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That's great. Thank you very much for the reply.

I have two licenses to Office Home and Business 2021. Both are tied to one main MS Account. I would like computer A to use license 1, and computer B to use license 2. If I have office on both computers logged into the same main MS Account, will that cause any problems?

Jorona - I can't disable the iGPU in the BIOS. Notes ... This is a UEFI bios in legacy mode. I put a new 450 watt PSU in the system. It doesn't seem to affect anything. The system will only boot with a stick of memory in slot one. I still don't think this is a memory issue. I've used two...

3DMark11 sometimes errors out the ‘first’ time I run a test. Something about a “DirectX 11 call”. DXDiag shows no problems. Everything is enabled. Though, there are no tests to run to verify this. It then errors out a second time. Something about “exclusive access” to the monitor. The...

Thanks for the comment. I would agree with your point. However, for this situation ... I did swap out with a known good stick of system memory. Also, the bootable .iso detects bad video memory within seconds of starting up. If it detects the bad memory that quickly, then memtest "should"...

Not sure whether to put this in CPU, memory, or video category. I bought a new dell optiplex tower. It has a core i5-3470 3.2 Ghz processor, with an integrated intel HD graphics 2500 GPU. The dell diagnostic utility reported bad video memory. I also tested with this software...

I have a dead hard drive that I’d like to recover some data from it. It’s a western digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS, 500 GB 3.5” SATA drive. It keeps spinning up, spinning up, spinning up. The bios recognizes it, but it will not finish the post sequence. I don’t think there is a clicking...

My Dell is an old Vostro 1000. I don't think they ever offered any form of touch with this model. I couldn't find any mention of touch in the owners or service manuals. Looks like I'll just scrap this idea. Maybe when win 8 is closer to release they'll have cheaper touch computers.

Thanks for the post. I'm wanting a touch laptop, not necessarily a tablet. I do have a computer background. General desktop repair is much easier, and I'm sort of new to laptop repair. I've replaced a few normal laptop screens before, and some other miscellaneous parts. Can you spell out...

I have a Dell laptop that I'd like to upgrade to a touchscreen for Windows 8. Is it possible to just swap out screens for a new touchscreen? If so, what general parts do I need? If not, is there any other way to upgrade to a touchscreen?

I’m having problems with a brother inkjet printer, printing yellow. The sample “Print Quality Check” page prints a grid for each color. The yellow grid prints the first and a partial second line, but the rest of the yellow lines do not print. When I print a line of yellow text, the entire...

Our color printer is dead and we need a new, more permanent printer to replace it. We'll rarely be using color, but I would like the option of printing color if needed. We'll probably end up just going with a mono printer though. Thanks for the reply.

We had a color laser printer. After a few months, the color toner cartridges were almost empty, even though we print in B&W almost exclusively. My understanding is that most printers will use some small color to prevent the cartridges from drying up. I’m not sure this is true, or if it’s...

I just picked up a couple of bargain bin flight games. I was thinking about getting a flight stick and rudder pedals. I was wondering what I need to know about compatibility. Do I need to know anything besides basic drivers? Do I need to research each and every game if it’s compatible with...

Are you talking about a standard, external USB hard drive, or are you talking about a custom enclosure? Thanks