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[satriales]

Yes they have. Faster, lower power, more overclockable every cycle. Whats not to like?

In tiny increments every year that most people wouldn't really notice anyway. And its been more about efficiency than increasing the raw power anyway.

I don't think you're supposed to upgrade the CPU every year.

[Fishfingers]

Scan.co.uk accepted a return of my 7850 card that failed - 3 days left on the 2 year warranty. Here's hoping they give a refund then I can get the Nvidia card mentioned on the last page. Good service.

[BTB]

I have a problem that my keyboard doesn't work on my laptop...

Its an Acer aspire and I did an update, since then the keyboard on the laptop doesn't work.

I managed to enter my password using an onscreen keyboard. I've looked at the control panel and on the keyboard area it has 'HID keyboard device' with a small yellow triangle next to it. When I click it is says 'Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing (code 39).
{Unable to load device driver}
%hs device driver could not be loaded.
Error status was 0x%x’

How can I fix this? Especially considering I can't type on my laptop at the moment... I can't find the onscreen laptop that was available on the sign in page of my laptop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[satriales]

One of the laptops at work had the same problem a week ago with both keyboard and touchpad not working after a windows update.

For a temporary fix you can press F8 when booting up and the select "disable driver signature enforcement".
This should fix the keyboard but you have to do it every time you start the laptop.

For a permanent solution you just have to play around with the drivers. Uninstalling them in device manager and restarting the computer then re-installing. It was a real pain to fix, but eventually they sorted themselves out.

[Fishfingers]

Putting together a PC for a friend, have come up with this as a spec:



Anyone think there is anything I should change? The budget is ~£800.

[Super Dragon 64]

The stock CPU fan should be fine as you won't be overclocking that CPU. I'd recommend shopping at Dabs because you get £40 off with coupon code SIZZLE40. The following should do well for £780.

[HSH28]

No reason to get Windows 7 at all.

[Winckle]

No reason to get Windows 7 at all.

Are you suggesting he pirate an OS? You've always been against that sort of thing.

[BTB]

One of the laptops at work had the same problem a week ago with both keyboard and touchpad not working after a windows update.

For a temporary fix you can press F8 when booting up and the select "disable driver signature enforcement".
This should fix the keyboard but you have to do it every time you start the laptop.

For a permanent solution you just have to play around with the drivers. Uninstalling them in device manager and restarting the computer then re-installing. It was a real pain to fix, but eventually they sorted themselves out.

Thanks, I tried the F8 and that didn't seem to do anything.

I've tried uninstalling it (well, two of the same appear on the device manager) and restarting but the same issue seems to be happening. Will I have to wait for some sort of update until this will be fixed?

[HSH28]

No reason to get Windows 7 at all.

Are you suggesting he pirate an OS? You've always been against that sort of thing.

No reason not to get Windows 8 then.

[Winckle]

No reason to get Windows 7 at all.

Are you suggesting he pirate an OS? You've always been against that sort of thing.

No reason not to get Windows 8 then.

What if he doesn't like Windows 8. That seems like a reason to me.

[HSH28]

No reason to get Windows 7 at all.

Are you suggesting he pirate an OS? You've always been against that sort of thing.

No reason not to get Windows 8 then.

What if he doesn't like Windows 8. That seems like a reason to me.

There's no valid reason not to like Windows 8, you can mostly ignore Metro with only minor tweaks and its faster than Windows 7.

[Winckle]

No reason to get Windows 7 at all.

Are you suggesting he pirate an OS? You've always been against that sort of thing.

No reason not to get Windows 8 then.

What if he doesn't like Windows 8. That seems like a reason to me.

There's no valid reason not to like Windows 8, you can mostly ignore Metro with only minor tweaks and its faster than Windows 7.

[systematic]

The stock CPU fan should be fine as you won't be overclocking that CPU. I'd recommend shopping at Dabs because you get £40 off with coupon code SIZZLE40. The following should do well for £780.

With a £800 budget a SSD drive should be a necessity, rather than a luxury upgrade.

A PSU based on Seasonic's design would be better, like this one.

[TheTurnipKing]

Man, what the strawberry float does Francine have against pants anyway?

[St Nick]

Finally ordered all the parts for my PC!

It's this:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3RQOa

Plus the fractal case I posted a couple months ago, a 1 TB hard drive and a standard optical drive.

Went with this for the keyboard:

http://www.ebuyer.com/609318-func-kb-46 ... ard-kn-460

This for the mouse:

http://www.ebuyer.com/451317-func-ms-3- ... c-ms-3-1st

and this for the monitor

http://www.ebuyer.com/581644-dell-p2214 ... r-861-bbbg

Very excited for it to all arrive...big thanks to GM for leading me through what to buy with my budget.

[HSH28]

If you are going to spend silly money on a keyboard, you should have gone for this one...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CH-9000 ... 00CJUM3NQ/

[St Nick]

If you are going to spend silly money on a keyboard, you should have gone for this one...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CH-9000 ... 00CJUM3NQ/

Thanks, H.

[False]

That is a strawberry floating disgusting keyboard and a terrible piece of advice.

[St Nick]

That is a strawberry floating disgusting keyboard and a terrible piece of advice.

The one I ordered or the one H recommended?