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    SSD filling up

    My Samsung 128 GB 840 Pro according to Magician has 95 GB of used space and 12 GB unused. Is there a way to increase the amount of unused space? I am trying to preserve this SSD as it has an expensive professional program that I am unable to replace. I deleted a good portion of my stored...
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    Hard Drive Caddy

    A Dell Latitude D6420 I-7 2640 M Laptop is being offered on EBay without a hard drive or hard drive caddy for $58.00 at the moment. This is a $350.00 value if I find a caddy. I have the hard drive--Samsung 850 pro.. Are laptop hard drive caddy's generic or are they hard to find? Dell does not...
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    Buying Laptop on Ebay

    Txs. for replies! Very helpful as I now know what cheap prices out there for notebooks that still work. I had a Dell Latitude I7-2750 recently stolen that was working at decent speeds. Assuming the I5-2520 would be just a little slower. Unfortunately, before I thought to post here I made a...
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    Buying Laptop on Ebay

    Having very little $$$ I am looking at Core Duo Processors or maybe Sandybridge I-3. It will likely have DDR2 Memory--probably 4 GB, and I will install a Samsung 850 Pro SSD. Am looking to spend less than $150.00. This notebook will be used professionally (instead of gaming). I do the normal...
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    Samsung SM951 AHCI SSD Performing Poorly At Sub-4k File Sizes

    Is this drive fully compatible with Windows 7?
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    Asus mobo bios update

    Asus EZ Flash Utility retry today-- without making any changes from my last 8 hr. effort-- inexplicably recognized Bios 2103 CAP file on USB Flash Drive and updated the bios in about 60 seconds on 1st try. My prior error might have been failure to correctly convert the bios download to a zip...
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    Asus mobo bios update

    txs for reply. will try when have time and report. assuming I've been making some error. wrong USB port etc.
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    Asus mobo bios update

    txs for replies! Drive is formatted. Asus instructs followed to the letter. Bios set to default values. After 8 hrs., nothing works. Want to update 1205 Bios(year 2012) to drop I7-4970k into Asus Pro Z87 Board. EZ Flash Utility fails to recognize drive inserted into front USB 3 port. ASUS...
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    Asus mobo bios update

    peekeesh--having similar problems with ASUS CAP file (updated bios). Did u resolve ur problem? I've tried the several methods without any luck at all--e.g. EZ Flash fails to recognize my USB flash drive, bios update fails to open, etc.
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    Fanless Cooling For Haswell?

    Posting on my cooling decisions new system. Q was: is CPU fan necessary for I5 Haswell 4670 with my low cpu use--non-overclock office system in Silverstone TJ7 Case? Answer: unnecessary. New build with much Forum help finally up and running: Silverstone TJ7 open case without side panels...
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    Fanless Cooling For Haswell?

    Moon I got near quiet when I reduced #of fans to 3 + Seasonic PS fan. 4 fans all running 1000 to 1200 rpm i start to hear noise.
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    Fanless Cooling For Haswell?

    Flesh--can u explain ur post? u duct the exhaust fan to the heat sink. Does this mean u have a plastic or rubber duct running from heat sink to ur case exhaust fan? This would be somewhat similar to my prior E8400 set up although I had my 3 case fans creating a fair amount of turbulance by...
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    Fanless Cooling For Haswell?

    Txs for response. Put Q different way: My system was able to sufficiently cool the e8400 with Scythe Katana heat sink without a heatsink fan. I have total of 3 fans in TJ07 case and they were (would be) 4-6 inches away from heatsink each blowing almost directly at heat sink. the MB...
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    Fanless Cooling For Haswell?

    Old Office System used primarily on a few professional programs, viewing YouTube and vids. Aim of build is optimal snappiness and QUIET. Silverstone TJ7 Open Case without side pannels Core Duo E8400 Scythe Katana fanless cooling tower (small to medium tower) XFX low end fanless vid card...
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    SSD doesn't show up during Win 7 installation

    i just had exact same problem with ASUS Z87 Pro MB. Asus rep said bad chipset. I'll follow and see if u find solution.
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    Which PSU?

    perfect sense! any feeling, UaVaj, whether recent blow up of chipset on my new Asus Z87 pro MB may be related to use of non-compatible Haswell PS (2008 Seasonic 500W)?
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    Does Haswell / Z87 require a new power supply?

    I just build 4670k + Asus Z87 pro system using 2008 top of line Seasonic 500W PS. -MB chipset overheated and blew up according to Asus rep--My Q thus was whether this overheating of chipset might be related to use of the non-Haswell PS?
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    Is this Asus Z87 Pro an RMA Candidate?

    Asus phone rep walks me through 15 min. trouble shoot session. Flash new bios. Conclude--bad chip set, likely overheating and degrading over time. txs. for all help. moved step forward in knowledge.
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    Is this Asus Z87 Pro an RMA Candidate?

    txs for all help. last time i built was 2008 Core Duo E8400. After reading all posts, trying all options--including loading UEFI defaults-- system now recognizes Intel SSD but fails to recognize any other HD including new WD Blue 250 gig--ie. neither boot menu or SATA configuration in...
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    Is this Asus Z87 Pro an RMA Candidate?

    and---just as was losing my sense of humor--this! will try all 8 different SATA ports for the CD to locate native port and report back. Am considering ASUS MB manual maybe should be burned with list of forbidden books. Maybe Asus rep Melaka heard this story before. All other...
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    Is this Asus Z87 Pro an RMA Candidate?

