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    Keyboard not waking PC from sleep - what setting am I missing?

    Edit: FIXED... I got this figured out.
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    Keyboard not waking PC from sleep - what setting am I missing?

    I am having the same problem as ss88 about not getting the PC to wake up. Work fine till I hooked up my new kb & mouse. I just received my new Dell KM7321W keyboard & Mouse. I have programed a key for sleep which works great, but can't seem to figure out how to wake? I am running Win11 pro. I...
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    Best way to merge 3 smaller SSD drives onto one bigger M2 ssd

    I figured it out. I downloaded AOEMI Backupper and it has a partition clone feature. I used that and I'm good to go. I do appreciate the help.
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    Best way to merge 3 smaller SSD drives onto one bigger M2 ssd

    Hello... I purchased a 2TB M2 drive on Black Friday. I already have a 1TB M2 drive C & D that I boot Win 11 from. What I want to do is copy the 3 smaller Sata SSD drives over to this 2TB M2 drive. Then remove these 3 drives from the PC. The 3 smaller drives are a 500gig drive (drive E) A...
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    Need some advice?

    I ended up having to ping my subnet & it was the 5th ping. Took about 2 min but found it and was able to log in. Thanks again for all your help on this.
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    Need some advice?

    One more question on this. Now that I have the Asus as an access point how do I go back into it. I can't figure out how to access the Asus menu. How do I find it's IP address? Update: I bought a new Dell laptop and have moved my HP laptop out to my trainroom and got rid of the ancient dell...
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    Need help stuck in bios

    Never mind I finally figured it out.
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    Need help stuck in bios

    I'm trying to upgrade my pc from a 6 year old I5 to a Ryzen 7 5800x. The new MB is a MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge WIFI. I can get it to boot into the bios but can't get it to leave the bios. I flashed the bios to the latest marked June of 21. It came with one from Jan 21. Bios flashed perfect but...
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    Need some advice?

    Thanks SamirD... It is up and running with the same speeds as off the spectrum router. It was easy peasy.
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    Need some advice?

    I forgot to mention that I have a 5 port gig hub out there. I use it to take 1 cable to the Roku and then us the other for that ancient laptop. SamirD I'm not quite sure I follow you on what you responded back with. See if I got this right. Take the Asus and hook the old ancient laptop to it...
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    Need some advice?

    I have a detached garage that I would like to be able to get faster more reliable WiFi to. I have a model railroad layout in a separate room in the garage. I currently have WiFi out there by using an EDIMAX plug in extender. It shows up as my current router with an EX_2 so I know that it is...
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    Older system graphics card upgrade?

    I have it installed and it runs great. With all the eye-candy turned on and AA set to max I'm getting frame rates in triple digits. I guess I can't blame my shitty driving on my video card now lol. I have a Corsair 750w PS so I'm good there. Thanks again for all the help and I'm a happy camper...
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    Older system graphics card upgrade?

    Thanks for all the suggestions. This is what I ended up buying. The wife has a prime account so I should see it tomorrow. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06ZZ6FMF8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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    Older system graphics card upgrade?

    Isn't Iracing CPU limited? I think I read it can use more than 4 threads. Iracing usually has a pretty good update about once a month. About a year ago I used to get frame rates in the 80's. Now on some tracks it's below 30. That is why I thought it was the video card. I found that I purchased...
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    Older system graphics card upgrade?

    Hello all... I have an older PC that I only use to do some online racing (IRacing) on. It is starting to get a little long in the tooth in the graphics area. I like running with all the eye candy turned on and it's starting to have some problems keeping up. Some tracks the frame rates are in the...
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    Cloning problems?

    Thanks for all the help guys but here is what I ended up doing. I went ahead and used Acronis to clone. I still got the errors but when I put the SSD drive in the laptop it booted right up. From what I can tell everything got cloned except the recovery partition. All programs and shortcuts...
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    Cloning problems?

    I posted this in the General Mayhem section but thought I might get a faster response if I post it here. I'm trying to clone a HP factory spinner 1TB hard-drive running Win 10 home over to a new Crucial MX500 500GB SSD drive using the Acronis software supplied with the new drive. This laptop...
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    The Ora R1 Is a $8,600 Electric Car from China

    So that is where all those faulty Samsung Note 7 batteries went to?
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    Panel Makers to Shift Focus to 8K LCD in 2019

    Any talk of adding 3D to this lol
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    Samsung Becomes Latest Phone Manufacturer to Unlock the FM Chip

    So is Samsung going to issue an update to turn on this feature in my Galaxy S7 or do I need to buy a new phone?
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    Fiat Punto Makes History with First-Ever Zero-Star Crash-Test Rating

    Don't worry The Hellcat version of this Fiat will have better safety features.
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    GM Notifies Early Chevy Bolt Owners of Potential Battery Failure

    OEM would not approve of being stranded by another GM vehicle.
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    Want a Black Screen on Your Red iPhone 7?

