Crucial M4 has been discontinued
Maybe this isn't news to many of you, but is to me, the M4 line of SSDs from crucial has been discontinued. The replacement is the M500 series and is a 7.5mm with a 9.5mm adapter. This is from a chat I...
View Articleexternal HDD not being seen in win 7 show as USB-ATA in device mgr
Hi< I have 2 external enclosures 1 = IDE to USB 2 = SATA to USB both are Brilliant ecombo enclosures in computer management can see the sata with 4 partitions but will not allow to assign drive...
View ArticleWindows 7 BSOD error 0x00000124
Hello, I have a Pavilion g7-1075dx and everyday for the past 2 weeks i have been experiencing random BSOD's even after reinstalling Windows 7. I ran a hard drive test, memory test, and the system file...
View ArticleBIOSTAR AND ASROCK reviews/knowledge
Hello all, I've been offered some BIOSTAR and ASROCK motherboards by a new supplier. I’m a massive GIGABYTE fan and all my Intel builds work around the gigabyte motherboards but I am tempted to use...
View ArticleFamily PC, possible motherboard issue
My brother booted it up about an hour ago and it pretty much stayed at the BIOS POST screen for a few minutes before shutting itself off, then repeating the same long beep, short beep code over and...
View ArticleBuilding a Gaming Computer Gaming Low budget. Help.
ok, so let me just throw my budget out here, est: $600 I'm not sure, i could be more or less thats just a rough idea. MY NEED: I want it to be able to play games like HITMAN ABSOLUTION at 50% - 60%...
View ArticleHarddrive disappeared after BSOD
Hi, Recently my pc bluescreened and when I rebooted it my second harddrive didn't show up in explorer. I checked disk management and it does show up there but I can't access any files. How do I fix...
View ArticleHow to Windows-disable the front-panel restart button?
In http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/295913-spontaneous-restarts-perhaps-seemingly-caused-power-switch-help.html I describe a bothersome situation where, as of now, it appears that my PC is...
View ArticleLoading huge files - fast
I'm in need of some suggestions, I sometimes have to load files that are any where between 3 - 25 gigs. An SSD that is 1 TB is too costly. My current 7200 RPM drive with 64 Meg Cache is still somewhat...
View ArticleWarning about ASUS
I have purchased many ASUS boards over the years and never a quality problem. The board that I purchased recently has defective DIMM's, a problem that required quite a bit of work to diagnose. The...
View ArticleHard Drive Failure? WD Black
I guess I'm just REALLY unlucky to be in such an unexpected predicament. But I seem to be having a problem with my primary hard drive that is about to fail, I think. I'm no computer expert or anything...
View ArticleWindows mostly not detecting USB device
My laptop runs Win 7 Home Premium, all patches. I had an LG 500G phone and was able to connect it via a USB cable and copy off pictures. I lost that phone and got another. Connected it, Windows went...
View Articlelooking to upgrade my cpu and was wondering
is this a better alt Amazon.com: AMD FX -4130 3.8Ghz Processor FD4130FRGUBOX: Computers & Accessories...
View Articlealt advice for a cpu/ mobo pair
i am thinking of getting Amazon.com: AMD FX -4130 3.8Ghz Processor FD4130FRGUBOX: Computers & Accessories...
View ArticleRAM advice
i have 12 gigs of ram will i gain any preformance boosts if i jump up to 16 ?
View Articlelooking for a mobo that will work well with
these primary parts Amazon.com: AMD FX -4130 3.8Ghz Processor FD4130FRGUBOX: Computers & Accessories...
View ArticleNew hardrive trouble.
Hello. I just upgraded all the guts of my computer and I've run into a issue. I bought 2 of these hardrives: Western Digital WD Black WD4001FAEX 4TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard...
View Articlemy webcams showing strange colors
i was cleaning my laptop yesterday. and my built in mini webcam got bumped by a coke can(very smally bumped without a lot of force). so now when i try to use face recognition it shows "unable to...
View Articlewindows detected a hard drive problem
keep getting this message pop up every few minutes 'Windows detected a hard drive problem'. I ran a disc check and it found no problems with the disc. Should I take this message as gospel and invest in...
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