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I build my computer before 2 days , i don't have any app , and i see 90% of my ram is being used how is it even possible?

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Is it easy or worth it to Refurbish a Laptop Hard Drive?

I have a few laptop hard drives that are just sitting around. They all had issues at some point or another where they started to act up. Most of them started reporting I/O errors when copying data,...

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Using an Old Hard Drive in a a New System

I am going to try using an old hard drive with WIN 10 on it with a new motherboard-the exact same motherboard as previous.

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CrystalDisk Reporting Hard Drive Health As 'Caution'

I have several storage devices: 1 ssd (primary), and two hhds. Last night when I turned on my computer, Windows 10 was unable to detect one of my hhds. I turned off my machine. This morning, I opened...

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I'm having some issues with a new RAM stick

I recently bought a new 8Gb ddr3 SO-DIMM ram stick to replace my 2Gb Ram stick, my laptop ships with 6Gbs of memory intalled, a 2Gb stick and a 4Gb stick, it is advertized as upgradeable, I changed the...

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Dell Dimension E521 Bios/Hardware Question

hello, woke up this morning to pc not booting went into bios and all drives say not present. re seated all cabling on hard drive and dvdrw . still nothing shows up. all stating not present. i have...

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a couple of concerns about my internal hard drives

I've got a couple of internal hard drives (3.5 HDD 7200 mostly) which were bought a few years ago and none of them have any backup solutions. However, none of them contains any very important...

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Did my SSD seriously just die?

I have (or maybe had) an 120GB OCZ Vertex3 in my hotswap canister. All of a sudden this morning it just disappeared off of the My Computer list, and it isn't showing up in disk management at all...

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Another, more serious, drive problem.

Not related to my SSD issue... I can't make a backup! I tried to run backup tonight and this keeps happening: View attachment 7495 I do nightly backups just in case my PC finally grenades itself so I...

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Partition missing, not a hardware problem

Good morning computerforum The issue that I'm getting was that one of my partition was for some reason not detected by windows. I knew that adding or assigning a new letter would help, but it said...

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Will doubling up on Ram help game performance

Even a little bit? I appreciate that my system is getting on now.. Gigabyte X58A-UD3R i7 920 (DO) @3.8GHz 8GB HyperX FURY MSI GTX 970 XFX PRO 750 Modular Noctua NH-D14 1920x1200 Monitor The majority of...

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How do I switch things from downloading from a SDD to HDD?

Hi so I've searched a decent length and I just can't find a solution yet. I've changed where stuff should download in the Settings App and I've also done it in the in the browser settings. Even though...

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Hard disk problem

Hi, my computer started showing me this error recently, can someone help me understand what is that and how do i solve it?

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Ram Help...

I am thinking about updating my ram. http://pcpartpicker.com/list/CbpCLD I can't decide which Ram to get. Besides the slight bump of speed is it worth the extra $27 to get the faster ram? I do game but...

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The "L" in DDRL

What's the "L" for in DDRL?

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I can Copy files from the desktop to HD but can't do it vise versa?

I can Copy files from my desktop computer to external HD Seagate Expansion 1.5 TB, but can not Copy from HD to the desktop?

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DDR4

I've seen here that DDR4 is coming out soon? When? Who decides these things? Who designs the faster memory?

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Compaq CQ58 261SA RAM upgrade advice?!

So I have a Compaq CQ58 261SA which currently has the memory it came with, 4GB. I want to upgrade to 8GB of ram, but want to be sure what the exact type is that I need to buy for my specific laptop....

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Unsure of which power cables I should use for an Intel SSD internal drive

So I bought an Intel 540 series. I also have a Seagate 2TB HDD. The Seagate has used the P8 ribbon. The next closest power cable is the P7, can I use this for the SSD drive? I don't want to fry the...

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The Proper Way To Backup Windows 10 When It Goes Kaput

Go easy on me here guys. I thought I'd get with the times and update to Windows 10 from a relatively stable Windows 7. It seemed great until things spiraled into chaos and finally ended with a blank...

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