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I use quite resource-hungry software like Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop which is why I was curious as to whether the extra memory would help or not.

I have just received my new Dell OptiPlex XE2 i7 with 16gb (2 x 8) DDR3 1600mhz 1.5v. The motherboard has two further slots for more memory to be attached and I was thinking of taking out my 2 x 8gb memory modules from my previous PC to boost the new machine .... .... BUT .... The old memory...

Looks like my solution worked ........... or rather ..... is working, as I'm in the process now and no issues have arisen. So, as mentioned above, if I tried to mount my old hard drives internally then the machine just point-blank refused to do anything when I turned it on, not even BIOS. It...

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Thanks for your reply Grandmaster. As mentioned above if I connect any of the old hard drives it doesn't even get to the BIOS setup so I can't press F2, it just hangs immediately at the Dell splash screen. I did a bit of research on the web last night and came up with this plan :- Buy a...

My old PC just imploded a few weeks ago. It was a purchased Zoostorm i5 running Windows 10 Home 64 bit. The boot drive was a 256gb SSD and it had two further HDD's with all my data on, a 2tb and a 3tb. When my old computer died it wouldn't even get to the BIOS to be able to do anything at all...