The Device manager windows will read Computer Management on the title bar. When you can view the Device list with their icons look for the one...
Chech your audio connection on the motherboard.... and is your audio driver installed... check this with you device manager...
blue screen is a way the system is protecting itself... Your hard disk is not crashed... delete the patition an install a fresh os on a raw disk...
Yes ... From my point it works well...
Log onto your system in safe mode... adjust your virtual memory ..min 720, max 1440 if need to be adjusteds and run a disk scan... would help..
You may have installed a same purpose application, normally antivirus applications... us an ultimate boot cd and log on to you system and...
500 GB will hold alot of date but it depands on your chose as put it as a primary master or slaving it.. I suggust that you create a back up...
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