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1980s computer controls GRPS heat and AC

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A 30-year-old computer that has run day and night for decades is what controls the heat and air conditioning at 19 Grand Rapids Public Schools.

The Commodore Amiga was new to GRPS in the early 1980s and it has been working tirelessly ever since. GRPS Maintenance Supervisor Tim Hopkins said that the computer was purchased with money from an energy bond in the 1980s. It replaced a computer that was “about the size of a refrigerator.”
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Will constantly recharging my PDA wear out the battery?

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I have a Palm TX, and I always use it at my desk, so I normally plug it in when I turn it on. Sometimes I'm in another room, and then it runs on battery, and then the next time I use it I plug it in again. Sometimes I just plug it in even if I don't use it to make sure I don't run out when I have it on battery. So it usually goes down to 40% at most, usually 75-80%, and then I recharge it.

Will this wear the battery down? Would it be a good idea to let it run all the way down before charging it sometimes, or all the time?

Happy Birthday John Burns

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Almost missed this....Hope you had a great day...:up:

Laptop keeps disconnecting from wifi?

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I have an hp laptop.. Not too old but it's not brand new either. For some reason every time I am on it, the wifi disconnects and I am not able to reconnect unless I restart my laptop. I know it's not a problem with the actual wifi because everyother laptop and phone is working perfectly. The problem is that the laptop does not have a battery life so it will just turn off if you unplug it...
Please help, this is extremely frustrating!

Solved: New 3 TB HDD shows 742.52 MB-tried previous suggestions-HELP

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I have a Dell Inspiron 560, 64 bit
Pentium (R) Dual Core CPU, E5400 @ 2.70 Ghz.
Windows 7 Home Premuim w/ SP1


My intention was to use this computer as a dedicated media server.

I purchased a WD 3 TB Sata 6Gbs 3.5 Green, Model # WD30EZRXSP, to use as storage.

After installing, the drive only shows up as having 742.52 MB. I have tried a number of suggestions on this site and others, but so fare have not been able to correct the issue.

One suggestion was to update the Intel RST driver, but when trying to do so I receive an error message.

Could someone PLEASE help me determine if my system is not capable of fully utilizing the 3TB or help me get it installed correctly?

Can I put a new CPU in my computer

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Hi! I will get straight to the point, can I replace my APU with a new CPU. Specs:

APU: AMD A4-3420 APU with Radeon(tm) HD graphics 2.80 GHz
Memory: 6 GB
GPU: GTX 750ti FTW
Windows 7 64 bit.

If I can, please let me know if I can, and if so what the brand and chipset would be. Thanks in advance!

mortal kombat komplete

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We recently purchased and downloaded mortal kombat komplete from amazon we downloaded the game installed it and ran it through steam. everything seams to have downloaded correctly, but when we try to play we can hear the game but have black screen. windows 7 64 bit , AMD athilonII x2 220,Navida Ge force
6150se graphics 3GB ddr3 memory 1Tb hard drive,Emachine El1358G-51w.

Solved: self-dimming screen

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I have had this Lenovo Y560 for quite a while, and it has always been a little bit cranky. About 6 months ago, I set it back to factory settings, and began installing software again. It has a very touchy usb3 port that I cannot use, and the audio plug is touchy as well, but I use a USB interface for music. It's working fine otherwise, except for one thing. I cannot get it to stop dimming the monitor on it's own.

I have gone through EVERY power profile and set ALL the settings to "Never" in every possible profile. The battery is shot anyway, so I don't need the power saving stuff. I checked in device mgr. and my wife (who is an advanced database geek) looked at some settings, too. There is simply NO reason I can find why it's doing this. Any help out there? Thanks!

usb sharing

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Me again:

I'm not on the Lenovo right now so not sending TSG info. Same deal, Lenovo Y560. I use it to run my DAW and all my VSTI for live performances and remote recording. I use a Xenyx360 interface (usb) an M-Audio 88Key MIDI keyboard controller, And a dongle for a wireless mouse. I would like to plug in ONE more thing (another MIDI adapter for a wind synthesizer) but I only have 3 working ports, and I have had no luck trying to use USB splitters. Something, sometimes everything just stops responding at all.

Any tips on using a USB splitter without having the peripherals interfere with each other or other incompatibility? Thanks!

"Listen to this device" setting not persisting for plugged-in audio device in Win 8.1

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Apologies in advance if this is an old/common question... it's getting harder and harder these days to come up with the right search terms that trick Google into giving relevant results. :(

I have a Griffin iMic, a simple USB device that provides a Line In 3.5mm jack port for my laptop (an ASUS F555L running Windows 8.1 x64). It shows up in the Recording tab of Sound settings as a "Microphone" type device, and I have set it as the default recording device. I have also checked "Listen to this device" so that I can listen to the audio coming in from an old cassette deck (via the iMic) through my laptop's speakers.

