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	Triple boot, Ubuntu 14, Win 7, and Win 10 Tech preview 9 Years Ago 9 Years Ago Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Have a Toshiba Satellite Pro, that had a dual boot (WIN 7, and WIN 10 Tech preview). Setup a separate partition called Unbuntu, and installed Unbuntu 14, on that partition. Now Unbuntu boots first to a Grub menu (I’m a newb Linux user), and it gives me choices, see below … Linux and Unix ubuntu 0 5 720
	Win 8 update hung, now won't power on 9 Years Ago 9 Years Ago Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn My daughter's laptop hung up during a Win 8 update, unfortunately she turned it off. Upon rebooting, got Flash BIOs screen, and it showed same message (Preparing to configure Windows, do not turn your computer off). It stayed that way for about 8 hours, so I inserted a linux (unbuntu … Microsoft Windows windows-vista-7-8 0 5 270
	Laptop internal drive replacement 10 Years Ago 10 Years Ago Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Had a spare bay in my laptop, and put a SATA 160 gig HD in purely for backup. Became apparent that I needed more space, so bought a Seagate 500 gig internal HD as a replacement. First thing I noticed is that the original 160 drive had SATA power, and … Hardware storage 0 3 140
	Hooking up hardwire NIC, or wireless NIC causes Win 7 to reboot 10 Years Ago 10 Years Ago Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Friend of mine brought me his OEM Acer computer, because of BSOD. Afte securing data, I activated the hidden partition, and restored to factory. OS loaded and was stable. After loading some of his apps, was ready to hook up NIC and test connectivity. Did so, but within 2 minutes … Microsoft Windows windows-vista-7-8 0 11 169
	Vista Upgrade, contain entire OS? 15 Years Ago 15 Years Ago Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn I remember one of the most useful pieces of info anyone ever gave me regarding XP and my current build, they said buy the upgrade only, IF you still have your 98 disk. Because the entire OS, was on the XP update CD, and during installation if XP didn't find … Microsoft Windows windows-vista-7-8 0 5 107
	Computer goes to sleep and wonâ€™t wake up. 15 Years Ago 15 Years Ago Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Built this simple system for wife and kid. Gigabyte 7VKMLS ver 3.0 AMD Duron 1 gig processor 1 gig of memory Two 20 gig hard drives 1 multi optical drive (DVD, CD, etc) Windows XP home edition System has always run well, until I noticed the CPU cooler fan had … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware 0 1 97
	BIOS Problem 15 Years Ago 15 Years Ago Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Built this system in 03 Asus A7N8X nForce2 Athlon(XP)/Duron SktA DDR ATX Motherboard AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83GHz 333FSB 512KB Processor Kingston KVR400X64C25/512 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CL2.5 Western Digital Caviar Special Edition WD800JB 80GB ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer Asus CRW-4824A 48x24x52 EIDE CD-RW Drive w/Flextralink eVGA NV52 GeForce2 … Hardware troubleshoot-hardware 0 3 118