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If your computer or phone is giving you issues:

• Please read this before posting: 4 Reasons Why IT People Ignore Your Requests for Help
• Restart the computer. Hopefully this will take care of any issues
• If your problem has not yet been solved, try to Google it. There may be a very simple solution
• On a Windows computer, a system restore may do the trick.
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #660 on: May 18, 2014, 02:30:42 PM »
You're probably running Windows 8.  D: is probably the backup drive, and Windows is continuously backing up to that partition.  Just disable backups.
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #661 on: May 18, 2014, 02:34:58 PM »
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Follow suggestion anyway.

Is D: a recovery partition?
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #662 on: May 18, 2014, 02:44:41 PM »
Follow suggestion anyway.

Is D: a recovery partition?
yes it is. Can I delete the backup? Also this would slow it down?
Thanks so much for replying

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #663 on: May 18, 2014, 03:12:10 PM »
yes it is. Can I delete the backup? Also this would slow it down?
Thanks so much for replying
Yes you can, but you don't need to.  Just disable future backups.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-disable-windows-7-backup.html
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #664 on: May 19, 2014, 09:34:52 PM »
What is the difference of doing a "Windows System Restore" vs a "OneKey Recovery" from Lenovo?
I want to factory reset a Lenovo laptop, which of the above options suits best?
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #665 on: May 19, 2014, 09:36:18 PM »
What is the difference of doing a "Windows System Restore" vs a "OneKey Recovery" from Lenovo?
I want to factory reset a Lenovo laptop, which of the above options suits best?
Use the second one. Windows System Restore just rolls back important Windows files to an earlier point in time, but will not totally factory reset the computer.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #666 on: May 19, 2014, 09:50:36 PM »
Use the second one. Windows System Restore just rolls back important Windows files to an earlier point in time, but will not totally factory reset the computer.
AFAIR WSR does have a restore point to beginning of time.. Am I mistaken?
Also, not 100% sure OneKey is that.. Are you talking from experience?
I'm a new Lenovo user..
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #667 on: May 20, 2014, 12:50:33 AM »
AFAIR WSR does have a restore point to beginning of time.. Am I mistaken?
Also, not 100% sure OneKey is that.. Are you talking from experience?
I'm a new Lenovo user..
AFAIK, WSR will not affect any user files and some program files. Even if you have a restore point right at the beginning, it will only restore Windows files.
I don't have any experience with Lenovo, but AFAIK you don't want to use WSR for factory restore.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #668 on: May 20, 2014, 09:24:43 AM »
AFAIK, WSR will not affect any user files and some program files. Even if you have a restore point right at the beginning, it will only restore Windows files.
I don't have any experience with Lenovo, but AFAIK you don't want to use WSR for factory restore.
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #669 on: May 21, 2014, 09:51:24 AM »
Plug in, press play.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #670 on: May 26, 2014, 01:39:56 PM »
Is it possible to connect a secondary graphics card without the on board card getting disabled?
This is on an optiplex 3010 small form factor pc

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #671 on: May 26, 2014, 02:28:24 PM »
Is it possible to connect a secondary graphics card without the on board card getting disabled?
This is on an optiplex 3010 small form factor pc
It depends on the mb.  Not sure with that model, but IME, most of the time the answer is no, you can not use both.  But again, it depends on the MB.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #672 on: May 26, 2014, 02:33:37 PM »
GIFY

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/280276-run-on-board-video-and-video-card-on-dell-optiplex

The consesus is as I said, but this poster found a "workaround" for this model.  If you also have 2 pci slots, try it -
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This is an older post, but I thought I'd throw
some info into the pot for anyone still looking....
I do video transcoding on my work machine
(Optiplex 7010), and the onboard Intel HD4000
GPU rips through h.264 encoding at an impressive
rate. This was not always the case, as the
machine arrived with dual ATI Radeon cards.
Radeons don't have a lot of support for GPU
encoding, so I really wanted that HD4000 active
and usable, if not driving a monitor.
After a bunch of testing and digging through
manuals, I found that the motherboard will
always disable the onboard video if you jam a
video card into the first PCIe x16. Most current
Optiplex machines have two x16 slots. If you pop
your video card into the second x16 slot, your
onboard video does not get shut down. The minor
drawback is that the second x16 slot is not a real
x16; it is only connected as an x4. This is
supposedly enough bandwidth to run across-the-
bus SLI, as the monitors are supposed to be
connected to the first card in an SLI setup.
So, long story short - if you pop a dual-head card
into that second PCI-e slot, you will be able to
float 4 monitors (I've got 3 right now).

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #673 on: May 26, 2014, 03:54:23 PM »
Thanks, now the next order of business
I started getting a graphics card alert on my computer and it then crashes(bsod)
I've narrowed it down to Firefox and webpages containing flowplayer content
Is it entirely coincidental that it started happening today after I messed around a bit with my screens, or did I possibly screw something up?

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #674 on: May 26, 2014, 06:34:26 PM »
Thanks, now the next order of business
I started getting a graphics card alert on my computer and it then crashes(bsod)
I've narrowed it down to Firefox and webpages containing flowplayer content
Is it entirely coincidental that it started happening today after I messed around a bit with my screens, or did I possibly screw something up?
More info...

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #675 on: May 26, 2014, 09:31:25 PM »
More info...
As I mentioned earlier , ive been messing around with the screens connected to my pc by trying to connect 1 to the internal graphics card and one to the add in.
That configuration didn't work. Computer wouldnt boot at all so I went back to having both connected to the add in card.
Whether this messing around has anything to do with my subsequent issues I don't know however. Since restoring the screens connections I noticed the screen goes black for few seconds and then re-appears with message - "Display driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered"
I narrowed the trigger down to browsing a html5 embedded flowplayer video. But only with firefox. Chrome handled those pages fine.

TIA

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #676 on: May 26, 2014, 09:33:56 PM »
As I mentioned earlier , ive been messing around with the screens connected to my pc by trying to connect 1 to the internal graphics card and one to the add in.
That configuration didn't work. Computer wouldnt boot at all so I went back to having both connected to the add in card.
Whether this messing around has anything to do with my subsequent issues I don't know however. Since restoring the screens connections I noticed the screen goes black for few seconds and then re-appears with message - "Display driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered"
I narrowed the trigger down to browsing a html5 embedded flowplayer video. But only with firefox. Chrome handled those pages fine.

TIA
Step 1 - Windows restore to the last day that it worked.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #677 on: May 27, 2014, 02:18:47 AM »
So are you able to use the computer normally.. and without having these problems?

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #678 on: May 27, 2014, 10:24:27 AM »
Step 1 - Windows restore to the last day that it worked.
Will look into that when I get to the office

So are you able to use the computer normally.. and without having these problems?
Yes, even the same webpage works if I use chrome

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #679 on: May 27, 2014, 11:37:38 AM »
Will look into that when I get to the office
Yes, even the same webpage works if I use chrome
I just restored and it seems to have solved the problem. Thank you very much!
I have to assume that I messed up the graphics card drivers when I switched the screens around so I guess I'll be more careful next time