Recent content by Shinyguy

Hello, I was about to install these but now my PC won't start up, it just turns on, the fans spin for a few seconds then it turns off and repeats this. The motherboard setting/choose partition bit doesn't even show. Should I remove my graphics card or is there anything else I should try at this...

My windows 8 pc has been crashing to a coloured screen recently, it is then unresponsive and requires a hard reset. I think this may be a windows issue as it hasn't happened on my linux partition (although I have not fully tested this as I'm not sure how, on windows it crashes mostly when...

I had a similar problem a while ago, for me the problem was I had a bad stick of RAM. I used memtest86 to test this (http://www.memtest86.com/). Not sure if this is your problem but might be worth checking.

Seems there was some dirt in my pc. I ran a rubber along the gold bits on my ram and sprayed a can of air directly into all the ram slots. Thanks anyway Rubber bit came from this post: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1865178/ram-slots-broken-motherboard.html EDIT: I'm not sure how to...

Oh sorry I ran it before I removed the ram originally. As I said I've got two ram sticks and was going to run it on just one of them to find out which is broke but now my computer won't load up.

Recently I have been getting BSOD sometimes for various reasons (System service exception/memory management/page fault in non paged area...). One of the things I was told to try was memtest on my ram. I used memtest86 and returned 35000 errors. I'm using two sticks of ram so decided to take...