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How bad is my ssd disk?
Eventually I get very long boot times. Some times I have to re-install some programs because of segmentation fault. So I found my ssd disk, which is 12 months old, have some problems as seen in this ...
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Second network card appears fried. Why and how to prevent a third?
So I have an old computer functioning as an OpenBSD router for my home network. I had 3 network cards, one to wired home network, one to wireless network, and one to my modem. One day, pings magically ...
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Hard Drive not running
I've seen several question here, but apparently no one exacly like my problem.
Whats happening to me is that in the moment I plug the power wire to my external 1TB Lacie HDD, it makes the sound like ...
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Using integrated webcam after updating for youcam software
My webcam doesn't work since 2 months ago.I tried to resolve the problem but I couldn't yet.
at first,I tried to update my webcam driver but I couldn't find the location of webcam.In my device ...
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PC turns off after hours
I have a PC with I7 Processor, 4GB RAM, GTX480, 700 WATT Power Supply.
1) The computer after some hours shuts down by it self. Not normal shutdown. It just turns off. After this failure it opens ...
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How to solve instant pc shutdown
My pc has an instant shutdown problem in different times. Sometimes when i am playing a game, sometimes i am develping web applications on Visual Studio, sometimes just browsing the web.
It hangs and ...
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Hard Drive shuts down in the middle of gaming - computer crashes afterwards
When I am playing a game with high system requirements (this time: Battlefield 3) after a while my hard drive randomly shuts off (it's the hard drive. I hear it shutting down.)
After Windows realizes ...
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How does one dismantle the ThinkPad Mini Dock Series 3 (model 4337)?
I have a ThinkPad Mini Dock Series 3 with a spring that is too stiff, causing problems with the connectivity when a computer is docked. I tried to open it so that I can soften the spring, but hit a ...
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Wireless card getting very hot
I have a pretty old laptop: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li1718. Last year I have cleaned the parts inside the case, there was a lot of dust. Laptop had started to work a lot quieter and it was a lot cooler.
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Installed Graphics Card Failure
I just bought a refurbished Radeon HD 4650
My power supply says 250w and according to the Radeon website - "400 Watt or greater power supply (550 Watt for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode) is ...
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Missing USB Drive in Windows 7
Have you ever plugged in a USB drive or any external device with a hard drive and wondered why you cannot see it in My Computer?
I often have, I believe my USB is not broke .. because if I plugin the ...
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What do i do about this? Motherboard Error
Ok, I have this motherboard that is old and I dont even use. But I play around with it sometimes. I got it out today and found this...What do I do?
This cord or wire thing (could you maybe inform ...
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Bios startup error: 1 long beep and 2 short. But graphics is onboard
I have a desktop computer here that can't boot after a long power outage (it was behind a UPS/surge protector though). It won't boot now and is giving 1 long beep and 2 short ones. The motherboard is ...
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How can I access the HDD of a Microsoft Surface 1.0 table?
After a few freight transport trips, our Microsoft Surface died. Everything leads to a hard disk drive hardware failure, as it doesn't even show up at POST anymore, thus leading to a "No boot device ...
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Screen flicker/no screen and wireless problems after water spill
I have lots of problems with my Lenovo G470 after there was a water spill accident 3 months ago which caused half my keyboard to be damaged.
Recently the screen flickers or there will be totally no ...
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Hanging boot and cannot boot to disk
I'm having a very puzzling problem with my PC. Recently I have not been able to boot very consistently. The boot will hang during the Windows 7 splash screen and will not go further. The same thing ...
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Computer Restart When I Insert a USB Drive (Othe Removable Device)
I have faced this issue when My computers just restart when ever I connect a specific memory card, USB drive or any other portable device. This is quite a serious problem which is on the other hand ...
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USB drive unusable and reporting 0 bytes capacity
I had a problem with my USB drive. When i plug it in windows 7, what happens is when I click on USB the message "Please insert a disk into drive X:".
The drive properties show:
Type: Removable ...
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My DVD drive isn't recognized by Windows 7 [closed]
My DVD drive is recognized at the BIOS, and I can access it before Windows starts. Once Windows starts, the optical drive is no longer recognized. I have found solutions on the internet that involve ...
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Reading SMART Data - possible drive failure?
First time trying to make heads and tails out of this. I just wonder if the drive is bad on this server? Just things seem so slow when compiling and running simple tasks(things hang). Like the load ...
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Installing usb3 card on asus m2v motherboard
I have an Asus M2V motherboard:
http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2V/
I purchased the following card and plugged it into the PCIe x1 port that is available:
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Very slow bootup even after defrag
Have a computer that took over an hour to bootup and this was after a defrag and security scans. Could this be a sign the drive is dieing even if it is making no sounds?
How can I check to see if ...
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My webcam doesn't work, how to set it up?
I just recently bought a third hand Dell Inspiron m5030 laptop, running Windows 7. The problem is, Windows can't seem to use my webcam, even though it is listed in Device Manager as "Integrated ...
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Error searching to find hardware freezing issue
I came home to find my computer frozen at the screensaver.
I forced a restart, and it froze at the regular Windows start up. Sometimes it would launch completely, and then freeze pretty soon after. ...
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intermittent power up failure after shut down
My desktop with ASUS P5L-MX motherboard does not immediately want to boot up whenever it is completely shut down. When the switch is pressed there are no visible lights, fan motion or anything. It ...
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PC frozen at startup, not booting
I am trying to fix my Gateway desktop. About 6 months ago it stopped working and since then I started using a laptop. But now I want to fix it since it's much more powerful than my laptop.
The ...
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Possible SSD failure?
