Recent content by Gedalya

I found the solution talking to someone; basically this was a bug in Windows 8. I applied all available OS updates (I had quite a few) and that remedied the issue.

I just bought a brand new laptop; and MSI GS70 with an i7, 16GB RAM, 120GB SSD Boot drive et al.. I'm pretty happy with it; however I've recently noticed that shortly after boot as much as 12 or more GB of RAM is in use. This started shortly after I began installing programs and configuring it...

Both of you have provided excellent information; I will look into a cooling pad and also ensuring it is properly cleaned. I also found a great article here: http://www.howtogeek.com/67660/how-to-diagnose-and-fix-an-overheating-laptop/ Suggesting that using it in bed is problem as the sheets...

I have an ASUS ROG laptop, its older, but I love it. I try and use it to play games and I've noted that after 2 or more hours it crashes; the screen goes black and the system basically hangs. I have to do a reboot to get it up again and usually I don't use it again until the next day. I suspect...

Over the weekend I had what I believed was a HDD failure on my laptop; an ASUS ROG G73J. On Sunday I went to swap out the HDD believing it had simply died; I opened the case and found that in fact the HDD (one of two) had simply become disconnected. I observed that the other drive would not have...