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BSD every 1-4 weeks... sometimes more often. I would appreciate any insight. I have uploaded the requested files (minus both evt logs - which although they are below the file size limit - have been giving me problems with the uploads). Please advise if you need to evt logs. I can try to...

Currently more and more motherboards are released which support UEFI. Assume I don't want to use UEFI (e.g. because of compatibility reasons): Can I deactivate the UEFI features of the motherboard and switch back to "normal" BIOS? Peter

I just received a replacement drive for a WD5001AALS 500GB Black that had some bad sectors. The "new" drive is a WD1001FALS white label 1000GB. While I'm not very pleased about the label, I thought that the size difference sort equaled things out, but I wasn't sure how it would effect my...

I've been getting these crashes a lot recently. Last night I ran the memtest and I recieved 8 errors in 10 minutes. I swapped the rams into a different slot and it seemed to solve the problem, but then a day later I got this crash again. Also, I have to press the restart button twice and on the...

Hi, This is my system: win7 prof 64bit installed. Motherboard: Asus P8H67 CPU Sockel: LGA1155 RAM: 8 GB Intel-RAID-Controller RAID1 configured with two 2TB HDDs Single 2TB HDD (or additional backups) The Win Instalation resides on a RAID1 partition (100GB). My new SSD ist a Samsung...

Alright, so this is the deal - I have a not-that-bad-but-really-still-horrible computer from Dell with a GPU that can barely run most of the games you see today. I'm thinking "Hey, why not push it up just a bit, just until I get a new computer?"... I've seen one or two other people who have...

This started about a year ago. What I did was upgrade from an Athlon X3 with an MSI 890S-G46 Mobo (that ran with no problems at all) to a nice FX-8120 with an MSI 890FXA-GD70 Mobo. Not long after that (but long enough to keep me from getting an RMA), I began getting the x101 stop code. I...

Sorry, if this should be in the hardware forum... I am doing a fresh (bare metal) install. I am experiencing a weird problem with Win7 not remembering drive letter. I am hoping that someone has run across this problem and has the answer. I tried "Diskpart automount enable". It did not work...

Hi all, I'm new around here so, if you've seen this before, please bear with me. I have a computer with 3 hard disks in it as follows: - Patriot Pyro 120 GB on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (installed first) - WD Velociraptor 450 GB on Windows 8 Pro x64 (installed second) - Samsung something 2 TB...

Windows 7 Pro and Windows XP PRO “Semi Dual boot” My question is labeled “”Semi Dual Boot” because I have a situation involving WIN 7 Pro and WIN XP Pro on the same computer. Background --How I got to where I need to make this post I had a WIN XP PRO, SP3 system installed,(100% genuine...

I have 2 good video cards Video Card - "NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 - 1 Gig Ram" and a "ATI Radeon 5750 1 Gig" and I need another one for my third computer so I go down and get a "Diamond Radeon HD 6450" which is a total piece of junk. So how do I get a video card that would at least equal my two...

I em going to upgrade my rm but i was doing my research and now i em completly confused.Some web site are telling me that there is no difference between i955x and 955x chipset besides supporting dual core cpu. My questions is can i install 8 gb of ram into my hp motherboard(0A00H) i955x chip...

Trying to restore a Windows 7 image after a boot manager problem Rampage IV Formula MB with no hardware or BIOS changes since the creation of the image 9 days ago, but get the following error message. "The system image restore failed. Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has...

On my 64 bit Windows 7 desktop, I used to have two Western Digital 500 GB drives, each with one partition (C: and D: respectively). But recently those two drives both started failing their self-tests; so I am replacing them with two 1 TB drives. So then I'll have two partitions, C: and D...

I have just found out last week that when Windows 8 goes out on sale in the shops tomorrow on 26th October 2012,it will only be sold as an upgrade install. And I telephoned PC World a large computer store in England,where I live and they confirmed this. Which means that there will be no full...

I have a desktop that has two hard drives. One SSD, one HDD. Windows is on the SSD, Ubuntu and various other files are on the HDD. I have Ubuntu and Windows in a dual-boot format. The other day, after playing around in Ubuntu and updating the software, I restarted the computer and decided to...

I cannot access my cd rom drive. I look in the drive section under computers and I see the C drive and the D recovery drive but no cd rom drive. I go to device manager and don't see anything relating to a cd rom drive. I have an HP Pavillion Notebook DV 9810 US and the cd rom drive itself is...

System Spec: Intel Core i5-3570k Asus P8Z77-Pro M/b 16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM (2x8) 2x2TB 7200RPM, 64MB cache HDD's 1x500GB 7200RPM HDD nVidia GeForce 8800GTS Creative SoundBlaster Xtreme Gamer sound card Linksys WMP600N wireless PCI card Corsair HX650 PSU 1x Blu-Ray optical drive 1x DVD optical...

I have played Battlefield Bad Company 2 for a long time now. I never had any issues with the game. It always ran perfect with no problem. I stopped playing for a bout 10 months. I recently started playing again and I can play the game just fine. Runs smooth, no issues in game. But when I go to...

Hi, I don't get on much these days but at age 79 I am still computing among many other things and I wanted to tell you that | have just updated to Ivybridge. and installed the Corsair H80 liquids cooling. Now I don't mention this to boast but to say how great the Corsair H80 is I am now getting...