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you need to find the manufacturer of either your desktop if it is a prebuilt, or the motherboards manufacturer and model number. Go to the manufacturers website, find their support section. Find the location for downloads/drivers, lookup the model of your desktop/motherboard. Select the section...

yes, it could infect the MBR on the hard drive which is not wiped in a format. not sure how advanced such a virus is capable of being but I imagine it could be advanced enough to enable something on a fresh windows install to autoload a more complex virus. Technically I imagine you could infect...

Don't think about code neutral stuff, its complex. All code is platform dependent at its heart, all the code you write is broken down into machine code which is what the computer understands. The compiler you use does that for you. The only reason code can work on different systems is some...

the functions you are used to are c++ standard library functions, when you are trying to control the console you are interacting with windows, so you have to use windows library(windows API) functions to modify it. a handle would be a reference to the object, that is the console in this case...

about as good as it gets as far as free goes. Other things you can do is ensure you don't use admin account as your default account so any virus is stuck in a limited rights environment(and thusly easier for AV to get rid of) Newer windows versions though do a decent job of this automatically...

you could try repairing the partition table via TestDisk, but if it was dropped then likely a hardware issue and you'd want to replace the HDD.

Even if you clone the partition to a new disk, if the OS data got corrupted, you may not have any new issues, but the existing issues won't go away because the data is already corrupted. I am not familiar with Mac OS recovery/restore options for fixing the corruption issue. For cloning, you can...

worst case is there is a badly soldered wire connecting to the monitor, or badly insulated cable that it touching metal, and what you are hearing is electrical arching(think touching 2 powered copper wires together, like jumper cables(but with much much less power involved)). But opening the...

I would recommend consulting MSI online support, they may know of a known problem with that model.

even if you aren't actively using the speakers, a driver issue/bug could cause them to crackle. Speakers crackling is a fairly common issue, do a quick google search on MSI and Crackling

A screen shouldn't make noises. Are there embedded speakers in that, maybe the speakers are crackling for one reason or another. Send a ticket to MSI if you are still under warranty if you think it definitely isn't the speakers. not to make you more nervous, but you don't smell anything burning...

Look into EFS, its windows file encryption. that would be the easiest way to encrypt everything. Depends upon how secure you need things to be. For even more secure you can start looking into things like truecrypt(etc) BitLocker is also a windows encryption feature, more secure than EFS would...

maybe the CPU heatsink is subpar and isn't spreading and getting rid of the heat fast enough. OR maybe you applied too much or too little paste