Recent content by Cind3rs

Because I have a license key for Vista and a license key for Win 7 upgrade(retail keys). I tried just installing 7, but the dang thing let me get all the way installed before telling me it's not valid to do it that way. I had windows 10, but after rebuilding the computer, I found out that the...

System Volume Information has a file named with a string of letter and numbers that is 10.5 gigs. I turned off restore points, which should delete all restore files, but this one remains. Windows is pissing me off. Trying to install Vista and then upgrade to Win 7 on a 128 SDD. It can't...

Thanks a lot guys, you saved me! In the end, that WinDirStat showed the hidden information (I had done a "properties" in Win 7 on the system volume information folder and it gave me false information). WinDirStat seems like an awesome tool in itself. Ok, so it was hidden system restore points...

WinDirStat found it. System Volume Information folder is 150 gigs. Working on how to remove that (the method google found was stop all active services, take ownership, then delete is not working)

The Vista install and then to Win 7 is painful. Super painful. Like 5 hours of pain trying to get Vista running with drivers just to use keyboard and mouse and Wireless, then Sp1 and various updates that are slow going. When that's done, have to do Win 7 for another hour or more, plus the SP1...

Hi all, fresh install on a 1 TB HDD. It's an older drive (like 8 years old) and was just meant to hold a fresh install in order to slide it over to a new drive. Had to install Windows Vista, then use my upgrade disk to Win 7. A few programs, but nothing out of the ordinary. Basically a few...

Hi all, So I need another system that can play Ark:Survival. I can either 1) build a new system with better tech parts for myself, or 2) build a cheap barebones system that can get the job done on Ark for someone else. I have a homebrew system now: FX-6300 @ 4.4 GHz 8 GB DDR3 @ 800MHz...

New Macbook Pro 2015, with Yosemite. Already own Win7 bootcamp on old MBP. Stupid OSX wants Win8.1 or greater. So... need to get Win7 on this new MBP. Right off, Bootcamp will not proceed if it doesn't detect Win8. Can't find a work around on that one. I did trick it into partitioning and...

No onboard video. No beeps when it freezes. Again, the two types of crashes are similar, but not exactly, so I'm not entirely sure they're due to the same issue. The Radeon crashes stopped the computer as a whole and had no picture or stripes. The Nvidia crash had a mouse pointer on it, so...

Hi all, so here's the deal: Radeon 6950 HD and a Corsair 850W PSU. System is a couple of years old, works great. While gaming, suddenly I get a black screen with sound working for a few seconds (requires a hard restart) or I get black w/ gray vertical stripes (hard restart required). No...

The APUs are on sale on several sites, offering a low price CPU. My question is: is any CPU processing ability lost due to it being an APU? Is a 3.9 Ghz APU the same as a 3.9 Ghz CPU? Or is there some loss due to the chip having a GPU onboard? I'm looking to build a economic, mini-tower...

Hi all, I'm running the above mobo and cpu. Currently, I have overclocked the system two ways. 1) CPU Multiplier alone, which I can get up to 4 Ghz stable. 2) Trying the advice I got here, I used the TurboV by TPU to let it find a stable config, which led me to overclocking the FSB and...