I have a mid 2009 Mac Pro and it's currently running El Capitan. The OS Sierra is not supported on this Mac. I found a site with a work around and I may be able to upgrade. Is it worth the trouble to upgrade to Sierra or High Sierra or should I stick with El Capitan? Thanks.
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I am running Windows 7 64 bit on an Asus P8z68 deluxe mother board. My computer was running perfectly until one of my secondary Hitachi hard drives started failing.
My PC started acting sluggish and whenever I tried accessing the failing drive windows explorer would hang. Daum...
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I would like to disable a Sata Port in bios so a specific hard drive won't show up when I load windows. I have an Asus P8z68 Deluxe mother board. How do I do this in bios?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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I ordered a 2 bay external enclosure online. Unfortunately it was sitting outside in very cold temperatures for about 9 hours before I realized that it was delivered :(. It was 14 degrees outside when I brought it indoors at night. Do you think the cold may have damaged the external...
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I have a PC running Windows 7 64 bit. I have an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe Motherboard. I would like to know if I could add a Thunderbolt Port to my PC so I can attach and use a OWC Thunderbay enclosure.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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I have a Windows 7 PC with an Asus P8z68 deluxe motherboard. I had a newer Nvidia video card in my PC which I recently removed and replaced with an older Nvidia GTX 460 SE video card.
As soon as I power on the PC I started noticing noise coming from one of the fans in my PC. I...
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I have a 3TB USB 3.0 Seagate Backup Plus External Hard Drive which worked fine until very recently. The drive has data on it. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit. When I plug the external hard drive into my PC it does not show up in my computer. It is showing up in Device Manager and it...
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I have an issue which I believe began after I switched from a Radeon 6900 Video to an Nvidia GTX 760. After I restart my PC from the desktop, after the video card screen shows up during the boot process, I see a message saying no drives and then I'm stuck with a black screen and the...
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I currently have an ATI Radeon 6900 Video Card. I have an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe Motherboard and I'm running Windows 7 64 bit. I would like to replace my ATI Radeon 6900 Video Card with a comparable or better Nvidia Graphics Card. It will be used in a HTPC hooked up to a 42" Plasma TV...
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I've never done this before and I have some questions. I have a 2 year old PC and I'm running Windows 7 64 bit. I have a P8Z68 Deluxe Motherboard and I have a 500gb Western Digital drive as my boot drive. I also have 5 3tb Hitachi Internal drives in my PC. I was recommended that I...
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I had an invasion of raccoons that broke through the ceiling, one racoon went into my bed droom where I had to lock it into my room to prevent it from invading the whole house.
I have my PC's and External Hard Drives in my bed room. The Racoon was in my room for atleast a day and a...
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I have 2 Windows 7 64 bit PC's in my bedroom and an Imac in my living room. Both are directly connected to the internet by Ethernet. I have a Gigabit Switch in my bedroom which connects both PC's in my bedroom to the internet.
I have an optimum Online Cable Modem and I have...
Hey guys, I have a 27" mid 2011 iMac with a 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB running Lion. I have 2 internal hard drives, a 250GB drive and a 2TB Storage drive. I only want to use Windows 7 on the iMac. I don't have Windows 7 installed on it. I would like to install Windows 7...
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I am running Windows 7 64 bit and I have an Asus P8z68 deluxe motherboard. My PC was running fine (for almost a year) until today when I saw a black screen on my monitor.
My monitor is set to turn off after about 15 minutes of inactivity so I moved my mouse but no display showed on...
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I have Windows 7 and I have 8 hard drives connected to my PC. I went into Disk Management and I noticed that 3 hard drives are showing partition as active in Disk Management. Two of my external hard drives is showing this option as marked and the other two are internal hard drives which are...
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I have a couple western digital external hard drives connected to my QVS 13 Port High Speed USB 2.0 Hub. Is there any signal loss with the external hard drives connected to the HUB vs when connected directly to a port on the PC?
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I have several Western Digital Elements External Hard Drives and 3TB Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 External Hard Drives.
Unfortunately because I unplugged them and moved the external hard drives around I don't know which AC Adapters go with what.
Does it matter if I plug an AC...
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I have three 2TB Western Digital External Hard drives connected to a USB 2.0 Hub which is connected to my PC. My External hard drives used to go into sleep mode but they don't seem to be going into sleep mode anymore.
I went into Advanced Power Settings and under "Turn off Hard...
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My PC is running Windows 7. In the past I never had an issue running memtest from my CD. I would put the CD into the PC, restart the PC, press a certain key (I think) and Memtest would load.
