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Lenovo IdeaPad Y700 14″ SSD & RAM upgrade [photos]

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NEW UPDATE: all photos are now posted at the bottom of the page! My top upgrade recommendation for the Y700 is up the Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SSD. The upgrade is easy and the performance is EXCELLENT 🙂 Notes: -There are no screws under the rubber feet, do not take them off 🙂 +RAM is Samsung M471A1G43DB0-CPB 8GB PC4-17000R DDR3-2133 2Rx8 SODIMM Laptop Memory -m.2 slot does not come with a screw for securing a new m.2 SSD +Once bottom cover is off, HDD

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Recover files from lost GPT disk NTFS partition [SOLVED] {FREE}

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Recently my Dell work laptop failed to resume after sleeping. It still recognized the internal 2.5″ SSD boot drive but it said it was not bootable. I believe the problem was caused by Windows 10. After removing the drive and connecting to another computer for diagnostics, I was able to determine that no partitions/GPT disk structure was being picked up by Windows. 🙁 Thankfully after trying a ton of recovery options, I was finally able to recover all my files

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Recover/copy a corrupt Quicken file [SOLVED]

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If you ever have a problem in Quicken where you cannot backup your QDF data file, and you cannot even copy your QDF data file, then you may want to try the following. This allowed me to save my mom’s Quicken data after nothing else worked (i.e. validate/repair did not work) and all the other solutions I found online did not work. This particular problem was caused by bad blocks on a failing SSD, but it could have just as

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Disable Windows 10 download on Windows 7 [SOLVED]

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Microsoft made the somewhat odious choice to automatically download the Windows 10 installer onto Windows 7 systems 🙁 If you are an IT person installing (or reinstalling) Windows 7 Pro onto desktop business systems, you probably do not want multi-gigabyte downloads going on without any user intervention. Likewise, a pesky “upgrade” icon in the taskbar is a nuisance at best. Thankfully, on a clean install of Windows 7 (Pro or otherwise) if you disable the following two updates you should be

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How to cancel CoventryOne insurance policy?

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If you need to cancel your CoventryOne Insurance Policy, here is the Coventry number to call for instructions: 1-877-849-9690 Here is a screenshot from their FAQ: After calling that number, and after a few button-presses/voice-prompts, I was able to reach a person in the policy changes department. They were able to set a termination date for my policy right then (I did not have to submit it in writing). I also made sure to get a case number for the call

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CHASE: We’re sorry we’re not receiving your deposit information

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Recently while trying to quick deposit a check, I received the following error message from the Chase App: We’re sorry we’re not receiving your deposit information. After waiting 30 minutes I tried again and all was well 🙂 After some research it appears that this error occurs when part of Chase’s Quick Deposit system is down. Here’s hoping Chase implements a better error/status reporting system for this issue! For the time being, the best solution when this error occurs may just be

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Building my new gaming PC

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I built this bad boy gaming PC to play Battlefront with my friend Kevin. It has a i5-2500K CPU and a GTX 960 video card, 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM. This was a photo taken in the garage while I was building the PC. It was using a super old temporary power supply without the video card being fully powered. Since then I have upgraded to a much nicer PSU. The cooler is recycled as is as many components

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