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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Can't start laptop up with graphics card enabled

    Just wondering if anyone has any advice. PCS could only recommend a windows re-install and im going to give that a try but i thought id see if anyone has any idea first. The other day my laptop crashed while loading up a game and afterwards it wouldn't start up, it would just stay on the windows...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Advice for a £400-£600 Desktop

    My friend's looking to get a gaming desktop and I was wondering if you could give him some advice. He has all the peripherals already, he just needs a tower. He originally wanted to spend between £400 and £500 but he's now pushed that to £600. I've got some idea of whats good and not but I'm...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Updating AMD Radeon 7970M drivers leads to code 43 error

    Just wondering if anyone can help. Had some issues trying to play Rome 2 yesterday (after a recent patch its locked my graphics settings to medium or low and doesn't detect my dedicated graphics card) and during the course of trying to find a solution i decided to try updating my drivers which I...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Vortex III sound keeps cutting out

    Having a few issues with sound on my laptop, its about 7 months old. Firstly every so often the sound from my main speaker cuts out and only the bass speaker on the bottom works, this doesn't happen very frequently but its happening to me as i speak which has prompted me to post this. Also a few...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST vortex 3 authentec trusuite stopped working

    I got my new Vortex 3 yesterday and was incredibly pleased with the integrated finger scanner, but i've found today that i can still swipe my finger to log into websites etc but i cant use the quicklaunch function, i swipe my finger and nothing happens, i've tried rescanning my fingers etc but...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST 7970M doesn't show up in dxdiag

    Just got my new vortex 3 and i was looking around on it to make sure everything was ok, out of interest i went to dxdiag and noticed that my AMD Radeon 7970M isn't listed under display, instead it has an "Intel HD Graphics 4000" listed. If I go to device manager I can see the 7970M there, i was...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST question about delivery time

    Just a quick question about delivery times. My laptop status changed to awaiting dispatch at around 4 yesterday. Is it likely to be dispatched today? And if it is i know that according to PCS's delivery section DPD apparently uses a "next day delivery service", how likely is it that it will...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Advice on gaming laptop for uni

    I'm off to uni at the end of this year and I'm going to need a laptop, but I'm looking to get one that i can play my games on in my spare time, particularly Battlefield 3. I've spent a bit of time looking through the specs on a few different machines but i was wondering if anyone could give me...
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