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    My Ryzen 1700x PC won't shut down, not in BIOS or Win10 or Linux

    I upgraded my PC with Ryzen components on June 17th, and everything was working fine until this last Monday or Tuesday, when I found that my PC would no longer sleep or hibernate. It would try to go into sleep or hibernate mode, and then half a second after turning out its lights and going to...
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    Did in-place upgrade from Windows 7 to 10. Now constant timeouts, errors, unusable

    So I had been running Windows 7 on this system (same installation, clean installed once shortly after Win 7 launch and stayed with that since then) ever since it came out, and yesterday I made a system image to back up, then upgraded from 7 to 10. In-place upgrade, not a clean install. When...
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    Bad Sectors on my SSD

    My SMART info and bad sector error I have a Sandisk 480GB SSD that serves as my main disk. Yesterday I was doing my weekly backup, and found that the backup failed due to bad sectors, for the first time. Then I had two BSODs, and during the second one I got a "BOOTMGR is missing" error upon...
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    I have 8GB memory. I want 16GB. Do the new DIMMs have to be identical to the old?

    I have 2x4GB (8GB) DDR-1333 memory. I want to add in another 2x4GB to get to 16GB, because I'm starting to brush up against 8GB, and memory is cheap right now. Can I go with this $30 DDR3-1600 8GB kit, or do I have to buy the exact same 8GB DDR-1333 kit again, making all 4 modules identical...
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    Want to OC my Core i5 2500K for the first time, stay at stock voltage

    I bought a Core i5 2500K and Asus P8P67 Pro back in February of 2011 and never got around to overclocking it. I'd like to finally give that a try, but it would be nice if I could keep the power saving features active so that it would downclock/downvolt when idle, as usual. I'd just like to see...
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    Drastically underclocking CPU/GPU when idle

    I've got a Core 2 Quad 6600 B3 @ 3.0Ghz, 1.30V. I'm interested in underclocking it when it's idle, to around 1.6Ghz, 0.85V (or 1.2Ghz or whatever it would be stable at at 0.85V). The reason I am interested in this is the potential power savings that would result, though I'm not sure how many...
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    My Q6600 and P35-DS3L blue screen when OCed to 2835Mhz

    I've had my B3 revision 1.325V VID Core 2 Quad 6600 since early December, and since then it's been running stably at stock speeds, 266x9 (2400Mhz), with a 1.10625V vcore, and the FSB:memory ratio was 4:5, so the memory was running at 667mhz. Today, I get the idea to OC it to 3.0Ghz (333x9)...
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    Q6600 B3 stock @ 71C prime95, too hot?

    On thanksgiving I ordered an intel Q6600 processor from mwave.com, and they sent me a B3 stepping. D'oh. Oh well, I hadn't intended to OC it anyway. The push-pin design of the HSF seemed strange to me, as I was upgrading from an Opteron 165 with stock HSF. My first installation of the CPU...