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Removing External HD From Case

I plan to buy a 4 TB external hd, which, if possible, I would like to eventually remove from its casing and put into an external multiple hd bay which I'll purchase in future. I'm looking at the...

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Dell S2340T with Surface 3

I have a new Dell S2340T touchscreen monitor and a Surface 3 (love it). If I connect the two via a DisplayPort cable I can mirror the S3 screen readily. However the touchscreen capability isn't...

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Can anyone recommend a pcie card (compatable with Win 8.1) with at least two...

Hi, I've just built a new system with Asus Z97-pro mobo and intel 3770K processor but I need more sata III ports, I've ordered quite a few pcie cards but everytime the driver will not install on...

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Clicking noise from new Toshiba Satellite laptop?

I have a Toshiba Satellite C55-A (Windows 7 Home Premium). It was bought brand new around 3 weeks ago. I've noticed that, besides the fan noise, the bottom of the laptop makes a clicking or buzzing...

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1 long beep 3 short

So I just put a new samsung ssd in my computer and it worked fine. Then it restarted and then had 1 long beep and 3 short on startup and my moniter stays blank. I hardly know anything about computers...

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Laptop wont turn on

My laptop will not turn on. Its a hp 2000 with windows 8. The white charger light flashes when charger is in, but nothing happend when I hit the power button. No fan, no sound....nothing. If I take...

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Can't use 3rd RAM slot?

Hello. I was putting another hard drive in my computer, when I noticed that there is a third slot for RAM which is empty. The other two slots each have a 512mb stick. When I try to boot with an...

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cut and Paste

I am currently using a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. Recently when I try to highlight a number of words, sentences it is almost impossible to do. highlighting jumps all of the place. Is this a...

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monitor

i got a monitor shows it has power and is connected but no picture my pc registers its there and the power button remains green but i cant get image to show..... any ideas how to fix that?

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R5 230 not detecting second monitor

Hi guys I just replaced my old NVidia graphics card with an AMD R5 230 and am having an issue. When I connect the second monitor to the DVI port using the VGA converter the card does not pick it up....

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HP C6180 printer has become a big doorstop

I am running Vista on a Dell XLS computer. The HPC6180 worked fine . . . until I received a request from HP to upgrade drivers. Then nothing worked. I had to re-install the original software and things...

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HDD repalcement in Raid 1

I'm trying to replace and rebuild a failed hdd in raid 1 config on a Dell Precision 670 Workstation with Win XP 32. I get to the bios screen that asks what option you want to use. This is the original...

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Solved: HDD bricked

My WD 250GB HDD just bricked on me. I'm not sure whether or not if it was a virus or if the HDD was faulty. I was running windows 8 and all of the sudden everything started to run slow. I restarted it...

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Formatted External hard drive

I'm not quite sure how but whilst I was formatting a usb stick with linux my external hard drive also seems to have been formatted at the same time. My computer doesn't even recognise it now as...

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Laptop problem

hie!..this is my problem....my kaptop charge was 20% and i turned it off and when i reached home and tried to charge it,the charger turned off.I couldnt turn on my laptop and theres a burning smeel in...

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Laptop as dead as a dodo

After getting some brilliant help with my desktop PC (thanks Mark1956) I thought I would try to raise my laptop from the dead. It died two years ago, probably malware related, and has been gathering...

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cant install windows 7

Ok i have an think pad lenova x201i laptop/tablet and i had to replace my hdd (dont ask why) as well as the recovery disc from my oem (lenovo) AND an eternal disc drive but for some reason it hasn't...

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Disappointing temperatures

Hey guys, This is my PC spec: Case- CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 600T WHITE MID-TOWER CASE Processor (CPU)- Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor Extreme i7-4960X (3.6GHz) 15MB Cache Motherboard- ASUS® RAMPAGE...

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Tv not displaying anything.

My computer is connected to an LCD TV via an hdmi cable. Last night I moved my computer upstairs along with my TV. I plugged the hdmi into both ends, turned on the TV first as instructed by the manual...

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Headphones make static sound

So I bought these headphones a couple of months ago and there has always been a static noise in them. It's not as easy to hear when I have a game going on in the backround or music, but you can...

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