Recent content by Moocats

Saddly no option but to top mount for me. Replaced the cooler, all fine now which confirms the previous one was the problem. Not my day though as now my mouse just packed in. :oops:

That is my thought also. I built the PC 3 years ago and the store had some pretty tasty discounts for buying multiple MSI products. Managed to cumulatively get about £300 off the entire build. The cooler has done 3 years of pretty intensive usage although I must admit I’m a bit disappointed...

As of today, I noted a sudden an unexpected dip in performance, likely due to thermal throttling. I do not routinely monitor system temps, although I probably should but upon checking I noted a temperature of 97-98°C which took me by surprise to say the least, especially as the PC is basically...

Installing the old SR102 model sky router and using it the primary once again seems to have fixed the issue. There's clearly something about the model hubs that isn't liked here. I just wish I could have put my finger on what it was. Thanks for your input Bill.

Yeah the WAP's are all connected via ethernet although they're currently not on whilst I try figure out what the problem is. How do I go about testing bands / specify which to use?

Hi guys, I'm by no means an expert but consider myself generally competent with computing and general networking but we're having some real issues in our house. We're with Sky as our ISP with FTC but not the house and are using their latest "Sky Q hub" router model SR203 which I refer to below...

'Tis one of those situations where we're both right and either is valid, Nice! Lets hope his resetting the BIOS works. eagerly awaits the return of the OP

I'm totally willing to accept if I'm wrong here on some deeper "shouldn't do " level that I'm not aware of but I have myself done what I advised above before successfully. It just won't save any BIOS settings when I turn it off and unplug it again which in the interest of this test doesn't...

Unplug the PC from the power, locate the BIOS battery, it's a small, silver circular thing about the width of a coin. It can be quite often covered up by your GPU. Once you've found it, remove it. Re-insert the GPU if you removed it. Count to 42 because it's a good number. Plug in the PC...

King it seems you're set on a solution. I like several others don't think it the right one in this instance but if your mind is made up then fair enough. The one and only thing I'd strongly suggest at this point is when installing your new chip please be sure to install it properly. I do not...

Yeah I had discovered that after I posted as I missed that on my first look. Out of the two, the p600s is the better choice for us. It does have more fan support thus more cooling options for one but that wasn't what swung it. With some research, the drive caddies that come with the p600s can...

Hey Eximo; what an excellent response thank you. I've looked at both, so with the first option there I have more bays than I need and I'm trading away one intake fan to make space for an optical drive bay. The second option looks like it can actually mount a 4th extraction fan on the roof...

Hi, I soon will l be building a new machine , in fact two identical machines but I'm having a hard time finding a case that ticks the required boxes. The closest I've found is the H500 (the cooler mater one) and post improvements it is a well regarded case overall but has a few problems for me...

I concur on hardware failure. This has been tested now on a second machine without any drivers installed (card running on standard VGA driver) and the fault reoccurred. An RMA has been started. Thank you for your help and advice Jesse.

Thanks for the response Jesse. So we reinstalled the driver and it seemed to run fine. A Family member played several hours of Destiny 2 and some Fortnight and seemed ok. Not long ago the incident repeated and he wasn't even playing a game at the time the machine was mostly idle. I decided to...