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Hi everyone, I've recently started having an annoying issue. When playing games, the PC sometimes randomly goes blank - monitor says no input signal and goes into standby, no response from keyboard and mouse, fans still spinning but seemingly no harddrive activity, only option is reset or power...

Hi Dennis, sure you cant just wipe them all and start with a fresh install? Failing that, here goes... 1. Assuming you never intend to use XP any more, just backup the data parts somewhere, reformat the whole drive and repartition as you see fit. The XP boot records shouldn't cause any...

Hello all, I currently have Windows 7 installed on a 2TB HDD, with a 128GB SSD being used as a cache drive for it. The SSD is partitioned more or less 50/50, as the Intel RST software doesnt like big cache drives for some reason. I thought I might try and move Windows on to the unused space of...

The xonar works. God knows what happened to the on-board sound. Cheers guys

Just bought it now! Let's wait and see...

No, I didn't do thought. I thought I was supposed to leave it plugged in to act as earth, but I didn't switch it off or anything. Anyone know enough about sound cards to recommend a cheapish one?

Setup: Mobo MSI Z97 G55 Sli CPU 4790K MSI GTX 970 Gaming (x2) 8GB Ram I had this rig with one GPU, and it worked fine. I then added a second GPU, and now I cant get any noise out of my speakers. Onboard Realtek Audio is enabled in BIOS, I have it as the default playback device in Sound...

Awesome, ta

Afternoon, I have an MSI GTX 970 Gaming GPU (and will probably get another quite soon). I am planning to also get a 27" 144Hz monitor. Looking at the specs for both, it seems the best option is to use the Display Port connector. However, the stats on the MSI page seem to suggest that there is...

Yep found it, I have the latest fw. So now I don't need to do anything except undo all my damage and try to coax it back into accelerating my hdd. Thanks for your input, Puns

Aha, that may be where my confusion lies - thinking I need to run the tool when the fw update has already done the same job. Unfortunately, I think I have buggered about with it a bit too much, seem to be having endless problems with it now. The ssd frequently doesn't get found by the pc, I...

Yeah I managed to figure it out. Gone through that, and all it did was try to update the firmware again (which is already up to date). Seems like I still need the restoration tool (unless Samsung did a boot disk jobby for that too), but the restoration tool still tells me I have third party...

Apologies, I'm not familiar with these: what do I do with that ISO file? It seems to want me to make a boot disc?

Ok, managed to get the SSD recognised again, but getting the same problem with the driver. I've had a look at the driver properties, and the pooter tells me they are the latest MS ones. The tool still fails at 98% of updating the firmware (which afaic is already up to date). Anybody know how...