Unfortunately I forgot what key I used to press and Memtest won't load, it goes straight...
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I'm running Windows 7 64 bit. I just recently upgraded to Catalyst 13.1 and would like to downgrade to the previous version. How would I do this? Can I use System Restore?
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My PC is running Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium and I have an AMD Radeon HD 6900 Video Card. I have my PC connected to 2 displays, a 24" Apple Cinema Display and a 42" Panasonic Plasma TV.
My PC is connected to the TV by 25-30 Foot HDMI Cable. I switch between displays, I don't view both...
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Can I plug my 2TB Western Digital USB 2.0 External Hard Drive into a USB 3.0 Port on my PC? If I do this will I get faster than 25 mb/ps transfer speed or will it be the same as I normally get when the external hard drive is plugged into my USB 2.0 Port?
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I'm running a Windows 7 64 bit Operating System. I have two 2 TB Western Digital External Hard Drives which are filled with videos.
I would like to view all videos in one folder instead of having to manually access each drive (combining both folders into one folder).
Any help...
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I'm looking to purchase a USB 3.0 Hub that has at least 8 ports. I've searched for USB 3.0 Hubs online but they seem to have gotten mixed reviews. I would like to know which are the best USB 3.0 Hubs.
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I have a 24" Apple monitor connected to my Windows 7 PC. I have always had the "DPI" set to "Larger 150%" which is the perfect size for me. Unfortunately Itunes has always been blurry. I was wondering if there was a way to make Itunes sharp again while maintaining the "Larger 150%"...
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I have an Asus P8z68 Deluxe Motherboard and 6 internal hard drives including the boot drive. The Boot drive is a 500 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM Drive and the other 5 Internal Hard Drives are 3TB Hitachi 7200 RPM Drives.
I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and I have 16 GB of GSkill...
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In windows 7 there is a drive limit of about 19 letters. If you have more drives you have to disconnect one drive and then connect the other in order to use it.
Does Windows 8 still have this limit?
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I would like buy a 4 port USB 3.0 hub.
I was concerned that there would be a speed slowdown when using 2 drives connected to the USB 3.0 Hub at the same time.
Is this true?
Any other negatives to getting a USB 3.0 Hub?
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I had my PC built in Microcenter. I have an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe motherboard.
I have a 2 port USB 3.0 Card in my PC and another 2 Port USB 3.0 Card that I bought separately which Microcenter installed.
I only get about 40-55 mbps transfer speed on one of my 2 port USB 3.0 Card and on...
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I have I have an Asus P8z68 Deluxe Motherboard running Windows 7 64 bit. I already have a 2 port USB 3.0 Card.
I would like to add a 4 Port USB 3.0 Card for more USB 3.0 Ports.
Are there are any issues with a 4 Port USB 3.0 Card? Performance decrease?
Also which 4 Port USB...
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I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and I have an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe Motherboard.
Since performing an erase and install of Windows 7 and all the drivers, switching out my Crucial M4 SSD for a WD Caviar Black Drive and plugging my 5 Hitachi drives back into my PC, 2 Hitachi drives are showing...
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I have an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe Motherboard and 2 Hitachi Hard Drives. My Boot Drive is a WD Caviar Black.
My PC is running Windows 7 64 bit. I ran the "Benchmark" for "HDTune" for 2 of my Hitachi Drives and here are the results:
Why is the burst rate so much faster on the first...
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I recently has a hardware problem with my PC where I was getting constant BSOD's and the culprit was either the drive or the operating that was corrupt because of RAM which had failed 2 months ago..
Microcenter originally built the PC last October and I was getting excellent...
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I have about a 3-4 year old PC running Windows 7 64 bit. I'm having an issue with my PC and I hope that you guys can help me. I am getting system hangs every 10 minutes or so. This problem has started pretty recently.
The mouse will continue to move but nothing else is responsive...
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I would like to buy either the "4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7200 RPM Drive" or the "3TB Hitachi Deskstar 7200 RPM Drive".
Is there any other difference between these two drives beside the 1tb difference in size?
Any info is greatly appreciated.
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I may need to perform an Erase and Install of Windows 7 64 bit OEM because of a hardware problem I had recently that might of corrupted my Operating System.
My question is: do I need the original disk drivers that came with my PC's Components after I perform a Clean install of...
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I have a new PC which was built last October. It's running Windows 7 64 bit home Premium. It has an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe Motherboard, Intel Core i7 2600K CPU 3.4 GHZ, AMD Radeon HD 6900, 16gb of Corsair RAM.
About 3 Weeks ago my PC starting acting up. Programs starting crashing and I got...