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Yes, gerbil is on the mark. Avast is not helping you right now. If you do indeed have some sort of malware which is keeping your computer from downloading anything then your installation of Avast has probably already been compromised. Try using a different browser first. If you only have …

I am having a very difficult time conceptualizing why anyone would want to use Microsoft products for scientific purposes. If a hard realtime system is desired certain conveniences of modern mainstream computing are necessarily sacrificed. What is stopping anyone from building their own specialized OS for their particular scientific purpose? …

Yeah, yeah, I know. Dead old thread. A few alternate hypothesis: (though dead hard disk is very likely) Your hard disk cable may have shorted out. The cable connector could also be damaged or not making a proper connection. It is also possible (though VERY unlikely is that the power …

Could be that you're having a graphics processor overheating problem, or your cable is not connected properly. It could also be that the display is not powered on! It doesn't matter how good we get at working on computers, silly stuff still happens all the time!

Yes, definitely could be what the Rev said. I've had that happen, but not on a SATA drive yet. You could open the chassis and explore; Lenovo has decent instructions on how to dismantle your own laptop. Could also be that your CMOS battery died or came unseated, or in …

Java is fortunately a bit easier to deal with than in the past. Now on the Java site there is an automated tool detect your installed version of Java. Then you can install the latest version of Java. Then you can use the Java Uninstall Tool to remove previous versions: …

Now that you've seen CMD windows flashing at startup once, you may begin to notice them more often. It is not a terribly uncommon occurrence and could be a normal part of a wide variety of software functionality. It could also be some unwanted garbage, so it is a great …

I've seen similar things happen with a video card that was prone to shorting out. I got it to stop after a thorough cleaning.

Does the other user have the appropriate permissions to do so? Does your account have sufficient privilege to change other user's settings?

What do you mean 'boot to windows 8'?

Contact Dell. Explain to them your issue

Unless all of the other four users/computers are having problems I wouldn't consider replacing anything hardware related, except MAYBE the cable running to the computer in question or the networking card on said computer. I wouldn't suggest throwing any more money at the situation yet. Troubleshooting this scenario in a …

Do you have a laptop or desktop? If its a desktop, do you have integrated (part of the motherboard) or discrete (card plugged into a slot in motherboard) networking controller? Ususally Fedora (at least for the past several years) has had great support for ethernet controllers right 'out of the …

<Drool> Sounds like a ton of fun. Start out with a standard-ATX MB, (I mean standard-sized ATX, not standard functionality) an ATX case with plenty of room, and a ridiculously overpowered PSU. Shop around for cases that you like on youtube. You will get a better idea from people's reviews …

Most computers will shutdown immediately if the cpu fan freezes. I can't say for certain what your problem is, but my guess is that the fan bearing is in bad shape. You can try a program like SpeedFan to give you readings on how fast your fan is running, but …

My first impression is that there a short in the display cable which happens when the cable is flexed past the angle that you described. There could be a UEFI/BIOS setting to select your external video output as the primary display, which is not common, but is your best option …

I'm not sure I understand what you want. You could use device manager, or you could use msinfo32.exe to find the associated resources, or you could search for an alternativeto Sandra. There are a ton of live bootable linux diagnostic distros too. Without knowing what you really want, I can't …

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The attached screenshot gives me very little to work with. Where are the images being copied from? Are you able to paste them into other folders? What happens when you try to paste them into the Pictures folder? Do you get an error message? Does anything happen at all? How …

Whoa!!! Don't hit it with the Big Hammer yet... It would help a lot if we had the model of your machine or at least some idea about what your hardware is. Here are a few things to chech out first: Do you have a microphone mute button anywhere? Sometimes …

Well, you could use the NDK for native java, though it's not exactly recommended. You could also try reposting your code with thorough commentary so that we don't have to interpret every single line ourselves <3

Take it apart and look for damage! It seems most likely that a bit of solder between the circuit board and the cable receiver cracked, so that it doesn't make a connection when the cable is at a certain angle. It may also be a wire in the cable is …

Okay, we might need more details to solve this problem. Do me a big favor, and repost all of your photos with screenshots, I'm having trouble seeing important details which might help! Before I dive in, your system should be able to run this emulator, (assuming you have your other …