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But that's the thing: I've been working and saving on 2007 mode, but from one computer to another, and even the same computer, after reformat and windows reinstall, i can't read the files created on one computer to the other.

The Inspiron 6400 is good. I've bought one a couple months ago. It's very good value for money.At the moment, very sweet too with their deal of $300 off. Go for their "best" model for $999. I can't believe what they offer for that price.

Macs aren't really an option for me, because of the price. I'll be paying in excess of $1200 for the base iMac (not the mac mini, but $900 for that? So excluding that, and also the factor that Macs are exteremely rare here, and servicing means having it shipped to Singapore, I'm not all that enthusiastic about it. Maybe if I find a couple secondhand ones on the market, I might go for that. Or i could just set up a couple PCs as Macs, like Xbox suggested.In the AMD/Intel battle, I am more inclined to stick with Intels, again, because of the service. Intels have the major market share here, and while AMD is available too, shops aren't interested in investing the money and time into fixing them. I tried my luck on an Acer laptop someone got me from the states, with an AMD X2 TL-52 processor. A month after it arrived, something went wrong on the motherboard, and it's been sitting in their repair shop for 2 months now, because it's an AMD and there aren't any spare parts. I got shafted also on the warranty, a the person who bought it for me from CompUSA didn't get the dealer's stamp in the booklet. But even with me offering hard cash to fix it, they don't know how -- if such a thing is possible. For that reason, I'm inclined to steer clear of AMDs in this country.RE: the LCDs. Space isn't really a concern. the only reason i would go for them over CRTs is looks, and then of course it would save some space. So with that in mind, a CRT does sound like a better deal. Perhaps save money by buying CRTs, and then use it to invest in dual core systems.

A Dell, Compaq, Fujitsu-Siemens or Toshiba - and not every model. It's hard to specify a particular model because i don't know what's available right there. Can you provide any models you've seen that fall under your criteria, and then it would be a bit easier to point out the pros and cons of each one.

Thanks. I'm considering then going for the P4 computers for half of them, and dual core for the rest. My budget is a little tight, and i would end up using less than half of them for video work anyways. What about refurb LCDs? are there any major issues to contend with that crop up in them? backlight going out? Some companies are pushing me to buy LCDs because that's what is happening in the states, so they say, and LCDs don't have radiation emissions, etc. Other companies are insisting i should go with conventional CRT because of price, viewing quality, and saying that the radiation thing is over-hyped.

I'll be setting up an IT lab here with about 30 computers for our school. IT lab may be a bit misleading, it's more for children and young people who will use the computer for basic tasks like Office, edutainment, games, and maybe some light graphics work. Think small projects in photoshop. So i have several options, and i'm trying to strike a balance between economy and at the same time getting something that won't be totally obsolete in a couple years. Also i would like it to be upgradeable in the event that in the future, say a 3d graphics program starts up, i can pop in some dedicated graphics cards and another ram chip and be set, rather than having to change the motherboard as well, because i went for one without the expansion slot.These are my options:Brand new - OEM option 1:P4 3.06 Ghz 533Mhz 1MB cache (possibility to upgrade to 800Mhz 2MB cache)Intel motherboard D865 GSALOnboard graphics with AGP slotOnboard audio, LAN512 DDR-280 GB hard diskBrand new - OEM option 2:P42.6 Dual core 533Mhz 2x1MB cache (possibility to upgrade to 800Mhz 2x2MB cache)Intel motherboard D945GCLLOnboard graphics (vista-capable) with PCI-E expansion slotOnboard audio, LAN512 DDR-280 GB hard diskRefurb - Branded option:DELL tower P4 2.4 GhzOnboard graphics, audio, LAN256 RD RAM40 GB hard diski don't know the exact specs on motherboard and etc, as these are shipped in bulk from the states and sold here with a 1 month checking warranty.Now my first impulse is to go for the new ones, but then others say that the branded Dells are better and will work faster, etc. I don't know as i've only used OEM computers, so i would appreciate some input. The prices are around $300 for OEM option 1, $350 for OEM option 2, and $250 for the refurbished Dell.On a related point, what are the pros and cons of buying refurbished LCDs? The cost of a refurbished Dell 17 inch is $150, and a new Philips, Viewsonic, LG or Acer 17 inch costs $200.

Possibly... i re-installed the beta2 version on the computer that i had upgraded, but i still can't open the files i created on this same computer, with the beta version of office. I know it was only a beta and i should be saving in a backwards compatible mode, it's just so much easier if you have hundreds of documents to save them in the new format where they take up less than a quarter of the space that a 2003 document does. plus everything that gets lost when you save as older version, especially with excel formatting and formulas. Not to mention powerpoint, which say i have a 20 MB file in pptx format, saving as 2003 mode will increase file size to over 200 MB.

I switched over to the final Office 2007 format on one computer. The others are running Beta 2 with the service pack. When i save files in the older doc, xls, ppt formats, i can open them fine on both computers. when i save them in the new version (docx, xlsx, pptx and so forth) they will open fine on the computer that created them, but not if i move them from the beta to the final computer, and vice versa. It's irritating, because also before i installed the final on my computer, i had the beta2 version, and now that i've upgraded, all documents created in that earlier version are no longer readable on the same machine. I get this error at first: (example)"Excel found unreadable content in 'filename.xlsx'. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook?"and when i click yes, this comes up:"The workbook cannot be opened or repaired by Microsoft Excel because it is corrupt."

It hasn't worked so far. I've deleted all boot-related files from the c drive, then copied them off of another computer and then was able to repair the mbr, after which i got a crashing boot seq, so did a repair install over my windows, and now it seems to be running. But very slow on boot. From before Vista, booting in about 15 seconds, to nearly a minute now.

