Recent content by Andrew5

Hello, Since I upgraded from Windows 10, I've had this frustrating issue: The blue Start Menu button is sometimes unresponsive, and when the Start Menu is open, it usually closes by itself after a few seconds and cannot reopen for about 10-20 seconds. Additionally, clicking the adjacent search...

I swapped the PSU with a brand new one, same problem. Both; along with occasional video editing and audio processing.

It just stopped working; the computer doesn't get to POST and just instantly shuts down. And the CMOS battery was replaced too. I confirmed every other part, except for the CPU, is working. Z97 motherboards are relatively old and hard-to-find, so they're most likely going to be second hand. I...

The motherboard was about 6 years old (Z87 chipset). The CPU is i7-4790K, and there's about 16 GB of DDR3 RAM. To be honest, I don't really need more performance... it was good as-is, if not slightly overkill.

Yes, I have already tried removing all external devices. In fact, I tried booting the computer out of the case, with only the motherboard, CPU, the stock CPU cooler, RAM, and PSU, connected to a display. The replacement PSU came in and I swapped the connectors. I tried replacing the CMOS...

Updated. I have been unable to boot since my last post.

Update: Broken motherboard and/or CPU. Hello, I am having an issue where as soon as I power my 6-year old computer on, it shuts off after 1 second. Then, it attempts to turn on again, but shuts off again, and the cycle continues until I hold down the power button. I removed all USB devices...

The OS isn't even bootable, so I was running DMDE off of a live WinPE image. Didn't think I could screenshot on WinPE. At this point, I'll just reinstall Windows and make sure everything is working. My friend told me (thankfully) that there wasn't anything really important on the drive, so I'll...

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Hello, My friend's SSD partition table got completely wiped (except for the EFI partition), and he does not have a backup. I did some diagnostics and ruled out that the SSD is not failing, though I'll keep an eye on it. I was able to retrieve the files using some recovery tools, but none of the...

Hello, I understand that SSDs rarely fail, however, it seemed concerning when I came across this number as I was looking at S.M.A.R.T. statistics: Reported Uncorrectable Errors: 77684 Is this normal? My other SSD (different brand though) shows 0. Thanks,

Hello, I’m trying to reinstall Windows (while keeping my files and settings), however, after every attempt, it gets stuck at 98% for hours. I have to do a reinstall because the OS got completely messed up (Some System32 files missing, start menu broken, Control Panel broken, UAC broken, Desktop...

MERGED QUESTION Question from Andrew5 : "Copying Files from Old Install to New Install" Hello, I have a new, fresh install of Windows, since my old SSD died, and I am wondering how I can transfer files from an unbootable backup of the C: drive I have made about a month ago, not belonging to...