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    Lag spikes during any use. At wits end. Please help.

    Check the event log. I had a laptop do this once and it was the trackpad drivers crashing and then restarting. Every 10-15 second the driver would crash and restart.
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    Laptop crashing in windows only.

    I use this and it works for me. http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/
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    Laptop crashing in windows only.

    It came with windows 10 preinstalled. I dislike windows 10, so I installed windows 7 on first boot. It had problems, so I reluctantly gave 10 a try again and when it too had problems I then went back to 7. I don't know if the original 10 install was stable or not. All installs were clean with...
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    Laptop crashing in windows only.

    No crash dumps to analyse. No surprise given the computer just powers off, giving no time to write to an error log or do a crash dump.
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    Laptop crashing in windows only.

    I have a new Lenovo Z70-80 laptop and am having problems in windows only. I have ruled out overheating by monitoring temps, and they are all normal. First the specs. Windows 7 64-bit home premium (activated and updated to sp1) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit Intel Core i7 5500U (dual core :-( )...
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    Problems installing win7 on a uefi system.

    cpu-z reports it as Broadwell-U PCH L-P GPT and has other benefits, like data recovery. A GPT drive can automatically detect and recover from corrupt partition and boot data where MBR can't. So in a production environment, GPT is the way to go.
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    Problems installing win7 on a uefi system.

    Sadly, same issue. UEFI will not see the disk, but compatibility mode does. So wasted effort. Thanks anyway, worth the try.
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    Problems installing win7 on a uefi system.

    Because MBR is outdated and GPT has many advantages besides drive size (2TB). If the worst happens, data recovery is simpler and more likely with a GPT drive over a MBR one. As this is a production computer that alone is all I need to justify needing GPT.
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    Problems installing win7 on a uefi system.

    Downloading now. Odd they only wanted part of my cd-key. But they accepted it.
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    Problems installing win7 on a uefi system.

    Mostly because they need better performance than you can get in emulation. If I was running an office program emulation would be fine, but I develop 3d games and like to have a real copy of windows to do testing on. Testing via emulation is never a good idea.
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    Problems installing win7 on a uefi system.

    Pre-sp1. I bought it mid 2006.
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    Problems installing win7 on a uefi system.

    I have been trying to install windows 7 (home prem) 64-bit on to my laptop for hours now and am at a loss. First my laptop is a Lenovo ideapad z70-80 with 16gb of ram an an 'i7' processor and a 1TB / 8gb hybrid HDD/SSD. It does support UEFI. My copy of windows 7 is a retail physical dvd...
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    Windows 10 black screen.

    It crashes the command prompt.
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    Windows 10 black screen.

    I've tried that. If you can't give helpful advice please don't reply. Saying google it is just being a troll.
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    Windows 10 black screen.

    I have however tried running it from the command prompt and nothing shows. Just the default drivers. I never was able to get a desktop with the upgrade. Honestly I would use my old pci s3 card, but it's vga only and my monitor is dvi. This box will never play games, only act as a file server...
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    Windows 10 black screen.

    It's part of the reason I am done with windows. I'll never build another windows box again. I use Linux Mint as my primary OS on nearly every other rig. Sure Linux has it's problems, but I can always get a shell and fix the issue. I went windows on this box mainly to run a dayz server (arma 2...
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    Windows 10 black screen.

    I have tried everything I can think of to get my server back and nothing works. It was running windows 8.1 pro x64 and I did the free upgrade to 10 pro x64. Now when I boot it looks fine, till I log in. After logging in, I am greeted with a black screen. I can't bring up task manager, I can't...
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    Lenovo thinkpad r400 boot problems.

    Fixed. It was a bad polyswitch on the docking connector of all places. F14.
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    Desktop CPU upgrades have now shifted to a 20 year cycle.

    I'm not sure about 20 years, we will have to wait that long and see if it's true. But My main rig is now 6 years old, and outside of adding ram, replacing the HDD with and SSD and getting a new graphics card, I can see having this computer another 5+ years. I also have a Core 2 Quad Q9550 which...
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    Upgrade my laptop

    Depends on your laptop. My thinkpad and dell can both take adapters in the ODD bay (I assume ODD is Optical Disk Drive). If yours can, get a fast, but small SSD and put that large HDD in the adapter for bulk storage. As for CPU useage, I really don't understand. I mainly use p4 mobile and core...
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    What is up with the dell latitudes..

    1366x768 is fine for daily use. My Toshiba run about at that. When I want more screen space, I jump to my thinkpad (1920 x 1200). You buy what fits your need. Dell does have quite a few latitudes with higher resolution displays. Just not many, if any, on the budget side.
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    Upgrade my laptop

    A SSD with make it load faster. I use a SSD In an old pentium 3 and find it's fine for many tasks. The CPU is likely fine and 4gb of ram is more than enough for day to day use, but may not be enough for some games or high end apps. Without detail of what you do it's kind of hard to give a...
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    Laptop recommendation: Windows 10 & SSD?

