Recent content by Prasenjit04bassist

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    More than half of memory occupied by Hardware Reserved

    I upgraded my memory from 4 to 8 recently. At my surprise, my task manager says total memory : 8GB, In use : (about) 970MB, Available : 2GB and Hardware Reserved : 5GB? Like seriously? What is this hardware reserved? My tired of trying out a millions steps, such as unchecking Maximum memory in...
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    Solutions for buying a new video card

    I have a Core2Duo. Will GT1030 run fine with this CPU?
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    Solutions for buying a new video card

    My PC used to display the error message "Display driver has stopped working and has recovered successfully". Also while gaming, the pc occasionally used to deadlock. I've tried so many options to verify the problem, but nothing helped. Recently, I decided to pull off my GT 710 and plug in the...
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    Windows on new motherboard

    I am planning to buy a new motherboard for my machine. I need to know if I need to reinstall windows again after replacement. I will use my existing HDD. Unfortunately I donot have a bootable Windows CD, and that makes me think twice before buying a motherboard.
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    PC freezes completely when playing games, keyboard and mouse don't respond.

    Sorry I don't see any CPU Core Temperature on HWinfo. Alright lets believe that my CPU is overheating. Then why do I face problems only when I'm gaming. I don't see any problems while doing any other random stuff. Why only gaming? :(
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    PC freezes completely when playing games, keyboard and mouse don't respond.

    @dudio My GPU temperature shows around 38°C (I forgot the actual value). This temperature was shown generally. I wasn't gaming. CPU temperature in BIOS setup shows -128°C/-262°F HWinfo says CPU Max. Case Temperature (Tcase_max) : 74.1°C CPU Thermal Design Power (TDP) : 65.0W And yes...
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    PC freezes completely when playing games, keyboard and mouse don't respond.

    I'm don't have much info on my RAM type. I just know that its a DDR3 RAM, and the stick has 'ELPIDA 2GB 2Rx8 PC3 (some random numbers)' written on it. My 450W PSU : iBall ZPS-281 Computer Power Supply https://www.amazon.in/dp/B01EN9LFLQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_u4jfzbXAR2C5Y My Cabinet : iBall...
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    PC freezes completely when playing games, keyboard and mouse don't respond.

    My PC freezes completely only when playing games. The screen freezes, including the Keyboard and the Mouse. Though this doesn't happens everytime, but you can bet that it happens most of the time. I have to force restart my PC to bring it back to normal working condition. I've checked the...