Recent content by Michael Robinson

I did change the boot order and that was where I got the iso from. I also finally managed to work out what was wrong. It turned out to be a bad connection on one of the other HDD's. I pulled out all the wiring for the 4 drives in the box and the PC sprang to life. I guess the wiring must have...

I'm kind of resigned to just reloading windows 10. My copy was downloaded from Ms as windows 7 and then upgrade to 10. I'm told I should be able to reinstall windows but I honestly can't work out how. I keep having issues no matter how I try to download the MS re-installation ISO. If I...

My dear wife cleaned my computer this afternoon and when i came back it was showing a BSOD with text kernal data in page error. PC wouldn't boot. tried booting in safe mode - same issue - it got to mup.sys and then seemed to stop there- after a short while it comes back to the boot screen where...

I decided in the end to go for 2 laptops! I tried everything including the XPS13 and UX305, UX360 and surface book. They were definitely great laptops but it was difficult to see why these were £800 - £1200 while the Asus Chromebook Flip which appeared to be a similar quality went for £250! I...

The C710 must be one of the very few chromebooks you can upgrade the RAM on then. I have the C720 and the processor is fine but I find the screen too small and the KB and screen are both a bit too buget. I'd be happy with a chromebook if I could find a 4GB RAM model with a CPU better or same as...

You can't upgrade the RAM on Chromebooks. I'm very flexible on budget (£200 - £700). Ultra high definition screens are probably wasted on my ageing eyes. Maybe I should say what I've seen and liked: I like the new Toshiba Chromebook 2 but we don't get the backlit keyboard version here in the UK...

I do most my work on a full size desktop but occasionally I'm travelling or on holiday and wanted a laptop I could work with. My last laptop was an Acer chromebook converted to Linux with 64GB and the 2955U processor. In all honesty it was powerful enough for compiling etc though the 2GB RAM was...

Finally got it working after taking everything apart and adding back one piece at a time. It turned out to be a lose connection on the motherboard. In all honesty, I think I'd just replace the thermal paste if I had the same issue again. The water cooler is fine but it's noisier than the stock...

Ended up taking the hole thing apart and rebuilding piece by piece but testing after putting in each new piece in. I'll admit I was overjoyed when it first kicked into life as I thought I'd cracked the motherboard install the cooler. I figure the problem was a lose power connector going to the...

My PC is a homebuilt 3570K, 8GB RAM, GSX 660, 500W PSU and P8Z77-V LX motherboard.with Win 10 My PC had been running fine for a couple of years but a few days ago the CPU temp started to climb dramatically until the PC shut down. My CPU isn't overclocked and was using the standard cooler that...

I had a few pennies in the account so figured I might as well replace the cooler at the same time and bought myself a H55 water cooler. What a PITA to install - the instruction manual is for 3 different types of system and is written in umpteen languages and the codes referred to in the manual...

I'll try that. Does the paste require a remover and does that come with the new paste? Does thermal paste just suddenly go bad like that though? after just a few years? I have other computers that are literally decades old and still going strong.

My PC (i3-3570k, standard clock, air cooled) has been running great for nearly 2 years but last night shutdown. Rebooting in safe mode produced the same result. I checked the BIOS and it showed the CPU temp climbing by a degree every couple of seconds even at idle. The CPU fan was spinning well...

Sadly we're missing any way of really comparing these processors to see how they improved. I assume there must be some benchmark that can be applied to all these processors (Whetstone?). This could then be shown as for single and multiple threads. It would be interesting to also have comparison...