Any advice?

Hello, can you please help me how to fix MOM.Implementation on my laptop everytime i open it always pop out an error message.

What's the max limit of ram installed with 98se before running into problems if any? Seems to be believed 512mb is the max. Any drawbacks if there's more?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion (More info?) need some help. i probably went about doing this all wrong but here's what i did: upgraded to Xp. learned that the upgrade option did not convert to ntfs. uninstalled xp (stupid). i tried to reinstall xp using the...

Wondering if anyone uses the getcocoon.com plug-in for Firefox or IE and what they think? I believe the one for IE is a beta but from all I can find they do scan with anti-virus and that is what I'm most concerned about. I'd like to think if I try this that they're using top notch anti-V. All...

avg reported this on a brand new vostro 3450 which was on the internet for maybe 5 minutes before running scan and only safe websites like youtube: avg will not move it to vault; says files too big for vault:

when i leave my redhat system idle for about 20 mins or so it makes a loud beep and seems to restart the harddrive. this screws up alot of stuff (like running a server) and id like to fix it. I think its a problem with the sleep mechanism in linux.. how do i turn it off? is there something i...

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setup.exe has encountered a problem & needs to close.................debug? or close?

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Santa Clara (CA) - Intel continues to speed down the 45 nm path, shipping dozens of millions of processors before AMD will get its first 45 nm CPU into customer hands. Intel To Ship 100 Millionth 45 Nm CPU Before Year End : Read more

Hello, I have the world's SIMPLEST network. A host computer, windows xp, plugged directly into a satellite modem (Internet) and ONE client computer. I had to configure my IP addresses manually, but the host ends in "2" and the client in "3" at the end of the IP string. So - from the client...

If you found the $1500 price tag of Art Lebedev's LED keyboard to be outrageous, how does $462 sound? Of course you don't get quite as many LEDs for that. Art Lebedev To Offer LED Keyboards From $462 : Read more

Hello, i need multimedia audio controller for my PC plz shair me the link to download freely i have installed windows7 bt audio controller nt installed yet..........