Recent content by foxhound525

It does fit properly in the slot, I tried to reseat it a couple of times just to be sure. He hasn't made any after-market modifications like repasting or whatever. Not sure I understand what you're saying about SSDs?

So I build a PC for a friend many years ago, and it developed a fault of some kind. The guy didn't have any urge to do anything about it and live I far away so his system has been gathering dust for the last few years. I suspected the GPU is problematic and he finally brought his old GPU so I...

Aha now this is the kind of specificity I was hoping for. Thank you for clarifying that. The unfortunate part is that I've already checked that in BIOS; it's set to AHCI which as far as I'm aware is the correct option for regular non-array SATA SSDs & HDDs? I don't have any IDE drives installed...

Perhaps not, but it is an indication of the possibility of future success Well I think I might have figured out part of where I've been going wrong. When you restore a macrium image, you can choose to restore the main partition and the system reserved partition, and when the destination SSD is...

Well I've tried everything I can conceivably think of other than doing a redeploy to new hardware with macrium; but you have to have the paid version to do that and that costs waaaaaaaay too much. I did a fresh win7 install and weirdly enough it worked. So why my windows7 image wouldn't work...

Heard it all before mate, done it several times without issues before so it can be done. This one has been more tricky, but that doesn't necessarily mean it can't be beaten. If you know of a way to extract a windows activation code from a windows image I'm all ears, otherwise that's not a very...

Yeah I think I did that in the Macrium recovery environment, but I'll try again. I think I'm getting closer to the issue though; I just tried starting the fresh windows 7 installation procedure to see what would happen and it instantly complained about missing drivers. To be fair, when I...

Asus Sabertooth 990fx R2.0 FX8370 overclocked to 4.7Ghz (stable) 8GBx2 DDR3 1600mhz (XMP) 1x SSD 2x HDD So I am at a bit of a loss with this one. This machine has been working absolutely fine for years, it used to run windows 7 as my main rig, then I upgraded to win 10, then I got a new...

Just to update, I have since tried overclocking on a new board and managed to get a completely stable 4.7Ghz with 1.41v vcore, the highest LLC setting and APM disabled. Sadly this board also arrived with dead onboard sound... but ill be replacing it and replicating the settings. Thank you for...

I've now tried this but unfortunately it didn't work. I did some reading and apparently room correction was part of windows, but was gutted at some point in windows 10's life cycle. Apparently much of the code was still there at one point, but any UI functionality was removed. Typical of...

Just to update on this, I think my motherboard just isn't able to consistenly power my CPU cleanly. I still get a random shutdown occuring but its extremely rare. I have now switched to a better motherboard (Asus sabertooth 990fx) with much better VRMs and more of them, and things seem fine now...

Ah you absolute hero! I saw that APM feature but I left it on it's default because I didn't know what it did, and I didn't get a chance to mess with HPC mode. I probably should have tried that before messing with voltages. I think messing with northbridge voltage is generally a terrible idea so...

OK so what I mean is that if my 1060 was the cause of the lack of video output, then I would have gotten video output when I put my 560ti in. I didn't, therefore the problem was not my 1060. 1060 won't fit in my other case, but the 560ti worked before and after being connected to my dying...

That's very easy to say when you're not the one who would have to splash half of their entire savings to replace the machine... But yeah I take your point. I will still try and salvage this machine though. No use in wasting good hardware if only one thing doesn't work.

Thanks for posting this! Unfortunately I can't tell you if this would work or not, because I think I killed my motherboard... https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/urgent-i-think-i-might-have-killed-my-motherboard.3707669/