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One RAID 0 drive at risk - can I back up data to the other drive?
I have a RAID 0 array with two 1TB hard drives. The RAID build came with the PC. I didn't set it up. Last week I started getting "Drive 1 at risk" message in the Intel Rapid Storage Technology ...
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cannot format bad hard disk
I think I have a problem with my hard drive.
I tried to boot the system, and it was taking a long time. After a while it said that the drive was not bootable.
I tried running check disk, but it was ...
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Hard disk is always only detected after the computer is switched on the second time
At the first press of the power button to switch on the computer, the hard disk is not detected, BIOS says "unknown device" instead of hard disk.
Then I switch off the computer by pressing the power ...
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Troubleshooting Computer Failure
I'm usually pretty good at this but I'm a bit confused.
I'm on the internet and my computer turns off randomly. Okay, just turn it back on. Boots into bios just fine. No errors or warning signs. ...
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Can drive encryption cause faster drive failure?
For about the past two years I've used TrueCrypt to encrypt my entire hard drive. During this time I've had a complete hard drive failure (data unrecoverable, had to RMA the drive) twice. I've never ...
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Windows 7 PC powering off with no warning [closed]
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Why does my computer power off suddenly and without warning?
I am stumped, and have tried everything I can think of to resolve this issue.
The machine (a Windows 7 PC) ...
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Problems when sending sms for more than 12 hours with at commands
I created software that sends sms via at commands with my gsm modems but I figured out that when it sends for about 12 hours, the connection with com port fails. I turn it off and on and it works ...
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Lines on screen
Yesterday I cleaned the dust of my computer with a compressed air machine, the computer worked normally for two hours, but then the screen filled with lines and I cant see anything.
It is not a ...
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Can't screw the bolts back on Intel SSD HDD
I have somewhat idiotic problem which I never expected to have.
So I accidentally unscrewed bolts on my Intel SSD drive mistakenly thinking they are holding plastic slider which came with laptop.
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Why does my computer randomly power off?
Situation:
have a 6 year old PC but it powers off randomly, sometimes it will take a few hours, or sometimes it won't happen at all
when it does happen, the system loses power, but the mobo power ...
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Unable to update a strange HDD firmware
I'm not able to update the firmware on a Seagate ST3500620AS hard drive, neither with the Windows update tool nor the bootable CD (available on this page : ...
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Why do computers freeze? [closed]
When a computer freezes (windows or mac) where do you point fingers?
The OS (software);
The RAM (hardware);
Anything else? Do you point fingers at the graphics/video card? the HD?
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Win7 soft-RAID failed, computer “jumped back in time”
I just rebooted my computer and upon logging into Windows, things seemed a little bit "off". I figured out rather quickly that everything was like it was two weeks ago. It was literally like ...
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New Power Supply doesn't work with a specific motherboard
I just bought a new power supply Corsair CX430 V2 in order to meet the needs of a new graphics card I hope to install. The motherboard is the micro-ATX form factor Asus P5KPL-AM/PS running a Intel C2D ...
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How to solve extreme DPC latency peaks (240.000µs)
Once every few minutes I get a sudden peak of DPS latency that causes the system to "freeze" for a fraction of a second (240.000µs = 240ms).
The freeze is not only audio, also video, input devices, ...
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Sun and or heat damage to back of monitor or computer
I have a laptop, and 2 monitors that are on a desk next to a window. They get direct sunlight for a few hours a day. In summer it seems to be about 3 hours. Most days I'm not using the hardware during ...
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Computer Restart : it shutdown but it never power up
I am seeing an used desktop computer with MSI motherboard and runs Windows XP,
the problem is when i restart the computer using Windows >> shutdowns >> Restart, the computer shutdown but never power ...
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Determine what component of my PC is broken
I was playing Skyrim and suddenly the PC froze. I had to reset it by pushing the button. On reboot the display is very weird and I can't figure out what's wrong. My guess would be the graphic card ...
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Hard disk making short, low, high-pitched noise semi-regularly
I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my brand new Seagate ST2000DM001(-9YN164) hard drive, if indeed anything. Irregularly, but seemingly every few minutes (every 3-7 minutes now in the time ...
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Fsck says read block too short
Yesterday I left my Ubuntu laptop alone for a bit, and the power cable got knocked out, so the computer got shut down. Upon starting it up, it insisted on running fsck, which failed, asking me to run ...
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Single bit write errors on hard drive
Recently I've had some issues with my hard drive, where a file extracted from a compressed archive would get corrupted when it was extracted. Extracting the same file from the same archive once more ...
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Replace failing hard drive on Linux server
I'm working with a Linux server with a failing drive, and am interested in the best/easiest way to transfer the existing data onto a new drive, and reboot with the new hardware.
The server is running ...
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One of my two RAMs is not working now.Is it because I removed it when power wasw on? [closed]
I had problem in my pc that kept hanging n display pixels were set bad.
I removed my both RAMs when power was on(pc was shut down).
After I reinserted them, one of them works and other is not(it ...
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WinXP auto-rebooting: It is possible to replace or disable by hardware a LAN adapter in a laptop?
Diagnostics:
I possibly plugged a wire with RJ-45 connector barely wet to my
Toshiba laptop LAN port. Network worked fine, then I turned off WinXP without
disconnecting AC and after 4 hours turned ...
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Half the screen on my laptop is displaying incorrectly (random colors)
My netbook was dropped and now half the screen is displaying incorrectly. Its basically a rainbow spectrum of random colors.
On the other side everything is working just fine. It doesn't appear that ...
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Can graphics driver cause low level crash on a pc? (frozen screen output) [closed]
I recently installed a beta nvidia graphics card driver and my pc crashes with frozen screen output.
