Recent content by Billm_in_Texas

I appreciate the responses.

I have read about creating a Win 11 drive for installation. I have a Win 11 installation thumb drive I bought when I upgraded the hardware on my PC early last year. I assume that is all I need? Thanks.

Antec, Earth Watts, 500W

It still went black when trying to boot from the Windows 10 disk. If the graphics card was bad, the above screens wouldn't show either, correct?

No one can help? I'm going to attempt a repair with the Windows disk.

Does anyone have thoughts on this? I'm wondering if it has to do with Windows drivers.

GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P FX (rev. 2.1) AM3+/AM3 AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX AMD Motherboard AMD FX-8320 FX-Series 8-Core CPU Gigastone Desktop RAM 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 32GB DDR3-1600MHz PC3-12800 CL11 1.5V UDIMM 240 Pin Mushkin SSD PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 560 14CU DirectX 12 AXRX 560...

Looking at the tutorial, it mentions creating bootable media. I have a Win 11 flash drive that I purchased for this hardware upgrade. Will that suffice?

Thank you, I will look at it. I assume I will lose programs? I have redundant document backup and have written down all the programs I'll need back since I had originally planned a clean install.

I recently upgraded my system and put my old motherboard, processor, and graphics into my wife's case. It is an upgrade for her. I stripped many programs that she would never use off and my 10s of 1000s of photos and the machine was performing very well. Today, I got a mess on the screen when...

I just finished upgrading my motherboard, processor, and other things. I bought a copy of Win11 but couldn't get it to install. I had a bootable copy of my hard drive from the previous system and was able to boot from it even with new components. Wish I had known. I wouldn't have bought the new...

This is where I ended up. Ryzen 7 is the processor.

I forgot that my old heatsink had tubing as well. Not for water. I used the one I bought. I have it put together byt haven't been able to install Win11. Fortunately, I had a bootable backup to start the machine. I want to upgrade now with the flashdrive.

Thanks for the info. Is the tubing necessary for this particular CPU? Does that come in a non-lighted version?

I ended up going with a Ryzen 7 5800x processor but the fan I ordered IMO is overkill for my purpose. No gaming and this thing has pipes coming out of it. I think a heat sink fan is what I need. Can anyone recommend a fan cooler for me to use? I also will use the Gigabyte B550 UD AC...