Recent content by jonnydem

The new drive is a 1tb M2 drive.

Not mixing kits. I had 16gbs, upgraded to 32gbs. During troubleshooting I just put one of the old 8gbs sticks in.

It's a completely new hard drive.

I have a Xidax system buit about 4 years ago. There was a power surge months ago while I was using the PC that shut the machine off. After that it sometimes would not boot directly into Windows. A few months later I tried installing an M2 drive. After the install the machine would boot but...

I have used two different hard drives both had windows already installed. I will try to set SATA to IDE tonight and see what happens. What exactly does that do BTW?

I have just put together my new computer and have not been able to boot windows yet. The computer was power cycling at first. I read that some CPUs require a video card to work so I installed my old video card. After putting video card in the machine I can go into the "Repair Startup" menu and...