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    Windows 7- Startup Repair does not work

    I ran chkdsk and it indicated there were no errors? See below. I have a Recovery DVD for Windows7 Home Premium from the OEM (It's a Sager laptop.) Next steps? Clone the drive anyway? Put the old one back in and try Windows Recovery? I have an equally sized drive (old is Crucial M4...
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    Windows 7- Startup Repair does not work

    This? http://download.cnet.com/CrystalDiskMark/3000-2094_4-75330576.html
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    Windows 7- Startup Repair does not work

    I do have another computer. I had removed the drive to pull off a few files that were new since the last backup. Here's what happens when trying to boot: 1) Startup repair starts immediately 2) Attempting repairs... Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete. 3) After 5...
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    Windows 7- Startup Repair does not work

    I have a Win7-64 Laptop that experienced an error while trying to open an application. I tried to reboot and Windows looped through 3 to 4 sets of Startup Repair before it appeared to give up and take me to the System Recovery screen. The messages indicated bad "sectors" (I can't recall the...
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    Market stagnation?

    I think this is a normal situation with most technology. The first half century of powered flight saw us progress from plywood and fabric, propeller-driven biplanes to aluminum-clad supersonic jet fighters (think Wright Flyer to F-4 Phantom.) In the last 50 years we've only progressed from...
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    New Gaming Build

    Thanks Dangman, I was able to dig around on the Kingston RAM and determine it was 1.5V. PcPartPicker had just made a note to verify it, hence my question. Trigger is pulled and I have gone with the parts in my list, so I will be overclocking. Thanks for the tip on the upper bay and the 290...
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    New Gaming Build

    Shoot, wasn't paying attention on that RAM on that combo. Ready to pull the trigger: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3sR4P6 Doing all at Amazon due to Prime 2-day. I'm a little concerned about the memory since the specs on Amazon seem vague. Are there any voltage concerns here? Thanks!
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    New Gaming Build

    Not near a Microcenter unfortunately. If I stick to 2560X1440 is there a compelling reason to go 290 vs 280X? Also, thoughts on this combo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1739933
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    New Gaming Build

    1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc This will be the main home computer, so lots of browsing, gaming (Civ V, MW3, Battlefield [latest...]), some video editing. I may also engage this machine for some computer consulting, so I wouldn't mind i7 vs i5 but...
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