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    Question Windows installation cant see drive but shows up in bios and windows.

    Motherboard is Gigabyte B450M S2H and cpu is ryzen 3 3200g.
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    Question Windows installation cant see drive but shows up in bios and windows.

    Hello, I have an m.2 ssd that shows up in the bios and shows up in my current computer's file explorer. I've build a new computer and put the ssd in, it shows up in the bios but when I try to install windows from a bootable usb, the drive doesn't show up. I've tried formatting the drive on my...
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    Swapping out motherboards

    A couple months ago i built my first pc with the ASRock H170M-Pro 4 and at the time i didn't realise that i could not overclock my cpu (6600k) with this motherboard. I've recently been thinking about swapping out my motherboard and was wondering if it's as simple as taking one out and putting a...
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    GPU not being recognized

    nvm i fixed it, turns out you have to manually install the latest driver.
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    GPU not being recognized

    First of all, i have a gtx 970 g1 gaming. So couple days ago i tried using MSI afterburner to OC my graphics card. I did some research and apparently +150 to the core clock and +200 to the memory clock is a good place to start. So i put that into MSI afterburner and clicked apply and my PC...
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    cinebench score (6600k)

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    upgrading from 8.1 enterprise evaluation to full verson

    I have the free trial version of windows 8 enterprise and it has expired which caused my PC to turn off every hour or so. If i was to buy a windows key, is there a simple way i can just type the key in somewhere and everything works? or do i need to install windows (and everything else) and...
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    cinebench score (6600k)

    I have a i5-6600k (not overclocked) and my cinebench score is 601. Is this normal? shouldn't it be around 650? and is there anything i can do about this or do i just have to deal with it?
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    is my cinebench score normal?

    i have a i5-6600k (not overclocked) and my cinebench score is 601. Im also using integrated graphics atm (intel HD graphics 530). I is this score normal for my CPU?
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    computer not posting

    my parents old computer started playing up and overheating and i eventually found out that it was due to the CPU. After i found out which CPU socket the mobo was (lga 775) i bought a Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 from ebay hoping it would fix the problem and everything would work fine. I installed the...
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    blue screen of death :'(

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    blue screen of death :'(

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    blue screen of death :'(

    Yesterday i suddenly started getting random blue screen of death crashes. The first error was "memory_management" then "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" i kept getting these messages randomly then i got two different ones: "CRITICAL_STRUCTURE_CORRUPTION" followed by "SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION". Today i...
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    can my PSU power my PC