Recent content by Zakham

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    Issue with HDD (I think)

    Happy to see you solved it! It looked like a BIOS problem.
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    Issue with HDD (I think)

    I usually do not try to recover from the "OEM" partition, I would tend to think that you got here some kind of "locked" system. Did you look in your BIOS settings if you have something like "Secure Boot" enabled? This may prevent you from booting once you make modification to the system (I do...
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    Laptop graphic card burnt test

    Damn, I was not expecting answers so fast! You guys are really great. @Chayan4400, I've read the "external thread" that you sent, if I understood correctly, and if I really have to change the graphic card I may as well go for the AM FirePro M5100 (I have no clue how AMD give names). I've found...
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    Laptop graphic card burnt test

    Hi Ptown Gamer, Thanks for your first input! It's just sad to trash a machine when I could repair it, but I concur, this may not be the most "enjoyable" solution. Do you think that the graphic card has a problem too? Are you sure the card is soldered? I've looked around and it seems that it's...
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    Laptop graphic card burnt test

    Hi Tom's Hardware folks, I've been looking around on the internet but can't find an exact answer. I have been using a Dell M4600 for more than four years now and it recently had a significant problem. It shut down and then the screen remained black when I rebooted. I tried using an external...