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Aaand it's back to not working again, so it appears the above didn't help. I think I might have figured out what's going on though, but I have no idea why. Under power management>advanced>processor power management> maximum processor state>on battery: If set to 99% the laptop functions, I did a...

Worked after a bit of tinkering; it appeared that some thermal shut-downs coincided with the battery change. After noticing this I throttled the CPU back to 60% and cooling to active (both in the power plan settings,under advanced) and it worked. Just out of curiosity, do you think the...

Hi again, Quick question: Does this work in safe mode as well? Because I can't do this with a normal boot as it cuts the power shortly after I pull the charger. I'm just trying to avoid waiting for hours without result ;)

Thanks! I'll get right on it.

Hello! Recently I noticed that my laptop battery was reaching the end of it's usable life, so thinking ahead I ordered a new (non-dell) one. After receiving and replacing the battery all seemed well, I ran the on-board Dell diagnostic and it stated that the battery health was 100% Yay! The sun...

Quick follow up: I've bought the SAPPHIRE TRI-X R9 290 4GB GDDR5 OC(UEFI) http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1227&pid=2091&psn=&lid=1&leg=0 Running smooth, thanks again!

Allright, thanks again for all the help!

I don't know anything about the cables, I'm a general electrician ;) But the first thing I always ask is: Is it the circuit breaker (overload) or the residual-current circuit breaker? (ground fault/earth leak) Residual-current circuit breakers usually have a manual test push button (with a T on...

They do, actually, http://azerty.nl/0-1091-603810/arctic-cooling-accelero-xtreme-3.html Combined with the suggested sapphire R9 290 http://azerty.nl/0-5829-653060/sapphire-r9-290-4gb.html This then brings me to a grand total of € 401,77, which really stretches my budget to it's max. As luck...

Thanks for all the suggestions! So far it seems the sapphire R9 290 gets three votes. Hypergon's comment made me think though, this thing IS in my living room, so I may settle for slightly less performance in favor of quiet operation. Right now my Pc produces about 50dB, from what I read that is...

Thanks for your advice. Seeing as there's only a tiny difference in pricing (€348 vs €340) can I also expect a tiny difference in performance between the two? If so, I'd lean towards getting one Club 3D Radeon R9 270X royalQueen at first, then purchase the 2nd one later as finances permit it.

Good day dear sirs and madams, A while ago I bought a new system, to save initial purchase costs I decided to go with an on-board GPU. At this point in time I'm looking to upgrade it, but find myself having an inadequate amount of knowledge on the subject in order to make a well informed...