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My laptop seldom leaves my house. When I am not using it I close the lid to put it into sleep mode. I also close the lid when carrying it to another room (or perhaps into the backyard hammock). This causes a minor inconvenience as every time I open the …

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I worked this issue for over 10 hours yesterday and got nowhere. Maybe the braintrust here has some ideas. I have an Asus essentio desktop, with Win 7 Ultimate SP1 installed. Yesterday AM I discovered that it was completely hung,so I turned it off and turned it on. First, I …

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I need help my wife's desktop is not working every since her stepdad bought it for her few months ago. From start up the monitor starts off fine but with chinese language and the from the boot up it doesn't load nor key want to work in the selections. All …

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Hello guys please I need help my computer is blincking a red light each time I boot it. It would on but suddenly it would turn off in the middle of the boot pls I need help pls

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I am running Windows 10 64 bit on an HP Compaq 8200 Elite Small Form Factor with 8 GB RAM. I just learned the max RAM for this computer is 32GB. Though the computer runs fine as is, I've given some thought to upgrading the RAM. As I do not …

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HP 8200 Elite SSF Windows 10 pro 1909 I suddenly developed boot issues. The monitor stayed black but the power supply fan would run. After about a full minute, the fan would rev up to full speed and continue until I forced a shutdown. I may have solved this problem …

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I'm trying to install an Iomega Zip 100 MB Drive on an Asus Z97 64bit motherboard running Windows 10 with a PCI express ide connector to substitute for the lack of connector that the 64bit motherboards now are usually leaving the legacy ide connector disk drives out that could be …

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After recently reciving a used Gateway GT5622 from my grandfather, opened it to see what ram and GPU it was running. About 3 weeks after this, i decided to boot it up and possibly use it for bitcoin mining. I attached the cables for the power supply, keyboard, mouse, monitor, …

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Ok folks, I rarely log in to ask questions so forgive me if I'm in the wrong category. Ok, the pc is a laptop (HP Elitebook 8460p, i5-2520m CPU 2.50GHz, 4GB RAM, Crucial 240GB SSD) running Win 7 Pro 64. Now I've scoured the net and can't find a single …

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Hi all, I have a huge problem with my Deep Freeze. I dont know how it happened, but a few days ago I wanted to update my video card driver, so I pressed the shortcut buttons for DF... nothing... I have Deep Freeze Standard v7.20.020.3398. I tried to manually run …

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my second article regarding my mac and windows. these problems only started when I got windows 10. my mac was insleep mode and was charging and...well...I was sleeping... I got up cuz I heard a loud humming noise and realized it was my computer. it was really hot. I carefully …

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my mac(2011) 13 inch running windows 10 has a weird fan. it turns on when in regular use like browsing online or word processing, having multiple windows kicks the fan on in a long but almost silent hum. at random times it is high pitched and very loud. is there …

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A couple days ago, my notebook keyboard suddenly stopped responding to ANY input at all. Tried pressing every key and combination I could see, but no reaction. The mouse was working and the PC showed no other strange behaviour. I pressed the power button to put it to sleep, and …

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my MacBook pro is old, 2011. it has 8gb ram 2.4ghz cpu and intel hd 3000. on the osx side it says 512mb of vram and on windows 10 i type dxdiag in command line it says i have 1.6gb. will i be able to run minecraft on the windows …

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Hello Daniweb Community, I've finally gotten around to doing it but can someone for the love of god please help me and give me help with fixing my slow ass laptop. I have only recently purchased it, as soon as I set it up I installed Windows 10 (coming from …

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Hi guys, Vin here. I just like to ask if it is possible to dual boot two different operating system with different architecture(64 bit/32 bit)? My current os is windows 7 hp 64bit and I would like to dual boot it with windows xp 32 bit.... Here's my computer specs: …

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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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**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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So I have a problem, any help would be great. I have a new computer, like 2 weeks old. I have turned off sleep mode so I only have the shut down button and the restart one. When I shut it down, no problem, turn on no problem, its very …

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I'm planning to set up my own private virtualization server at home with the following hardware setup: Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS, Socket-2011-3 CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K, Socket-LGA2011-3 Memory: Max 128 GB DDR4 RAM (starting with 32 or 64 GB RAM) PSU: Cooler Master G550M, 550W PSU Server box: Cooler …

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Well call me crazy, but I'm trying to install Windows 98 on an old XP desktop. The problem comes when I try to boot to the Cd-ROM, after hitting F8 and entering the boot menu and choosing "Cd-ROM" it opens a second menu that promps me to choose the boot …

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Hello, My old motherboard died without my having the ability to delete the old drivers off of the hard drive. I have installed a new motherboard and am attempting to boot into the old hard drive, however, Windows 7 will simply start up, try to load the files, and then …

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I have a Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 HP desktop PC when I power the computer on I got Vga input: no input signal and the monitor went back to sleep. If you do you think that is a problem with the video card it is attached to …

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I made great progress this morning in resolving a number of problems that were plaguing my Win7 laptop. It was difficult to find good info about how to resolve these problems. I can provide more details if anyone needs them. Here are the bare bones: * **High CPU** There are …

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Hi, I have to open and read multiple files which are in same folders. I can search and collect the whole size of those files. But the problem is with when I'm copying the files to a buffer. How can I read the multiple files? I'm using this example for …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]21161[/ATTACH]Power, it’s a dirty word. Power corrupts, and I don’t just mean people and politicians. Power problems, impurities and inconsistencies are a huge contributor to problems with sensitive computer equipment. Power problems can damage hardware as well as your files and data. The losses and downtime that result from power …

