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Hi. My PC was working fine until recently when I had to update to Windows 10 (from W7). I'm fairly sure this is not a hardware issue because of this. Now, when tell it to go to sleep the fans sound the same as when it's on, and my keyboard stays lit up, but the monitor goes blank. It seems to...

Did you manage to fix this? It must be either your CPU or motherboard I'd have thought. There'd probably be a beep code error if it was the CPU I think? Motherboard should be cheaper to replace. Not sure what you'd do if you bought a new motherboard and it didn't fix things though. Not sure if...

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Hi I just put a Toshiba P300 3TB internal drive into my PC. It's a secondary drive, I have my OS on my main SSD which has about 45GB free space so should be fine. Edit: Checked my power settings and they were on power saving so I guess this limited my CPU? Whoops. By sheer coincidence I had...

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Hi, I've been doing a lot of googling but I can't seem to figure out what the best 3TB internal HDD is. The main thing I seem to hear is stay away from Seagate. I prioritise quietness over speed (unless it'd mean a huge cut in speed) and reliability obviously. I have a SSD for my OS so the new...

Hi. I've searched fans whirring but haven't found my specific issue, although that's probably my searching as it must have come up before. I recently installed a Gigabyte GV-N960OC-4GD PCI Express Graphics Card. Everything seems fine except the fan goes on and off constantly. It's not very...

Thanks. In the end I ordered thinner squishy washer things and used them just in case.

Hi. I have a 2.5" laptop HDD taken from my Macbook that I'd like to put in my new Fractal R5 case. Am I right in thinking there's a way to do this without buying a bay adapter (I've never used one before and don't have one right now). This person seems to indicate that it could be damaging to...