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    Question Monitor stopped extending and is stuck duplicating

    Yeah thanks for the reply but I'm just dumb and my drivers broke, had to reinstall and factory reset but it's all good now
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    Question Monitor stopped extending and is stuck duplicating

    TLDR: My two monitors are stuck in duplicate mode. The weird thing is that in display settings is says it can't detect either of the monitors and in the device manager it just says I have one generic PnP monitor hooked up. I have 2 monitors and I normally have them in the extend mode. Today I...
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    Widows 7 won't Update

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    Widows 7 won't Update

    No the problem is that those standalone windows updates won't install. They just say searching for Windows updates and never finish.
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    Widows 7 won't Update

    Some thing got corrupted in my hard drive and after I found no solution i decided to get a new hard drive and re-install everything. I used the same disk for windows 7 as I had used on my old hard drive and it downloaded windows with no problem. Now the issue is that when I try to update windows...
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    Is the FX-9370 compatible?

    I am planning on upgrading my PC and the FX-9370 seems to be the most powerful AMD CPU that I can find. I need to know if it is compatible with my mother board, the GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3P. The socket is the same but I've heard that many motherboards aren't compatible. If not I will go with the...
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    Which GPU is better? R9 280

    I am in the market for a new graphics card and I think I might go with the XFX RX 280 but there are quite a few different versions. Option #1: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814150774 Option #2...
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    100% hard drive usage and disk error won't repair

    My computer will sometimes seize up and in the task manager it says the disk usage is at 100% but nothing is using any disk usage according to it. This will come and go for seemingly no reason. Also when I restart my PC one of 3 things will happen. It will either restart normally, it will say...
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    Do I need a bios update?

    I was wondering if I would need to update the bios for the Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P if I used the AMD FX 6300
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    How Many Fans Can it Support

    I'm thinking of building my first PC and I've done a considerable amount of research and the only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how many fans can my motherboard support? It is a Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard (...
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    Motherboards and RAM Types

    I want to build my first PC but after taking a closer look at the motherboard I'm looking to get I see that it says the memory type is DDR3-1066 / 1333 but the RAM says it's DDR3-1600. Is the motherboard not compatible with the RAM?
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    Windows 7/8 DVDs and Downloads

    I bought a laptop that had 2 Operating System DVDs, one was Windows 7 the other was 8, that came with it, Windows 7 was already installed on the laptop. I am now planning on building a PC and I was wondering if these would work. They say "For Use With a Licensed HP or Compaq PC". These also...
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    Looking for a Cheap School/Gaming Laptop

    First http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.MCTAA.005 Second http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.MK9AA.004 Third http://www.microcenter.com/product/427856/ProBook_450_G1_156_Laptop_Computer_-_Black