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A while ago my W10 Pro became irreparably corrupted after W10 updates,. Would not reactivate, could not even be repaired by MS over the internet; MS after the huge expense of online support for 4+ days issued me with a new licence. I have a new ADATA XPG SX8200 480gb NVMe to install the new MS...

I, in common with many others, use HDDs for archiving data. The reliability of HDDs doesn't seem to have increased at all over the last decade. I remember the standard Seagate warranty was 5 years pre-2009; now it seems its a useless 12 months ! A sign of the lack of quality, components &...

In over twenty years of building SOHO PCs i have lost just 2 drives. Storage demands usually dictate that they are replaced before the warranty expiry. Ignoring the Hitachi Deskstar that gave me loads of warning that it was going to platter heaven we now have a lump of metal in the rack from...

Manufacturers of Hard Disks lie through their teeth about HDD failure rates. If you do not want your drive to fail you pay. You buy an enterprise class\data centre HDD. Designed for 24/7 use. Very high tolerance components. Probably a 5 year warranty ... probably 2 million hours MTBF. Probably...

Update New board supplied...god bless you Amazon. I can put the club hammer away. All fired up and working......but wait Windows 7 Pro SP1 the preferred OS of choice. All stops on install at the Licence Terms Accept page. Mouse & Keyboard become unresponsive. Bootable USB stick. FAT or NTFS...

Too tired. CPU etc is tomorrows task.

Grrrrrr. Bios Chipset P2.30 now installed. RAM is , QVL certified, GSkill Ares F3-1866C10D-16GAB 8Gb in Slot A2 we get POST. Both RAM sticks work in slot A2 to give UEFI POST. But - Dual Channel no go - 8 Gb in Slot B2 & 8 Gb in Slot A2 = NO POST. Dr Debug 55. Note - I had exactly the...

I may be moaning and bitching about my Z97 Extreme 6 coming out of the box with a version on the Bios burned into the EPROMs from before the Biblical Flood. But..... I can't fault the ASRock Customer Service. Whining this Friday just gone to ASRock.... long time after the last mail...

I think I should just stick to jigsaw puzzles. Am too stupid for all this. ASROCK Z97 Extreme 6 with Bios P1.40 fresh out of the box. Factory settings. 2 x 8Gb in slots 2 & 4. As Cooler obscures Slot 1. I tried my build with GSkill Ripjaws X - F3-12800CL10D-16GBXL (2 x 8Gb). Would only POST...