No, for some strange reason it doesn't change anything. I mean, i fix the mbr and boot record, but on reboot i still get the vista bootloader.

Not exactly the right way to start off your posting. You'll get banned for doing that.

Were you using SSE2 or the patched SSE3 kernel? As itunes, imovie, etc, anything to do with video, still doesn't work on mine. and i've heard that that's the cause.

yes, but that's the thing. boot.ini doesn't contain any references to vista. this is all it has:timeout=30default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center Edition" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT

The whole game is based on Tokyo Drift. Either that or Tokyo Drift is based on Carbon. I enjoyed it when it first came out. It was nice, I absolutely love the drifts and the new car classes. I was disappointed to see that several staples, especially in the tuner class, were nowhere, such as the honda civic, and possibly the Acura. Also missing are european tuners like the Peugeot, and others like the M5 which i think should have been included in the career mode. The continuity from Most Wanted's storyline is nice, but Sgt.Cross is really a third wheel. He has absolutely nothing to do in Carbon, which is a disappointment. while the chases are fun and more challenging than in MW, they're scattered so far apart that after a while you start glancing around for that discarded MW. Engine tuning and chassis are too basic, unlike NFS Underground2. There are no special engine upgrades as there were in MW. You spend too much time fighting off challengers to your turf. There are too few drifts, and too few canyon races. The same car will handle 3 different ways, depending on whether you're doing a drift, a sprint, or a canyon run. The city is too small, and unlike MW where you had to work your way up the 15 blacklist racers, here there's only 4. Not enough of a challenge. No LAN mulitiplayer available, and too much in the city taken from underground 2. I love the game for what they did include, but only as long as i don't bother looking at what it could have been.

I wanted to install Vista without getting rid of my XP installation, so I left Xp on my C drive, and installed Vista on another physical disk. I started running into problems with the dual booting when i would switch from one OS to the next, and after a while Xp would start hanging on boot, and only after several cold reboots would it load properly. So i was planning on uninstalling Vista, but the hard drive i had it on got formatted by a friend of mine who thought he was doing me a favor. Now when i switch on the computer i get the OS choice menu, typical Vista pre-selected, with the option to select "older windows installations". But there's no vista to boot into, so it crashes. I've looked in the boot.ini and there's only a couple lines that have changed from before when i didn't have it installed, and they're not code, just disclaimers:;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.I have the boot.bak and bootsect.bak files that are supposed to be deleted when doing a proper uninstall of vista, but you're supposed to fix the ntfsdir and boot file through vista before uninstalling. So how can i get back my regular boot.ini file to load XP automatically without having to install vista again just so i can uninstall it?

Since it's not freeware, I'd suggest you ask some qualified technician if it can do it (copying a playstation disk) before you go and spend cash on it. You can back up the disk or selected partitions on it to an image file stored on your existing drive, while you can then write back to a blank hard disk once you get it. Here's a screenshot. With the C partition selected I have the option to create an image of the logical disk, and if i select the drive i get the option to create an image of the entire disk

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I think your LCD is dying. I had this happen with a couple no-name brands, and once with a Dell.

Paragon will do it. Of course, it's not freeware. I've had a hard time finding a cloning utility that let you do live clones. I've cloned a full 80 GB drive via USB in about 21/2 hours. You can also use it to image the partition into a backup file stored on your regular computer, and once you have the new hard disk, just restore the full thing onto the new drive.

Possibly it's the motherboard or the connector. it's not the hard drives. that i think i've already established, by checking with the linux disk checker, and chkdsk and perfectly fine xp installs in the hard disks in other laptops.

I tried first the live CD, and when that booted fine and windows still wouldn't install, i did a full install of Ubuntu with no problems. I had bought another hard disk, same capacity, also by Samsung, and switching between the two doesn't help. Previously I had been able to install XP Media Center2005, Professional 32 bit, and Home Edition. Now i can only install either Linux or Vista. Well... yeah I tried that. I can format it fine in another laptop, because i don't exactly have an external floppy to attach. but even if i format it, i have to install XP, and then it hangs at the beginning of that. The regional updates could also be a cause, but i'm not sure, as I had a Compaq Presario for 3 years before this, and it was also a refurb deal from the states, always online and updated it, and it nver had any problems before i came here and someone kindly dropped it off the top of a cupboard. Anyways, it's still in warranty, so Acer's had it for a week now but still i haven't heard back from them. As long as they fix it i'll be fine, but i'm still trying to second-guess the cause.

Only with certain models. I don't think you can upgrade that Acer aspire. I have the same series, the 5116 US model. It's not awesome at games, but decent and above all cheap. I don't know whether that was a good thing or not, as i've already had to send it in for servicing. I never wanted an Acer in the first place unless it was a ferrari, but it was what my budget allowed.

I'm not sure if it can read it since i don't know what format playstation uses, but Paragon Drive Backup can do alot of things i haven't been able to with other programs. I would say the easiest would be to clone the hard drive onto a spare one, and Paragon can do that. Possibly other programs too, but i wouldn't know for sure.

Yes, I would agree that his bad outweighed his good. I'm just trying to show it from the other angle, that if Bush or almost any other world leader was to be held morally accountable, they would find themselves in the same position as Saddam. Like, hello, what's happening with North Korea? America doesn't give a damn about that country, because they actually have nuclear weapons, and they don't have oil. But there you can talk about a country that has millions of people on the brink of starvation, really a backward country, and no one cares about them. Like the US Foreign Department head said back at the beginning of the first Gulf war, "If all Kuwait exported were oranges, we wouldn't care less about who invaded."

Yes. What exactly did you buy the laptop for? Gaming? Or a mobile workstation?