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I used to deal with this beeping as well, especially when I'm using my old PC at times (it was given to me at around 2004, I believe), to the point that when I heard a certain distinct sound, I know it spells trouble because my harddrive there and OS inside won't respond unless I reset the PC and shut it down, and trying to fix my harddrive's connection cables. Thankfully the problem is no more when I brought it to the PC experts for service several months ago, at least for now.
 
Well in other news, Verizon moved their mail services from their own system to AOL Mail. I'm not really fond of the change (because why bother?), but at the same time, I'd rather keep my email address than being forced to stop using it.
 
I'm not sure I showed this laptop before on here...I was very close to getting it but I was told that the HDD was even SLOWER than the one I picked, and the RAM is not expandable, which sucked. I was gonna pay $100 more on a laptop that has zero opportunities of expansion. I only liked it for the cosmetic.

For the ASUS one I got, the RAM is expandable to 16 GB, which is also what I'm planning to do soon.
 
Tell me about it...I have an HP printer that lasted less than a year. It's an ink waster and it likes to eat paper. 0/10 never buying one again.
 
My parents bought an HP printer that literally lasted like two months. The guy at the store said that was pretty common and he'd seen a bunch of them die quickly. It's a shame - the HP we had before that lasted probably 8-10 years.

I had a Canon that lasted 3-4 years, but when that went up I bought an Epson and it's been great. Haven't had any paper jam issues, it sips ink (I've only changed it twice, and I've had the printer for probably 3 years or more), and it's wireless. It got me through a good chunk of grad school and it's still going strong.
 
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Dang, that's really impressive. Hardware that old usually doesn't work too well anymore unless it's very well taken care of.

So I had to reinstall Windows 10 on my laptop today, but it's really interesting how MSI does it. MSI has a hidden partition with a recovery application on it, and when it's run, it formats the partition Windows 10 is installed on, then FLASHES a copy of a pre-set up OEM copy of Windows 10 to the partition, then reboots the system. It basically installs Windows 10, fully, in less than 20 minutes. It's really interesting how it does that.

I also installed Windows 7 on another partition so that I could have that freedom, and it's going well, although it's breaking on me slowly. I had Windows Update working earlier, but it's not able to grab updates anymore and just gets stuck. I'm not sure what's going on...
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A lot of OEMs actually moved to image-based recovery methods from about the mid-Windows 7 era. By the time Windows 8.0 rolled around, pretty much every single OEM machine should be able to do that ;) At least, for laptops. (Especially since the functionality is sorta-built-into Windows itself at that point.)

Have you tried poking around in your Windows 7 installation to see what broke somehow?

(You probably should make an external copy of the recovery image if possible. Just in case the storage fails and/or you want to replace the system drive)

Got my warranty replacement SSD just now. Probably will install it later as an Intel RST/SRT drive if possible... Hopefully I can't screw that up somehow. I'll be paving the OS out, though, with a fresh install. Want it to be as clean as it can be :)
 
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killer150 said:
I thought j wanna buy Asus laptops but MSI Dragons just attracts me @~@
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The very real problem when you want the hardware of one but the looks of another.

I'll admit, I'm a total sucker for dragons, and wish I built an MSI-based rig...
 
You know the one thing that baffled me when I first set up my new laptop? ASUS systems have partitioned hard drives. I have a 1 TB hard drive that has a 300 GB partition and a 700 GB partition. Since this is a gaming laptop, I assume ASUS did this on purpose...to separate the games and system files. That's kinda weird but I like how you can actually organize them.
 
I will be very curious about Twiggy's MSI rig.

Has a dragon sound effect l, the red LED on the entire case, and something interest called dragon head is put on the front case.
Badass

But I also very hype for the next generation of NVDIA 1000series graphic cards
 
killer150 said:
I will be very curious about Twiggy's MSI rig.

Has a dragon sound effect l, the red LED on the entire case, and something interest called dragon head is put on the front case.
Badass

But I also very hype for the next generation of NVDIA 1000series graphic cards
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I don't have one yet. Oh well.

Maybe in the future I'll be able to have a rig that looks exactly right to my tastes! Who wouldn't want a froofy batwyvern PC?
 
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