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I Saw that others Posted similar problems but mine still does not work after reading solutions. I Installed a new hardDrive and naturally lost my drivers. I downloaded my LAN driver and my chipset driver for my Asus M5A 88-V EVO and installed theM on my PC and still no …

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hi, I made a new partition to install vista because i wanted to make sure i would have all the files i needed before i normally would've cleaned the original partition and installed it there. I plan to keep the second partition and i would like to move memory from …

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Oh I hope someone can help...my daughter has a toshiba satellite C655 laptop. She got a virus last Month so I reset windows 7. I set a password on the bios. When I try and get on at all it auto goes to password bios screen. I put in bio …

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Two incidents: Last night, I had my HP Pavilion dv9620us notebook PC running, and was using both Microsoft Word (with a few windows open) and Internet Explorer. (I'm running Windows Vista.) I went away for a little while, and when I came back, the screen was dark, as it should …

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Have the UEFI Option in the boot menu of the ASUS K42F notebook. Regrettably, boot to USB is not an apparent option. Have emailed Asus support and the reply demonstrated no knowledge of the feature. There is an option that allows the entry of "command line" entries. The setup utiliities …

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Well this seems the best place to start... I have a Gateway GT5622 Desk top computer My problem started about a month ago, my fan that is seated on the heatsink and the motherboard started to be very loud, i thought that it was getting hot so we cleaned the …

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I have a dell XPS desktop windows vista, its a few years old. My problem is when i power up the computer, nothing comes up on either of my screens. The fans keep running and there is a loud continous beeping coming from the nvidia graphics card i think. It …

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Recently I had a new motherboard installed to replace my old one that overheated. The new motherboard is a MSI H55M-E23 that has an Intel core i5 650 chipset installed. After getting all the drivers to work, I then installed my old XFX Geforce 9500 gt (512mb gddr3) in the …

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I installed a Synchrotech cardbus reader into a new PC today. It fits into a 3.5" drive bay and has a IDE cable that connects to the PCI slot on the back of the board. After installing it, the mouse driver disappeared and I had to reinstall the drivers. I …

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Hey guys, This is my first post as i can usually find my answers elsewhere, but this time, ive had no luck. I am running windows xp sp3 professional 32-bit and have recently upgraded my RAM from a 256mb(333) + 512MB(333) to a 512MB(400)+512MB(400) set up. When i did this …

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Hi, I am building a new server for home and business use that I would like to be future proof. I have already bought the case which is a Corsair 800D (please check specification at http://www.corsair.com/pc-cases/obsidian-series-pc-case/obsidian-series-800d.html My next purchase will be the mother board for the server for which I …

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My laptop has only 257MB RAM, so it does works soo slowly, it always hangs, I heard that windows users can increase RAM space with pendrive... I know it works windows 7 but does it work in XP ?? and Does hardrive memory also slow down your computer ?

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Hello everyone ! My problem is that the onboard LAN (marvel jukon) stopped working suddenly when I turned on the PC. The LAN has only an orange led on, and the green led is off... the cable is ok. I open the case and looked inside but everything is okey... …

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Trying to download from windows windows 8 release preview its saying cpu is not compatible when its a i5 cpu clarkdale 650-- asrock h55m motherboard bios america megatrends socket 1156 lga --family 6- bios p2.20 a lot of people on blogs and windows answers are having same problem i have …

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Hi All I've noticed recently that in some circumstances Windows Explorer is maxing out when I'm trying to access flash drives. Typically, I insert a flash drive, open my shared folder (which has full access for everyone), then try copying the data I want from the PC to the flash …

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Small part of my code: `GetWindowThreadProcessId(hWnd, &dwID);` `hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, NULL, dwID);` `string value =" [_this] exec \"\\newfolder\\scripts\\start.sqf\"";` `WriteProcessMemory(hProcess, (LPVOID) 0x09BA3F95, (LPVOID) &value, sizeof(&value), NULL);` I am 100 % sure it has to do with my `value` being a `string` but I haven't found anything helpful elsewhere, even though I've …

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i have a compaq presario cq50 c130us,heres my system specs as far asi know intel pentium dual T3200 2.0 GHz 4.0 GB ram intel mobile 4 Graphics controller (registers 1.3gb memory?) windows vista 32bit and 150 gb hdd i am curious if there are any faster cpu's that i can …

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Hi all, my wife has an HP laptop, HP Pavillion dv 2000. Hope im in the right place? She needs it badly by Wednesday for travel/work. So she was optimizing and trying fix it all up nice and I think she updated it to XP service pack 3. which I …

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Hi, I'm getting BSOD extremely frequently over the last 24 hours. The blue screen says: Kernal Data Inpage Error, and 0x0000007a. but goes by too fast for me to copy down any other code. It also recommended stopping "Cache Shadowing" in the BIOS, but I could not find this option …

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0x0000007B 0xF789E524 0xC0000034 0x00000000 0x00000000 ^. My setup options for BIOS seems different than what I read on others. I use a custom built intel core quad CPU. My keyboard works for setup and only setup/boot menu, I can't even pick safety mode on the screen that you choose options …

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Hi I’m having trouble with two new memory modules I have bought, system is as follows. Laptop: Acer Travelmate 4150 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit SP1 Processor: Intel® Pentium® M processor 1.60 GHz Chipset: Intel® 915GM/915PM Express chipset Memory: 512 MB DDR2 400 PC2-3200 memory, upgradeable to 2 GB …

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I got my computer 4 years ago. (Core 2 duo, Asus MB, Kingston 1GB RAM). Now my computer is restarting after few minuts without giving any error message. I have already installed 2 OSes. (Windows XP, Windows Vista). When i was working in XP, it was restarted. When i was …

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