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I recently replaced my laptop's HDD with a 128Gb Samsung 840 Pro. The laptop is a Toshiba Portege r835-p56x. I've installed all of the drivers, Windows 7 is fully updated. The CPU is running much hotter than it ever did before, and at times when it isn't under a lot of stress. Here are a few...

My mother's computer, a Compaq cq5110f, has been having a problem with waking from sleep mode. It started after I installed some windows updates, and installed Avast free edition. I'll put the computer to sleep, and I'll be able to wake it up if I try soon after sleeping it. If I wait a little...

I have a problem, and I'm wondering how I'd fix it. My router only allows 10 ports to be forwarded, and I require more than that for the games that I play. How unsafe would it be to open DMZ to my computer, so that I could allow the ports through Windows Firewall, and block everything else? Or...

Recently, I upgraded some of my hardware, the parts are listed here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/327286-30-upgrading-intel-board . I did a clean install of Windows 7, but recently I've been having a problem when leaving my computer 30 mins or so. I get back, and on the screen there's a...

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So the installation went fine, it goes into BIOS and recognizes my cpu and RAM, but as expected it won't load into windows. Startup Repair says it's not able to fix anything. I tried reverting back to a restore point, which I didn't expect to work as I still had the old hardware then, and now...

Alright thanks, I just made a repair disk. I'll probably do a clean install sometime in the future, I just don't have the best internet right now, yet I have a lot of games and stuff.

Hey, so tomorrow I'll be upgrading my current motherboard, cpu, and ram, from an AMD board to an Intel board. I'm wondering what preparation I should do beforehand, so that I wont get a BSOD on startup. I'd like to be able to do it without having to reinstall Windows 7. I was reading...