Recent content by Mercian

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After entering my PIN, on startup Windows 11 fails in the final stage of loading. I am able to Ctrl/Alt/Delete and restart/shutdown etc but no more than that. I do have another copy of Windows 11 on a secondary drive which I can use. Am i able to repair the primary Windows from the backup or by...

I am using a program called RDBM 24 used for modding EA football games. It has stopped opening and re-installing does not help. When Cheat Engine does this I delete the Reg Entry which solves the problem. I cannot find the entry and Reg-scanner only shows the install info. The program does work...

Thanks. I will do a clean install. Is the anyway to wipe the other drive bearing in mind the pc will not boot with it connected as it stands?

Thanks. Is there any simpler way as I have had trouble doing a fresh install before and have spent about 20 hours re downloading my game library. I have tried to connect my old (which is actually brand new) SSD with windows 10 installed and use the current drive as a secondary but it puts me...

I bought a pre owned PC with windows 11 (which I really dislike) and the former owner has disabled the firewall and I cannot restart it getting a message that the adminsitrator has blocked it from turning back on. I have looked online and tried the fixes including downlaod registry files and...

Thanks to everyone for your advice.

My old computer died but the RTX 2070 graphics card is fine. I bought a pre owned PC which has an RTX 3060 installed. I currently use a 1080p monitor which is only a year old and I do not intend to upgrade for a year or so. I use th PC for all taks including gaming, Which card is better uited to...

Bad news but at least I know what to do now. I used to think viruses were a bit of joke real and virtual. The whole world have learned they are not. Thanks for your reply.

A few weeks ago I had some malware on my PC which I think I have got rid of. I think however it changed the permissons of all the default apps (Media player, Photo Viewer etc) including Window's Store and none of them open and I get a message saying "Windows cannot access the specified device...

Thanks. It was a lose connection and is now sorted

I was having some serious high temps (100c) and big throttling and PC restarts so invistigated. I noticed the CPU cooler was not spinning. There does not seem to be a problem with the cooler because with the smallest persuasion it starts and works perfectly. Examples are YouTube vids now do not...

I have a qualty cooler on my old PC sitting idle attached to a Haswell I5 but I am not sure it will fit. I am considering upgrading to a R5 3600x which are cheap here in The UK and I am told it will fit straight into my motherboard. If I do I will buy a cooler at the same time. Thanks for your...

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The standard Ryzen cooler. It has been fine upto recently as I have no reason to OC. Thanks