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Hope someone here can help me with this. But I am in the process of setting up my HP z420 Workstation desktop to support 4 monitors for some day trading of stocks. The specs on my HP z420 desktop are that it has 32GB of RAM, an Intel Xeon E5-1650 CPU @ 3.2GHz, an Nvidia Quadro K600 graphics...

Hi guys, for work purposes I want to have 4 monitors attached to my PC so I can multitask. I am a farily new day trader and would like to have 4 monitors so that I can watch multiple stock market charts live. The desktop I have is an HP z420 workstation with an Intel Xeon E5-1650 @3.2GHz with...

Thanks for the reply! Much appreciated. I messed around with it a bit more and I found a solution that works. I downloaded a Windows 10 Hotkey driver for HP laptops so I could control the brightness/etc. in Windows 10. After installing drivers for hot keys I realized the ambient light sensor...

Hi, I have an HP Elitebook 8460p laptop that has an i7 processor and is running Windows 10 Pro. Everything on it works, as far as I can tell, except the screen turns off when I plug the laptop into it's charger. The screen only works on battery for some reason. So I basically can only use the...

Hi, thanks for the replies. I don't need help figuring out how to turn the updates off. I already know how to do that. I understand it isn't advisable to turn them off. I was just wondering if anyone could answer my original question though: I heard that Windows 10 is a "service" and if I...

Their OS is Windows 10 Pro.

Quick question, I have a laptop that I'm giving to family. The hard drive only has 128GB (it's an SSD). I want to save them some hard drive space by just installing Windows 10 updates now, and then turning it off permanently by going through the Admin Tools in Control Panel. The two main...

Thanks for the reply! Yep, it won't hurt anything at all it seems. However, we have not turned on Bitlocker at this time, but I guess it's nice to have the option to do that if she want's more security. The exclamation mark and everything seems to just designate that we have Bitlocker and we...

Okay thanks, I will try to mess with it to see if I can get it to work properly. Thanks for the quick response!

Hi, I just got a Dell Precision 5810 Tower for work recently. One of the USB 3.0 ports, on the front face of the tower, is incredibly difficult to plug into. I have to use a lot of force, an abnormal amount of force, if I try to plug a USB 2.0 device into that port for the desktop to recognize...

Anyone happen to have any information on this? Thanks so much

Hi guys, just bought a brand new Surface 3 tablet online for a friend's birthday. The box was sealed and everything. When she started to use it, we realized it came with a hard drive that had a yellow triangle with an exclamation point and a lock that was open. I've attached photos so you...

Okay, thanks for your guys' thoughts. So I'm thinking that based on what you all said, and what I had said earlier, this is most likely what happened: 1) Original battery was going bad, that's why the laptop only worked while plugged in. 2) After receiving the new battery in the mail from...

(Sorry, very long post, I write too much) Just got done fixing a friend's laptop. She told me one day that the battery would not hold a charge and that if she unplugged the charger from the wall, the laptop would just shut off. So my initial thought was "Okay, that means your charger is...

Okay, thanks for the advice, I appreciate it!

Okay, thanks for the advice. I'll probably just throw them out then if they can't really be fixed. I don't need to add another project to my list of things to do anyways, lol. Thanks again, much appreciated!

Thanks John! I really liked the information about using HD Sentinel software for the hard drive. I will probably use that for my SSDs and regular hard drives to test their health. Or do you think that the built in error checking test in Windows is sufficient for hard drives? For example, in...

I have a few laptop hard drives that are just sitting around. They all had issues at some point or another where they started to act up. Most of them started reporting I/O errors when copying data, etc, but would boot to Windows most of the time. If I want to refurbish them, can you do it with...

I know there are a bunch of programs out there, and built in tools within Windows to test your hardware, but I was wondering if anyone could suggest the best way to test all your hardware on your PC for issues? Should you just use the built in tools in Windows? Or should I download some...

Ahhhh, that makes sense! Thanks for that information:)