Recent content by dikbozo

I suggest you get the drivers from ASUS, even if they are older. I have seen issues with more recent drivers caused by odd or out of spec hardware not supported by official drivers. Annoying, yes. Installing drivers from manufacturers, especially on laptops, can fix this type of problem. BTW...

It strikes me from reading this thread that your old board has a bottlenecking potential on almost any PCIe 3.0 card. Your mobo has a GForce 630a chipset which is PCIe 1.1. The newer cards should work but at the much slower speed. 630a confirmed here GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket AM3 -...

I have seen intermittent behavior like you describe caused by wonky SATA controllers but most likely by power supply age and/or condition. Overclocking can cause things to go odd, as well. I would pull out every extra thing beyond boot drive, mouse, keyboard and monitor, including Bluetooth...

I found a document here: https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/opti_755_techspecs.pdf that seems to relate to exactly what you are asking about. It seems your C2D E6550 should be replaceable with either a C2Q Q6600 or Q6700 as well as either C2D E6750 or E6850. The Quads...

I find that sometimes USB devices leave behind corrupted registry settings or at least unusable ones. I have used USB Scrub freeware by Nexcopy to remove these entries. It is a few seconds to run and I have noticed no other effects from it. I see the Nexcopy website obscures it but it is...

As you can boot it, try the old SFC /SCANNOW from an elevated command prompt. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833 It shouldn't require Safe Mode but should run from there anyway if need be. I suspect you a corrupted Trusted Installer. This makes things difficult.

As the laptop in question is using Windows 8, there should be a EUFI type BIOS and Spinrite, for all its well known abilities, is unable to boot a EUFI system, and as such is unsuitable for the task. My experience with drives, which goes back into the late 90's, slots in the 'Dead Drive'...

Transferring your OS from a properly working and configured Windows 7 is unnecessary. Changing/adding hardware doesn't require it and the extra expense and learning curve are generally unwelcome. The hardware changes proposed have no requirements only available to Windows 8 or 8.1 and as such...

Good. Updated drivers tend to solve problems. Curious, but lately I've run into power supplu issues others have recently. Should your reboot issues return, consider checking your power supply as it may be either failing or supplying intermittently and in either case needs to be replaced.

OEM drivers are available here: Mouse: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-imperator Headphones: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-audio/razer-kraken-71 Both pages work the same. Click on the badge saying 'Drivers' and wait for the download to begin. either save it or run it. Possible...

A quick peak at your specs says to me for you to wait, save more money and buy a $100 video card. Both AMD and NVidia have cards that will provide good performance and use little enough power at that price point that you shouldn't need to replace your power supply as well. An SSD of 250GB is...

An electrical short can cause serious damage to any and all parts of your system. I would take it apart and test each and every part separately with known good equipment so as to determine if any others were affected. I once stupidly pulled a Soundblaster card out of an operating system which...

Since I stopped using 30 pin RAM, (yes absolutely ancient SIMM looking like bugs), I have had 2 72 pin SDRAM modules, 1 DDR, 1 DDR2 modules fail. No DDR3 failures as yet. The number of RAM sticks that I have used or sold or given away in this time frame is upwards of 400. IME RAM doesn't fail...

My experience with HDD goes back into the days of Maxtor drives, when they were still decent. My experiences with them lead me into the wider world of power supply problems due to the drives electronics being susceptible to fluctuations. You may well be experiencing the beginnings of a power...

Yes. It would seem that you have not made yourself clear as to what it is you are asking. In case you forgot exactly what it is you asked, a clarification would help.