Recent content by Jasher_Fisson

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    On board optical sound won't work

    I am trying to get my new speakers to play sound from my PC through the optical port (its TOSlink is how its called i think). I have updated my driver and tried changing the playback device to make sure that wasn't the issue. I know from testing the speakers work, and my usb based headphones...
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    PC is acting weird and smells?

    Thanks for the replies guys.
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    PC is acting weird and smells?

    I walked away from my pc while I had a game up for a few minutes, came back and notice my screen off but it refused to come back on. Then while I was trying to figure out what might have caused this, I noticed a smell of something burning, unplugged my pc and was ready with an extinguisher for...
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    Need advice on the best way to perform a clean install for windows 8.1

    thanks, for now i will probably have to do a lot more prep work to make it go smoother, i might come back here to ask a question again within the next few weeks
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    Need advice on the best way to perform a clean install for windows 8.1

    wow, I am gonna need quite a bit of prep work then. So once the new OS is installed, what is the best way to check to make sure that it didn't get corrupted again (or missing files)?
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    Need advice on the best way to perform a clean install for windows 8.1

    I had been having small issues with my OS since i installed it, but it was mostly related to the way apps would function, and i never really worrried about it, but the problem has been getting worse. Occasionally my computer would freeze up temporarily at times, and now it has started having...
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    Odd system freezes at start up

    Hey guys, sorry its been a while, the problem suddenly stopped all together and now it hasn't happened again, i guess some things just needed to be broken in. Also, my psu is a corsair AXi 860, brand new so that shouldn't have been causing any problems.