Recent content by derek_eakin

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    Fortnite doesnt see all 4 cores!?!

    I'm going to see if updating CPU drivers and chipset drivers from AMD solve this...
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    Fortnite doesnt see all 4 cores!?!

    It would be strange, in my mind, that epic games software would fail to see 2 of 4 logical cores due to RAM speed, however...these days nothing is surprising.
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    Fortnite doesnt see all 4 cores!?!

    AMD Athlon X4 845 3.5Ghz
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    Fortnite doesnt see all 4 cores!?!

    We build a computer for my son to play fortnite. It seems a bit choppy so we looked at the recommended requirements. We meet or exceed all suggestions. The epic games troubleshooter says we are only using 2 cores but our CPU is an AMD 4 core at 3.5ghz. After giving fortnite and epic games...
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    WD 1TB Caviar Blue HDD not available in diskmgmt.msc

    I have a brand new WD 1TB HDD. In my BIOS (Which I just updated) after the scan, my two other drives are listed as RAID ready, and my new WD drive is listed as (single disk 03). The disk is not listed in diskmgmt.msc so I am unable to create a partition and format the drive. I have updated...
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    Black screen on boot after new GPU installed

    Ill try this tonight. Thanks.
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    Black screen on boot after new GPU installed

    After downloading the file (on hp's support page the only options for OS are WIN7 or WIN8 so i selected WIN8 (64bit)...WIN10 is NOT an option) the file extracts and begins to install. Halfway through the install it says that we are not running the correct version of windows for this update.
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    Black screen on boot after new GPU installed

    I have an HP P7-1277c machine that I have just installed WIN10 (64bit) on. When installing a new GPU I realized that I needed a BIOS update that was provided by HP for WIN8 (64bit). This is BIOS update 8.17. Because I have WIN10 installed, I am unable to update my BIOS as they do not have any...