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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.

    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.

    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.

    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

    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?

    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?

    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!!

    For some odd reason my windows 7 box no longer connects to the internet. It was working just fine then just stopped working about 3 hours ago. I know it is a problem with the system itself as I have a p4 ubuntu box on the same hub and it is working just fine. I have swapped the cat5 cables...
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    Lost partition!

    I have 2 hard drives that have lost their partitions (just one large partition covering the entire drive (320 and 500gb). Both were working just fine with windows xp and I unplugged them to install ubuntu on another drive(sata, and the system was off while swapping) as these are my data drives...