Recent content by AndrewBC

I agree that it is probably the mobo. As a last resort you can try updating the BIOS and see if that fixes it.

No solution. Your PC can only do so much at one time. Your Athlon 4x 860k isn't a bad CPU, but it is based on the Steamroller architecture of 2014 and you are asking too much of it. Sorry!

Well, whichever way you slice it, there is evidently some incompatibility between that particular switch and your system. Have you tried borrowing a different brand (recent) switch and seeing if it still happens? I had problems using one particular unmanaged switch as an intermediate switch...

You almost certainly won't get more fps in games with Win7 and possibly less. The GTX 1050 Ti is an excellent card for light gaming but the 1080 is better (and costs more) Win10 is a hungry beast and your 4Gb of RAM is only just cutting it - upgrade to 8Gb and it'll be much happier - [upgrade...

Defragmenting your hard drive won't when its mechanicals are going south and that is what this pattern sounds like. Windows will check any drive that it thinks is going sour on bootup - sometimes it will manage to relocate the bad sector and sometimes the sector is unreadable and cannot be...

FFS! If you're going to shell out all this dosh for a thumping great external graphics dock (and card) with so-so performance, why not get a real PC? Its not like you can slip one of these things in your notebook backpack!

Ja, this happened to me. Tinkering around with Driver Verification (just exploring) and everytime I rebooted I'd get this "driver verifier detected violation" or some such. No getting into the machine whatever I did. No safe mode, no reg-remote, zilch. 36 hrs of tearing my hair out...