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I have put a 4 year old HP Pavillion desktop into a new Phantom 410 case. The case has an on board fan controller. I need to disable to BIOs fan controller so that I no longer get the error message: "512 chassis fan not detected" However nothing I do will allow me to get into the BIOS. Yes, I...

I need a recovery disc to reinstall Windows on a new HDD. I am following the prompts to create a system image for drive D, which I believe is the system recovery. BUT, when I do the create ISO feature wants to also include my whole C drive and is telling me I will need 135GB to do the job...

I fear my HDD is going bad. I can not get a replacement Win7 as I am out of warranty. However, I could still burn a recovery DVD from my laptop. Will a recovery DVD will allow me to reinstall on a new HDD with my OEM key. Many thanks !

Thanks for that. Ok, I ran a "health test"and I have a result which I do not understand. Please tell me if this is a little bad or really bad ... like rush out and get a new drive bad. Thanks ! "Number of calibration attempts after calibration failure: 2591" "There were calibration errors"...

HI - When I open my laptop lid from sleep mode I am hearing a "Click", Click, Click sound near the left hand side of the laptop (Dell Inspiron 17R) which is where I presume the disc drive is found. After 3 - 4 clicks the laptop stops, in the sense that the screen is visible but nothing reacts...

I have 2 desktops. Both use an Asus N53 wireless adapter. One desktop is a Windows7 box. The other a Windows 8.1. The windows 8.1 box will *not* see the 5Ghz N network meanwhile, the Win 7 box is fine. The Win 8 box does see the 2.4 ghz G network. I have gone into the device manager and...

yes - I downloaded it from http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86 I did so since under the OS driver the machine was also noisy.

Just changed over from Win7 to Linux Mint 17 ( based on Ubuntu 14) with a dual boot. When using Win7 my GPU is whisper quiet, but on Mint it is very noisy. I have loaded the AMD Linux driver set and that did not help much. The weird thing is that the noise rises and falls even when I just...

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