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    Question BSoD on boot and unable to restore after a System Restore ?

    Issue description: After a system restore, Windows stopped booting correctly. It now throws a Stop error CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED on boot. The boot logs indicate that the error occurred after the point where CLFS.SYS was loaded. The restore was done in WinRE, and therefore the restore could not be...
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    Question Samsung P459/R458 (Core 2): 64-bit system software causing halts and reboots ?

    Details about the system laptop in question: Model: Samsung NP-P459L/P459-DS01CN (Motherboard replaced with one that identifies self as R458/R457 in BIOS) CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (2.0 GHz) RAM: Elpida DDR2-667 2GBx2 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS Issue description: The system would run into...
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    Question Windows would wait for a considerable amount of time when starting up for the fan to rev up ?

    ntbtlog: Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Version 10.0 (Build 19041) 7 27 2023 11:53:07.500 BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\system32\ntoskrnl.exe BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\system32\hal.dll BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\system32\kd.dll BOOTLOG_LOADED \SystemRoot\system32\mcupdate_AuthenticAMD.dll...
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    Discussion What's your favourite video game you've been playing?

    I play a variety of games, and my gaming focus shifts from time to time. There had been one time where I'm obsessed with rhythm games (osu! -alike), and days later I spent a lot of time with Tetris and Puyo Puyo, and someday after this when the Steam Summer Sale took place I fetched the Valve...
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    Question Windows would wait for a considerable amount of time when starting up for the fan to rev up ?

    An overview of my build: MB: ASUS A68HM-E CPU: AMD A10-7860K (iGPU in use) dGPU: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650, 1GB RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury DDR3-1866 8GB x2 Storage (System, Windows): SanDisk X400 M.2->SATA 128GB (ripped from an old laptop) Storage (Data): Seagate BarraCuda ST2000DM001-1ER164 2TB...
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    Welcome to Tom's Hardware!

    You may refer to me by the name 'nphuracm'. By the time I am writing this I am ~16 and had been dealing with PCs and other electronics for somewhere around a decade, starting from a relatively young age. I'm always looking forward to learning something new about PCs and other consumer electronics.