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    Question System always boots from HDD instead of SSD ?

    Hi folks, I have a HP laptop that had a 128gb SSD msata, this was the boot drive. There is also a second HDD of 1tb sata. I have upgrade the SSD to 540gb and cloned it from the 128gb SSD using Easeus. Every time I try to boot from the new SSD when the existing 1tb HDD is installed, it fails to...
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    Can i upgrade laptop CPU

    HI, i have the HP ENVY TouchSmart 15-j184na Notebook PC and would like to know if its possible to upgrade the laptop from i5 to i7, the CPU is removable, not soldered in, maybe the motherboard/BIOS cannot handle the i7, how about a more powerful i5, if so which please?
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    Windows 8.1 and BSoD

    I think we may have found it, since rebooting after running that driver verifier, the lappy wouldnt start due to BSoD, started in safe mode and ran the program again and it found this On Sun 30/11/2014 17:52:41 GMT your computer crashed crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp This was probably...
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    Windows 8.1 and BSoD

    Hi, thanks for the reply, ran both mem and chkdsk and no errors, done the verifier, just need to reboot i think I have clicked the link but there are numerous files, is it this one please? WhoCrashed 5.02 I took it as the above file and have ran it and its come up with these.... Crash Dump...
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    Windows 8.1 and BSoD

    Hi folks I have done a fresh install with some software too and something is causing a BSoD and i cannot figure out what it is, it can also happen at any time, i.e. just going on to a web page can trigger it... What info do you need please?