run scandisk (fat file system) or chkdisk for ntfs filesystem. They are both utilities already installed on windows so google how to run them for more information. After that get a program called spinrite (if you are prone to piracy go pirate away) and see if you can fix it with that.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

I'm concerned that I screwed it up physically? Nothing of that sort right?

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maybe, That's what your checking, generally if it is fucked up physically it makes a clicking sound, but not always. Could be other things, a corrupt boot record, a fucked up partition, windows being a bitch. Or it could be dieing and you should start backing up your porn and mp3s. I need more information so get to scanning.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

I GOT MY LAPTOP

(figured I should celebrate here as well)


^my creeper face

this laptop is so sexy

I am excite. be excite with me.

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I am excite with you.

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—Anthony DiNozzo on Timothy McGee

For some obnoxious reason, sometimes when I close and open my laptop, my clock falls behind one hour. It's on the proper time zone and it's not the end of daylight saving time. When I adjust it, the program won't allow me to apply the setting. It sticks until the next time it decides to change back.

Sounds like a really annoying system bug. But don't take my word for it; the trouble might be within your system settings

@Lily: It's always a pleasure to get new tech, I be excite with you.

mathias make sure your bios clock is correct.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

Okay, how I do.

depends, I don't know what version of your bios your using, usually delete or escape or f10 during boot will give you access, usually it tells you. And system clock, or bios clock is what you are going to look for. Since there is a different bios for almost every motherboard I can't be more specific, still it shouldn't be too hard to find. Generally they have a pretty intuitive layout.

Be excite lily, be super excite.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

okay so I'm having an internet problem. my step dad did something with the router where you have to plug in your comp's mac number into the router or whatever in order to allow that computer on the network. thing is, he put in my mac number and I still can't connect on my laptop. my mom's connects just fine. any ideas? it's a linksys. and now it inexplicably works, never mind.

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I'm still the Queen of Dicks

Glad I could be of assistance.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

you're the best, Zeph <3

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Thinking of getting a laptop soon.
Absolutely no knowledge of what to get or how much to save up.

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What do you need it to do? what do you want it to do?

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

I need it to be able to run basic programs like photoshop quickly.
I want it to run games without it locking up on me constantly.

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what is the most graphically intensive game you plan on playing with it?

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

Minecraft I guess.
Don't play many pc games.

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well then for cost purposes depending on exactly what you want on your laptop and brand look to spend between 500 and 800. Make sure the laptop has a dedicated graphics card, but minecraft runs on most systems, you might want to google minecraft plus whatever graphics card is associated with it to make sure there isn't a problem, generally any of the ATI mobility gfx cards or Nvidia GT, GTS or GTX mobility gfx cards will be addequite to play minecraft.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

Thanks Zeph.

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Mkay. It's time to start tucking money away for my boy's Christmas present, and I need to have a savings plan. What is a reasonable price for a desktop that will run Starcraft 2 on settings that actually look good?

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Official Forum Mom

wait till black friday and you+newegg can probably do it for under 500 bucks without monitor.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak

Complete tower, or components?

Note: I can plug crap into ports, but I have no soldering capability, nor do I know anyone who does have a soldering iron.

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Official Forum Mom

Newegg sells complete towers, components and full or partial DIY kits.

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CAUTION: Would anyone tell me if I was getting stupider?

Either or. Generally you don't have to solder to build a computer but it takes time to build and patients especially if a part or two comes in bad and needs to be warrantied, however my brother got a good deal on a complete tower last black friday,

Something like this would do good, but I would go with a more powerful gfx card, hence troll the black friday specials.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6883227339

Also keep in mind that this is not top of the line, but I assume your looking for most bang for the buck, not buying the hottest sexiest computer.

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Zeph do you ever tire of being perfect? ~Dave
Zeph is still awesome though. ~Rival
I love you so much right now Zeph. ~Yoshi
I love you Zeph. You and your simple yet humorous topic-breakers. ~Coos
Zeph has left me inspired. ~Mathias
Zeph is so awesome even soulless bits of binary worship him. ~Wizard
Curse YOU ZEPH! CURSE YOU! ~JesusChrist
WE ARE SORRY THAT WE ARE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU, ZEPH! ~Stufflikehearts
Zepherin for forum queen and writer of the best seller "how to screw your brethen up for dummies". ~ The Mirak