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Ram a memtest with both sticks in, one stick then the other in. All three report no issues. Changing the ram in slot 1 in slot 2 and vice versa resulted in to change. New thoughts/ideas?

No sleep mode here. Just lock the screen and turn the monitor off. The malware checks come back negative. Even after running Rkill and running everything in safe mode w/ networking. Even after rebooting (which I do at least twice a week) the RAM goes up to its new "normal". I'll get back after...

I have a Windows 7 SP1 PC with 8 GB RAM, a 500 GB SSD for the primary/disk0(C:) and a 1TB HDD for the secondary/disk1(E:). For the past few weeks I've noticed my RAM usage percentage go from 30-31% to 47-50%. The only changes have been updates to browsers, OS, and other software. Diagnostic...

Before trying EasyBCD I tried unplugging the drives and plugging them back in one at time.Lo and Behold! I have the DOS type screen that asks which OS do I want to boot. Both disks boot just dandy. Still scratching my head over this one. :}

hang-the-9: I successfully updated the Bios from A03 to A11, and changed the SATA operations configuration from the default AHCI to SATA. The machine still doesn't give me a boot option at start; It is still only recognizing the master (disk 0) as the only bootable drive. Any thoughts on where...

hang-the-9: When I boot the machine I get the Dell screen with the F2 and F12 options, then the screen goes black and I get the message that one of the disks wasn't found and that I need to push F1 to continue or F8? to run diagnostics. Hitting F1 allows whatever HDD is currently set as Disk 0...

I have two bootable HDDs in the Dell one is a 250 GB XP and the other is a 500 GB W7. Only one is recognized as bootable at start, the one in the master position. Doesn't matter which one is there it's the one that gets recognized. How do I get the machine to recognize both HDDs and ask which...

Have you checked if your firewall(software) is blocking any of the following: Windows Services (TCP), Windows Services (UDP), All other ICMP packets, or All other TCP/UDP connections? If they are blocked then change the rule to either allow by application rules or allow. Good Luck

RockyPlays: Yes. I have a very similar model, same manufacturer laptop as my client. I have never seen this happen before. Even my desktop keyboard has the number lock on; no issues there either. Both machines register the number pushed no matter which way I enter it; the number pad or the upper...

Has anyone heard of the number key on the keyboard not registering when typing a password, but the same digit on the number pad registers ie: Th1s the one was entered from the number pad but when using the same digit on the top of the keyboard it types in but isn't recognized. Thanks

The flash belongs to a client who claims that it started after they wiped some obsolete info. I'll have to check to see if they want to trash it. My impression was they wanted to keep it