Been suspicious of laptop batteries performance for many years. Purchased Dell Studio17 and booted first time on 8/26/2010. Performed the recommendations for charging the battery and a 2 week break in period. Performed a discharge calibration and battery lasted 3.5 hours. After 10 months...
Hi,
The Intel volume 1 data sheet for second generation core Desktop processors states the following about C-states:
"Caution: Long term reliability cannot be assured unless all the Low Power Idle States are enabled"
I would like to hear what people think about that. ...
Windows 7 . . .
- x64
- the original installed OS on the system? Yes
- an OEM version
- What is the age of system (hardware)? Approx 1 1/2yrs.
- What is the age of OS installation (have you re-installed the OS?) Original install. Approx 1 1/2yrs.
Am having multi BSODs nearly daily. ...
For what feels like forever my main PC has been crashing every so often. Most of the time it'll just restart, but occasionally (about half a dozen out of about 100 times) I get a BSOD.
Two other oddities are that once it knocked power to the CPU fan out (so when it restarted I got scary red...
Hi,
I've been having a long term problem (going on for a few months) with various BSOD's, including the IRQ less or not equal, system service exceptions, and various others, and can never seem to understand what is going on.
Usually, in windows 7 (64bit) it is MOST likely to crash when the...