    This is when you use a sharpie to fix that problem.
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    Yamaha RX-V575 problems

    Well... it seems that the Factory Reset did the trick. Everything seems back to normal. I did find a faulty HDMI cable to my Blu-Ray player which I changed out while hooking everything back up. Thanks for the advice & link to the Factory Reset.
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    Yamaha RX-V575 problems

    I have taken the receiver out of the loop & have the Direct tv box & Roku hooked up via HDMI ports on the back of the TV & everything works fine. I been to busy the week to seriously look into it but plan on doing that this weekend. I will try the factory reset once I did it out of the tv cabinet.
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    Yamaha RX-V575 problems

    I have a 4 yr old Yamaha RX-V575 & a 4yr old LG 55" LED tv. We have Direct TV and an OTA ant. I have the Direct TV receiver on HDMI 1 A Pany blu-ray player on HDMI2 Xbox360 on HDMI3 & Roku on HDMI4. We went to watch something on netflix via the Roku & couldn't get any sound. It's just the...
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    Aladdin Magic Carpet Prank

    Where is his strapped on TNT explosives?
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    Win 10 upgrade problems.

    Ok I have an update. I went to Biostar's website looking for a BIOS update. All they had listed was 2 bios. The one I had was dated 09 & the other one dated 2010. I thought what the hell & flashed the bios over to the 2010 one & bingo Win 10 installed like a champ. Who would have figured that...
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    Win 10 upgrade problems.

    I recently upgraded one of my other PC & now have a 120g SSD drive that I want to put win 10 on for my 3rd string PC. I reformated & installed win7 home twice & got it activated & all the latest updates.I runs flawless & is the only drive currently hooked up besides the DVD burner. I copied...
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    Help me out?

    I have moved the router out to the living room where it more open thinking that would help out some but no luck.My house is long & skinny 65ft long & 24ft wide (No it's not a double wide). The wife & I each have our own rooms at the front of the house where the utilities/Internet feed all come...
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    Help me out?

    Ok... I've been out of the loop for a long time. I currently have a DIR655 router that's been rock solid for the last 6 yrs. The wife & I both bought new laptops recently & we added a new deck on the back of the house late last summer. We have the Roadrunner 90 mbs service. We get low 90's...
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    The Router Recommendations Thread (Consumer)

    Ok... I've been out of the loop for a long time. I currently have a DIR655 router that's been rock solid for the last 6 yrs. The wife & I both bought new laptops recently & we added a new deck on the back of the house late last summer. We have the Roadrunner 90 mbs service. We get low 90's...
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    Video card upgrade

    I'm putting together a new PC with and going from AMD over to an I5 Haswell. What would be a good upgrade from an HD6950 to what? I'm trying to keep it below $200.
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    Windows 8.1 Update Deadline Pushed Back

    I have a copy of 8.0 but have never installed it yet. Will I be able to still get all the updates when I do install it or am I screwed & waited too long to install?
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    Need to speed up my wireless?

    Ok here is the scoop. We have Brighthouse as our ISP & the wife & I recently upgraded to their 90mbs service. We used to have 30mbs so yes we really notice the difference. Her & I both have hardwired desktops & she has a Kindle & a ipad & I have a netbook plus both our phones are the wireless...
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    Can I reuse this processor?

    Can I reuse this processor AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT55TFBGRBOX with this Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128514...
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    Ip address problems

    I printed out the above instructions & went by the letter but still no luck. I was using my little ACER netbook to do this with. I went in & assigned it the IP address listed and as long as I had the Modem unplugged from the router I could access the D-Link router setup page. I went in &...
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    Ip address problems

    Ok I did what you guys said. I unplugged the modem & reset the router so I could get into the setup menu & changed the router address to 192.168.1.1. I then plugged a cable into one of the 4 ports leaving the WAN port empty. I restarted the modem & now I have wireless. I do have a question...
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    Ip address problems

    Ok thanks for the suggestions... I will try this tonight when I get home. I will post & let you guys know how it comes out.
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    Ip address problems

    About 6 months ago we upgraded to road-runner Lighting from Turbo. They had to install a new modem to do this. Since the modem was wireless I removed the D-Link DIR-655 router. Now we are trying to cutback on expenses a little & have went back to RR Turbo. We still have the same modem but...
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