Recent content by Maddo_Scientist

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    RAM Speed halved?

    According to Crucial's website, my RAM should be 1600MHz, but is instead running at 800MHz according to CPU-Z. Image of Crucial's description for one module (I have two of these): http://i.imgur.com/xYYwXET.png Image of CPU-Z: http://i.imgur.com/B7TYer2.png I know that since I have 2 modules...
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    Random Blue screens and game crashes

    Even after reinstalling Windows, running 16 passes in Memtest, updating every single driver I could think of, using DDU on my graphics card drivers, reseating my RAM-modules, fixing airflow, checking temperatures, updating BIOS, I'm still getting random blue screens. Please make sense of what...
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    Taskbar window previews not showing up?

    In the taskbar in the bottom of the screen with all your open applications, when having multiple tabs of the same program, instead of showing the small preview windows, it instead only shows it as a list Examples: One tab - Shows window preview https://puu.sh/u7fNc/6e83fecc85.png Multiple tabs...
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    Computer turns on after turning it off

    It only happens once, so after it restarts once I can turn it off for real. I don't know what's causing this. I downgraded my drivers by downloading the latest versions from my PC manufacturer website since I had previously updated with a driver updater tool, which caused my start-ups and...
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    Does using the SATA cable from my CD/DVD reader for my SSD cause any problems?

    Sorry for asking such a pointless question but I can't find the answer anywhere and I'm getting some blue screens and other crashes and I'm just guessing the issue at this point so I might as well ask.
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    Need help identifying crash cause

    I'm getting blue screens at very random intervals, sometimes several in the span of a few days sometimes several in a single day, I don't know the cause. Happens in many different games, but I remember Hearthstone, Rainbow Six: Siege and Battlefield 1, I think it has happened while browsing in...
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    Which BIOS should I update?

    I have the prebuilt computer ASUS G10AC and I want to upgrade my BIOS, because I'm having memory issues and memtest came back fine. In CPU-Z it says "Model: G10AC" and there are BIOS updates for G10AC, but there are also BIOS updates for the actual motherboard H87M-Pro which is the one in the...
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    Getting a bunch of BSODs

    When playing BF1 I'm BSODing a lot, and it's a different error code almost every time. Here's a few I remember DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA KMODE EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED CRITICAL STRUCTURE CORRUPTION So yeah... It happens very very rarely when I play other games but...
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    Do I need a new Windows key for my SSD?

    I want to upgrade my computer to an SSD, do I have to buy a new Windows 8.1 key for that? I want to use the exact same OS as before (8.1). I used ProduKey to find out the product key my computer has right now, can I use that again?