Recent content by iridium117

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    [SOLVED] After computer goes to sleep, refuses to respond.

    So basically my computer has been having this issue where I'll let it go to sleep, but it won't respond to waking up afterwards. Here's what happens: I'll walk away and go to bed or work etc. I'll come back and it appears the computer is still running (i.e. running fans, HDD light occasionally...
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    GPU refuses to return to idle

    So I did exactly as you said Mysticking32, even put new thermal paste on, and made sure Windows Update was turned off....to no avail. This is becoming increasingly frustrating. After typing the update below I thought about trying to update the driver for my APU, see if that makes a difference...
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    GPU refuses to return to idle

    So a short while back I had decided to try using three screens. To do so I had to force the onboard graphics to run so I could connect my third screen. I'll put a link to that post for details below. Shortly thereafter I noticed my graphics card just didn't like the idea, plus I soon found out...
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    Third display detected by windows, but screen left in standby mode

    Okay so....I found out a solution to my own problem. I feel awkward for answering my own question, but if it helps someone in the future who reads this, then that's fine by me. So apparently I just needed to unplug the third screen for a few minutes to let all the capacitors run out, and plug...
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    Third display detected by windows, but screen left in standby mode

    Okay so I managed to get a third screen and I wanted to hook it up. At first I was having an issue with the fact that my last port on my graphics card (XFX AMD Radeon R7 250) is a DVI-D and the screen is a VGA. Obviously my problem was digital to analog. Well after some research I found out that...
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    I Defraged my SSD, now it's unusable

    I got myself a 40GB Kingston SSD and installed Windows 7. Everything went great until I accidentally hit "Defrag and Optimize" on my Auslogics Defrag tool. I got blue screen, and wouldn't reboot ever again. So I partitioned my 2TB and reinstalled on there. When I went to diagnose what happened...