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  1. tekbytes

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    awesome technome, thanks
  2. tekbytes

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    wow flyboytim, thanks for the decent solid post with information actually relevant to the topic, i thought about the DVD causing an issue (truth is this one is never used) but like you said windows is not going to tell me that in any scan The battery is aftermarket but it is healthy for what it...
  3. tekbytes

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    first off their are no "real professionals in the basement" this is tek tips for COL lol second yes i thought of that, why do you think i said all that stuff in the original post, this has stumped even me and i got more tech creds then most people see in a lifetime, sorry you dont...
  4. tekbytes

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    Alas, (sigh) no solution lots of good ideas though, i remember a day when this forum was filled with real tech pros and we worked together to solve issues, i think like many things tek tips outlived its usefulness, or people got lazy, probably both, thanks everyone for the suggestions you did...
  5. tekbytes

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    ok will reset vm size as for disabling all ms services it makes the computer pretty much useless whenever i do that i had my suspicions that if it wasnt malware or virus it could be a lingering service or driver errror nothing in the logs that i can see when the pc freezes, it works fine as long...
  6. tekbytes

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    oh one more thing original specs say no to the double adapters, it only has one!
  7. tekbytes

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    Have you check your virtual memory configuration? Can you narrow down which processes are causing the 95% cpu load?" virtual memory config is screenshot below I am not trusting a "borked system" you told me to look at that article and i did, it showed how to tell if two display adapters...
  8. tekbytes

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    if your referring to this page, which is indeed my model, no such driver or category is listed http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4063&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=3860630#N225
  9. tekbytes

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    here is a brief image of the usage load, right now skype is running at idle, 3 tabs open in chrome, outlook just launched, and thats really it, im well over 50% cpu usage for that amount of programs, seems a bit hoggish to me!
  10. tekbytes

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    only the ATI Radeon 3200 is showing in device manager, i thought we might be onto something there good idea though chipset is manufacture i do believe live cd is something i have not tried, but i have run stress tests on this and was never able to duplicate the issue, i could try to run a...
  11. tekbytes

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    replaced the drive with a new drive with a fresh copy of windows 7, no difference" Does that mean you installed with the most basic driver setup, all native, no resident programs, and it still failed? If you added any other 3rd party drivers/residents I would be looking at those. it does mean...
  12. tekbytes

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    I really tried to avoid this i really did, but here is the situation being a tech i come across all sorts of strange issues but this one has me stumped and its on my personal machine which makes me even more mad windows 7 pro SP1 4 gb ram 2.0 duo core AMD Turion X2 320gb sata primary, 600gb...
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