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Update #4: Got out a new mechanical drive and reinstalled Windows 7 onto it. Now I have a screen that is displaying normal and distorted colors in bands, and I still cannot get into my BIOS screen because it's a black screen. The motherboard splash screen is also still glitchy, showing strips of...

Update: Tried resetting CMOS by removing the battery on the motherboard, and tried holding the power button for 30 seconds with everything unseated and the power supply unplugged. Still nothing. Last Known Configuration doesn't work either, and when I try to use the Win 7 recovery disks, my...

Pretty sure it's the new Radeon drivers, version Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.2; I installed them a few days ago and twice they've caused a BSOD at random times. So, yesterday, when I saw the graphics display starting to mess up, I saved what I was doing and forced a hard reset. Afterwards...

These days, yes. G-Skill for RAM, ASUS for optical drives, MSI for video cards and motherboards, and ACER for vanilla laptops. (My first one lasted nine years before kicking the bucket thanks to the charging port dying.)

"Because Internet intermediaries, especially those with few competitors, control so much online speech, the consequences of their decisions have far-reaching impacts on speech around the world." Pretty much, and since Charlottesville, there's been a non-stop purging going on of sites that are...

Considering Valve receives a 30% cut of digital sales via Steam, these machines look more like loss leaders to bring in people unfamiliar with the Steam platform. Me, I'll bide my time for the day when Steam operates like Desura. Useful as a downloading client, but able to be shut off without...

I've installed the drive into my system with the SATA cable going to Port 1 of 6. (My mechanical drive is in Port 3, and the optical drive in Port 4.) When I booted the system up, it didn't recognize the new drive in BIOS, nor ask me to format it/assign a drive letter to it in Disk Manager. My...