Recent content by Deehomes

yea when it asks you to restart, hit the button and when you see the bios splash screen again take the usb out.

When it restarts take the USB out, should be fine.

in the command line, type "startx" (no quotes) as root and see if it loads a GUI.

Alright so I'm currently an IT student and looking for a good laptop for my needs. I'm usually running anywhere from 1 to 3 virtual machines in VMware, ranging from Windows Server to Linux based Operating Systems. Probably needs at least 8GB of ram with a decently clocked i5. Hard drive space...

I really don't see why you don't get a desktop. You state you want easy accessibility to the laptops hardware, which is very hard to do, especially in gaming laptops. Desktops are very easy to troubleshoot and work in (If you can build something with legos, you can build a pc, its that easy.) A...

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/y-series/y50/?sb=:000001C9:00013931: Lenovo is probably your best bet. They have some pretty good prices and coupons you can use. I had an older model Y580 before building my desktop and it served me well. I would never look back at a gaming laptop...

8 gigs is fine. If needed you can most likely add more ram later.

I'm not too familiar with bitcoins and how the whole process works, but if I were I would go ahead and do a fresh install of your OS. If you can, backup your files to an external drive of some sorts before wiping the hard drive. It's unfortunate you got a virus as nasty as that =/.

I think you're missing one crucial step here. where are you actually going to purchase a 980m? Even if you do find a seller. The price is going to be extremely over priced for the performance you're getting. You'd more than likely be able to buy a desktop 980 which would laugh in the face of the...

When in doubt just run some virus scans. I've personally never heard of that site. **i opened it in a virtual machine, seems like its an advertisement to convince people into buying norton, I wouldn't worry about it.