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    Do you want to change the color scheme to improve performance

    Built new PC I7 6800K Samsung 8550 EVO drive 32 gig DDR4 ram Video card is older but Geforce GT 730. motherboard MSI x99a carbon pro. Win 7 64 bit Pro. System is running great BUT then after a while I get this message box pop up saying "Do you want to change the color scheme to improve...
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    Which board for 6800K CPU

    Going crazy looking at reviews of motherboards. Main concern is the bios. It appears a lot of boards have old bios and wont post if you put a 6800K CPU into it , so you cant update bios and either need to change the bios chip or send board to get it update . I DONT WANT that happening. I will be...
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    Win 7 32bit wont come out of sleep

    Ok I have a desktop win 7 32 bit using Asrock H97 Fatality motherboard dual core 3.2 cpu 2 gig ram. I use this system to run a home made DVR running Sage TV software. It was coming out of sleep no problem but then all of a sudden it wont come out of sleep anymore. It starts up fans running but...
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    Computer Freezing

    I have Win 7 64 bit PC getting kind of old. I built it a while ago then upgraded about 2 years ago. First gen quad core Q6600 8 gig ram. C drive is Intel SSD 160 gig plus I have another SSD 80 gig and 3 mechanical drives, 500 gig 640 gig and 2 terabyte drive. About 2 years ago I upgraded mother...
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    Win 7 How to see whats installed??

    Iam trying to figure out which EXACT video card I have installed with out opening up the case and pulling the video card out and looking for some kind of sticker or print on the actual card. I already tried Device Manager but all it says is what SERIES of card it is NOT the EXACT model it is...
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    Transfer Outlook inbox to new pc

    Iam doing this for my brother, I don't use Outlook so have no real experience with it. He has a HUGE inbox, email from 2009 for his business. Needs to transfer his inbox and also his sent box. Its a verizon pop3 email connection. This is Outlook from the Office 2003. NOT outlook Express. I...
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    Free software to tranfer win7 to new drive

    Ok I got a new 180gig intel SSD drive. I also have the 80 gig intel SSD for a while now. Its almost full. I want to transfer win 7 home premium 64 bit to new 180 and make that the new boot drive. I initially downloaded the free trial of Acronis software only to find out this feature is disabled...
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    LGA 1155 cpu and video

    Building a system for brother. Havent built a system for a while. My system is old Quad core Q6600. It appears the video is built into the CPU chip itself on LGS 1155 cpu's. ? The motherboard iam thinking about has no video chip but it has a sub D connector so iam guessing no video card is...
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    splwow64.exe casuing lockups?

    System is Windows 7 home premium 64 bit. Pentium Q6600 4 gig ram C drive is SSD intel 80 gig. Having temporary "notresponding" hangs when i try to print from either Word or Photoshop or Qimage programs. I ran resource monitor and it shows the program "not responding" for a while. It locks...
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    PC shuts off if case is closed

    Have a PC Win XP pro 32 bit i put together for a DVR. Its a P4 3.0 with a Asrock 4CoreDual motherboard, 1 gig of ram (2 sticks of 512) PNY Geforce 6200 AGP vid card. Has 2 hard drives in it. A 120 gig western Digital serial and a 500 gig western digital serial drive. A lighton DVD drive. 120 gig...
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    Win 7,, Access is denied ??????

    I want to look at my" documents and setting" folder but windows pops up a message ACCESS IS DENIED I cant figure out how to turn this off. I rebuilt PC and have all my favorates for internet explorer saved to a file and i want to copy and paste those into my favortes folder which i believe is in...
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    AHCI setting in bios

    I asked this over on motherboard forum but thought it might be better asked here since its about SSD drive. Iam rebuilding my system using a Q6600 cpu on a Asus P5Q SE Plus motherboard its a intel P45 chipset. It supports AHCI. I want to use AHCI because i also bought a Intel X25-M (80 gig)...
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    Rebuilding system AHCI setting

    Iam rebuilding my system using a Q6600 cpu on a Asus P5Q SE Plus motherboard its a intel P45 chipset. It supports AHCI. I want to use AHCI because i also bought a Intel X25-M (80 gig) solid state drive, installing Win 7 64 bit. The SSD drive will be the C drive with OS and programs installed on...
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    How to determine if it has AHCI

    Looking to replace old motherboard. I have a Q6600 cpu socket 775. I want to use a solid state drive with Win 7 so i want a motherboard that supports AHCI but i dont have a clue on how to tell if a motherbord supports AHCI. If i go to say newegg it doesnt have a search criteria for AHCI but...
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    Anyone do an Intel X25-M & win 7

    Anyone do a new solid state drive Intel X25-M and windows 7. Making the 80 gig Intel X25-M the C drive and put aplications on the C drive. I think i have a failing motherboard which i have a Q6600 cpu. Thinking of a new motherboard with the Intel X25-M as C drive and trying out win 7. Iam a...
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    Have to hit F1 key for it to boot up

    System is a windows XP pro has Q6600 cpu motherboard is a MSI P6N SLI Plantinum have 4 gig ram,video card is MSI Geforce NX8600 GT 256 ram. All of a sudden it stops during the boot and says Hit F1 key to continue nothing else. I hit F1 key and it boots but this is not ever done this before...
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    Is this a prescott cpu

    Trying to figure out what possable motherboard I can use for this processor but iam not sure what this is exactly. Its a Pentium 4 at 3.0 it has 1 meg of cache ram and is 90nm and is model 530. Oh its sockett 775 So from what i wrote above is that a prescott cpu? When i go to newegg to...
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    Changing motherboard will windows cope well??

    Right now i have a quad core Q6600 on a MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI motherboard which is bad. Wont boot or post. Had power supply checked and its fine. Having a hard time finding the same motherboard at least at a reasonable price. So if i changed the motherboard to...
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    Is it worth upgrading from...

    Hi all, i havent much followed what the latest and greates hardware is and was hoping for a sugestion. Right now i have a Pentium 4 3.0 800 FSB version. Has 1 gig or ram relativly new Maxtor 300 gig 7200 rpm 16 meg cache . serial hard drive plus 3 other hard drives , running win XP pro. Was...
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    Advice needed

    I have 3 computers which am planning on connecting to a router for both internet connectio via cable modem and to network the 3 computers. All running win XP home edition. I know how to get them all connected to internet through router but not sure how to network them through the router? First...
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    Overclocking & Pentium 4's?????

    Hi all, i have right now an old system a Pentium 550E overclocked to 800 and am looking to build a new system but am confused by the new tech stuff. I will be getting a Asus P4P800E motherboard but am confused about multiplers and bus speeds. I want to use a P4 2.6C 800fsb and get it to at least...
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    Overclocking & Pentium 4's?????

    Hi all, i have right now an old system a Pentium 550E overclocked to 800 and am looking to build a new system but am confused by the new tech stuff. I will be getting a Asus P4P800E motherboard but am confused about multiplers and bus speeds. I want to use a P4 2.6C 800fsb and get it to at least...
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    Need advice on building a new system

    Hello all, i havent been in this forum for quite a while and havent followed the latest hardware that is out now so am kinda uninformed at this point in time. Anyway, right now am running a Pentium 3 550e overclocked to 803, 256 ram,Voodoo 5500 agp, sevaral hard drives (newest 120 gig Western...