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I'm trying out the testdisk program right now, will report back on how that goes.

I have a Western Digital Black(WD2003FYPS) 2TB drive, and use it with my Mac. I took a backup on this drive of some very important data, and then proceeded to format my laptop. The disk sat on my desk for around a week, and it was free of any magnetic interference to the best of my knowledge...

Hello. I managed to bend a CPU socket pin on my motherboard, and it does not start anymore. The fans start spinning and then turn off within a second. I've tried a different CMOS battery, and changing the RAM configuration, and none of that has worked, which confirms my suspicion it is the...

I've got a TP-LINK TL-WR740N router which, up till a week ago, was working fine. However, since about a week, its been rebooting every few MINUTES. I've tried restoring the factory defaults and upgrading to the latest firmware, but the issue still persists. Its still under warranty, so I...

I want to build a 1-4U rack server with the following specs for as cheap as possible. I don't mind if its supermicro, dell, hp, or anything else, as long as it works. Dual Intel Xeon L5520 or better. AMD works as well, but a minimum of 16 threads is a must. 64Gb DDR3 RAM(ECC/Non-ECC, both work)...

Is there any website which has the details of the flops performance of all the chipsets, or possibly a calculator that might be able to tell the theoretical flops of a combination of hardware?

Someone please delete this thread

A little while back, I accidentally spilled Coke on my keyboard, Microsoft wireless 800 wireless keyboard, and ever since, a few keys had stopped working. It is a waterproof keyboard, so I don't know why it's not working. Even right now, I'm using speech recognition to type this out. I've tried...

With RAM in one slot, same old response, power button required, no beep, once on, no way to turn off, but when I put it into the second slot, it again starts up automatically like before, but no beep again.

I just reset the cmos jumper, the cmos battery was out for around 26 hours, and with no RAM or HDD, there is a bit of a different result, earlier, the computer would start automatically, now I need to press the power button, no beep yet, and also, once started, I can only turn it off by...