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Can someone put me up to date with the lastest Skyrim fiasco from Bethesda? I want to try to reinstall Skyrim with lots of mods, but do they work with the current version of the game? Old mods don't work? or all the mods dont work? Has this problem been fixed or circumvented? Should I get the...

I have a Geforce 980M laptop card, and I'm wondering if there is control board or a DIY project where you can convert this card into a desktop PC video card. (Just like when you only have a laptop monitor and you buy its control board to get a working PC monitor)

I am not that Apple savvy, so I need your help. I have a Macbook Pro and I want to upgrade its hard drive, to a bigger SSD drive. The hardware part is easy, but I don't want to reinstall the apple OS from scracth. Is there a program to copy the hard drive to the new and bigger hard drive? Thanx

One of my hard drives just had the dreaded "click of death" :bored:... I will take it to a data recovery lab soon.:arghh: It was a 3TB Seagate HD, and almost 4 years old. I don't want this to happen again. Do you have a procedure or best practice regarding when to replace aging HDs? Like once...

Could you guys recommend to me good article explaining crypto currencies, like bitcoin, without a pro-bank bias? Bonus points: If it shows why we should use it instead of paper money :eek: K thanks.

I have two small workgroups in Windows7 , below the diagram: I want them to be independent, meaning I don't want one network to be able to see the other network for security reasons. Both connect to the same internet modem (default gateway), the subnet number in NET 1 is different from the...

Since a couple months ago, I have received a spam email from my own email. It's my work email. I only access my work email in my work PC or in my own PC at home ( I don't have it on my mobile phone) I might have access my webmail through another PC. But just in these two PCs since I changed...

When you have IP phones, you can use a PC as a "phone" provided you have installed the correct program and have a headset. I have a small network (workgroup, win7) of 5 PCs (With no IP phones, or Asterix, PBX server, or similar.) And I want to make them communicate as an IP Phone network...

So, I have a 3TB mechanical HD that had some bad sectors, so I formatted it (regular not quick format). Afterwards I've checked the HD with HDTune, and the error scan turns out all green, so no bad sectors. Apparently it was a logical error, no weird clicking noises. How safe is it to use this...

I have an old 1TB backup hard drive that's full with work files, and HDTune has detected several bad sectors, so I need to copy the files to a new HD. Is there a program that tells you which files are on those bad sectors? In order to avoid copying those files and to also know what I have lost?

I'm getting a full cover water cooling for this Gigabyte GTX 980 G1 Gaming so I'd like know if this is a custom PCB or just the regular design. Is there a list to check for this? Or other way to know? (without having to remove the heatsink fan, just yet)...

So I have a usb drive (Corsair 64GB) with important data, with an exfat partition, and my little nephew just formatted it with ntfs :( :mad: Is there a program that lets you recover files from this particularly partition? For Windows or Linux preferably. thanx

Has anyone had experiences with leaking radiators? I live close to the sea, (humid weather) and I have my radiator on top of my case, so if it leaks, the water would go straight down to my vid card :eek: and that would be no good. All copper loop btw

So, I just got this message "Backlight time", what does it mean? And how to turn it off :o

I want to transfer large files 400MB - 1,4GB, (Rar files of Autocad stuff) over the Internet, so I want to make a VPN to help me on that. What is a good VPN software? with encryption perhaps?

I'd like to know if anyone is using their vid card's HDMI port for PC audio too. What's your setup? and your experiences dealing with it

So, I want to root my S5, could you guys recommend to me a good how-to guide? There are a lot of guides out there, but I don't which one can be trusted... Thanks

My uncle has a small business and wants to upgrade their old telephone system to something newer. He's asked me to help him with this "little" project. He has 4 normal telephone lines and wants to have more extensions (Around 15). His old prehistoric system supports only 8. Is it possible to...

I've been out of the sound card loop for a while. Now, which one is better: (These two are within my budget) -Asus Xonar Essence STX or -CL Sound Blaster ZX I'll be using digital coaxial output (or maybe optical out) to 5.1 sorround sound system I'll be using it mainly for gaming, music and...

I want DTS audio on my secondary PC (On-board sound card and AMD 290X) so I'm interested in buying a Home Theather (HDMI In/Out) like this http://www.philips.co.in/c/home-theater-systems/5.1-home-theater-htb5570d_94/prd/ I want to use the Home Theather speakers as the PC's speakers Is it...

