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These are ASUS models that come in true 144Hz but they are pricey. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=monitor&N=100160979 600030620 50001315 600030958&isNodeId=1

Problem you will have is if you look at the specs for each you will notice one is 1333 MHz and one is 1600 mhz. What will happen is your faster RAM will be forced to a max. speed of 1333 Mhz. While not major it will degrade your max. memory performance.

I've seen something similar with End Point Protection. Local network copies were for crap. Try disabling you Virus suite as a test from a clean site.

You won't, not with today's MOBOs

The surge may have fed in from the speakers power source and just blown a channel. Sound cards are cheap compared to a new MOBO

For a HDD sure. SSD not so.

I'm leaning toward some failing hardware. I don't know if the NAS could cause a blue screen. May just come down to a driver issue too. Run some diags on the RAM and harddrive for starters.

All bets are off when it comes to blackouts. Without a really good surge protector or UPS it may have caused circuit damage. As for capacitor being the cause, its more likely a trace wire damage or a transistor in the IC chip which gives you signal gain. In any case go out and buy a sound card.

If I read this correctly you are connecting a drive from one system board to another of similar nature. If so, you may need to set the bios to boot from the correct drive as it may be a boot order thing. Also make sure the bios can see the drive.

Did you try the Delete key?

It's a diabolical plot by Microsoft. What ever it is it cant be good.

Check for a memory.dmp file in the windows folder. It can be analysed for a cause. Hard drives and RAM are usually the biggest culprit. And drivers.

While Linux will do what you need generally as well as Word, you may encounter support issues from whatever college you are looking at. Window 7 is still out there for purchase, you just might not find vendors still willing to sell with windows 7 eg Dell, HP etc.

As long as you didn't touch the original OS drive, you can clone it until the cows come home. Ghost can clone from a larger drive to smaller. You just need someplace to put the image file while doing so.