Recent content by clarkey1984

Weirdest issue ever but it's solved. Ever since I built the thing a few years ago it's had a pair of 8gb crucial in slot 1 and 2, and a pair of 8gb hp in 3 and 4, now neither one or both crucials will work in 1 or 2, so I just switched so the hp are in the first 2 slots and the crucials in the...

Hi all, after probably 10 weeks or so I've bought a 2nd hand monitor today and no output, I've swapped hdmi cable and also tried hdmi out on the laptop and the monitor works so that's that ruled out, I haven't got another screen to try apart from a TV and it won't display on that either. Fans...

Hello all, I own an old Acer es1 512, which only gets occasional use, I've come to my parents place with a fully functioning laptop, but now I've come home from the pub and tried to use it, all it does is very briefly show the Acer splash screen and then shows me the grey and blue bios screen...

Thankfully it all worked as intended and activated with no problem, although the HDD is an old one I salvaged from a sky+ box so it's of a lower rpm than a PC one, and is in turn slow, so I'm ordering an SSD as we speak, the aforementioned slow drive can then be formatted and used as a 2nd drive...

Hi all, both of my old lga775 core2quad builds that I made up from spare parts for my parents, and my fiancée's dad a few years ago died from old and underpowered power supplies, so what I've done is re use the case and dvd lightscribe drive (whatever that means) from my parents one as they've...

Ahh I see, for some reason I thought you have to match the colours if you're using two different kits. The pc has an i5 7600 (not k) in it, and I'm using hwinfo64 as I mentioned, and with the config I had them installed in as above it reported that I had 2 ram channels available and 2 active...

Hi all, I've got the above board and was running a 16gb kit (2x8gb) of crucial 19200 ddr4, which I placed in slots 1 and 3, as those two slots are grey, whereas 2 and 4 are black, and you always match the colours yes? However, today I've got another 16gb kit of hynix (hp branded) 21300 to add...

This is the update assistant I'm referring to. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-10-update-assistant-3550dfb2-a015-7765-12ea-fba2ac36fb3f It's also important to note that I've used this same flash drive with the same 20h2 installation media on two other machines recently and...

Hi all, I had this problem on a laptop the other week, and presumed it was just some random isolated occurrence, but my desktop has just done the exact same thing. On both machines I clean installed Windows 10 20h2 from my flash drive into the ssd, as it's the only installation media I have...

Well I've no idea what actually fixed it in the end really, as I mucked about with uefi settings, plus a few other BIOS settings that I'd read about, then it wouldn't even read the USB stick at all, just gave me a no operating system installed error, so I put everything back to how it was, then...

Hi all, I'm currently trying to breathe some new life into my old core2quad build that now resides in my container at work, so I bought a crucial bx500 240gb SSD for it. However it won't let me install, as I'm getting the age old "a media driver your computer needs is missing" error. Full...

Thanks egda, that's what I'll go for come payday, these laptops are such a pain as you have to disconnect all sorts of stuff due to the ram slot being on the underside of the board, it's peace of mind getting the crucial stuff, as that's exactly the same module I bought for the hp laptop I...

I see what you're saying, however the specs are identical so far as I can make out, both the original 4gb module and the new 8gb one are both pc3l (presuming the L stands for low voltage) and have an operating voltage of 1.35v, in comparison to regular ddr3 which is 1.5v, that's what's confusing...

Hi, I wasn't sure whether to post this in the laptops section or here seeing as it pertains to both things so apologies of it's in the wrong place, anyway... I've got an old Acer aspire es1-512 laptop, never particularly fast when new, definitely not seven years later, but in an effort to speed...

Sigh I'm not asking for a hack or a workaround am I, im simply enquiring as to whether anybody else has had this happen to them, and if there's a resolution to get it back to how it's always been, if I have to I'll just reinstall again, I was just hoping I wouldn't need to, as something in the...