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I have a weird problem with my laptop. my laptop is a dell latitude d630 with an intel core 2 duo T7300 cpu it is a dual core cpu
but since 2 days my computer runs slower. i didn't understand. using cpu-z i saw that my cpu only has ONE core.
i do not understand. can cores go bad separate?
The computer I'm using is older (3+ years) and has frustrated me a few times, most notably in the past 2 months.
That said, this is a new problem. My second (DVI) monitor is detected by Windows but doesn't display anything. In both the display settings and the NVIDIA control panel, I can see a second (Impression) monitor, but it's blank and I can't get it to show anything. In fact, the monitor doesn't seem to recognize that it's connected, because the orange "power but no input" light is on rather than the green "power and input" light.
This is a Windows 7 64-bit installation on a Dell Dimension E520.
I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit OS. The BIOS sees both hard drives and the CD and DVD drive and the Windows Device Manager shows the extra hard drive and both optical drives. When I click the folder in the task bar (Libraries) I can only see "C" drive and no optical drives either. When I click on the CD drive I get the right menues for it, but it does not work at all. If I put a CD in the drive it locks up the system and I have to power off the computer before I can eject it.
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I have a problem with my radeon. After I install windows they don't recognizes my graphic card , they only recognizes VGA standard graphic card.
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