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Any idea if/how I would be able to discern which it could be? Money's just tight enough that I would prefer to keep replacement to an either/or situation not both unless absolutely necessary. Unfortunately I don't exactly have an extra socket 478 chip lying around.

Ok, not really, but my system unexpectedly and quite undramatically died yesterday. Left it running as I ran some errands and when I came back the screen was black and the monitor power button was flashing at me. The Stats: Motherboard: Asus P4P800 Deluxe (Socket 478) CPU: Intel P4 2.2-C...

nope. allocation size is 4096 bytes. I'm gonna have to do some mid-summer cleaning, but I should be able to squeeze the contents of the drive onto another one and do a clean format. Hopefully that will clear up any issues. Thanks for the help!

Ugh... this is frustrating. Currently downloading no files to this drive via P2P. Nothing is being written to it. TreeSize tells me I have 60GB of used space also, not the 85GB explorer does. A search of the drive turned up no unexpected hidden large files. So, still got 25GB of...

Thanks for the good info guys. I don't even have System Restore enabled so I doubt it is that. RECYCLER on the drive is empty (no hidden files and dir in cmd shows nothing) Any idea to tell if my computer was being used as an ADS? I recently reinstalled windows (2 weeks ago) but have...

When I select all the files on the drive it says I have 60GB worth of data on it, however if I right click on the drive in My Computer it says that there is 84.8GB in used data. There aren't any hidden files or folders on the drive, the files are compressed in drive cleanup, and the drive is...

thanks for the advice guys. unfortunately med school tuition payments = no full upgrade for the forseeable future. I game casually and tend to stick to some of my faves (Oblivion, HL2, etc), so ragin FPS isn't really a high priority. I know DX10 and Vista are gonna make me plunk down the cash...

So... my 128MB Radeon 9800 Pro (the original - 380MHz core, 340MHz memory) fritzed out today. Its 4 years old, so I guess it was on its last legs anyways. I've completely ignored video card stuff the last few years, so I'm oblivious. If I was looking for a card of similar or slightly better...

Easiest way would be to put a tv tuner in your boxen.

Freeware or not, I'm looking for the best, unobstrusive firewall you can get for windows XP. I'm sick of the bloatware that is Zonealarm and need something that doesnt suck 30MB of my memory. Thanks in advance.