Recent content by JohnD77

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    What does boot override in the BIOS actually do?

    In the boot section of my BIOS there is something called "boot override" and under that are all my bootable devices. Every time I select any of them, I see the computer sort of trying to boot from whichever option I choose and then go back to the BIOS where I left off. I don't understand what...
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    Can a heavily modded Skyrim cause a blue screen of death?

    And btw a friend of mine who works at geek squad ran a full system stress test thats built into some software they use at the store and it passed everything. And theres no specific time that the bluescreen occurs, it can be a few minutes after opening the game or a few hours.
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    Can a heavily modded Skyrim cause a blue screen of death?

    This is what I get in bluescreenview: Dump File: 060414-4578-01.dmp Bug Check Code: 0x00000124 Parameter 1: 00000000`00000000 Parameter 2: ffffe001`a61e7028 Parameter 3: 00000000`bf800000 Parameter 4: 00000000`00000124 Caused By Driver: hal.dll Caused By Address: hal.dll+37203...
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    Can a heavily modded Skyrim cause a blue screen of death?

    More specifically, can a heavily modded Skyrim cause a hardware failure BSOD. I've gotten already 10 bluescreens caused by the same thing, each dump file says the same thing and somewhere it says it's a hardware failure and it only happens when I'm playing Skyrim, which I have heavily modded. I...
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    What's this sound coming from my PC?

    I bought everything new in december, the only thing that came deffective was the RAM and I already got the working replacement. I've ran various diagnostics on all of my hardware and everything seems to be working fine. My PC works without problems but that noise appears every few days, I rarely...
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    Can a driver conflict cause hardware damage?

    Sorry I didn't give enough information....I built a desktop PC and put my laptops HDD in it without changing anything (did it till my SSD arrived)....so will normal use like playing videogames, running stress tests or benchmarks etc. cause any hardware damage if the drivers from the laptop...
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    Can a driver conflict cause hardware damage?

    Can putting a HDD on a different computer and booting Windows from it without doing a fresh install cause hardware damage since the drivers from the old computer are still there?
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    I'm having problems with my screen resolution

    I installed the drivers for my GTX 780 with GeForce Experience, which downloads the latest driver for it, and the resolution says that its 1920x1080 but everything is really big like if the resolution was low. So when I go into device manager and disable the video card everything looks normal...
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    Why does my resolution say 1920x1080 when its clearly not?

    I recently made a clean Windows 8.1 installation on my Samsung 840 Pro SSD and I installed the drivers for my EVGA GTX 780, I installed them from the disc, I installed them from NVIDIA's website as well and my icons and windows are still really big, my resolution is low but when I check the...
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    Can I open a Skyrim save file in a different Skyrim installation

    I know I can do what I said in the title, but Im switching from a very slightly modded Skyrim installation to a highly modded installation, all types of mods. So since the save file is from a game that didnt really have that many mods, will it cause me any problems if I continue that saved game...