Recent content by chris_shadez

Thanks for the suggestions. My dad took it to a friend who works in IT for businesses. He found a fault in a power regulation things on the motherboard, and, psu turned out to be healthy, just a dumbass shop I took it to giving false diagnosis. Eventually, when friends heard, they banded...

I took it all apart and rebuilt, and changed cmos battery too, but no change in functionality. Also tried with one ram stick, one SSD, without GPU (using onboard), also no difference without kb/mouse/monitors connected, barebone boot, tested psu, all looks fine there. Still see the blue LED...

I've been away travelling the past 3 years, my dad said he had used the PC once about 2years ago, to grab some files, worked fine, shutdown. When i returned home few days ago, the Motherboard's LED was on but case power button did nothing, no signs of power reaching anywhere else. Also, I don't...

So I left the drive alone in a conservatory for a few weeks, coldest room in the house. Thought I'd give it another go and it was actually detected and worked fine briefly. I was able to access all data and transfer some over, after about 10 minutes, it kept spinning but disappeared. It was very...

Seems like there's some kind of hardware based encryption on it... I got hold of his mobo/cpu/ram and setup the system again with a spare psu and gpu and managed to login as normal, transferred files he wanted. But still, I don't see the hdd when in an external dock or direct sata to my other...

Please read my posts properly; HDD still worked fine before dismantling the system; it reached loging screen and sometimes desktop My usb docks are mains powered and power delivery can't be the issue, I have also connected them directly to my motherboards. Forget the dead system and psu with...

I have 3 SATA docks, all work fine. The HDD spins up but not visible in BIOS/ Disk Management. I also connected it to my motherboard directly on 2 systems, same result

I know there are expensive data recovery services available but want to try fix this myself, as I have had this happen to my own drives from older pc's in the past too and many people have asked me about it too. The PC was unusable due GPU failure, pixelated screen/ and lines. The PC would...

My cousins' PC died after around 10years of use, found faults in PSU and dead GPU. Not looking for a fix, already dismantled to sell off parts and built him a new one. The HDD was still working, he could get to windows vista login screen before auto shutdown occurred. I have tried using it in...

Thanks, but already purchased all parts that same day and happy with it. Found some more discounts price hunting on other sites, total came to £603.47 inc shipping not included on the site. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel - Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core...

Building a Kaby Lake 7400, budget £600 (GBP/UK) Will order parts today. Gifting to a cousin, no overclocking due to budget Most intensive task would be 4K BluRays (have a spare drive,) Adobe Photoshop (regular), light video editing but not often. As well as 4K netflix/office/forex trading Due...

Plenty cleared up and understood. All good, thanks a lot.

Well the d770 it is then, which model best to use with my yamaha receiver? Seems I'll be at the tv more than pc for movies now, especially with the 3m cable there. I do actually still care about virtual on pc but i now see that's software side with a good stereo pair than a a pair with 5x tiny...