On my old laptop (Windows 7 x64) this configuration worked great, as the input from the iMic was audible any time I plugged in the iMic USB. However, on the new system, I can't hear the iMic after plugging it in. Every time I have to go into Manage Audio Devices, uncheck "Listen to this Device", Apply, re-check the setting and Apply again. Then I hear the iMic sound.

Is there any way of making this setting stick? Is it a known Win8 bug?

Computer randomly restarting! HELP!

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The other day my computer randomly restarted but only once so I went ahead and dismissed it as an issue. However, two days later my computer is now randomly restarting every 2 to 30 minutes.

I then updated all my drivers, scanned for any viruses and found nothing. I then booted my computer in Safe mode and suprisingly it didnt restart.

Then I went to reinstall Windows and while doing so my computer restarted twice.

These restarts aren't blue screens containing any error message but just instead the screen goes black and the computer restarts.

I then opened my computer , completely unplugged the power and gently cleaned it of any dust incase that had any chance of being the problem.Then when I started it up only the Power Supply fan ran and nothing else.

I have a Corsair CX750 power supply which is just past a year old, I have read reviews of them constantly failing and even reviews mentioning them causing constant random reboots and then just dying all together.

So currently my suspision is that my Power Supply is faulty and that I need to purchase a new one, however I have no spare ones which I could use to test and I know that random rebooting could be the motherboard, or even RAM issues.

I want to know what your thoughts are on the issue , your help and thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Clarification on Recycle Bin Emptying

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I am running a Windows 8 OS for purposes of this inquiry. I don't religiously empty my recycle bin. I can go stretches of time without cleaning it. Today, I checked the recycle bin after doing some housekeeping on my fixed drives. I saw that there were other files that are showing deleted on a removable drive that could use the free space. I also saw some other files which I wasn't sure I wanted to remove permanently yet. So I highlighted some of the larger files in the recycle bin that are from my removable drive, and began the removal process. These files have been deleted for a long time already, compared to the files I had just deleted in my housekeeping. As I monitored the progress, I noticed that there were headers flashing as the removal was going on. Instead of seeing the file names of the files I was removing from the recycle bin, I was seeing 8-character stretches (which I call 'headers' for lack of knowing better), some of which seem to show parts of file names from a different directory. That alarmed me and I cut off the process, but it had gone through halfway and had cleaned out a few GB before I stopped it.

I have many data files on that removable drive, so much that I cannot remember most of them, but I certainly want to keep them. I have proceeded to access the removable drive again, and so far I do not notice anything wrong yet.

I took out my removable drive from my desktop for my travels earlier and plugged it back into my desktop today, but along with other removable drives. In the process, the drive letter assignment changed from before.

Was that a screw up of the recycle bin process and caused me to lose some files? Or is there nothing for me to worry about? Should I expect to see the proper file names in the recycle bin flash through as the removal process is being done?

MMX Test - Module failed

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My laptop is not restarting, whenever I try it shut-down and also on pressing the power button it doesn't start in one go. It takes 20-30 times pressing the power button if I am lucky thats why I never power off my laptop.

It is corei5 dell 5521 model.
I had done full dell disgnostic and it shows are test are passed except MMX test- module failed to start
checkerboard test- module failed to start
USB device cannot run

Need help

How would I install a second hard drive into a computer?

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My school ran a program where students were able to buy a computer from the school's computer shop. (Its a trade school). The computers they were selling were dirt cheap (as in $20, yes twenty ), because they didn't have an OS installed. Well, because they inadvertently kept me waiting for almost four months, they put Windows 7 Pro on it for no charge. The computer is an HP Compaq 6000 Pro Microtower.

Anyways, I used it to replace my Dell Optiplex 210l. Last night, I decided that I was going to pull things like the RAM, DVD Drive, and hard drive from it then have it recycled. I looked into it and the HP seems like it should be compatible with the Dell's hard drive, and it can support up to two hdds. What I want to know is, how would I go about installing it as a second hard drive?

Thank you,
computersarecool

Data Recovery Needed

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Looking for Data Recovery Software or any suggestions in regards to recovery of data from a Laptop hard drive that shows Corrupted/unreadable files. The files are not showing as accessible due to being Corrupted/unreadable. The hard drive was evaluated by the Geek Squad. They said they were unable to access the files. It was also evaluated by a Recovery service and their report is:

Lab Report:

Lab department report, engineers have finished diagnostic stage of the data recovery process with proprietary coding software. Surface verification scans both physical and logical revealed reallocation errors on the surface in boot record and master file table. Index allocations and bitmap are missing entirely and proper locations of original root structure folders are not pointing to proper headers of files. Engineers will need to implement sector by sector copying method from original hard drive into an image file for possible raw recovery scan and lost structure scan to allocate lost folders and files.

The disk was protected via Bitlocker when the computer crashed. When I place the disk in a dock outside of the computer (the computer has been restored with a new disk), the disk shows up and I can unlock it with the Bitlocker password but the files do not show. When I attempt to open it, a pop up states: corrupted/unreadable files.

