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NVIDIA Geforce 480 core clock drop to 405mhz v270.61 v275.33 CUDA

May 6, 2011 – 12:12 pm

We participate in the BOINC CUDA project to use idle CPU and GPU time for scientific research purposes. We recently updated to the newest NVIDIA drivers for Windows 7 x64 which are version 270.61. After doing this we noticed the core clock on our NVIDIA Geforce 480 would drop from a standard or overclocked speed, [...]

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ASUS G73 G73jh ATI 5870 GSOD Grey Screen of Death – FIX

May 6, 2011 – 10:28 am

One of the computers in our office is an ASUS G73jh which is a powerful laptop we use for testing sites and on-location visits to clients. We usually keep the very latest Windows 7 updates and ATI video card drivers (11.4) on the machine. Recently we noticed the machine locking up after a few minutes [...]

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The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period

April 29, 2011 – 3:49 pm

This is a brand new issue that I just came across while working on my new workstation, which has a 120gb OCZ Vertex 3 SATA 6.0 SSD drive as the primary boot drive into port #1 of the SATA 6.0 channel, running on a ASUS Maximus Extreme IV rev B3 motherboard running Windows 7 x64 [...]

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Server name does not show up under Network

December 3, 2010 – 10:07 am

I recently came across this problem where one of our servers would not show up in the “browse list” under the “Network” icon in Windows 7.  I also checked this same issue from other computers Network Neighborhoods and verified it was just this one server “webserver6″ which was not showing up.  We are in a [...]

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Windows 7 to Windows XP “Access is denied” home office LAN networking issues

November 1, 2010 – 9:56 am

Are you having problems getting your home office LAN, with varying computers between Windows 7 and Windows XP to properly share files? Here are a few quick tips & tricks to solve your issues (these are at a high level, so if you don’t understand these, ask a friend to assist you). These tips presume [...]

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