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simmy wrote:Are you studying I.T. ?

Retha de la Harpe
Head of Department

Hey Simmy

Do u know her? She's my lecturer (Data Admin) at CPUT.

Hmmm. Looks like everyone is leaning towards the plain 6600. I can dig out an extra R100 to make it R1000, but the i'll rather wait a month or 2 for prices to fall. I'm based in Cape Town. Any ideas where i can get a 6600 relatively cheaply around here? If not, an online shop will do. I can ask my b...

Thanx guys!

I'm more of an ATi nut but looks like I'll have to give nVidia a try. (6600 plain)

Can u guve me links to reliable online shops with good prices?

Maybe a bit off-topic but what are u guys opinion on the 9550/9600 PRO/x550/plain 6600

More opinions anyone?

Thanx Rish_zn I was thinking af a 9600 Pro but saw that one can get a 6600 for R1000! It's stretching my budget a bit though. (i'm a student) Do retailers still stock 9700/9800's? (the vanilla type) I don't mind getting those babies for R1000. The ATI X800gt is way out of my league. Will need to cha...

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Hi I've got R800-900 to spend on a new graphics card. Can someby tell me which card to go for? (in terms of performance/price ratio - I don't care about the bundle) It must be AGP. I prefer ATi but don't mind getting an nVidia as long as it isn't from the FX series. I'm not a hardcore player but don...

Sojourn wrote:Boot your PC up with an XP boot cd, then go into the recovery console when prompted. Delete the file.

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Hey Sojourn.

Last I tried deleting files from the console it told me that I don't have permission to do so.

PS. Do you know of any sites giving extensive info 'bout the console?

Thanx!

I've got an infected file (RA_autoseller.dll with Keylogger.trojan). Problem is, my AV software can't clean/quarantine it. I also cannot delete it since access to it is denied. I was thinking of deleting the file while XP boots. Kinda like running the bat script files during Win 95/98 booting. Can s...

Kill explorer as that's the viewing program using it, navigate to file, delete file, restart explorer. Detailed : Start>Run>command, now press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to open the task manager, Processes>EXPLORER.EXE and end it's process. Now go back to the open command prompt and select the folder that the...

My friend re installed XP by deleting his windows directory.

After installation he found out that he could not access his previous documents under c:\Documents and Settings\[his name]

How can one access it?

He's got a NTFS file system.

Damn. Julle is k@k funny!

Well, that got quite a response. In short, I got my system working... Roland's qoute got me thinking. It mentioned IDE devices and critical boot devices. So if my HHD, ram, mobo, PSU and GFX card is working, why not try swopping IDE cables. Putting my HDD with the CD-ROM's IDE cable and CD-ROM on th...

Hi Roland

To the man on the street, what does it mean? Cause you lost me...

SoulBlade

Ok. The other day, Tuesday, I switched on my pc. To my dismay, the screen showed that their's a file missing or corrupt (windows\system32\config\system). I assumed it was the system files. It also said to run the Recovery Console. I tried to copy the file in question from my friends pc to memory sti...

Thanks OnlyOneKenobi!

That really helps

Hi Question 1 ------------ I normall re-install Xp by booting into 98 (on C. XP is on D) & deleting the Windows directory of XP. I then reboot & re-install. Problem is, there's installed programs that windows don't know about (obviously). How do I tell windows that My Office/Other apps are i...

Thank you all!

Hi I got a partioned hdd (C:\ & D:\). I want to install XP on C & 98 on D. Some said it was very difficult to do (installing 98 after XP). How do I do it? Why do I wanna do it? Some games don't play on XP (Even in compatibility mode). And how do I reboot from XP into MSDOS? Why? 'cause that'...

6. Half Life
4. Diablo II + Expansion
3. Max Payne 2
2. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
5. Final Fantasy 8
1. Call of Duty

Others are Need for Speed Underground, Halo, Starcraft, System Shock 2,
Total Air War, Falcon 4.0, Alien vs Predator 2

Hi all Does anyone know how to add a new column in Outlook's tasks that's populated with user defined values eg, 1 to 4? If you want to update the STATUS field, it's populated with "Not Started, In Progress, etc." I want another Priority column (Priority_2) in my task list but with values ...

Hi all Does anyone know how to add a new column in Outlook's tasks that's populated with user defined values eg, 1 to 4? If you want to update the STATUS field, it's populated with "Not Started, In Progress, etc." I want another Priority column (Priority_2) in my task list but with values ...

Hi all Does anyone know how to add a new column in Outlook's tasks that's populated with user defined values eg, 1 to 4? If you want to update the STATUS field, it's populated with "Not Started, In Progress, etc." I want another Priority column (Priority_2) in my task list but with values ...

wit_skapie wrote:he he ... what about a free "sample" GFX card....?

What about the cover girl, ATi gard and the DVD