Recent content by sleds_90k

Hi there. Recently, I bought an Intel i7 7700K CPU. When I tried installing it, I got no video out. I assumed this is because my motherboard (ASUS H170 PRO GAMING) doesn't recognize it. My BIOS firmware is from 2016 (as I never needed to update it) and the i7 7700K is one of the last CPUs that's...

Already bought new ram and PSU. Had been wanting more ram anyway. I think I’m going to try to put the new parts in and then run it once with just the ssd and then again with the empty drive. If it works I’m going to try with the expansion. 1.3TB of the 1.7 TB I had on there are backed up on the...

I think you may be right. I’ve had my PSU for a while but it’s off-brand and was admittedly cheap for the wattage. If I replace my memory and PSU should I try to boot again with the expansion and/or the new drive? Or should I go straight to trying to recover the data on my expansion via other...

No. Blue screen not too long ago. I believe it was a memory error.

First, some context: a few months ago my main hard drive with windows installed on it failed. PC crashed, upon restart the drive couldn’t boot and wasn’t showing up in BIOS. I tried to reboot a few times and heard the drive spinning so I think I damaged the platters because I brought the drive...