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Error installing new RAM, getting 3 beeps (memory error) from motherboard
I have a hardware problem and hope this is the right place. I wanted to add some RAM and I got two kingston 2 GB sticks that I want to install, however, when I seat them and boot up the system I get 3 ...
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Just assembled computer, not booting. No POST, no video, beeps when ram removed
I rebuilt my computer several months ago and the old non-reused parts went into storage. It's christmas time and my parents have been bugging me to help them buy a new computer, so I figured I'd buy a ...
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What is the safe temperature limit for a consumer SATA hard drive?
Background
My personal desktop system at home has 5 SATA drives racked up inside. Recently my system started failing in odd ways like random kernel panics and I eventually traced it to random ...
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USB wireless adapters no longer working after Graphics Card meltdown?
Wireless Cards Not Being Recognized by networking
I have two separate Wireless network adapters that I have tested against this Windows 7 home-built PC. Neither are working: after inserting the USB ...
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Any way to get bootable Vista image from recovery partition of bad HD?
I have an HP Pavilion box running Vista and the HD failed this morning. Safe Mode will not boot, and when I try to boot regularly, it hangs with a cursor on a black background at the point where it ...
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Custom Built Computer Shorting Out?
I just finished building my computer from a bare-bones kit I bought online. When I go to turn it on, it starts for a second and shuts off. The fan turns on for a second, on the CPU and in the power ...
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Why does computer restarts by itself [closed]
I'll like to use the question progressively: (I need to pin point exact issue)
My system configuration is:
CPU: Intel i7 2600K 3.4GHz Quad core
Motherboard: z68
RAM: GSkill 8GB saw-tooth 1.5V
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Laptop booting frozen [closed]
A friend's laptop is having problems booting after she attempted to clean it (with compressed air). I can enter the BIOS to change settings and bootup devices but I can never make it any further than ...
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How to troubleshoot “The device is not ready.” error in Windows XP
No matter what disc I put in the DVD-ROM drive, I get:
C:\>d:
The device is not ready.
When I put in the disc, it spins up and you can hear it reading the disc. I've tried a couple different ...
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PC gives long beeps and blank screen after restarting
If I start my PC today then it starts normally and works fine. However, if I shut it down and restart it on the same day it gives 3 long beeps and a blank screen. If I shut it down and restart it the ...
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4 memory modules of the same kind not working?
I am trying to install 2 extra pairs of 2GB on my server, the motherboard is a GA-EP41-UD3L which is said to support up to 8GB and has 4 memory slots.
I have 4 memories of 2 GB being all of it:
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Computer restarts with OpenGL and Catalyst newer than 11.7
You guys are my last hope literally, before I have to replace my motherboard/CPU/RAM and Graphics Card.
When I start OpenGL Programs in fullscreen and the same resolution as my desktop, my computer ...
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lshw outputs red
Question: Does the hardware listed in red text and a gray background mean that it isn't working properly?
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I'm working at my school's helpdesk and a student brought in a computer complaining ...
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Mac failing (failed?) hard drive - is all hope lost?
It's a 500 GB Seagate laptop hard drive that came with my Macbook Pro. Apple partition format.
Already replaced and now have it external, connected via SATA/USB adapter. Trying to get just a few ...
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Mainboard shuts itself off after half a second or so
Here's the problem:
When I start the PC, the mainboard powers up, then stays that way maybe 0.2-0.5 seconds, and then shuts off again.
I say mainboard, and not PC, because I removed all the parts ...
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NTFS disk hardware fail - recover files
I looked at most questions related to this, but most of them are when somebody accidentally formatted the HDD. So I'm asking again.
Dell Laptop with 70Gb HDD crashed. Windows XP is not bootable, ...
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NVidia Graphic Card troubleshooting
My dad has a HP pavilion laptop, which is over 6 years old. It contains an onboard graphic card, a NVidia GeForce 8400M GS. Since a week or two, he's getting BSOD in Windows Vista. Also, the screen ...
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How will single-bit memory error affect Linux?
I'm rebuilding a three-year-old AMD Athlon 5000 system which has an "ASRock NF7G-FullHD" motherboard with 4 memory slots, labeled "DDR2 800", said to have RAM capacity 8GB total. Besides 550W PS and ...
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Why does my drive show as 180GB used, but copies only 40GB?
My computer crashed, so I removed the drive (with Windows XP Professional 32-Bit) and put this drive in another computer running Windows 7 64-bit.
Booting with Windows 7, when going to My Computer ...
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Dell Precision M6500 crashes, BIOS displays “internal hard drive not found” [closed]
The power cord LED is off.
Turning the laptop off and on again helps.
BIOS version is A07.
Laption is running Windows 7 64-bit.
What could that be?
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Why is my magnetic hard drive exceedingly slow?
Writes to my WD Caviar Green 2TB hard drive are exceedingly slow. When dpkg is setting up packages atop reports speeds of between 0.5 and 1 MB/s. AHCI is enabled in my bios. I bought the drive new. ...
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My motherboard's eSATA port has stopped working - any ideas?
I've got an ASRock 890FX Deluxe5 motherboard. The rear-panel eSATA port used to work, and now doesn't seem to register when I plug something in. (I have two hard drive docks which both stopped working ...
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Troubleshooting “Verifying DMI pool data” hang
Last night after resolving a hijacked hosts file issue on my Vista desktop, I got a bluescreen (that I couldn't catch the details of) and my machine rebooted. Recently I've been having "Display driver ...
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Built new PC but screen randomly turns off
I built a new PC yesterday, with the following specs:
Intel i5 2500k
8GB DDR3 RAM
Gainward GTX570 Phantom
MSI P67A-GD80 (B3) Motherboard
OCZ Agility 3 SSD
The build went fine, and the PC has ...
