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If the power supply has enough 4 pin connectors for the drives (whether ssd or hdd) then use them to power the drives not motherboard. Obviously sata cables are drives to motherboard but power should be PSU to drives not via motherboard as they may not get power or not enough

Have you tried keeping the power/splitter connected to both drives but only the ssd has sata plugged in? If the system boots ok then it might not be the splitter it might be because 2 versions of the OS trying to boot at same time but boot order not set up correctly or did you format the hard...

It might be something was knocked slightly out of slot and even if everything looks like it's still slotted in like ram and graphics card you should unslot them and the reseat them firmly anyway and check drive cables and other attached cables to make sure none are slightly unplugged from...

If u run a cmd as follows slmgr /dli It will show the type of licence you have retail/ OEM or whatever but most licences are linked to the laptop by seller or linked to Microsoft account so then no matter if you do a clean install on existing ssd or new ssd as long as it's same laptop and same...

Thank you, I will make sure to check specs before I buy if I go with the gtx1650 but it looks like the best option so far so I'm grateful for your advice

Thanks, I will look at that but from what I can see there are MSI, ASUS and others with their own version of the gtx1650 so is there any difference and which did you mean can run from the 75w mobo or can all of them do the same?

Ok thanks for helping me out, great advice

So do you think I can or should upgrade the PSU before choosing a new graphics card? And if so any advice would be appreciated

The PSU just says model: 500w BUILDER and not looking to spend a fortune maybe around 300 (ish) it's my nephew's gaming tower so I want to get him a better graphics card for his birthday

I was wondering what graphics card I can upgrade to from gt 1030 2gb without bottleneck issues SPECS ARE Intel i5 4570 3.2ghz 16gb ram ddr3 Mobo - H81M PRO-VD (MS-7846) PSU - 500w Builder