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So disconnected the CMOS battery for about 15 to 20 minutes. Still nothing. I tried to install about 3 or 4 different distros of linux, each gives a boot error. Looked into the UEFI on laptops and a lot of the firmware for them looks for windows only certification or it won't boot. Ubuntu...

The bios is so basic there's only like 4 options you can change, legacy USB, default settings, SATA to ACHI or compatible, and one or two others that I can't remember off hand. I'll look into the CMOS when I get home though.

I will try that, but here's the thing I didn't mention, I've tried 2 hard drives with the same result, so I'm thinking it's something embedded in their craps bios that I can't change.

So I have this old laptop, Lenovo B575 with an AMD processor, barely worked on the windows install. So i thought I'd rejuvenate it with a linux install and give it away. Installed linux mint KDE no problems. Won't boot, go into that bios when it's looping and says hard drive is frozen. I...

Access and open Apps from within the settings screen. Long story short, something landed on the phone, have some corruption happening now. I got the phone to turn on, the home screen will not display, but I'm able to get to the settings, and I can navigate that settings no problem. Also seem to...

OK, thank you everybody. Very quick response.

OK, one more question. Leave it run as is at 1.2v , or manually change it to 1.5?

Got a 990FX Asus Sabertooth board with an FX8370, got 8 gigs of Corsair DDR3 Ram, 1.2v. Can I use 1.2v Ram on this motherboard?

Thank you, very fast responses

Windows defender is basically Microsoft Security essentials, I've used it for years before I switched to Eset. You think just stick with defender? It's being built for someone that I don't see getting into too much problems, your average user. I was thinking of just skipping eset and sticking...

Is anyone else having problems with Internet connectivity in windows 10 while having eset nod32 9 installed? I did the latest update to windows 10, and now my Internet doesn't work. I get an error while trying to repair of "windows sockets registry entries required for Internet connectivity...

if the DIMMs are rated only at 1.35v, then they won't work on the board?

The board says that it is for 1.5v. So since that is the case I can plug my DDR3L into the DIMMs no problem? I know on Skylake if you don't use the DDR3L you can damage the motherboard and CPU.

Quick question. A friend of mine gave me some RAM he ordered and didn't need. I have an Asus Z97-E motherboard, and have your typical DDR3 RAM in it. The RAM he gave me is DDR3L. Will that RAM run on the motherboard with no issues? Do I need to change it manually in the bios to 1.5v instead of...

I've got my own computer repair business, yeah I've got lots of extra I can use, going to do ask that tonight. Thanks again!