Recent content by darrenj1471

Hello Im not particularly pc savvy but am pretty good at following instructions and hope you can help. I bought a new pc a while back and whilst it certainly has newer/better components than my old machine I find it very slow to boot up and be ready. Is there anything obvious I can look...

Ok my PSU is a Gigabyte 850W 80 Plus Gold certified. I'm concerned about it being a GPU issue as its less than a year old.

CPU: AMD7700X CPU cooler: not sure but its water cooled Motherboard: A620M Ram: 32GB DDR5 SSD/HDD: 1TB NVME SSD GPU: Geforce RTX 4070 super PSU: not sure Chassis: no idea OS: Windows 11 Pro Monitor: Samsung Odysey G7 curved How do I find the BIOS version?

Hello I frequently get the following weird muti blue screen of death and its usually not long after booting pc but once pc has been runnign for a while it seems to not happen. I dont really know where to start in diagnosing / fixing the issue so hope for some help? https://postimg.cc/6TktxQfD

Ok I will see about purchasing one as dont have one to hand :( I hoped it would be something more easily testable / fixable :)

Hello I just purchased a new PC and Im experiencing a worrying issue. Its happened approx 6 times now in space of 3 days and 5 of those were whilst gaming however Im sure its happened just browsing too. The screen will go black and the mouse and keyboard will switch off as if the whole...

How does one find out what PSU they have?

ignore that, task manager now shows 32gb ram at 3200mhz thanks

I play in 1440 Ive added 16GB more memory and in Bios set A-XMP to on. It still says current DRAM freq is 2133...

Hi Unolocogringo and thanks for your reply. Can I ask 2 things :) : 1. When you say a Bios upgrade do you mean a new Motherboard? (apologies Im not very savvy in this area) . My laymans understanding is motherboard is the hardware and bios is its software but I didnt know you could...

Hi Im looking to upgrade my PC which I use for gaming mostly as I know its getting a little old. Im ideally looking for ideas on what I could swap in the existing case to deliver most bang for buck however worst case Id consider a completely new rig, however not sure I can afford to do so...

Hi For some unknown reason I suddently started to getting a BSOD saying Memory_Management which seemed to be a never ending loop. A friend said to check the sticks are not loose. I took all 4 out, checked them and put back in. Now my PC switches on at base unit but nothing happens ie no...

Yes the nvme is now showing in bios and I've set it top

I have done a fresh windows install and also installed a new case fan. The CPU temps remain as per my last post ie 45 idle, 75 with game open in lobby and 90 after playing for a few mins :(

sorry seems I have somehow ended up asking you the wrong questions :) My ask is: Thanks I've done all that now and have windows on my new nvme. I still have 2 open questions: Do now reconnect the 2 old drives I disconnected at start of this process and if so what do I do with the one which...