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Losing your social security card might not seem like a big deal right now, but it becomes a pain if you need to apply for benefits. It’s always best to report the missing card as soon as possible and ...

I have a machine that has been damaged by some careless couriers, and want to replace the damage parts efficiently. I have limited opportunities to test components in other computers, so I'm trying to find out what is broken in other ways. I have two main issues: Graphical artifacts. These take the form of small grid-aligned squares which usually appear and then flicker form position to position. If the display driver doesn't crash, they often settle down to a final position, and sometimes the ...

What hardware input device can you use to accept EMV chip card data and delivery the data to a Windows 10 C# program ? ...

I find it very tedious to scroll to the page I am currently reading whenever I open a PDF document. Is there a way for example to dogear page 20 and have the document open at that very page the next time? ...

today i tried to install openSUSE Leap 42.1 on a SD-card. I used a USB stick as installation medium. So far everything has gone well. The installation finished without any problems. Then I went to the Bios to select the SD-card as Boot Option #1. But I couldn't find the SD-card there! What do I have to change in order to make the SD-card appear in the BIOS? Thanks for your help! Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I have a Transcend USB 3.0 SD and MicroSD card reader. When I plug it in, it won't show up in the windows 7 file explorer, but it shows up properly in DiskPart and device manager in windows 7 which says it is operating properly. I Cannot access any files on any SD card placed in the adapter. I have another old SD adapter that works fine, but I want to replace it with the non-functioning adapter. It used to work fine when i first got it, So the problem is most likely Windows file explorer. Let's ...

I cloned my existing 500 GB HDD to a new SanDisk 1 TB SSD (via CloneZilla). Now, I'm having trouble to get Windows booting again: SSD itself works fine, I can access it via Ubuntu (booted from USB) the SSD is NOT recognized by the BIOS if I go into the BIOS setup menu I then added a new partition to install Ubuntu as second OS on the disk, this works fine The Ubunto Bot Loader (Grub) shows Windows 7 as an Option When I Select this option, a flashing _ shows, similar to what is described in Windo...

I am using Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500 GB. Instead of installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 on it, an old image of the OS created from an old HHD was used I am worried this may affect the performance/age of the SSD. Which I understood is made to run on 4k bytes per sector. screenshots are on my laptop now after the migration to the ssd. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I have a Samsung 850 Pro SSD that I used at my previous job. I would like to reuse this SSD and clone the HDD on my current work laptop. I dont need any of the old files on the SSD. Can I just format the whole drive and then clone to it? I recall reading in the past that formatting an SSD is bad for the drive. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I have the SanDisk Ultra Extreme Micro SD 64GB SDHC/SDXC Card CLASS 10 UHS-I (Not anymore at sandisk card section) and i use it in my Galaxy S4 i9500 phone to save pictures on it. I have windows 8.1 x64. Now, i insert the micro sd into Sandisk ImageMate All-in-one and connect it to my computer. I start transfering files from it and suddenly the device disconnected! Even when i try to just see the properties it gets disconnected. I must say it was allways working for me without any problems. Can ...

Version 11.0.11 of Adobe Reader gives me the following error message when I try to Save or Save As : Except I have plenty of room in my temp folder and on the disk in question. I am able to save on a network drive with 0 issues, but that is a workaround not a solution. How do I resolve this so I can save files on my harddrive without issue? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 with 2 Sapphire Tri-X R9 390 cards and an MSI R9 390X. The MSI and one Sapphire are plugged into PCIEx1-PCIEx16 risers because I'm using them for mining ethereum. On the Device Manager and when I run wmic path win32_VideoController get name windows only shows two R9 390s and the built in Intel HD 4600 graphics. Yet when I run the claymore mining program, I start mining on the 390 and the 390x but not the second 390! (as verified by both the logs which recognize the ...

I've been looking around online for an answer about the compatibility between Cardboard and PCB for the purpose of a Dust Cover. Found nothing, so I came here. The reason I'm thinking about this is because of two factors: one, that my Graphics Card's PCB is exposed and there is no backplate as some do these days, and two, my house is overly obscenely dusty. I end up dusting my computer every week or so as I fear the graphics card, above all else, would short circuit somewhere on the exposed micr...

A couple of weeks back a had a new ssd installed in my Macbook pro, everything was great and no problems up until the other day, where I shut down the computer and then the next time I tued it on it would load completely but then shut down by itself right after. I am able to see the ssd in the disk utility when opening in recovery mode, but I can't do anything about the drive. Everytime I try to make 1 new partition it just gives me error messages. To explain it from the start I was running the ...

I am trying to dual boot windows and linux by putting my second ssd in this optical drive caddy. However, the caddy is not recognized by the BIOS. As far as I can tell from this site, I am running the latest version for my model (v1.21). When I tu on the computer, the blue light on the caddy lights up so I am assuming there is at least getting stata power if not data. Did I get a bricked caddy? Unfortunately I do not have another laptop to test it in. The ssd works perfectly if I put it directly...

I have a SD card that contain my custom Linux that could be booted from the USBCardReader right and without any issue BUT I want to boot my SD card from the laptop inteal SD card reader and when I inserted it my BIOS did not detected it as bootable device. However I have installed GRUB2 in my HDD and when I started by GRUB2 I run GRUB2 command prompt by clicking [c] then I run [ls] command and I did not see any hd1 or mmcxxxxx device? How can I boot from my laptop inteal SD card reader? Is that ...

I'm trying to connect the MSR90 mag stripe reader (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D3D3L8Y/) to Stripe.com. The MSR90 reader works like a keyboard. When I swipe a card, it produces a string like this: %B5107743668727593^SMITH/JANE B^18041010000000057000000?;5107743600000000=180410100000057?+00273831? I want the string to look like this: 5107743600000000 01 17 This format would work with Stripe.com's "New Payment" window. Is there a Windows program that can modify the keyboard stream? I imagi...

I've given up on cloning my old HDD, and thinking of exchanging the defective ssd I recently bought, and buying a new SSD alongside a CD copy of Windows 10. As for my old files, ill just back them up to something and swap them over when the new drive is running. What equipment will I need? What are the steps to do this and do it right? This laptop was bought in 2013 with Windows 8 preloaded. What kind of problems might I run into? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

This just isn't documented anywhere on the inteet. I know that cells in an SSD have a limited number of writes, but since ATA secure erase just 'resets', does it decrease the lifetime of the SSD? ...

I have a new computer I built, and it doesn't recognize my phone or my ereader. It charges them, but that's it. On my old machine they'd show up as drives and I could transfer files, etc. with either device (a Nexus 6P and a Kobo Glo reader), but on this machine, the charging is all they will do when connected via USB. How do I get the computer to realize they are there so I can transfer files and things? I have tried removing the USB drivers from the Device Manager and reinstalling them, no cha...