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The laptop is Gigabyte and its sold from newegg.

I saw a laptop with an Nvidia m980 being sold online at newegg for a good price. I'm interested in buying it but its sold as 'open box'. Would you buy it? Would you trust this purchase? Has any of you bought open box laptops from newegg or anywhere else without any issues?

What the hell are you talking about? What does a hyvrid drive have to do with soldering ram?

HP Omen

Yes the MB & CPU can support the extrs ram. WHere can I find out more about this? I'm very interested in soldering more ram.

I got a laptop with ram thats soldered. I'd like to know how I can solder more ram.

I got an external hard drive that I reformatted. Its an 80GB drive. After reformatting it, it shrank to 3GB. How is this possible?? How can I fix this??

I went to the Gparted website and found that Gparted is 300MB and is a liveCD. Why is this such s big file? And why isn't this an easy to install .exe file?

But do you know if Windows 8.1 can do the same thing? Does it have a utility that can do that?

I got an external hard drive with a backup image. I want to make a partition on it without formatting it and without erasing this backup image. How can I do this?

I bought one 3 months ago. Its a good premium laptop I can tell you. I\m a bit disappointed with the Nvidia gaming chip because i thought I would be able to play games smoothly. It plays modern games smoothly for 10 minutes before heating creeps up and reduces the FPS, which makes games not...

Thank you carnage. Btw, youre the reason why I'm getting a desktop for gaming instead of a laptop. Thank you again!

Hi Carnage. Thanks for the help. I got it working finally! I chose the Reset option to reinstall Windows. But after it reinstalled and was at the registering section to input info like time zone, name of laptop, etc., a message popped up suddenly saying that sonething went wrong during...

Carnage I'm fixing it finally. As of this writing, I'm now reinstalling windows. So I'll also be reinstalling apps. The fu'cked up part now is to remember the settings to these apps. Appreciate that you provided all your advice and attention during this difficult situation.

I see.. It will download the ISO automatically. But thats strange.. how will it interact with the network card in order to download it if the laptop isn't responsive? So after I get it on the USB pen drive, plug it in, do I press any keys at boot up? Or will it just do its thing without...