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Make sure the power pins are connected in the right order. They need to be a certain way. The manual will help. Also check all connections to PSU and components are in tight, no loose connections. Failing that make sure the fan on the PSU turns over. If it does and still nothing try boot into...

ASRock motherboards are brilliant boards but like ElectrO_90 said there. It won't improve too much. Slightly faster performance (not, if at all noticeable) using a new chipset but that's it. Not worth the investment.

A small NAS will be fine but make sure you use passwords, RAID one or five, encryption and backup if it's for business especially if it's holding customer details. GDPR says if you don't you could cop it. These are all usually free and implementing them just takes a little time. It will also be...

Windows 10 will remember your session if you shut it down. It's only if you cut the power now it will lose current state in RAM. As for it starting randomly. Unplug the mouse. Sometimes turning in bed can give the mouse the tiniest jigger and make it wake. Also run virus scans and updates just...

If it's in tight you could try pliers on the plastic fitting around it to try loosen it off. That is a torque screwdriver and it's ruined the screw using a star one obviously. You need to get the right screwdriver either a torque 5 or 7 driver. Press it in hard and turn it anticlockwise...

Sounds like a nice build. Feedback will always be generally subjective. If you have the money and your happy it's good, very good. If your looking to save cash. Cut down on the m.2 and get slower ram. 16gb is a perfect amount and I myself run the same. Bar that it's all tip top. Enjoy 😁

Read up on throttling. Try running with no overclocks and monitor the ambient temperature. (Temperature before playing games) Stutter is due to overheating on either CPU or GPU. usually a result of poor cooling or airflow in the chassis. Sometimes a combination of both. Hope this helps

Are you booting to install an OS? What are you trying to do? I'd try remaking the USB stick again or using a different one. Let me know what you're doing and I'll see if I can help. Also the PCIe2.0 should be okay. Some motherboards have a second BIOS you can change it to that using a small...

Right click start In Windows 10 and go to disk management. You should see it in there. Right click and delete volumes/partitions until all black unable to delete any then make a new simple volume/partition using the whole disk. Right click the bit to the left of the black bar > new simple...

If you can't get into F8 menu to try and boot last known good configuration then the chances are that you will have to reinstall the Operating System from scratch again. You could try putting a boot medium into the computer and booting into the bios. Change the boot priority to the bootable and...

I wouldn't chance it. If you can buy through PayPal because they have payment protection and if it's dud then you can claim the money back and PayPal will get it for you. You might need to wait 6 weeks for the refund but you will get it. The website doesn't look trustworthy to me. Hope this...

I'd go for the Sennheiser headphones just because of their reputation alone. After a little reading, I gather that Sennheiser is better for over the ear headphones and audio technica are better for in ear headphones. Hope that helps :). Generally though. They are both great brands and despite...

If you can get the system on at all run a program called jelly bean key finder https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/ <<<<you can get it here. Write down your windows product key and reinstall windows from the ground up. I'm not really sure what you mean by resetting. Do you mean you're...

I'd go for this...

This sounds like a DRAM failure to me. Make sure the airflow in your case is good. sometimes the machine will throttle if cool air doesn't get into the case to cool the components down properly. The general rule of thumbs are making sure the fans at the front and bottom draw cool air in and the...