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Specs: CPU: 6700K GPU: MSI GTX 960 Mobo: MSI Z270 M5 RAM: 16GB DDR4 PSU: Corsair HX850i About 2 weeks ago I came back from a holiday and tried booting up my PC. It didn't do a thing. I knew it wasn't likely to be a PSU issue as the clear CMOS light at the back of the case was lit up however I...

ok so I've had this problem for a while but my computer has been booting into the BIOS every second time I start it up but more recently it has started just randomly restarting, one time it just straight up restarted and the other times it has black screened but still runs apps like discord as I...

So i'm not sure if this is a PSU issue, a motherboard issue or a storage issue but basically my PC will sometimes boot to BIOS, sometimes to windows. As far as I can tell it seems to rotate every time I shut it down, as in it boots to windows then I shut it down, start it up again and it's in...

ok thanks everyone

yea brand new install. So what I have to do is install windows on the SSD with the HDD unplugged?

Basically in the title. When I try to boot the SSD directly it says reboot and select proper boot device.

it's just that my PC used to be so much faster and this is the only thing that I can find that is different to what it used to be.

My resource monitor is displaying about 3GB of RAM being used all the time and 1.7GB cached currently, this number (1.9GB after typing that) keeps rising from startup. System also displays hundreds of hard faults/second which I disabled but didn't sort out the problem of high memory usage. I've...

I guess another symptom would be that the PC is constantly accessing the disk and in task manager the disk is at 100% all the time even though sometimes there are about 5 processes using 0.1/0.2MB/S.

I built my PC (specs below) about 3 months ago and it has been running like a dream. However, last week I bought a 4K monitor and plugged it in. It wasn't able to run some games in 4K such as world of warcraft at an acceptable frame rate at ultra settings. So I tried to overclock the GPU and...