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Hi. In August I built a PC using a second hand Biostar TA990FXE "Extreme Edition" motherboard and AMD FX-6100 six core CPU @3.3 GHz at the core of it. I recently installed the Oracle Virtualbox VM on Windows 10 and tried running a couple of Linux and BSD OS instances, …

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Warning - DO NOT BUY DELL IF YOU NEED TECH SUPPORT Let me start by saying that until today I was a loyal Dell customer. My first personal laptop was a Dell Inspiron 1720. My father-in-law had a Dell desktop and my two sons have three Dell laptops between them. …

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I have been trying to connect my 20" Apple Cinena HD display to a Lenovo ThinkCentre running Win7, i bought an adapter to deal with the DVI-D Single Link to VGA connection, but the screen has not responded, I cannot configure the PC until I get a screen working. Edit: …

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I have facing a problem of my Laptop which is HP Pavilion g6. My laptop is going to very hot staring time to after 30 munites. Somebody help me.

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Hi everyone, A friend of mine lost a laptop the other day and unfortunately, there was no way to locate it . It got me thinking about solutions for locating stolen laptops or for that matter, most electronic hardware. Most of the solutions that I've come across e.g Adeona at …

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So I developed an application for an arduino uno that uses an IteadStudio Joystick Shield with 7 buttons and a joystick with an x/y movement tracker. The 7 buttons are connected to pins 3 through 9, and the joystick is connected to analog inputs 0 and 1, with 0 being …

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**MPT BIOS fault** Hi I Cannot boot my Dell 690. The message I get is: "Unable to load LSI Logic Corp MPT BIOS MPT BIOS fault 03h encountered at adapter PCI (05h, 0Bh, 00h). No boot device available. Stike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility. I get a …

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Warrenty still applied with international relocation? Greetings I am temporarily living in Canada but moving back to Australia soon. I have a samsung tablet I purchased here in Canada for my personal use here at an authorised samsung seller. (Staples) When I return to Australia with it in my carry …

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Hello guys, I wonder if you can help me with this. Basically I have a LG cd/dvd burner (specs here http://s13.postimg.org/rt0fl9jpz/IMG_20150918_171817.jpg) which of course came with the 12v original adapter ( specs here http://s8.postimg.org/uj5ejvo85/IMG_20150918_171833.jpg) . Some time ago, the CD/DVD burner stopped working. I've always thought it was the adapter …

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I swapped out my HDD for an SSD in my Win 8.1 Lenovo Y480, replacing the HDD in the optical drive slot using an [HDD Caddy](http://hddcaddy.eu/). The system runs fine. I still see the original copy of the Windows System disk that sits on the HDD in Windows listed as …

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Hi All, I work for a college and I use their systems, which I have access to a whole host of software that for Data protection reasons that cant be installed on any other computer. The issue is, I dont like using them as I dont feel very productive as …

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My computer automatically goes into Sleep Mode when turned on or rebooted, even in safe mode. I have tries to get to Command Promt for CHKDSK but still get thrown into Sleep Mode. Can somebody please help?!!!!

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Im trying to figure this out. Pls help give more direction. I have a voltage detector and a micro detector. Once abou 6 mo ago, I was out during a rain storm to return and have difficulty turning it on. Since then PC would work fine, but once in a …

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In my Notebook HP COMPAQ 6910p When i power on the device.. the laptop gets on and i can see nothing but a black screen (seen like when turned off) with a faster processor fan speed.. The same happened twice before and itself randomly got correct when i kept it …

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I was transferring large number of files from computer to one of my portable hard disks by copy & paste method when it malfunctioned. Now I cannot use this external drive. There is nothing important on this drive and is not a SATA drive, although is USB 3. Please find …

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I have GT-i9000 device. I cannot open any app that is installed in my device. it gives me error when i open any app. Errors: when i open whatsapp i get error: Whatsapp com.process.whatsapp.. and close automatocally after pop up error. when i open playstore error: google process com.google.vending process …

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I am having my friend USB, which contains the error while Formatting, copying, deleting, renaming, moving files from it. The error is `"The Disk is Write Protected"`, I don't Know why this all happens? I try to repair it with the google help and find some common solution and tried …

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Hitachi has now announced a 1-terabyte internal hard drive, claiming they're the first to unveil a 1 terabyte hard drive in the industry. It doesn't sound terribly impressive, given the fact that storage mediums are increasing faster than you can blink an eye. However, they have done quite a feat …

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Hi I have an external hard drive its about 300 GB. I tried to recove my loose picture via testdisk but I couldn't because I got "Error Reading Sector" How can I fix "Error Reading Sector" I'll appreciate for your help

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I've had my external HD for a while now (Rock mobile disk). Last time I tried to access the data in it was a few months ago without issues. I tried using it yesterday and started to have issues. I have 600GB of data that needless to, is very valuable. …

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Hi I am trying to salvage user data from a hard drive that was installed in a Dell laptop. I have plugged it in to a Dell 490 workstation running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit using a USB connection kit - leads and power supply. First I used Chkdsk, it …

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I had a trusty external hard drive for many years, it was a 500gb Seagate which worked fine up until the other day when the internal port for the mini usb detatched from the board and I was left w/ no way to connect it to my laptop.. Seagate failed …

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I have a samsung 320gb HDD. Recently i am fatching a boot failour. I am trying to give windows. But a massage swing "a disk error occourer" and can not reboot pc. Can anybody help me?

