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post #21 of 40
5/27/04 at 10:18pm
Hey Rowan
I live next door to you over here in Alliebama.
It took me a couple of days to get used to the screen but I love it now.
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post #22 of 40
5/27/04 at 11:51pm
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Originally Posted by V.B.
Sign me up! I like mine also - not 1 dead pixel.

I don't understand all these gamers complaining about not being able to use their Hibachis.
Sign me up too. Took me a day and a half of futzing with settings and adjusting my eyeballs, but I LOVE the WUXGA now.
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post #23 of 40
5/28/04 at 2:59am
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Originally Posted by Wooster
You guys are lucky. I'm sitting here in front of a great 17" Samsung CRT moniter, and my parents won't let me change the resolution from 800x600. I think they are going blind.
You should use it at the higher res and just change it back when you're finished... only takes a second

stu
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post #24 of 40
5/28/04 at 3:08am
I do sometimes.
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post #25 of 40
5/28/04 at 2:05pm
how old are wooster. never seen ur post on how old u are?
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post #26 of 40
5/28/04 at 4:36pm
Rowan:
I'm a dudette too--nice to know there are 2 of us.

Again, I'll tell you that I LOVE the XGA, unlike all the "guys" here.
When I look at my colleague's UXGA for any time at all I get a severe migraine--it's been that way for a long time, so I don't think I'd ever get used to it. For my purposes, the XGA is perfect.

My 16 yr old son says I'm completely nuts
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post #27 of 40
5/28/04 at 4:59pm
For the record I also love my XGA screen.No issues,dead pixels at all!! I guess if I were more into gaming than I may not like the XGA but for me it is great! I just wish the Memory and the wireless card wouldn't get so hot so dam quick!!!
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post #28 of 40
5/28/04 at 5:16pm
WUXGA rules
You just have to get used to it and be nerdy enough.
Everyone I know complains about it being too small, that just makes me wanna make it even smaler
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post #29 of 40
5/28/04 at 5:39pm
I got my WUXGA waiting for me wheni get home let hope everything goes well. i cant wait to get home i still have like one more HR till i get home (plus the stuped comut)
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post #30 of 40
5/28/04 at 5:52pm
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Originally Posted by Hilly
WUXGA rules
You just have to get used to it and be nerdy enough.
Right on Hilly.

And goodluck nootrak I hope the screen turns out to be solid.
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post #31 of 40
5/28/04 at 7:01pm
Thread Starter 
Now I really feel like an idiot. After reinstalling XP to get rid of all the dell junk they put on, then went to the Display Properties and under settings I changed the display resolution to 1280 x 800; feel so stupid the answer was right in front of me and I didn't even see it. Now I have a problem that is new to me, since reinstalling XP when I turn the laptop on I get this screen asking me which OS I want to use; both choices are XP Home Version. How do I get that to quit happening? Also when I try to turn the thing off or reboot, that box pops up where you have to end a process by clicking end. The file that it states won't close is called Sample
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post #32 of 40
5/28/04 at 8:01pm
Rowan,

There are a few steps to getting rid of the extra XP Home option.

1) In Windows Explorer, go to Tools>Folder options. Open the View tab, and turn on the "Show Hidden Files and Folders" option.

2) Now, if you go to the C:\ directory, there should be a file called Boot.INI. Open this file in Windows Notepad.

3) This file tells Windows which operating system you want to run. You really only have one copy installed, but it thinks you have two. At the bottom of the file, you will see two listings of the OS - just delete the bottom one.

4) Save the file, then reboot Windows. Should do it.
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post #33 of 40
5/29/04 at 4:45am
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Originally Posted by nootrak4
how old are wooster. never seen ur post on how old u are?
I've posted several times that I am graduating (this Friday), but to clarify, I am 18.
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post #34 of 40
5/29/04 at 4:53am
wooster walks across the stage, principle hands him a stacked out i8600, hehe
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post #35 of 40
5/29/04 at 5:11am
Don't I wish.
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post #36 of 40
5/29/04 at 7:19am
Everybody's eyeballs are different and no amount of 'getting used to' is going get rid of eye strain if you can't see well.

I'm stuggling with the choice myself. I really HATE the way photos look on XGA but wear glass and worry about SXGA being to hard to read.......even with adjustments.

I'm currently experimenting with increased resolution on my CTR monitor to see what programs are scalable and what the effects of increasing the system font size (DPI). It DOES take getting used to and lots of things go wonky when you move away from native resolution. Since I wear glasses AND want a hi res for photographs, finding a happy medium is truly difficult.

Like you Rowan, I can barely play an online game anymore because it's too small.
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post #37 of 40
5/29/04 at 12:07pm
WEll Rowan u can have this problem id when u reinstalled XP u forgot to delete the one u first had installed. my suggestion to u is to do the whole thing again (because if u didnt uninstall the first one or Formated the Drive the other XP that Dell install can still be in ur system taking up space.) Make sure u format the Drive when it ask you to. and then everything should be good for there on. or u can just do what Kevda (but keep in mind if u didnt format the first time u installed it the other XP that dell installed can still be in ur HDD taking up Space)
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post #38 of 40
5/30/04 at 4:16pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Colt45
Hey Rowan
I live next door to you over here in Alliebama.

I'm originally from Alliebama, Mobile to be exact and I also lived in Hueytown a town outside of Birmingham. I got blown over the state line during a hurricane, and have been stuck here in Mississippi ever since.
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post #39 of 40
6/1/04 at 1:52pm
rowan

when you reinstalled the ops sys did you repartition the drive.
if not you may find the machine accessing a partition with some evidence of a second op sys.

i think a clean install wud actually include a repartition of the drive

regards

bryan
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post #40 of 40
6/1/04 at 6:38pm
Thread Starter 
The suggestion that Kev posted worked, and have not had that message at the startup again.

This is all I did when I installed XP and encountered the problem I had mentioned before. I went into the BIOS and changed the boot sequence so that the CD-ROM was my primary boot device, when it got to the appropriate screen I deleted all the partitions and selected the unaprtitioned space to create the fresh copy of XP on. Then I chose NTFS, not the quick version but the regular one and then proceeded to go on with the install.
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