Recent content by Chaitanya Anand

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    Question Need advice to upgrade my laptops' BIOS AND vBIOS

    SSD currently used 123GB out of 237GB approx 50% space. RAM normal usage currently 5.5 GB (cries) out of 7.4 GB (total shows less than 8GB idk why) but CPU usage normal was 2-4% only just with music, solitaire, browser casual usage. CPU normal temp: 44-48 C GPU normal temp: 43-45 C those normal...
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    Question Need advice to upgrade my laptops' BIOS AND vBIOS

    I'm thinking of updating my BIOS and vBIOS from the official acer website to improve performance but I've heard it could potentially brick my hardware that I can't afford. I'm having issues like after opening a folder upon fresh boot, the icons takes 4-5 seconds to load even with an SSD and I...
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    System not booting, No display, front disk reader light linking blinking at constant rate PLEASE HELP

    But wait, there might be another possibility too I doubt. The motherboard is giving power, the fans are working in the cabinet. That repairer guy inserted a voltage checking card in the last PCI slot, and told it was optimal. Couldn't that mean the processor is having a fault?
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    System not booting, No display, front disk reader light linking blinking at constant rate PLEASE HELP

    Its been weeks since my computer died. Symptoms: 1. System not booting at all. 2. No display. 3. Front disk reader LED light keeps blinking per second once. I took it to a nearby repairshop, the guy checked the RAM slots with his own RAM sticks, even those didn't work which were newly bought...
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    Keyboard remains powered after shutdown

    Sorry I didn't mention specs earlier. Here: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Motherboard Corsair VS550 PSU Compaq PR1101 keyboard (not sure of that code 'cause that is what I see at the back of my keyboard) Tell If you want to know anything else. And I know its powered because the numlock light is on...
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    Keyboard remains powered after shutdown

    I went thought a couple older posts regarding this but they were of USB connector keyboards. My keyboard is an old PS/2 Keyboard and I don't know where it can be fixed in the BIOS (If possible)
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    Compatibility doubt regarding processor and motherboard. Help!

    Thanks. Could you please suggest another DDR3 motherboard, if possible?
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    Compatibility doubt regarding processor and motherboard. Help!

    I have a Pentium D 925 3.0 Ghz Processor. I am considering to buy the Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Motherboard. The question is that, will that motherboard run my old processor? Secondly, If yes, can I put an 8GB DDR3 @1600 Mhz RAM to it? Thanks in advance.
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    Need to upgrade.....please advise!

    If that is so, thanks for your advice. I know that's too unfortunate but that's the bitter truth....
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    Need to upgrade.....please advise!

    nope, I only have a budget for a processor upgrade.... that's what I'm all about...
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    Need to upgrade.....please advise!

    This is a home desktop usually for home use(i.e. Online surfing, movies, songs, photos, work, etc.). Moreover I'm a decent gamer as I have bought the Nvidia Graphic Card recently online almost two months ago for purpose... Yeah, this was a prebuilt Compaq Desktop I bought maybe in 2007. I...