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2 different scanners no longer communicating w/laptop, deeper issue?

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Hi, Thank you in advance for your help! I'm on a Dell XPS L702X laptop, running Windows 7 Home Premium, SP1, 64-bit. All of a sudden my 2 scanners can no longer communicate with my laptop. The only recent software update I've downloaded is an AVG update. When one of the scanners wasn't connecting about 2 weeks ago, I ran a Microsoft Fix It (called "Hardware devices are not working or...

Lost All USB

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(Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit) When changing my failing secondary HDD for a new one, I had to unplug all the USB devices. The new HDD works fine, but there is now no USB (either USB-2 or -3). The devices, on two hubs, have power but there is no sign of them in Windows. A restart did not recover them. I took particular care to put each device back in exactly the same slot as it...

Second hdd on laptop disappear when not plugged to AC

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Hi everyone, I write here since i did not succeeded to find a solution in any forum i read. the problem is as followed: I have a Lenovo G510 laptop. when i bought to it, i replaced the original HDD (wd5000LPCX-2) with a new SSD (samsung 840) and replaced the optical drive with the original HDD, so it'll preform as a second HD. now, everything work fine as long as i turn on the computer...

Sleep breaks Laptop's Windows with USB modem connected

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The Dell Conexant D400 USB modem I have for my Latitude E6540 causes Sleep to fail. It seems to go thru most of the "shutdown" activities but the Power light remains On (should pulse) and the HDD indicator continues to pulse. Worse, it fails to come-up again unless I hard-power-down (hold power button) and then on restart I get the "Start Windows normally?" notice that the process was not clean....

Can't clear 3 documents from printer queue , really need a solution

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Tried disabling printer pool and enabling it again, gone into windows32/spool/printing setting permissions for my user account that has admin permissions but given it full permissions for that folder. Tried logging in as admin to remove them but I get access denied each time in the window bottom. The port is blank for each document in the queue. I usually don't have issues clearing...

Switching Hard Disk Causes Boot Error

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I've upgraded one of my machines to Windows 10. I put in a new SSD and left the old Windows 7 drive alone, just unplugged. I wanted to leave it intact in case I decided to downgrade. I should mention that I did an upgrade install of Windows 10 by installing Win 7 to the SSD first. The problem is this: Today I realized that I needed to use something briefly from the Windows 7 drive which...

cd rom refuse to read software

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my cd rom has this issue, it can play cd and dvd but when i put a software disk it doesn't read it, it just freezes my computer and nothing works until i remove the disk. i cant change my cd rom. please is there anything i can do to fix this?

External WD 1TB HDD 'Not Initialized' - I/O error not allowing me

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I have this WD 1TB external drive that stopped working a while ago. I am trying to initialize it in order to perhaps try to recover data from it using a Data Recovery Wizard. When connecting the drive via USB, it only sometimes shows up in 'Devices and Printers' as connected through USB (ie, it allows me to click 'Eject My Book' in the task bar). When it shows up there, I can also see it in...

Printer forum for resetting Canon/Epson cartridges & ink refilling?

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Hi, Does anyone know the name of the 'printer' forum, specific to Canon and Epson as I recall, that deals a lot with resetting cartridge chips and manually refilling the cartridges? I used it a few years ago, but can't for the life of me remember its name. I don't want to break any rules regarding promoting other sites, but this really was a site for printer pros and it gave me a lot of...

Multi Monitor environment resets to over under setup not side by side

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So my issue is that when I log into my computer it will some times (not all the time) revert from a side by side multi monitor setup to a over under setup. Like if you go into screen resolution settings I will have it set to monitor 1 on the left, and monitor 2 on the right, then when I lock the computer and then log back in, it will have monitor 1 positioned over the top of monitor 2. I'm...

HD video on hard disk ..no Problem ..through Internet Shutdowns

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When I play HD video ( 258 MB)...36 minutes long on hard disk ..no Problem ..through Internet I just get Shutdowns. I assume the video card is working fine ,but outside problems , cable throughput not sufficient etc may be the problem.Any thoughts would be appreciated .

Disk 1 Unknown, Not Initialized - Samsung M3 Portable

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I have a Samsung external hard disk drive. It doesn't detect on Explorer. *System Specifications* *OS:* Windows 10 - 64 bit *Notebook Model* Dell - Inspiron 14 - 5000 series (i7 processor intel) *External HD* - Samsung M3 Portable - Model: HX-M101TCB/G - Capacity: 1 tb *DISK MANAGEMENT*

Mysterious crashing during Fallout 4

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at a total loss here... randomly during the game what seems to be in high bad guy areas, the computer will completely shut down. i have to pull the power supply plug out for a few seconds and replug and turn it back on... specs: MB:(Stock HP) N-alvorix-rs880-uATX GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SUPERCLOCKED 2048MB GDDR5...

Sentey Power supply not enough?

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I purchased a 550w bronze sentey psu and im questioning if its enough. We have a EVGA Geforce 660 superclocked gpu and thought for the longest time it was overheating. it would crash during gameplay. So now im questioning if its not the power supply? anyone have a suggestion at a better quality PSU for under 100? i'll return this one quick so i can get my money back and find my husband the right...

My 500gb C Drive is only allowing 143gb to be used.

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Hello, I removed Linux Mint from my laptop and added windows 8.1 after deleting all my partitions. I then Upgraded to windows 10. For the 1st few days it said i had the 500gb for the max however over night it dropped to 143gb. As seen bellow. ((NOTE: This photo is showing only 143gb however it is a 500gb hard drive)) Image: http://s22.postimg.org/lumsr5ag1/Capture.png I also took the...

External HDD Cyclic Redundancy / CHKDSK not available for RAW drives

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All of a sudden, one of my external drives is inaccessible. Anybody know how to retrieve data from it? I took the drive (WD Elements) out of the case, intending to hook it up to a SATA enclosure, but it's got what seems to be unremovable hardware blocking access.

windows 7 dvd/cd

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I don't know if anyone can help me, but here goes. A few months ago I tried Linux, and changed my mind. I reinstalled windows, all went well, and it boots straight into windows. A few weeks ago I booted my asus dvd, and I wanted to uninstall a driver. I am unable to boot the dvd. When I choose the cd/dvd on the screen comes ISO Linux. I don't know what to do. I have windows 7 home premium 64...

Default clock settings for i7-950?

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Hi. I have a PC (5 years old now, I use it as a second machine) which has been working just fine until this week, but when I boot (into Windows 7 (x64) ) the PC soon freezes up completely, or I get a BSOD (the PC rebooted - I have changed the settings so it won't in future and will note down details). I do have one crashdump file (ntoskrnl.exe problem), but what I want to try at the moment...

Reinstalling Dell Webcam Central

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When my laptop crashed I lost the "Dell Webcam Central" Have been looking for a link where I can reinstall. Have Windows 7. Thank You

Both DVD Drives Will not read any cd or DVD

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I windows 7 64bit the dvds drives have worked fine in the past, but to be honest recently i have not used them. Few days ago i upgraded the RAM from 4gb to 8gb. At first it did not work, some disk read error. Then after removing, replacing ram module and replacing it seemed to work. So now I have 8gb ram but both dvd drives will not read discs. They both are working and open/close...
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