Is there any software available or any type of service that can help me get access to those files so they maybe backed up?? Your assistance is MOST helpful: THANKS!!

Access2010 Does Not Open Files

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I had a similar problem described on this thread
http://forums.techguy.org/business-a...n-problem.html

but since the problem is different I decided to start a new thread. I always use Explorer to open my files and lately when I click an .accdb file, Access opens but does not open the file and I have to go thru File, Open, Select directories etc. Before like any other file, when I click a file it opens with its respective program

Any ideas to a solution?

Need help with Cryptowall & Help_Decrypt.

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Hi, my laptop got invaded by Cryptowall last week, I've tried a few things already, but don't know if it had help at all, so I would like an expect to take a look what else can be done.

I'd found 3 HELP_DECRYPT files suddenly appeared on my desktop last Saturday, and then noticed some of my photos won't open. Then found my spreadsheets and pdf files won't open either. I'd quickly deleted the 3 files without even opening them and carried out a simple file search of these files, and found more than 800 of these files found its way all over. I'd deleted all these files into the recycle bin without a second thought. I'd then did an Avira scan, but it didn't find anything at all. I then tried to do a system restore, but I couldn't access any saved points more than a few weeks old. And these system restore points didn't help either, I still can't open my personal files.

I have since found out this is likely to be a Cryptowall 3.0 and chances of restoring my files myself are very low. I have since carried out scans using the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, SuperAntiSpyware & the online ESET. And finally I thought to quarantine all my corrupted files then give the ShadowExplorer a go from bleebingcomputer.com. Unfortunately the ListCwall.exe couldn’t find the list of corrupted files that is supposed to be hidden in the Registry at all.

So any advice you can offer will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

I have also enclosed a Hijack This log for you.

Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, 32 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2370 @ 1.73GHz, x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 2037 Mb
Graphics Card: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family, 256 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 70001 MB, Free - 8965 MB; D: Total - 44461 MB, Free - 5520 MB;
Motherboard: Intel Corp., Base Board Product Name
Antivirus: Avira Desktop, Updated: No, On-Demand Scanner: Enabled

Attached Files
File Type: txt ListCWall.txt (1.2 KB)
File Type: log hijackthis.log (9.8 KB)

Unable to remove CoudScout! Please Help

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Hello Tech Support,

I have tried all I know including Malware-bytes and alike, reset all browsers, uninstall all browsers and reinstall to no avail :(. Adds keep popping up every time I search in the internet. I have gotten great help from you before please help me again.

I would greatly appreciate it.

Roger

Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 6038 Mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M, 1024 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 456835 MB, Free - 312133 MB;
Motherboard: Dell Inc., 0FRK44
Antivirus: McAfee Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware, Updated and Enabled

MS Word 2010 - Removal Footer on last page only

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Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
Processor Count: 8
RAM: 8139 Mb
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family, -250 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 938618 MB, Free - 733650 MB; D: Total - 14946 MB, Free - 1867 MB;
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard, 1657
Antivirus: Kaspersky Internet Security, Updated and Enabled

MS Word 2010 - Removal of Footer on last page of document only.
I prepare Wills and know how to insert headers/footer on the first page and subsequent pages of a Will.
On the last page I require the Header to remain but I would like to remove the footer only.
I have been unable to master this - can anybody help plse?
Thank u so much - Mischke

W 7 Home Premium Clean Install

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6/13/15

I am brand new to this site...

I inherited a Lenovo B570 with W 7 that was loaded with junk and conflicts. I used the native "Restore" software to restore the computer to what I assume to be "as shipped" condition.

All of the files and software that were loaded into the computer by the previous owner appear to be gone...but it looks like the computer shipped with plenty of bloat

I have added some programs....MS Office being the "biggie"...

I would like this laptop to be as fast and uncluttered as possible and could use some help in eliminating software, running processes, resource hogs etc to get it where it functions within my needs. For instance there is a thumb[print reader...I have no use for...something called...Lenovo Veriface that I assume uses the camera to verify I am the proper user..no use for...something called "Bioexcess"???

I use the computer for web surfing, "office" activities including lots of email, and I have a stock trading platform that is pretty "robust"...


What I DO NOT do is ...gaming, design/graphics, "surf" sketchy sites (porno etc)...and as such, am in no great need of super security....in fact I think I could get by with a minimum of "anti virus"

Adobe products are in startup..I read pdf's about once a day..

I'm sure you get the idea..

What I DO NOT want to do is "eliminate" something incorrectly...or make a change that affects a necessary process..

I imagine this is too big of a request and unreasonable to "hog" Forum time...I can certainly understand...

Perhaps there is an individual in here who would be willing to do it with/for me via remote access etc...even for a fee or "donation" to this site?

Maybe this kind of solicitation is in violation of the rules?? In which case, I rescind my request..gladly.

I hope I'm not being presumptuous...but I found this site...and read some of the posts and was impressed by the professionalism..

Thanks in advance....and ;looking forward to a stripped down cleaned up machine...

bucbean
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