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I installed intel i5 and it worked fine instead of I3. I did it strictly for testing purposes. It's an old laptop and it doesn't really matter, i3 or i5. Thank you!

Chris, Also, I ordered a new motherboard. I installed an original i3 processor and have no video and unable to switch to external monitor. installed i5 and the same thing, black screen and unable to switch to external monitor. Installed intel i5 into old motherboard and it was flickering...

I am not looking to upgrade intel i3-330M to Intel i5-430M. Intel i3 has bad graphics, laptop screen and screen from an external monitor both are flickering. Will I do any damage to motherboard if I temporary install intel i5-430M until I get i3. The only difference in specs is temperature...

Here is an update. I suggested the customer to completely uninstall MS Office 2007, restart computer and do a fresh install of it. So far, no more "Out of Memory" errors yet. Keep mu fingers crossed!!!!!!!!!

He is the original configuration of desktop. WSindows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Intel i5-3000 series processor, 8GB of memory, 1TB drive. Due to the storage issues (original drive was almost reached 100% capacity, I added a secondary 4TB drive for storage purposes only. All the software is...

I will check Event Viewer and check if he was getting that message before I added secondary drive.

SamBones, I have to find out if he experienced the same issue (Out of memory) before he asked me to install secondary drive to his computer because the main drive (1TB) was at 85% capacity. So, I added 4TB hard drive (formatted as GPT) and copied all of his pictures, about 700GB to the...

I’ve been working on computers for a long time, but I haven’t come across this issue yet. Customer brought me a desktop computer and asked me to install second hard drive (4TB) for storing pictures because the main hard drive (1TB) had only 12% space left. Customer is a professional...

First of all, thank you for posting a procedure. Before using the procedure, I decided to create user's folder and copy the user's folder from the secondary drive to my main drive. I was able to copy the data and than tried to open the user folder on the secondary drive and it opened right away...

I have an HP pavilion dv7t-4000 laptop that currently has only one hard drive. It has OS (Win7 Home Premium and all the software installed). I need to add another drive and just use it to store data on it. Before taking the drive from another laptop (Asus) I cleared windows password. Now, if I...

Most likely, it's a motherboard. When I replaced BIOS chip, I removed processor and CMOS battery. So, it's not a processor, at least, right?

Well, I used diskpart to make bootable USB drive. I downloaded latest BIOS from support.dell,com based on the service tagnumber and saved in a root of USB flash drive. 1. Inserted USB flash drive in one of the usb ports. 2. Turned laptop on and pressed F12 3. Selected USB device and pressed...

No, I didn't flash the BIOS to the latest version yet. I didn't think that I needed before loading OS. I was planning to install OS and then update bios. I would appreciate, if you would, please post the procedure how to flash the BIOS to the latest level. It's an Inspiron N5010 with Intel i3...

Hi - I have a Dell Inspiron N5010 with intel i3 processor, 4GB of RAM. When I bought this laptop (used) from someone, it needed windows password to be reset. Well, I did that and after that was going to reinstall OS (Win 7 64bit), I do have a dell reinstallation disk. I tried it a few times (F12...

Well, thank you for all your comments. Would be nice to have a 64-bit version, but 32-bit with 4GB of memory is ok too and I decided not to purchase Win 7 Pro retail version. I restored the IBM ThinkPad T410 to factory settings using Rescue and Recovery partition. Again, thanks for all the...