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    Windows 10 System is booting from wrong primary drive.

    I'm new to the forum and am not an IT guru.... just a senior that needs to have a working PC for my consulting work and hobbies. I built this PC back in 2014 with quality components that hopefully would last for many years. It has an SSD drive for windows 10 Home OS and program files along with...
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    Windows 10 After turned kitchen - fuse tripped - power outage - question pc

    Hello. I am just asking. Maybe this is coincidence and i am worrying about nothing. So listen... 2 days ago after turning on kitchen, fuse was tripped and i get power outage. When power back after this i booted pc fine but i saw that Windows 10 desktop refresh changed itself from 144hz to lower...
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    Windows 10 Driver crash from time to time when turning on monitor from OFF during 3dmark stress test.

    Hi. I tried to reproduce 2 times display driver crash. When i run 3dmark time spy stress test. I turn off monitor and then turn on again it will stop test and display TDR crash report in event viewer. Is this reason to worry? This happened 2 times when i turn off montor and turn on back. I tried...
  4. Windows 7 BSOD after windows logo / 2 PC's involved

    Hi there Windows forum Yet again I'm here for questions to get answered. Last weekend I decided to build a little work PC for my parents, since the one they had / have now is really old-ish, kinda stoneaged :) Problem for what happend: After I build that new PC, I did test if everything...
  5. Windows 7 Need help finding a motherboard.

    My specs. AMD phenom x6 1055t Gtx 1050 My motherboard I am currently using. GA-M68MT-S2P (rev. 3.0) | Motherboard | GIGABYTE my computer is slow and laggy and freezing so I am guessing its the motherboard I currently have because my computer is fine and I recently reinstalled windows 7 and I...
  6. Build 2.0 - Ryzen 1700X

    Location: London Time: Now Goods Shipped: AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700X 3.80GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail Gigabyte Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming K7 AMD X370 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard Corsair Vengeance LED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Red LED Arctic Silver 5...
  7. Windows 10 change cursor from a square to a vertical line

    Hi, I get this square instead of a vertical line for a cursor when I type anywhere, i.e word, emails, notepad etc. Google help said press the "ins" key but, nothing happens on my PC. Home made CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 95W 2.4GHz, OCZ Vendetta Cpu Cooler, 2x2GB, 240-pin DIMM, DDR2...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 Activation

    Quick question. If I build a new PC and move the hard drive from my old unit to the new one, will the activation code still be valid? Isn't it based on the computer's configuration (MB, CPU, etc)? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  9. Windows 10 setting up new pc - can't connect to network

    I took it out of the box this morning -- Lenovo Desktop 510S with Win10. My first new PC since Win7! I have received 3 different messages while trying to connect to my home network: First, I got this message: IRQL_UNEXPECTED_VALUE. I rebooted and this time I got the message WINDOWS 10...
  10. The Beam Machine

    A Retrospective In late 2016, the Windows Insider team did something new. We hosted a real-time Webcast. While the concept of a webcast is not new, this was the first one for us. We hosted it during the development cycle for the Creator’s update and we timed it with the first Bug Bash. It was...
  11. Windows 7 pprob getting windows 7 pro to install from USB

    New PC build Ryzen 1700x AsRock ab350 ppro 4 motherboard MSI radeon Rx 480 DeepCool captain 240 ex EVGA 650 gold PSU WD blue 1TB HDD Sandisk SSD 16GB RAM (2x8) GSkills RipJaws new copy of Win 7 pro.. ISO on thumb drive bootable (done through command prompt method but also had tried it...
  12. New Toy!!! (server)

    Just thought I'd share the specs on my new toy. :) Old toy, but still a good box too.
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    VIDEO windows 10 wont boot

    My windows system is in dutch, so here is the translation. first: there is an problem with your computer it needs a restart. second: automatic recovery planning third: same as first it's a loop system: windows 10 Motherboard: Asrock Extreme Pro3 R2.0 cpu: Amd FX-8320 (8 core, 3.5 ghz) gpu: Msi...
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    Issue with my new keyboard

    Hey guys! Me again. So I went ahead and ordered the ibuypower PC i mentioned, and it works great! Although, the enter key in the center of the keyboard is super touchy....... barely touching the key counts as a press! Did I just get a faulty keyboard or is there an easy fix I'm over looking...
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    Upgrading PSU

    So I recently ordered a new PC, I'm waiting for shipping right now. It's the iBuyPower WA563R7. It comes with a 500w power supply, and I was wondering what a good upgrade would be. I plan on adding a better GPU in the near future, what would be a good upgrade? Thanks guys! Here's a link to the...
  16. Windows 10 Intermittent loss of connection - default gateway cannot be detected

    Relevant devices: Killer e2200 NIC (I know, mistakes were made) MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard (Ditto) Current drivers are the up to date (15th Aug 2016) standard drivers found here - Link Removed I used to use the Killer Suite, it was buggy, so I moved to the drivers-only version (this was when I...
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    Very slow internal hard drive transfer speeds

    Hi I'm getting very slow hard drive transfer speeds. Both drives are SATA: Seagate Barracude Green 2TB 6Gb/s 5900RPM ST2000DL003 HGST 4TB 6Gb/s 7200RPM HDN724040ALE640 There is plenty of space on each drive. I'm transferring from the Seagate to the HGST. I'm copying over some video...
  18. Windows 7 Question on driver updates for windows 7 to 10

    The windows 10 report I ran says my computer is 100% compatible. Does that mean I won't need to download new drivers like audio, Ethernet things like that? Will windows 10 do that for me? This is a computer I built the only thing I've ever ran is windows 7 I plan to create a backup image...
  19. Windows 10 Memory issue?

    Hi Guys, Hope u guys can shed some light on my issue For reference: OS: Win10 x64 pro Mobo: MSI z97 Gaming r5 graphics card: MSI GTXX970 twin frozr V Memory sticks: 2x 8GB Corsair vengence power supply: corsair rm750 OS is sitting on Samsung evo 850 Issue: My PC is BSODing alot recently. and...
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    Windows 10 No device drivers found help??

    Hey guys I just built my PC today everything is working fine but when I was installing Windows 10 it said "No device drivers found" and I have no idea what the problem is. In the BIOS it said that I do have my HDD and my SSD, the only thing I can think that might have caused the problem is the...