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Not quite so yet. I think our A/C pretty much gave out today. It was hotter than Hades upstairs the whole day. I figured I'd shut the downstairs vents to cool off the upstairs. I realized, barely any air was coming out of any vent and the A/C had never stopped running the whole time but sounded weak. I also noticed that you had to run the thermostat up to about 84 to get the A/C to shut off. So I think I'll need to talk to maintenance and ASAP.

And now I have sweet black glass top desk with an ultra-wide keyboard tray (which is perfect cause I have a wide G11 keyboard and I like my mouse to be level with the keyboard). Now that I have procured pretty much everything I needed, all that's left is a job.

My dad rocks. Went back to the store and met him there (he had to go for something else). We talked to the guy who sold him the phones and I got a phone similar to my old one without paying those fees (It's kinda like an updated version of my old phone). Just had to pay the small price difference. Now I have a phone that's familiar and comfortable. Now I just need a desk and I'll be set.

Ahhh crap, to trade, I'd have to pay some outrageous fee I can't afford right now. I'll have to wait till I have a job to do it. I'm not ungrateful or anything. Heck at least I have a phone that'll frickin work now, I hope. Just using this style of phone is irritating. It's highly uncomfortable for me. I had trouble answering it earlier.

Actually I'm sleeping pretty good. I guess it's cause I have the same bed. I just got home and got my new phone and am getting ready to go to the Verizon store and see if they'll trade it cause it's a slider messaging phone. I don't text and hate sliders so this phone is worthless to me. I'm gonna see if they'll trade me for a good ole clamshell. I forgot to mention to my dad I hate slider phones and wanted a clamshell. I remembered to tell him to get one with MicroSD and he did so that's cool but I just forgot the other part.

First grocery trip....... frickin $100. OK, mom is going next time. She somehow manages to get twice as much as we did with the same money. So far... I hate it. Mostly, I just hate this town and having to pay for stuff I liked not paying for anything and living in a smaller less crowded town. Plus, I'm having to get a new cell phone, cause mine won't work right out here. My parents just switched carriers altogether. We had AT&T and mine was the only 3G capable phone. Back home I had no trouble. Actually there weren't even any 3G towers out there but in every other town that I'd been that

alright, now I'm really confused. My laptop seems to be doing it now too. I haven't run any games but I did watch some TV in Media Center (tuner card). It's doing the exact same crap. So now I'm starting to think it isn't video card related on my desktop. It certainly can't be cause my laptop uses an entirely different GPU (ATI Radeon HD3200). I can't think of anything that'd cause explorer to crash like that.

Well, me and my roommate are mostly moved in and will be staying our first night here.

Well got some of my crap moved in today and got the electricity changed over to my dad's name. I'm already back home. I have more stuff to take tomorrow. I also have to buy a new desk. My old one, the keyboard tray keeps falling off. Amazingly, Comcast is going to get my TV and Internet hooked up tomorrow. The apartment manager was right. You call the guy on the sheets in the office, he'll get ya setup quick. Man I'm tired though. Moved a lot stuff. I gotta get up, get a haircut at 8:30 in the morning then bolt it on over to the Boro and let the Comcast guy in.

First off, I ain't installin that tool without knowing what it is. Second off, I wont be able to do anything for a while. Just unhooked the system to prep for my move. Don't know when I'll get it set back up at my new place. Seems to me, new video cards always cause problems on old installs with my stuff. My old XP rig went nuts when I tried to go SLI at first.

Alright, this computer has had a GeForce 8800GT since I installed Vista and has had the same hardware for the most part the whole time (it's been over a year). I finally spotted a sale on an EVGA GeForce GTX275 (which I've been wanting since it was released in April) on newegg. So I got it. First I uninstalled the old nVidia drivers I had in Safe Mode(they had released some new ones recently that I hadn't gotten yet). I then shut the system down and did the swap. Start it up and installed the then current drivers. It was OK for a while but then it started acting strange. Sometimes I'd boot the

Well, I've been packing up a lot of my junk. I got some boxes that weigh a ton. Kickin off the move with car maintenance. Washed and cleaned out my car yesterday and am getting ready to change the oil in a little while. Gotta do it now since they don't allow you to do stuff like that in the apartment parking lot. Tomorrow is the beginning of the move. I'm not sure if I'll get completely moved in and stay right away tomorrow. I may have to start Friday and finish Saturday. I know my roommate won't be able to move in Friday due to work.

By decrap, do you mean remove all the factory loaded software? I've always just run through the Uninstall Program list and take out everything I don't want.

Well, you don't have the newest version yet. Maybe they've fixed it in the new RTM. I actually switched from XP over a year ago to Vista when it hit me just how bad XP behaved on my gaming rig. I had the pre-SP1 copy of Vista Home Premium x64 and before SP1, it was actually pretty bad. I had it on for a day or 2 and went back to XP for a little while. Then I realized XP wasn't acting much better (unbearably slow in anything other than a game). SP1 rolls along, I try Vista again, install the SP1 update, and voila. PERFECT. No more slow apps, more stable (that blew me away), better looking, DX10

don't think I'll need this. I don't download (well aside from my anime music which downloading is my only option), rather I buy CD's still. I'm one of the few left I guess.

so any computer that uses wireless with that router has the issue? Then it's likely the router is bad. Well, maybe not bad but it ain't handling something correctly. A firmware upgrade could possibly fix it.

try to hardwire it to the router and see if the same thing happens and for the heck of it, try wireless on another computer and see if it does it.

Card COULD be overheating some. Also do you overclock it cause overclocking can cause that to happen too. My old GeForce FX 5700 Ultra I had years ago on one of my old systems did something similar but I can't remember if overclocking, heat, or both caused it. The whole computer locked up in that situation though. If you overclock too far it can cause serious issues in multiple ways. You could also have a driver conflict. Which driver did you have at first? They JUST released a new one. I'm not sure if works for 7 series or if it's just for the 8 series and up. I just downloaded 190.38 for my

I'd say a plug-in, ISP or network problem. I don't use Facebook but I was just working on my boss's computers at his other shop an hour ago and he was using Facebook on Firefox 3.5 with absolutely no issues.

Couldn't get past 2 minutes. Pure crap in my opinion.

I bet there's also going to be an OEM Edition for System Builders. That's what I bought with both XP and Vista. Cheaper than retail.

Thanks guys! Just put down the deposit on the apartment. Gotta go up next week again to try (harder) to find a job.

Again, the disc could be bad. Try another bootable disc in the system such as a Linux disc or another Windows disc. If they work, then your disc is bad, if not then something with the motherboard or the CD drive is bad.

XP disc is possibly bad. Check for any deep scratches. Try cleaning it and if you just so happen to have some around, try some CD repair solution or plastic repair stuff (something like PlastX). I've had game discs for consoles not work so hot (sometimes not at all) but after a session of PlastX, they worked a whole lot better. Also, have you tried any other bootable discs such as a linux disc of some kind or another copy of Windows that's bootable?

I finally graduated Community College last semester. I feel mildly stupid. Took me 3 years. Still, I got my Associate of Science degree. Anyway, I'm leaving Columbia State and am headed to Middle Tennessee State University. Finally decided on a major. Digital Animation. Pondered Graphic Design first but by suggestion of my brother, I checked in Mass Communications for something, found Digital Animation and went for it. I'll finally be leaving home after living 21 years with my parents. My friend and I have found a nice apartment close to campus (not even 2 minutes away) and will be putting our