I have a Lenovo x220i notebook computer which came with a 320 GB HDD. A few months ago, I purchased an Intel 80 GB mSATA SSD and installed that myself. I made the SSD my boot drive and I mapped the ...
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Is it easy to build a monitor from a latop screen?
My laptop broke down, but the screen is still good. Is there an easy way to recycle the screen and make a monitor out of it? Just for the fun of it.
The laptop is a Compaq Presario V6700.
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Netbook screen display is garbled (has black/white & horizontal line patterns, screen freezes, and/or wrong display position)
Upon powering my netbook on, its screen turns into a garbled display (has black/white patterns, horizontal line patterns, screen freezes and/or wrong display position). This distortion happens even at ...
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Why Asus Z68 deluxe wont boot/post (not even q-code led)
Here are the specs:
Asus z68 deluxe gen3 rev1 (latest bios 0302)
i7-2600K (no oc) + Noctua HSF
G-Skill sniper 4GBx2 1600MHZ CL9
Sapphire Pure 1250W
Gainward GTX460
The thing is my system won't ...
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Windows detected a hard disk failure* - what should I do?
I'm using Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, I'm getting windows error popups like this one for about 3 days, multiple times a day:
This Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD502HJ 500 GB is about 2 years old and I already ...
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Running Windows with defective RAM
Is it possible to run Windows (7, x64) with a defective RAM module? More precisely, is there some way to tell Windows not to allocate a known bad address or block of addresses?
For Linux, there is ...
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Laptop with a hit, the screen shows black as red and have red vertical lines [closed]
yesterday my laptop hit the ground on one side and since then the screen has vertical red lines and shows the black as red.
Is the physical screen broken? I expected to see some local damage on it ...
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Why are the failing addresses in Memtest86+ higher than my total memory?
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Feel free to skip this section. I ramble a bit.
This is a desktop computer. My motherboard is a MSI P67A-C45. The two memory modules are 4GB DDR3-1333 in DIMM 1 and DIMM 3, dual channel.
A ...
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PC hardware (HDD, BIOS / motherboard) acting weird
This is going to be long story. I'm trying to figure out what the hardware problem with my desktop is.
It started with my Windows XP's very slow response and later even a BSOD, when shutting down. ...
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Why some keystrokes are ignored?
I have a recent issue with a keyboard/mouse combo. Some keystrokes and mouse down/mouse up events are ignored; in other words, if I type: "Hello World", I may find myself with "Hllo World". Sometimes ...
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Laptop powers up just no BIOS
I have a laptop that you can power up and fans come on and stuff but getting no POST on start up. Does this mean the motherboard probably went bad?
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Cannot boot anymore, power supply broken?
My desktop computer is not able to boot anymore. Currently I have breadboarded my computer taking everything out of the case so the motherboard is only connected with:
500W power supply, connected ...
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WD Elements External HDD not showing up its drive even though its recognized?
I've got a 320GB WD Elements HDD that when plugged in shows up in device manager but it doesn't show its drive in 'MyComputer'. I've tried on several computers and still no luck. Any ideas as to what ...
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My monitor made a noise and is now dimmer - can I repair this myself?
I have a Samsung SyncMaster T190 LCD monitor which I've had for about 5 years. It hissed slightly then went dim (readable but the top half of the screen is less bright).
I'm pretty sure that after 5 ...
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Is running daily defrag bad?
Running a RAID 0 setup and was wondering if running defrag too much would lead to a disk failure faster? Disks fail based on doing too many reads and writes? or is it based on the spinup and ...
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Will my USB Flash Drive die sooner if I watch movies directly from it?
If I watch movies directly off my USB Flash Drive, will the many reads somehow cause the drive to deteriorate faster? Or is there any other harm in doing this?
My alternative is copying the movie to ...
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PC shuts off just by touching the usb port with an external drive, won't turn on anymore with weird tick noises
So the computer was running fine until I decided to plugin a external drive via the usb. I didn't even get to insert it, as soon as the usb touched the usb port, the computer shut off and there was a ...
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dvd-rom ejects only if it contains a disk. Empty dvd-rom doesn't eject
I am using a ASUS DVD-RW. It does not ejects when I press eject button if its empty. If I put a DVD or a CD the eject button works.
I tried to eject from operating system (eject command in linux and ...
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Re-cased my computer now the power plug keeps shorting
I've just re-cased my computer. I got the new case free and thought I'd be able to swap everything over myself but apparently I've done something wrong. I'm OK with components generally but wasn't ...
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Chkdsk hangs at “chkdsk is verifying usn journal…”
I'm trying to recover some data off a crashed hard drive using Windows System Recovery. Startup Repair just hangs for days (yes, literally) with no disk activity. So, I'm trying to run chkdsk c: /f ...
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Lenovo X220 lid coming loose (And the hard drive cover)
I love my X220 but have a couple hardware issues. There is a top strip on the computer that is separate from the rest and it is getting loose. Same issue with the hard drive cover. Has anyone else had ...
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HP Pavillion dv6 laptop - 15 beeps on startup and a black screen?
Usual story - girlfriend's step-brother's laptop is broken. I don't know a huge amount about what occurred before it broke, but I do know the following:
When you try to turn the laptop on, it beeps ...
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Does a Samsung G3 Station external hard drive stop working when power supply is too high?
I have a Samsung G3 Station 2TB external hard drive (link to PDF specs here). It was working perfectly when I accidentally plugged it in my notebook's power source. Now, it doesn't work even with the ...
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Possible hard drive failure?
A problem happened two times last year where the hd suddenly stopped while using the computer and the system froze, I restarted the pc and it was fine for another hour when it froze again, but I ended ...
