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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 ? ...

First - yes I support old stuff... not blades and the like, Racks of 2 and 4U servers, up to 16 of them in a set. A hardware IP KVM solution in new deployments answers all of my issues, my gap currently is that I want to equip each location I support with a low cost Dongle they can connect to any troubled server (say they blow up the BIOS settings and need help or the RAID controller needs configured or maybe a server is blue screening and we need to capture the stop data after windows crashes r...

I want to cd to USB without specifying it because it changes its letter on every other computer. ...

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? ...

I have 1 NAS, with 2TB of Storage, 4 Exteal USB HDD Drives from 250Gb to 1TB, a lot of USB Flash Drives. They all have some duplication of files as I have copy them from one to another to safe keep. Now with a lot of these it is getting out of hand. I want to upload them all to the Cloud. Especially after I seen some of my picture and video getting bit rot. Is there any simply solution i can compared all of these files for duplication, remove them, and categories them before I upload them to Clo...

I've installed debian 7.1 to my USB stick. For some reasons, installer didn't ask me about grub location, and just installed it. Now, when I start laptop without usb I see grub resque mode ("Error: no such device: .... ") , when I start it with USB things go as supposed - I see menu and can boot to Windows and Debian. I tried grub-install /dev/sda update-grub without success. My partitions - /dev/sda - HDD, /dev/sdb - USB stick What else should I do? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I had a desktop computer before and this fighting stick of mine was working pretty well. Before I got it to work, it was not recognized by the operating system (Windows 10). Now, I bought a new laptop and the controller is perfectly recognized but does not work at all. I have tried advices from steam forum but these advices are only for those who could not get their controllers to be recognized. What I literally want to do is to make my controller recognized as a game controller. But it is recog...

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-93-generic x86_64), built from a vagrant vm (virtualbox): https://github.com/razius/ppy-opencv-vagrant I've installed libv4l-dev v4l-utils fswebcam gpicview libav-tools cheese, and I see the webcam listed in lsusb / usb-devices: Bus 002 Device 009: ID 046d:092c Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Chat T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Pt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=046d ProdID=092c Re...

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 ...

I am trying to create a Windows 7 USB boot drive out of a USB stick. It is 1tb and comes up as General UDisk USB Device in my device manager. I am using Rufus 2.10.973. Once I press start, the format begins. It sits on "Clearing MBR/PBR/GPT structures..." for a while before displaying an alert. "Error: Error while partitioning drive."What do? I am using the following settings in Rufus:https://i.stack.imgur.com/HQ7wu.jpgDevice(E:)[1TB]Partition scheme and target system typeMBR partition scheme fo...

I'm currently planning the setup for a new computer. As I were browsing through computer cases I realized that mode computer cases actually always have USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports on the front panel. Is there a legit reason to have / use USB 2.0 ports? afaik USB3.0 has backward compatibility Example image of random case be quiet! Silent Base 600 source ...

yesterday, I updated my Windows 10 x64 Build 1607 installation, and after the updates were finished, I decided to manually reboot. That took me to a black screen with a set of white circles rotating at the lower end of the screen. This process didn't stop, so after 10 minutes or so I began googling on another computer, finding a possible solution: unplug any USB receivers, and when I tried this with the USB receiver of my Logitech M510 mouse, Windows booted immediately to my desktop. Unbelievabl...

Since upgrading to 1607, i have lost the ability to access a few of my USB drives, most spessifically and urgently, my Garmin Forerunner 15 GPS watch. The motherboard is an ASUS Sabertooth 990fx with the AMD 990FX/SB950 chipset. I have tried the watched plugged in to USB2 and USB3 ports. I have the latest drivers from both windows update and AMDs catalyst updater. When i plug the watch in, i get the drive letter, but when i attempt to access it, i get "Please insert a disk into (G:)". Though if ...