I have a Windows 7 Pro X 64 computer. Several years ago I bought a Ceton Infinity 4 pci card. When I ran the Digital Cable Advisor it told me I needed to upgrade my video card to support digital cable, and I bought a AMD Radeon HD 6770 card which I have used successfully for years.
Last week I...
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I bought and installed a Nvidia GeForce 8400GS but windows (7 64 bits) does not recognize it. Control Panel shows nothing, no graphic adapter in despite of the images show ok in my monitor. In Windows XP and Ubuntu I experience no problem. Does anyone has some kind of experience with an issue...
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Dear All,
When I install Win 8.1 64bit on mainboard with chip lan 8111E. It works OK and then remove HDD and re-install it to other mainboard with chiplan 8111G. At this time, I check Nic lan and it shows "realtek PCIe GBE Family controller #" . This is not the same realtek PCIe GBE Family...
Hey guys I hope someone can shed some light on this for me as I am at a complete loss.
I have a HP pavilion dv6-1129tx laptop it still has the genuine battery in it which is about 4yrs old but I assume it is still alright as it holds charge for over an hour running in battery alone.
OS is...
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Hello!
This one should twist your head a bit if you’re anything like me!
I have a Pavilion M6 1045DX laptop and the HD crashed. It was 750GB so off to eBay I went to buy another one. I decided to buy a NEW SEALED HD so I bought a blue label WD brand new. (March 2014) Just for grins I wiped and...
After reformatting and reinstalling W7 Pro and getting it all set-up and updated i am going to do an image ( with one of the tools on UBCD).
But it occurred to me that in the near future i am going to be upgrading my system entirely and am curious, what happens if i take the image of my current...
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System Specifications
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OS1: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
OS2: Ubuntu 12.04 x64
CPU: AMD FX Black 6100 6-Core 3.3 GHz
MBD: GA-970A-UD3
GPU: MSI TwinFrozr III R7850 2 GB GDDR5¹
RAM: 4 GB DDRIII
HD0: 500 GB Seagate SATA III
HD1: 750 GB Seagate SATA III Solid State Hybrid
SCR...
I have an odd intermittent problem where with a few programs, sometimes there are areas within the window which are unresponsive to right or left mouse clicks whether from the touchpad or bluetooth/wired mice. hovering over a particular spot brings up mouseovers etc, but clicking or scrolling...
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There's no problem attempting this, is there? I normally use this installer disk on a desktop machine, which is about to be retired.
The only reason I ask is because Apple has different, specific installers for their Notebooks, due to the different hardware options.
As long as this same...
Hi there.
I'm having a major issue regarding my video card and the BSOD.
I was experiencing issues with the video drivers and I was getting error warnings. So I decided to restart my PC and this is when I got my first BSOD nvlddmkm.sys error. After much searching on the internet I tried to...
After a Windows 7 Update of an optional hardware driver earlier this week I've been having Windows Genuine Validation problems.
I did a System Restore to prior to the update installation and now I keep getting Windows Validation errors.
When I run the WindowsActivationUpdate.exe I get the...
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I have changed my HTPC from a tower to the HTPC case. New everything except the Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCI card/cable card.
Have identical Windows 7/64 Pro systems. Tried to copy all the power / sleep settings.
New HTPC system will not sleep when it should. It is set to sleep after 10 minutes...
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Hi,
My company has about 10 new HP 2570p laptops. These have 128GB SSD.
I have set up two of these laptops in audit mode with all drivers, updates and software configured. I then went to sysprep, selected OOBE - generalise and shutdown.
The first laptop gave me a BSOD preventing Windows...
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I've a friend with a dead win7 system. She was working fine until the disk drive started spinning for a long period while system was idle. So she turned it off and now can't boot, no fan activity, etc. I've two similar machines, one intel-based and one with an amd processor. I plan to go...
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I have a brand new HP Envy dv6 with windows 8 on it from the factor. I have some software that is only available in Windows 7 with upgrade to windows 8 versions 6 to 12 months off. I figured no big deal, I've done dual boots before.
Well it's different now. I made a partition, formatted it...
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Secure Boot in Windows 8 prevents malware on systems. But, you are require to use UEFI machines to have Secure Boot.
Microsoft made improvements in Windows 8 with UEFI based machines.
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Cheers,
Drew
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PS: This is one big reason why I was happy to go to a UEFI M/B &...
I was running Windows 7 for a long time with no problem. It would sleep and wake up just fine. One day, it would not go to sleep any more. I never got to fix it before upgrading to Windows 8.
After upgrading, the system still would not go to sleep. I did some research and basically found...
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SHORT VERSION:
I made the mistake of installing an OS on my desktop from a
Reinstallation disk that came with my Dell laptop. It actually
worked okay until I installed a Wireless PCI express adapter.
Things became unresponsive within a few hours of that and now
it will not boot, even in safe...
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BSOD or black screen when it left sleep mode.
My investigations :
-The system resumes from sleep mode perfectly if I remove the MSI GTX660 twin frozr 3 and use the integrated Intel HD2500.
-memory pass the memtest86 (several passes) with XMP profile 1 settings
-with the GTX660...