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Ctrl x is cut in windows. Ctrl c is copy. So it technically should be there on the clipboard in memory somewhere.
 
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So my computer just crashes to a black screen when playing games now, like the computer continues to operate, you can still hear whatever is happening, just the display stops working. Not a monitor problem, the monitor works fine on my other computer. The computer with the problem is one I commandeeredfrom my wife, an old Dell Studio XPS 9000, it has a 440 watt power supply ( i believe) and a Geforce GTS 240 in it. It seems like this is a common problem and people have varying fixes that haven't worked for me yet. I tried updating drivers, tried underclocking, so I am thinking maybe just buy a new graphics card today and see if that fixes the issue. If that doesn't fix it the only thing I can think of is replacing the power supply, but I doubt it is that, if it was a failing power supply I am sure I would have more symptoms.
 
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What processor is in that XPS 9000? There's probably a decent chance that you have onboard video that you could test that theory out with, before you have to resort to buying a new video card. If you have an i3/i5/i7 2000-series or 3000-series processor, you have onboard video
 
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i7, yeah it was the video card I think. I went ahead and threw a GTX 660 in it and so far so good so I think my card was just old and busted.
 
Gnomedolf

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I've got a high-end PC that I built myself awhile ago. I'm having issues with popping sounds in the speakers when playing music. It doesn't matter which service I play it from, I get random pops. Any ideas what might cause it?
 
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Gnomedolf_sl said:
I've got a high-end PC that I built myself awhile ago. I'm having issues with popping sounds in the speakers when playing music. It doesn't matter which service I play it from, I get random pops. Any ideas what might cause it?
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First thing I would take a look at is your audio drivers. Are you using onboard sound or a sound card? Either way, download the driver directly from the manufacturer and not through the automatic update.

I assume your speakers aren't blown or damaged. You can also check this by simply plugging the lead into you MP3 player / iPhone / whatever.
 
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Jysin_sl said:
First thing I would take a look at is your audio drivers. Are you using onboard sound or a sound card? Either way, download the driver directly from the manufacturer and not through the automatic update.

I assume your speakers aren't blown or damaged. You can also check this by simply plugging the lead into you MP3 player / iPhone / whatever.
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It's onboard audio. I'm using the latest driver that the mobo's updater software installed. The speakers are not blown.
 
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I've got another weird problem. My PC will go into hibernation while I'm actively using it. It did it just a few minutes ago while I was browsing CNN. Power settings are set to High Performance and I turned off every sleep/hibernation setting I can find. CPU temps are fine. I've used this PC for about 8 months now and it's never done this before now.
 
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You can turn off hibernation entirely by opening a command prompt as Administrator and typing the following:

powercfg -h off
 
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I walked back into my office to find the computer was asleep instead of hibernated this time, even though sleep is turned off.
 
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I ran a program called Don't Sleep, which is specifically make to keep computers from going to sleep. It didn't work. My PC still goes to sleep. I have never seen this before. I am stumped!
 
gogusrl

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Check your physical power button maybe it's loose. Also you can change what your power button does in power options. Change it to something else to see if the problem is from there.
 
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Need some help diagnosing what went wrong with my Mother's computer today. First of, what I know:

The PSU fried and shorted out the electricity in the house. Went and bought a new PSU and hoped for the best. Stuck the new one in and on the first boot I got up to the "Starting Windows" screen, but it froze before the four coloured windows showed up (Win 7 btw). Next boot I got past the BIOS boot text, but no further. Boots since then, the puter starts up, fans whirr (box, CPU and GPU fans), HDD churns but nothing, no text on the screen and the monitor doesn't register a turned on computer.

I removed the HDD and placed it in my puter and it looks fine (thank god).

So, it seems that one or more of the following are bust:

- MoBo
- CPU
- Memory
- GFX card (Nvidia 8800 GT - Hey, I gave he my old machine when I upgrade mine. I know it's overkill for a Facebook/e-mail machine).

My gut instinct says the MoBo is fried, possibly the CPU too. Are there any good ways to diagnose this for sure?
 
gogusrl

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Need some help finding the Windows 8.1 All-in-One AMD driver for a AMD 770 chipset motherboard (ASRock > M3A770DE).

The poor guy is running Standard AHCI SATA Controller driver from 2006 with a Samsung 830 SSD.

My googlefu has failed me.
 
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aaron_sl said:
My gut instinct says the MoBo is fried, possibly the CPU too. Are there any good ways to diagnose this for sure?
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Jesus, if the PSU freaked out enough to trip breakers in the house, I'd almost chalk the computer up as a total loss. Very good chance that power surge nuked everything that is physically installed on the motherboard (Mobo, Ram, CPU, etc).

Parts that are only attached via cables *might* be ok, hard drives, optical drives, USB ports on front of the case, etc.
 
Gnomedolf

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gogusrl_sl said:
Check your physical power button maybe it's loose. Also you can change what your power button does in power options. Change it to something else to see if the problem is from there.
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Came home today to find it hibernated again. The power buttons seems fine. It's gonna suck if I have to rebuild this thing.
 
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