My vid card, an XFX AMD Radeon HD7970 apparently died... at least one resistor blew up. I turn on my PC and saw a little spark near the vid card (which is watercooled btw; case side panel is always open) I immediately unplugged it. Then I checked the vid card, and I didn't notice anything...

I have a Corsair Neutron 240GB SSD, less than 6 months old. (Win7 x64) and HDTune Pro says it already have bad sectors. Description: Number of retired sectors: 151 Status: The drive has damaged sectors Should I worry about this?

I got this new cheap laptop at work, a Toshiba Satellite (C45-ASP4202FL)with an Atheros WiFi card. The thing is I can connect to WPA2-PSK wifi networks, but somehow I can't connect to WPA-PSK. I've try connecting to several WiFi routers configured as WPA, and I can't connect to them, but...

I'm looking for an audio program that could replace Winamp. Just music (mp3s) and online streaming, no video.

My uncle asked me for help configuring an Intranet for his small business workgroup (6 PCs with Win7) all of which have Internet access, mostly like this: Internet router -> switch -> 6 Pcs. Right now, all the 6 PCs have Internet access and of course access to the company email (Bluehost)...

Ok, so I have an SSD, should I disable prefetch?

I have a 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD (ACHI, SATA) that shows errors in HD Tune full error scan It also shows some warnings The HDD is currently empty. Just in case, I've replaced the SATA cable and port, but still I get the same "Interface CRC Error Count". It's been a long time...

I want to install Untangle (An "automated" Linux distro for web control) in an old PC that I have laying around. Upon checking the hard drive (SATA 160GB) using Acronis Disk Director 11 Home I've notice that it has some bad sectors, so I clicked on "Try to fix found bad sectors". Finally I run...

I have a PC with WinXP, after i've cleaned some viruses the wifi connection doesn't work properly, it shows the different wlans but when I try to connect to them an error pops up (like the net is out of reach). Is there a program to reset the wifi settings or something like that?

I'm resurrecting an old PC everthing seems okey, except for the vid card, an old Geforce GTX260. I've tested it with two different PSUs and after a couple of minutes in a 3D game I get something like this The card was working fine when I stop using it a couple years ago. I put it back...

I want to OC my vid card, and I was wondering what is a good overclocking application for the Radeon GPUs? (besides AMD OverDrive)

I have a Razer Naga Molten, about a year old, and I suddenly started malfunctioning. The cursor moves and suddenly it stops working (when I move the mouse the cursor doesn't move) but the buttons, and the lights keep working properly. When I plug it in, it works for 5 minutes and the cursor...

My cousin's JVC digital camera stop working, she lives in Miami (south beach) and she knows nothing about these tech things, she wants to repair it. Do you guys know a good place to get it fixed around there? thanks :)

So I've installed my water cooling gpu block to my 7970, and I'm getting 48ºC full load, and 28ºC at idle My WC setup is running at its lowest settings. (lowest pump flow, lowest rpms radiator fans) Are those good temperatures good compared to air heatsinks?

So I've just installed the XSPC Rasa Universal GPU Water Block to my HD7970, and on top of the video ram I put these heatsinks http://www.aquatuning.de/product_info.php/info/p733_Zalman-Heatsinks-ZM-RHS1-RAM-Cooler.html Everything is fine in 2D, but when I start a 3D game it freezes after less...

So, I'm about to install a GPU water block for my HD7970 and I need to remove the heatsink fan out of it. Do you guys have any tips? Maybe something I shouldn't do?

I'm having a problem with the Blades followers, once you recruit three followers to the Blades, they become Blades and unlock a dragon hunting quest. You can make any of these new Blades follow you, and well, I gave them all custom dragonplate armors, but once I let them go (part ways) they...

So, I want to check if my android phone has virus. I could install one of those Android AV, but if it's infected it might not work properly. :o I could try connecting the phone to my PC, and running MSE... but would MSE (or any other AV) detect an Android virus/trojan? The phone is not rooted btw

So, I have some mods installed, I only use OBMM, now I'm installing some "player homes", and when I load a savegame, it goes away when I disable the several "player homes" mods. Try reordering them, but the problem persists. Does Wrye Bash helps with mod conflicts? and If so, how to do it?

So my sister wants to get a Internet contet filter for my 12 year-old nephew, she wants to give him the laptop that she currently uses (she is buying a new laptop for her) and it has 3G Modem. So she asked me to help her out, but I'm not sure. what kind of content filter would be a good...