    New System trouble from the get go. Unknown if it's me or the board. Presently have: Windows 8 64 bit Haswell 4670 Corsair 1866 2 x 8 dimm Asus Z87 Pro WD Blue 250 Gig 7200 new hard drive 2008 top of line (then) Seasonic 500W PD All connections are tight. The DVD player does work. SATA in...
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    Noobie stumped--New system problem.

    Yup--that seems to be the situation. Cerb posted a nice thread concerning installing the AHCI drivers, and--with my limited knowledge--it does seem XP supported drivers could be found EXCEPT--my XP indicates the Intel Ethernet hardware is incompatible with XP. That being the case--is XP...
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    Noobie stumped--New system problem.

    This is an office system. I have Windows 7 on my laptop. difficult to get used to. is it me or is there so much bloatware on Windows 7? XP is so straightforward and intuitive for my simple mind. Just read the Windows 8 reviews. my desire for snappy system will overcome the XP love shortly is...
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    Noobie stumped--New system problem.

    so i learned--regards trying to load drivers to XP off the flash drive. + Asus is without drivers to download for the XP. Once XP was installed was able to load some drivers off the MB CD although the primary message is that the CD fails to support XP and that the Intel ethernet hardware...
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    Noobie stumped--New system problem.

    Cerb--bingo--right on the money. Bios to legacy/HD config to Ide. the thing is working. heart palpitations. Personal speed record loading my XP disk. For office I really like the simplicity of XP--although wondering if part of balkiness of my old E8400 core duo system caused by XP...
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    Noobie stumped--New system problem.

    $30 refurbished Western Digital Blue on the way from New Egg. I'll post results. Two other HDs also failed though each might have problems. Txs. for response!
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    Noobie stumped--New system problem.

    Yes we are able to get into bios and navigate around bios. Problem seems to be other than connections although will go through check list provided--txs. for doing that!!! just noticed (on attempt to boot Asus CD) message: Mem Disc seems to have fractional end cylinder. thinking about the...
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    Noobie stumped--New system problem.

    Noob Q--although this is a mystery. New build powers up. Insert Asus Z87 pro start up CD into new Asus DVD player as boot drive. Fails to boot. Get a INT 13: 08 error which has something to do with a boot interruption. DOS appears. Insert Windows XP CD hoping to install windows. this CD...
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    How To Stop Email Hijack

    no troll. newbie type. this has been hanging around off and on for 1 year. business computer. so changes to password, email client, etc. very difficult without losing immense amts. of data that are on yahoo. txs for response. i'm reading all links when i have time. what is incompatible...
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    How To Stop Email Hijack

    the problem of the moment is more detecting or getting rid of the hijacker. using yahoo free email. I've disabled--forgot how I did it--any administrator pass words to log on to Windows XP. used same screen name and pass word for 7 years now. will read the links provided. txs. very much!
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    How To Stop Email Hijack

    Once a week my email contacts are hijacked and links sent to the recipients. i have microsoft essentials, spybot search and destroy, windows defender and malwarebytes anti malware and windows XP. ineffective to stop it. Only thing that works is deleting all contacts. any way to solve...
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    Looking for a new laptop - a few questions

    there are some utube vids showing laptop SSds in operation and visually comparing pop up times. substantial difference. if there's a budget, is it whether laptop use is recreational, in which case a 5400 rpm suffices for me, or as office desk top replacement. for latter SSD from what I'm...
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    Looking for a new laptop - a few questions

    very helpful! txs. some might appreciate this humor--tinkering around with Dell for past few days vacillating between spending $600 or $1500--decision then go cheap and de-emphasize my laptop use. I find a Vostro for $609.00 with I5-2410m, 4 GB memory, 7200 rpm hard drive 64 bit windows...
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    Looking for a new laptop - a few questions

    from what i see of the SSDs on Utube, this seems correct, at least with the I5s they are using. . on the ram issue, reverse the Q into: does it make sense topay $85 for 4GBs over 2GB that u could apply to an SSD. for a noob like me, what does 4gb ram get you if u use 32 bit windows, and what...
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    Looking for a new laptop - a few questions

    I'm roughly in same decision process at the moment with same money limits. am considering saving cash on memory. if you take 32 bit windows, do you need more than 2gb ram? anybody have a feel for that. Also wondering whether in note book a 5400 rpm HD might actually have some...
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    Is this the best laptop around for my $1200 budget?

    yup! u probably nailed it. other than the expert, but based on CP usage for our Core Duo E8400 desktop which tends to max out around 50% when we've got everything on including scanning, is it possible even the Sandybridge I-5 is overkill for non-gaming notebook? Still, idea of almost...
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    Is this the best laptop around for my $1200 budget?

    Following parts for Dell Latitude 6420 I-7 2720QM 250G 7200 rpm HD 4G DDR3 Ram $1172.00 I am wondering for non gaming, wireless broadband, whether the above or go an I-5 2410m and get an SSD for roughly same $1200.00
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    Thinkpad t420s available, but no i7 until April 19

    Dell compared to Levano--unknown that the difference in build quality is that large. is it? quality of internals, perhaps. are Levano's any more reliable, of greater quality than Dell. there is a price difference with equal parts. Dells are cheaper and fairly significantly. $2-300 less you...
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    Notebook Priorities: Non-Gaming/Wireless

    after testing our Core duo E8400 desk top machine seems our processor use at max varies between 25 and 50%. thinking that since I-5 2410m is 1/3 faster than E8400 according to this: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html that even I-5 sandybridge can handle with aplomb anything we...