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The random freezing is back with the new PSU. Is there anything else it could be besides the PSU?

It's been three full work days of using a new PSU with no issues. I got this one: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 P5, 80 Plus Platinum 750W

I got a new PSU and installed it. 80+ Platinum. We'll see how it goes.

Corsair VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3600MHz CL18 Intel XMP 2.0 Computer Memory - Black (CMK32GX4M2D3600C18) Amazon link I bought from This is the memory I had before, had the same issue. G.SKILL Aegis 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Memory Kit Model...

Is there any way to test this without buying a new power supply? Edit: I checked this website https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator and It recommends 400W. Tried this one too https://www.newegg.com/tools/power-supply-calculator/ and it recommends 500W to 599W.

I've been having random freezing / crashes for years. Every time the screen will freeze and I'm able to move the mouse around for a few seconds and then completely freezes. Audio will play from whatever audio was going before the crash, video game or youtube video, for a pretty long time before...

I did some more research and figured out ad-hoc networking.

Hello, I have a desktop that is hooked up to the internet via ethernet cable, I would like to use a wireless adapter as a wireless router using the signal from the hardline. How would I go about doing that?

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finally got it working the next day by downloading a win7 pro iso from microsoft and just used my key worked fine.

found an old xp disk and it's installing right now, i'll move the file to it once it's done and that should do it :)

didn't even attempt to read the disk, even when I set it to boot from disk

since I already have a product key, I was just going to download an ISO and burn it and that should work fine.

no, I didn't think it would work. would it? what you said was kinda confusing

I bought and downloaded windows 7 pro with a student discount. I bought it for a new computer I've just built. I can't seem to figure out how to make it into a bootable disk. it says it's an ISO but it's actually an exe DLMWin7pro64US-ISO.exe. This is the last step before i'm finished with my...