Recent content by Erik DeSart

Thread is old but I'm gonna drive by anyway. I love my CM Trooper/window with the x dock. However, at some point it stopped recognizing when I took one out and put another in. As in, it's not hot swapping anymore. Does anyone have any clue? Trying to get to Cool Master support just leads down a...

Looking to upgrade. I built my machine two years ago. My motherboard is a ASRock Z97 Extreme4 LGA 1150 Intel Z97. My graphics card is an ASUS ROG STRIKER GeForce GTX 760 4GB. I always build a little behind the curve but I'm a gamer and new games while they still run are starting to hit the...

$80 processor? Not happening.

I've used windows since about 1986. It's always been a work in progress. That said, I too was very happy with 7. I finally had it tuned for me. (That's the nature of pc's, there is no one ring to rule them all.) I however decided I would eventually make the leap for two reasons. One, I have a...

It is entirely possible that it is NOT a virus or malware. Stuff happens. Those of us in the game for a long time know that. I'm reaching out, asking you the Tom's Hardware user, do you know how this might happen? It occurs to me that a bad bit or two in critical spots like the registry could do...

This needs another post. I picked a post as the answer but I probably should not have. It's the answer I may end up using because it was my take before I even posted the issue. That said, I really hope that my amazing Tom's community can come up with some answers. Unless it's just a really fubar...

One note for anyone coming across this. I keep the operating system on one 128 gig ssd. I don't save ANYTHING else there. No games, no pics, etc. So if Windows is fubar I can just reinstall and then I do have to fix a bunch of hooks but everything else on my machine is still there. You should...

It would appear I have zero restore points. Looks like the trojan. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6e9do71Z2NIRF9QUHRaN3gtck0/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6e9do71Z2NIbER4OGlzX2pRa1E/view?usp=sharing

Yesterday an odd thing started happening right after Facebook said I may have malware and pushed the trend micro scanner at me. Now anytime I launch a browser the video driver crashes and gives me a blank or grey screen. It seems the computer is still running but my only option is to reboot...

Honestly it sounds like a cable issue.

You may have tried too hard. Used board + new settings = bad day.