Recent content by Captain-Give-A-Hand

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So I recently uploaded my first YouTube video and while it can play fine on phones and on the YouTube app on game consoles, it simply refuses to play on PCs and laptops. It loads for a few minutes then just gives me an error message and a playback ID code. Does anyone know what the issue might...

I tried to install the latest windows update on September 20th 2021. It reached 15%, restarted, then a message came up saying failed to install and now it's stuck in a restart loop where it will restart, show the failed to install message again, and restart again. Tried turning it off and on...

Hey I just wanted to give an update. So it turns out it was the USB. Install went grand and I just finished updating the system. Failed to do the nvidia install but I'll just go their main website for that. Cheers for all the help you guys. I learned a great deal about what goes into PC set up...

Ah grand stuff. Righto then. Could I plug it into my current PC without running a risk of damaging everything? On the off chance this is because of a botched SSD I'd rather it not damage the only PC I'll be able to use until a new one can be acquired, ya know?

Out of curiosity, does it matter which slot I put the SSD into? I have it in the one closest to the CPU and then there's another slot underneath the graphics card. Also the tests came back negative. No ram errors whatsoever. I'm quite relieved at that.

So for the memtest is it the same deal as Windows installer where I put it on a USB from the other PCand then run it on the new PC? So I ran the secure erase and then switched the setting to UEFI which took away the extra USB and the SSD in boot priority. No blue screen or anything like that...

Yeah two of them appeared after the first install attempt along with the one marked "unallocated space", which I understand is where Windows 10 is meant to be installed. It allowed me to delete one of them but won't let me touch the other. Like it's faulty or it's just getting in the way and...

Yeah my heart sank when I saw that sentence. It gave me a good laugh though which I very much needed at the time :D I'll give it a shot. Will the boot override get rid of any partitions that can't be deleted during the install process too? It gave me the BSOD whenever it tried to boot up the...

Ah, okay. So the boot order is UEFI USB, then the SSD and then a non UEFI version of the USB tjat comes up automatically whenever it's plugged in. All three are under boot priority as well. There's also an option to set Windows OS configuration to UEFI or something that I think is CSM(?). When I...

I'll do that now then. So I just put it onto the USB, plug it into the new PC and boot it normally, yeah? No need to go to BIOS or anything? And again, I'm sorry to be bothering you with all this.

At first it was the USB port on the front of the pc but now I've been plugging it directly into the motherboard. Yeah I've done most of the steps. It's when it gets to the actual installation that the issues start. I made sure to prioritise the USB and SSD in the boot bios, then when it came to...

Good news: the bios updated without a hitch. Bad news: the windows 10 installer is giving me the same errors again so I can only assume that means it's the USB. At least there's no blue screen or hard crash this time so that's something.

Ah righto then. I wasn't aware hardware stores sold it. Everywhere I searched said you could only find it in pharmacies. I managed to get most of it off the cpu and cooler with cotton swabs, and feck that took a lot of patience. I'll hopefully find some in the local hardware place and use it to...

Oh I've been very close to that, I'm with ya there. Is there anything else I can use to clean of the thermal paste other than isopropyl alcohol? Nowhere near me sells it.