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Computer freezes during POST with new CD drive
I work with older computers and received a Compaq Presario 2275 with a non-working CD drive. After cleaning up the computer and testing it (it works fine), I swapped the original 32x CD drive with a ...
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With a Gigabyte motherboard where I have flashed the BIOS, if I reset the CMOS will it also reset the BIOS to default?
I have a GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-DH3 motherboard. In March 2020 I flashed the BIOS in order to make it compatible with a Windforce graphics card.
This caused Windows 7 to think my computer was new and it ...
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Converting IDE optical drives to SATA with an adapter - not recognised in BIOS or OS
My wife's 10 year old desktop computer failed some months ago, which necessitated the purchase of a more modern motherboard.
The original motherboard had both IDE and SATA ports and the computer has ...
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Trying to update motherboard BIOS through bootable CD
Lately I have been trying to find a way to update the BIOS on my 10-year-old Asus P5BW-LA from 3.08 to 3.17. I found an HP update program called sp35153.exe, but whenever I try to run it in Windows XP ...
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