Experienced in complete system builds where knowledge of kinds and types of motherboards, processors, and RAM have to be compatible. This includes intermediate knowledge of video card technologies and the troubleshooting and repair of problems associated with said hardware.
11 years experience as a self-employed PC technician with 100% customer satisfaction.
4 classes from a Networking degree. Mostly self-taught.
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As long as you still have the backup files somewhere safe, I think it would be safe to delete all the instances of them. To be even safer you could run system restore. Still, since they are just duplicate
You did not specify if it was a laptop or desktop. For both you can use one basic hardware troubleshooting system. Take everything out (wireless card, video card, all but one stick of RAM) everything but
While having a video card is always better than using onboard video, what could be the problem with your DVDs is a new HD format player (even blue ray) may not be totally compatible with an old format
Tiger Direct still has one that is compatible. Here is a link: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=13681 There are some others but I was trying to match
Scroll about half way down the page in this thread about the HP TouchSmart IQ 790 and you will see what the answer is. Doesn't sound too good. One of the reasons I won't buy any of the new Ipad, Imacs
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