Recent content by BrixtonPunk

Thanks johnbl I did what you suggested and have not had the corruption since the last one (fingers crossed, touch wood etc.) Not entirely what I did that worked or maybe a combination of, but something did! thanks again for the help

I just noticed that a lot of .jpg's were also 'corrupted' but they would work when imported into a program, then when I reassociated them with picassa (which I use as a photo viewer) they then became un-corrupted. Looking through my Program files and Program Files (x86) folders some programs are...

I'm thinking if it happens again, I'll swap out the existing C drive SSD to a Samsung 990 Pro 1 TB SSD since they have come down in price a good bit now

Thanks johnbl hmm, there appears to be no new firmware updates for either of my drives :( but all the tests seem ok on the drives, constant temp of 31 on the SSD updated all the motherboard drivers, and I've updated the bios also unistalled ExplorerPatcher as thought the failures might have...

Pretty sure its not malware or ransomware, I did run various antivirus It's a fairly new 1TB SSD The machine was only bought in May this year Ive d/l the CrystalDiskInfo it says good 100% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskInfo 9.5.0 Beta3 (C)...

OK so today I had a bunch of apps on the taskbar start giving me the message 'The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable' same result if I go to the start menu and start them from there or try from the actual .exe file in Program Files. Also the setup files for those apps are 'The file or...

I tried that not timed but a good 5 mins should I try again for longer?

tried resetting the cmos(by removing the motherboard battery for 5 mins) still nothing and nothing on monitors either, so can't get into bios. I even tried to boot without the hard drives connected and only one stick of ram, still nothing

So this is weird. I just tried plugging the power back in and turning it on (its been uplugged for about 2 hours) and now I have power, fans running etc but nothing to the monitors. The BOOT, VGA and DRAM 'easy debug' LEDs on the board are lit. I'm not sure what that means or what to do about it.

I'm an idiot. I was looking to see what SSD I had, to upgrade it from 500GB to 1TB. I saw a spare SATA cable plug/socket and decided to plug in an older 256GB SSD to see if it works. I stupidly forgot to power down, so the PC was on when I plugged in the SSD drive, there was a spark when I...