My son needs a new laptop for software programs such as Photoshop/Indesign, 3D Modeling, Video Editing, Blender and such plus the occasional League of Legends game (the only game he plays outside of consoles). I did do research but I find little agreement on what recommended hardware is...
Thanks for the response; much appreciated. On further research I have learned that my Pentium M is a non-PAE cpu which means I need to find a Distro such as Bodhi Legacy offering.
Thanks again.
I received this old Toshiba laptop from my sister in 2008 where she kept it in her closet for a year after being given away by her company. From what I have researched this model was offered in the first half of the 2000s. It was used hard which was evident by the myriad of user accounts I...
Well I finally was able to eject the DVD drive and lo and behold the Windows 8.1 Recovery Media disk for Windows Products 64-bit was in there which I was unaware of. Now I am just waiting on her disk of utilities and drivers to arrive.
Btw, is the Windows Recovery disk the same as what...
This was an Inspirion 660S slimeline desktop that came shipped with Windows 8 and she upgraded to 8.1. She had no issues at all with 8.1. She is sending me the dell disk with drivers and utilities.
The issue of slowness only started occurring 2 months before eventual hard drive crash...
Thanks all. I never owned a Dell before and knew nothing about the Diagnostics program in the BIOS until after VirtualLarry posted.
All hardware passed except the hard drive that failed both the short and long DST tests. I could put a new hard drive in and install a new operating system. The...
Can this be done? Here is the issue: My sister brought me her Dell Inspiron streamline 660S (manufactured 2012) and told me that her operating system has totally disappeared. Dell told her it was due to a virus and that the hard drive was probably damaged and she needed a new one. Her company's...
*GROAN*
Anyway, I have been warning my sister about this but my cheap - really cheap - brother-in-law has the shakes just thinking about spending a little $ for a new OS.
My current system was built in May of 2012 and has been rock solid until like now.
I have had 4 out of 6 USB ports fail on me in less than 48 hours. I can't scan, can't print and the only two that are working I have both my mouse and keyboard in them because I had to transfer them yesterday...
@ NikolaeVarius - Warmogs it is. Thanks for your response.
@ Humble Pie - I will try out your build suggestions. And you are right about eventually going AP on him. I absolutely hate it when people think that the meta build is the ONLY way to build supports. I've always said that to do...
HumblePie - I main Ziggs and love him at mid and I have thought often that he would make a great support. Never had the guts to try it though because of the grief I would receive.
What Masteries, Runes, and especially Items are you utilizing for support Ziggs?
I'd like to know what Masteries and Runes you are running on him. My S2 runes were AS Reds, Yellow Flat Armor, MR Scaling Blues, and Quints of MS. Are you doing similar?
Also, I am torn between rushing either Spirit Visage or Warmogs first. Man I miss Force of Nature. :(
There was a free utility called Driver Sweeper and TechSpot has a downloadable version on their site.
I give these directions that work for many:
1. Download the utility to your desktop as well as new video drivers but don't install them.
2. Unistall your video drivers.
3. Run Driver...
Long story short: I have built systems before but I have never built a system using an SSD nor have I built a system using a hard drive as storage until now. The system is up and running and my SSD is my C drive with Windows 7 installed. My D drive is my Asus DVD drive.
I did a simple format...
I have had two socket 939 systems going for almost 6+ years and are still solid systems but showing their age. Prior to them I had a Pentium 3 system. So as you can tell I use my systems as long as I can. :)
However, a new build is in the works very soon; just waiting on how Ivy bridge...
Before. Q4 is October-December. However, as has been pointed out their other offerings are actually doing quite well which is reflective in Q3 profit report.
Very, very interesting build there for Caitlyn. Impressive even if you did loose. Do you find for your gameplay with her to be the best for you or do you have other combinations that you find work just as well? I'm going to have to remember this one. :)
That just plain sucks. I am so very new at this so I have a few questions in regards to such a situation. 1) Does reporting them do any good at all? and 2) What does Riot do in response?
My own situation was different. I played only my second live match ever the other day. I am a noob and...
Diablo 2 - I hated that game. Honestly I cannot understand all the love and hype for an endless, mindless hack and slash. Booooorrrrrriiiiiinnnnnggggg!
Any of you guys have issues of your game suddenly freezing tonight (Tuesday)? My son and I were playing a custom warm-up when the entire game froze. I was connected via ethernet and he was wireless and we both experienced the same thing.
At first I thought it was my router/modem but there...
Please pardon my ignorance but how does one go about reducing GPU acceleration and if I do this does it affect anything else I may do on my PC such as watching video, gaming, etc.? Thanks.
Hey, I ordered the Sager 5160 from XoticPC for my son back in August (as Imentioned earlier) for college for his school work and the fact that he will be studying for graphics illustration and running animation software as well as running CS5.
I configured with the 1600x900 matte, i7 2630 quad...
XP will at the most utilize 3.25 gigs of RAM because it is a 32-bit OS. To utilize 4 or more gigs of RAM takes a 64-bit OS. XP runs games fine with 2 gigs.
Games are more GPU demanding than CPU demanding. Between the two conventional wisdom is go with a new GPU.
* However, instead of...
If you look at Lenovo's Thinkpad IMO either the T420 or T420s are your best choices here because they offer a screen resolution of 1600x900 where as the X220 is only offered in the 1366x768.
They have configured online a T420 for $1,080. With your budget you could upgrade your processor...
Budget?
Since you need the vertical space I would not consider anything less than the 1600x900 because I have read far too many posts of the vertical space issues with the standard 1366x768.
A lot of gamers like the Sager/Clevo offerings provided by the likes of Malibal, XoticPC, LPC Digital, Power Notebooks, and Mythlogic to name a few.
I didn't know anything about these laptop builders and wouldn't even consider them until I joined the Notebookreview forums and began reading...
0x124: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR and is described as "A fatal hardware error has occurred."
This error code and definition has replaced the older XP code 0x9C: MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION and though it is older the definition still is applicable: "This is a hardware issue: an unrecoverable hardware...
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