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it could be a few things that have added up to one big bug. the home 5g units themself could be made in more then one plant have more then one firmware floating on them. they may be pushing a firmware that bricking there own units. The other issue is are they pulling or were using that bad...

most times gpu that do that have a bad memory chip on the card or a failed part. if you can boot into safe mode and it does not lock up or can boot from a windows installer usb stick that running standard vga driver and not using the nvidia driver yet it tell you if it your card that the issue...

there a list on nvidia web page of gpu chipset that they stop supporting with there newer drivers the 700 and 800 chipset may be on the list.

if windows system folder and windows is on the hard drive then it going to max that hard drive out hard drives have two bottlenecks...the speed the drive spins and the max data rate over a standard sata port. if you can put your windows and games you use a lot on the ssd. keep the hard drive for...

a little info the sx8100/sx8200 ata drives there using more then one ram and controller on these part numbers. had a friend last week blow up his sx8100 they had the wrong firmware on there web site. toms did a news picece that adata was swapping out parts on the sx8200 and the newer parts were...

on a pc if there hardware failure it can cause you not to get into the bios. start with each hard drive unplug one of them at a time from the mb sata plug. before you do this see if you can feel if one is not spinning or it turning on and off. if you unplug the failing drive you should be...

run seatools and read the disk smart info see if there any errors.

beep or clicks on a wd drive is a sign the drive on it last legs. if it under warranty i would rma the drive.

if your short on cash new egg has program called quadpay..they break down the cost of an item into 4 even payments like layaway of the old days without any fee's. look into a one or 2tb drive that on sale for 50.00 or so that cost you 10.00 each payment in quad pay.

if it an ext hard drive check that windows not putting the drive to sleep. also check to see if there any firmware updates....sounds like the drive holding data in the ram that can be lost if the power goes out and it not writing it to the drive.

you may want to talk to a laywer about trying to recover the cost of the lost pcb and cost to send the drive into a data recovery lab. if not look into you states small claims court if it under there max limit.

frost, to keep it simple.....first line of backup.....good backup software and a good backup drive in the pc. then when you have the money look at ssd in and enclouser or one that connects to your network for speed. at some point look for some good cloud storage and or a place to keep a copy off...

if the ssd worked then stopped then it locked in read mode it happens when the ssd hits the end of it life or on some of them when there were bios bugs that ended drives lives after a set time. if the ssd is real old you can try to update the firmware see if it goes out of it protected mode. if...

check to see if the new hard drive bios is up to date may be a bios bug.

with new intel mb there is now in all the bios a sercure boot that by default is on so that theifs cant boot from usb or dvd devices and copyy people files. if there no bios password you can go in and turn csm off. you should then be able to boot from usb or dvd disks. if the laptop still has...