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Hello, I have an external Seagate hard drive (Part #: 9BD862-580 and Serial #: 4LSOLYMD) that I've used for years. I recently moved and had it in my car and moved it a couple of times. I just tried to use it and when I power it on, the green …

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OK all. I've been reading for about an hour or so trying to find a solution and unfortunately I'm not able to get this PC working. OK here's the details: I just recently got this PC through a bulk purchase. I've only had it for a few days and I've …

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Hi, I checked several posts on this forum but none of them seem to apply to my problem. If there is something I missed, or if I'm posting this on the wrong forum, I apologise; I'm new here. Problem: my laptop has taken to shutting itself down at random moments. …

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I know, a pretty regularly posted problem online and one I've fixed on computers in the past. The issue this time is I've tried every fix I can find in forums and nothing is working so I figured I'd see if anyone had any tricks I haven't tried. Situation: Attempted …

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hi my desktop was working fine last night and this morning it wont power up a blue light is flashing on the power button so l open it up the mini fans are turning but the cpu fan is not turning its a golden orb 2 its if it wants …

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I'm looking at some towers on newegg and I'm trying to pick one out. I'm open to a full tower but I'd like to know if I can get away with a smaller case, mainly because of the price. I'd like to build a media server so the first priority …

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Hello. I have tried for 2 weeks to get my Parents computer up and running again. It died several years back, but I cannot for the life of me figure it out. I have tried burning recovery disks that I've downloaded online, along with Driver dvds, tried boot from USB.. …

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How do i copy all my music from my old itouch to the computer/itunes,so i can put it on my new itouch. PS: My OS is Windows 7.

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I have a Toshiba Satelite laptop and a few days ago a single grey line appeared across the lower portion of my screen. Yesterday, another grey line appeared across the upper portion of my screen. Does anyone know what this is?

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Hi how i can delete all the apps that i have uploaded to my google play store. Thanks

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Hi, can anybody help me to figure out my blackout Tab 3. The battery is okey but it's black out. Thanks

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How does diskless computer really works and how it can apply to small office? Does it only applicable for internet cafe? Thanks

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Hello, since my dell latitude d830 battery is now completely wide, I am looking for a replacement. Although Google spits out several things really seriously not seem to me to some pages but <link deleted> although such does not look wrong, but a missing address in the imprint somehow seems daunting. Therefore, the …

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I think my laptop hdd has failed, even though it's only 3-3.5 years old. I took the hdd out and put it in an external hdd enclosure and connected it to my desktop. It still makes a clicking noise and my desktop doesn't show it in My Computer. But, I …

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My Toshiba L770 Satellite Laptop does not power up, no LEDs lit when power adapter is plugged in. Power adapter producing 19.4 volts. Opened up laptop and got 19.4 volts at end of power connector harness when not connected to motherboard and approx 0.5 volts at connector pins on motherboard …

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Hello! Well, today there was a technical presentation by some students in my school so there was this discussion about NIC's. So somebody came up with a question that what's the difference between ethernet card and network interface card..! So that guy replied that ethernet card's different in sense that …

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my pc cant open windows 8 after i format my pc and again restore it so wat do u suggest to me

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I have i5-2430M on an acer aspire 4750z laptop, then last year I upgrade the ram with DDR3-1600 CAS 11, now I am confused because in the ark.intel.com it was stated that memory type should be DDR3 1066/1333. Now my question is why the ram still supported by the cpu(core …

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Can any power supply be modified to handle a (2x4 12v) motherboard connection?

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Hello, I was wondering wich GTX 760 would be the best in an SLI combination with the Gigabyte GTX 760 Windforcer 3x? Thats because the windforcer 3x edition isn't available anymore. Help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jeannot Thewissen

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hi after i got back my toshiba a205-s4587 laptop from toshiba after they changem my motherboard... now i found that 5 keys on the keyboard dont work (i checked them on live cd of linux too): home, pgup, pgdn, end, \ is there a way i can fix them myself? …

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The backstory: We had a "power issue" here a few days ago and now our Samsung SyncMaster 931b is not working. The blue power light around the button flashes and every second or so the display will flicker with light and you can briefly (for 200ms or so, I'd guess) …

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Actually, i protected my files in pendrive using usb security kakasoft but now it hidden in a bad way and i am not able to get them back.I scanned with antivirus makeing sure it is hidden and file is in pendrive.Now how to recover it?You can see scan log screenshot …

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I have a very wired "Too Many Redirects" error being reported on an HTC mobile phone. My site is simple, using a javascript <script type="text/javascript"> if (screen.width <= 800) { window.location = "http://mobile.anssecurity.com"; } </script> The script works fine on iphone and blackberry. The ecript also works fine with HTC …

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Hello I want to test a power supply unit provided to me (not new, along with its power cord), but currently do not have a PC available to do so. How can I test whether the PSU is working OK before actually connecting it to the PC? Cheers

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So here is what happened... One day I was using the laptop for animating and such, I felt tired so I went to the bed.. When I had to go to the toilet I came back to use the laptop 15 or so minutes later BOOM it shut off. I …

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