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I bought a used Z170 motherboard and Intel i7-6700k and would like to test them together sooner than later. The best cooler I have available at the moment is the stock Intel cooler that came with my i5-6500, I'm fairly certain it's the variant that doesn't have the copper insert in the base...

My graphics card is (was) a HIS ATI Radeon 4600 series. I bought it second hand several years ago, and it's at least 8 years old. I used it in my previous PC, a Dell Inspiron 530 for at least 5 years, then moved it to my new system when I built it about 6 weeks ago. Obviously the card is pretty...

Sorry, forgot to mention I'm running Windows 7 32-bit SP1. I visited the Dell website via your link and downloaded BIOS version 1.0.18. After switching to 1.0.18, the computer seems to be shutting down correctly. But now it is exhibiting another odd behavior. When powering the system on, the...

I have a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop PC, motherboard model Dell 0RY007. It shipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 (2M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB). I recently upgraded it to an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (6M Cache, 3.00 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB) to try and squeeze a little bit more performance out of this...

Thanks again. I'll try it on another machine as soon as I can.

I used the USB adapter from the external enclosure to connect the hard drive. I heard it spin up and I can feel it vibrating. Can an HDD be dead but still spin?

Man, that sucks. There's nothing important on there, but it took me a long time to collect everything that is on there. :( I don't have another machine, but I'm sure I can work something out with someone to bring theirs over. I do still have the USB adapter that was part of the enclosure, I'll...

I use a Seagate 2TB HD (Barracuda XT) in my PC for additional storage. It was formerly in a factory external enclosure, but I moved it into the PC when the enclosure caused it to run warmer than I was comfortable with. Recently, it no longer shows up in my Windows 7 PC. I checked in BIOS and it...