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for amount of space, i would go with most hard drive space you can get. meaning 1tb and up. the pc will take longer to start up, and initially open up applications but once they are open and running, they should be fine. larger games might be an issue going to say different levels or like...

they are digital files, not old paper and ink files. the only way a digital file can degrade, is by opening them up, and saving them again in the same file format or another file format. if you just open up the file and just close without saving, the data stays the same.

for windows 10 right click on "start menu" goto "task manager" click the buttons for hard drive usage. might give a tale tell sign of what program is using the HD. going further, click on "performance" tab, then click on "open resource monitor" then click on "DISK" tab. this can give you...

if it has been fine, and then just started happening, i would place blamn on the hard drive failing. no clue on given laptop, you might try opening it up, and see if you can disconnect hard drive and reconnect it. then again hard drive might be built directly onto motherboard. there also...

do not extract the file with winrar. but up the file up in winrar. to see what the main folders are. and delete those folder/files that was in the zip file. , delete the zip file. in windows explorer, goto "VIEW" across top, the select "DETAILS", then sort by "LAST MODIFIED" to possibly see...

it has been 4 to 7 years since i had to deal with hard drive failure, at that time, it took a few programs of running trials of them to see if they could even pull up files and what folder/files combinations the could get back. be easy on the drive if it is failing, meaning try and select...

external usb hard drive. good for storage of stuff. if mother supports it, an external sata hard drive, with external hard drive case. pay the few extra bucks for a external hard drive case that has a fan in it. (to me fan is required not optional) ========== get a 1T SSD. pay up for it...

your "user" files/folders, such as desktop files, document files, music, pictures, videos, etc... tend to be placed on C drive. many programs like to automatically create personalized folders and place files into those folders, which again would all be on c drive. ugly and painful, right...

swap things out and see what happens. be ready to have all the stuff on hand though, registration keys, passwords, usernames, emails, etc... major change in hardware will cause many software to cough up a few parts and not allow you to use them until situation is resolved through the given...

the motherboard manufacture should be printed on the motherboard, along with model number. with this info, got manufacture motherboard website, and there should be instructions, for any certain program you might need, and what type of "bios" file you might need. normally the files are located...

well poooo, was hoping it was something i messed up :/ just rma'ed cpu, motherboard, ram. no way to individually test them. thx for help deltawar567!

thx and corrected with antistatic bag to cardboard. even then, when motherboard was installed into case on the stand offs same issue. update #1 forgot i had my mom's laptop here, thought she already took it back after applying updates yesterday, which has a HDMI port on it. the hdmi to dvi...

update #1 pulled motherboard out of case, set on anti static bag, just have cpu, cpu heat sink/fan, power supply connected (20 pin, and then the 8 pin), case connectors (power switch, reset switch, power led, hdd led) "3 beeps" and then a few seconds pass, then it repeats "3 beeps" #2 put a...

no video single / no beeps of any kind. ========== specs #1 ASRock AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac #2 Rosewill Hive Series 650W #3 G.SKILL Flare X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) F4-2400C15D-16GFXR #4 AMD A12-9800E AM4 35W AD9800AHABBOX #5 stock heat sink and fan that came with cpu, have better heat sink/fan...