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Although - a better question may be - do I need to worry about a desktop PC going to sleep? The setting to turn off the screen works fine, isn't that the main thing?

Here are the specs to my system.: CPU: Intel Core i7 3770 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z77X-UD5H-rev-11#ov Ram: 32MB Kingston HyperX SSD: Intel 520 Series 240GB HDD: 2 x Western Digital 2TB Disks GPU: Gigabyte GTX650 PSU: Corsair HX750W Chassis...

I have recently had to a clean reinstall of Windows 10 on a 5 year old PC (high spec'd in the day so still very functional). When I put it into sleep mode I can hear the fan accelerate and then it just gets stuck like that - the fan runs, it never turns off. The screen, keyboad and mouse...

thanks @popatim and @SkyNetRising . I loaded those drivers and the D Drive suddenly re-appeared as if I had just plugged it in! Its been a few days and it seems to have settled down - so really appreciate your help. Having a few residual glitches with a fresh windows install e.g. not...

Thanks popatim (although I had to google some of the above - I know just enough to be dangerous!). I'll give it a go this weekend, appreciate your time.

Thats helpful thanks popatim. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z77X And this is what I found under the specs: Storage Interfaces SATA-600 -connectors: 2 x 7pin Serial ATA - 2 devices - RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 10 / RAID 5 SATA-300 -connectors: 4 x 7pin SATA, 1 x mSATA - 4 devices - RAID 0 /...

Yes I had to do a clean Windows 10 install off a USB drive. Not showing in device manager / storage spaces or disk manager in Windows. Not 100% sure where to look in BIOS - I'll go have a look. Nothing has changed physically, the disc was in the machine and I could see it was there...

Hi, My Windows 10 OS corrupted and I had to do a clean restore. I have backups of all our files and I didn't keep a disc image as I figured a clean rebuild wasn't a bad thing (although perhaps didn't appreciate the amount of work to reload all the apps. reset preferences etc). I have the OS...

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Thanks. I was thinking that the programs would be on the OS drive. If I am video editing I always try to keep everything else "quiet", so should be ok.

Thanks Sminlal, much appreciated. Had done a search on the site before posting and read a few of your other comments on this issue. Always clear and logical. I will get the new drive and have a play. On your last point, would you put the scratch files on the same drive as the application...

I am currently set up with two 300GB drives setup in RAID 0. The only thing I do that puts any strain on the drives is video editing and compression. I need more hard drive space. There appears to be a great deal of contention as to whether RAID 0 provides any real benefit to a desktop...