    If it's only going to be used for browsing the web and other light use, nearly any laptop will do. I still use p4 mobiles and core 2 duos for most of my basic web browsing and even for gaming (I still keep an old 1GHz Pentium 3 IBM desktop running and find it works fine for more than 90% of what...
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    Lenovo thinkpad r400 boot problems.

    Edit... Thanks for removing the post.
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    Lenovo thinkpad r400 boot problems.

    I bought a thinkpad r400 the other day as a project laptop. When bought the only problem I could see was a busted LCD. I brought it home and plugged it into an external monitor and it worked fine. I played around in Linux mint for a while, testing everything and everything worked as expected...
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    Looking to upgrade from a AMD HD 5770

    It's a modular psu but I misplaced the extra cables years ago. I forget the make, but do recall spending around $80. One plug has a dedicated 12v rail, the other is shared with the rest of the psu. I'll likely be going with the gtx 960 as it needs only 12 more watts than my current card. Seems...
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    Looking to upgrade from a AMD HD 5770

    I was considering the GTX 960. Thing is I did not really know what to expect. I ditched nvidia back in the geforce 4 days because of the number of bad chips I was having and the number of dead cards I had to return. Hopefully they have improved over the last ~12 years. I have stayed true to...
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    Looking to upgrade from a AMD HD 5770

    After 5 years of service, I feel it's time to retire my old trusty 5770. From looking around there are a lot of choices that are many times faster so this will likely give me a better bang for my buck than replacing the CPU / motherboard. Right now I have a Intel core i5 750 with 12gb of ram...
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    Upgrade suggestions?

    Yep. I switched to that when I upgraded the ram from 4gb to 8gb. That was on the old install this new install is only 64-bit, no 32-bit java even installed..
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    Upgrade suggestions?

    $800 is more than I paid for the whole system back in 2010, so a simple upgrade should not come close to that as I plan on recycling the case, psu, ram, hdd, dvd. I figured the mobo and cpu would likely be replaced, and the GPU at some point. Even at $200 for both the mobo and CPU would be $400...
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    Upgrade suggestions?

    I really did not want to list an amount as that could keep people from posting something close to what I could come up with (but over an amount I posted). I just don't want crazy $800+ suggestions.
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    Upgrade suggestions?

    My primary gaming rig is starting to show it's age and I just can't decide on an upgrade path. I built this about 4 years ago and only upgraded the ram from 4gb to the current 8gb. My current system specs. Intel Core I5-750 (2.66ghz true quad core) Gigabyte p55a-ud3 (socket 1156) (rev 1.0...
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    Default gateway not available?

    Interestingly the commands that worked seemed to fix the problem. Day 2 with no network problems. And yes, I did overlook the differences between the two commands. Easy to do with two similar commands. Thanks though, without that I would have never found that page.
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    Default gateway not available?

    OK, I tried the all out network nuke and had one issue. The "netsh int reset all" you originally asked me to run will not work. It simply says "the following command was not found: int reset all. I am running the command prompt as admin and I tried this multiple times to rule out a typo. I...
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    Default gateway not available?

    I'm at work now, but will try that when I get home tonight. Googleing your command I got this list of things to do to nuke your network settings. So I may give this a go too. Go to the Start Menu, type cmd and right click, and select "Run As Administrator" Type the following commands...
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    Default gateway not available?

    Ok, bit of an odd problem I hope someone here can suggest a fix. 2 days ago my primary gaming rig started having network issues. It will show a yellow triangle over the network icon in the system tray. I pull up the network and sharing center and it indicates the problem is between my...
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    Cirrus Logic driver needed!

    I have been looking for days for a driver for my old tablet pc. It is running a Cirrus Logic CL-GD6412-28QC-A graphics chip (or just GD6412). I have looked at Cirrus Logic's website and they do not have video drivers. I also checked the manufacturer of the tablet and they don't carry drivers at...
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    Windows 7 no internet access!!

    Just an update. I have done a fresh install of the smoothwall software as I was told my install was missing some key services. That fixed nothing :-( I have done full malware and virus scans, clean as a bell. I have run traceroutes from my working computers and they show no problems (as...
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    Windows 7 no internet access!!

    I can ping every device on my internal network, but nothing outside of it. (well, now with the netgear router in place I can ping outside, but I should not have to do that)
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    Windows 7 no internet access!!

    Now for something odd. I put a old netgear router between the win 7 box and the rest of the network and it works???? So amdskip may be correct about some compatibility issue, but why did the connection work for one hour and then gradually die? Also this setup is no good for me as I must have...