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I have aquired an HP Z1 workstation All In One with 27 inch display by LG. The left side is dim. I can see there are 2 sets of wires, going to each end of the edge lit led backlight, and left half is not lit. I can measure 36 volts on most of the wires going to the lit side, and zero volts on...

I have a hp-15-ac100-notebook-pc-series-touch that is a cheap notebook with a celeron processor and an aluminum plate on the chip that goes over to the vents on the side. There is no fan. It has worked like this for about 4 .years, and this week starts telling me there is a system fan problem...

Thank you for the hint. Xmp made the other settings crank up.

The DDR4 is labeled 1.35 volts on it and in bios list, but the voltage of the MSI board is 1.2 and set to Auto. Is this starving the memory? Not my computer, just helping someone. The overall settings seem baseline, not overclocked at all.

I see many defective hard drives on ebay for a couple bucks and some for 50 to 100 dollars or more. Why are some worth so much more?

I was trying to run an ssd. With or without optane. On my second day of research I found a thread that this model don't like new ssd. so trade in to spinning platters. I guess that is the end of the question

replace the spinning hard drive. it was going bad. The new ssd locks up the computer at the beginning.

I am working on an acer switch sf315 52 with failing hard drive, and the new Samsung SSD prevents the computer from doing anything. Stuck at the acer logo. I have tried different settings like turning off "RST + Optane". The drive works in other computers and other spinning hard drives work...

I am working on a ECS A780GM-M3 motherboard and it's DEL for bios and F11 for boot selection, but sometimes it just ignores keystrokes and goes through to boot first drive. I have turned off fast boot so there is plenty of time staring at the Press DEL screen and tried PS2 and USB keyboards...

I try to compare the things I sell to eBay sold listings and it appears my Dell D620 laptop sells for more money with XP Pro and less for 7 or 10. Is XP still that desireable to fetch premium price? I'm not getting any response with win10 locally.

My search of the question brings up ancient replies referring to single or dual bank addressing irregardless of number of chips, but I have a collection of 1 GB ddr2 5300 with a small handful of ram with chips on one side. Are these better or worse, is there a preferred purpose for these?

I am repairing a friend's Optiplex 390 the hard drive did not boot. Pc Check of the entire computer came back good, and I fixed the hard drive with the system repair disk, and it works, But the orange light is on. I have swapped memory and power and re-seated everything and cmos battery is 3.1...

I tried a few different brands of drives and as noted, several different plugs both sata and ide and gave up. What confounds me is that the computer reboots a couple times during install as usual, but after final settings, it dead ends to a single blinking cursor. Since then I used most of the...

I aquired an ECS motherboard RS780M-M3 version 1 with an AMD athalon II, it won't boot from the hard drive. I have installed a few different drives both IDE and SATA as AHCI and IDE. It will install windows7 and it will do it's usual re-booting during setup and continue to where I put in the...