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I have an Optimus IV which refuses to boot up if there is an external USB hard drive attached. The computer just displays a black screen and does one continuous beep until it is shut down. Remove the USB hard drive and it boots fine. This appears to be a problem a lot of people have. I have...

Hi, I have an Optimus IV which has been running superbly for the last 2+ years. Yesterday, at 4.30pm, it developed a BSOD and all the Microsoft software that I have installed refused to run with an error about a driver failure (all other software works fine). There had been no driver updates...

I have an Optimus IV with 16GB of Kingston Hyper-X Genesis 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 RAM (2 x 8GB). I need to add another 8GB of the same to take the laptop to its maximum 24GB (using the third memory slot behind the keyboard). I spoke to PCS yesterday who said that they no longer sell the Genesis...

In realistic terms how much better battery life would I achieve on an Optimus IV 17.3" with an i7-3840 processor versus an Optimus V 17.3" with an i7-4900 processor, assuming all other components are identical? Thank you!

I have an Optimus IV with an Intel N 6300 wireless adapter. It has behaved perfectly till two days ago when it started playing up with no changes initiated by me. The problem now is whenever the laptop is booted up wireless capability is switched off as a default. When I troubleshoot, it...

My 10-day old Optimus IV is constantly switching GPUs with an exact amount of time spent on each. It spends 3 seconds on the nVidia (orange) and then 1 second on the Intel (green) and just goes backwards and forwards between the two, even at idle. It doesn't matter what programmes I have open...

I am about to receive a new laptop from PCS on Monday and I'm just wondering what the general advice is as to how to test all the components once it is out of the box just to double-check that everything is as it should be (I realise that PCS will have tested it etc. but I just want to do it for...

Apart from size, weight, screen size and webcam, as far as I can tell the Optimus IV 15.6" is the same as the Optimus 17.3". Would anyone know what the difference in battery life is between the two if they have the same processors, hard drive etc. etc. and are running the same tasks side by...

Hi, I am hoping for some opinions on battery life. My budget is completely flexible and screen size/computer size is unimportant. The spec I am set on is an i7-3840QM processor, 16gb RAM, 180gb SSD and a Killer 1202 Wireless Card. On paper it seems that the Enigma IV with the 9-cell battery...