Recent content by FitzGerald

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    Dual Boot (Ubuntu, Win 8) -- 2 Hard Drives, Nothing booting

    Final update: Today I got around to putting the Ubuntu disk back in. I connected that disk only, and it was able to boot into Ubuntu. When I tried to boot into Windows 8.1, I got an error: 0xc000000e, "PC Needs to be Repaired" (paraphrasing the error message). I first went into the...
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    Dual Boot (Ubuntu, Win 8) -- 2 Hard Drives, Nothing booting

    KillerBee, Thanks for the response; I never have really dabbled into the Virtualbox arena of computer-fu. This afternoon I started going down a different path. So I initially was thinking "RAM or Motherboard" which is why I spent last night troubleshooting my RAM. There was no reason to...
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    Dual Boot (Ubuntu, Win 8) -- 2 Hard Drives, Nothing booting

    UPDATE 2: Backed up my Windows Drive using CloneZilla. So I'm completely unable to boot into Windows 8. Not able to boot into my original installation media, and unable to get past the Repair/Recovery errors I am seeing. Unfortunately I don't believe I made a Windows 8.1 Recovery USB...
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    Dual Boot (Ubuntu, Win 8) -- 2 Hard Drives, Nothing booting

    UPDATE 1: So I spent most of last night suspecting a motherboard or RAM problem. I realized that the reason I wasn't able to boot off of USB was because my BIOS treats it as a hard drive, and USB devices show up under "Hard Disk" instead of "External Device" (duh!). I was able to create a...
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    Dual Boot (Ubuntu, Win 8) -- 2 Hard Drives, Nothing booting

    All, Computer specs: ASUS M4A78LT-M (AM3) Motherboard AMD Athlon II X2 250 4 GB RAM Radeon 6670 (DDR 3 version) I have run into a problem that I've never had before. I have 1 (one) 500 GB Hard Drive with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed, and 1 (one) 500 GB Hard Drive with Windows 8.1...
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    Video Game (Cars 2) Black Screen Crashing (AMD 6670)

    I'm convinced its a defective port for Windows. This was a clean Windows 8 install from Windows XP as well. It crashes in the same manner, it appears the game is saving between levels and then *crash* (although not every time). There are 2 faults in the event log: Faulting application...
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    Video Game (Cars 2) Black Screen Crashing (AMD 6670)

    Nearly year plus update. We've continued to have problems with this game crashing. I upgraded to Windows 8 ~ 2 weeks ago and the problems have continued. The error log has a message about unable to access a specific location. Even "running as administrator" doesn't help. I've also had...
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    Dual booting Win8 and Ubuntu

    This is how I had Windows XP and Ubuntu setup, and I just recently (~ 1 week ago) upgraded my Windows HDD and upgraded XP to Windows 8 (using my $40 upgrade bought months ago). I unplugged the Ubuntu Hard Drive and installed/upgraded Windows 8. I then plugged in Ubuntu HDD and the Windows 8...
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    My Budget Build Guide

    Bump and thanks for these suggestions. I follow the $1000 system, but think a budget build is also important...
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    Windows 8 Pro, Ultimate Upgrade $39.99

    I guess it doesn't let me create an .ISO file right now (not that I'm going to install it now anyway) since I'm on 32-bit Windows XP. I guess that's kind've frustrating, but on the plus side I haven't done anything to FUBAR my current OS, which is the most important thing.
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    Windows 8 Pro, Ultimate Upgrade $39.99

    I solved the problem I had. Using the program "WinDirStat" I was able to discover that a number of online games my son played downloaded into the Application Data folder. I ended up freeing up 6GB! I guess this directory is set via Mozilla profile settings and it looks like I'll need to...
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    Windows 8 Pro, Ultimate Upgrade $39.99

    Yes. It scans my computer; and then it says "Free up 4GB before I go any further". From a price perspective it's worth it for me to go through partition gymnastics, don't know if i want to spend the time to do it today or tomorrow... guess I could just stick with XP.
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    Windows 8 Pro, Ultimate Upgrade $39.99

    All, Given the deadline is tomorrow, I figured I would download the upgrade today. I currently have XP installed on a 7+year old 250 GB hard drive, which has had no free space on the Windows drive (I have 17 GB on other partitions). It's asking me to free up 4GB. Is there no way to purchase...
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    Upgrading to Windows 8 from XP (32 bit to 64 bit) Using 64 Bit Release Candidate

    I've yet to pull the trigger, but most likely will be doing so in the near future. Is it possible for me to install the Windows 8 Release Candidate (64-Bit) and then use that 64-bit OS to purchase and download the Windows Upgrade from my 32-bit Windows XP? I have not seen this question...
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    Video Game (Cars 2) Black Screen Crashing (AMD 6670)

    jolancer, Thanks for the response. My son and I were playing last weekend and we actually had an in-game crash; so much for the theory I had gotten around it. The error that showed up was: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. Given that my memory passed Memtest86+ overnight (not sure if I need to...