Recent content by Stewart_5

Thanks guys, hadent thought about the SMR, didnt know of it till now.

The 8TB Baraccuda is £180, 2 year cover Ironwoolf 6TB, £170, 3 year couver The Ironwool pro 6TB comes in at £220, same Cache, but 7,200 RPM

One had 2 years, the ironwoof pro 5 years.

Hi all, Im about to get a new HDD, toss up between a WD and Seagate. Leaning towards Seagate. The baraccuda 8TB sounds reasonable, (price in UK is around £180) Or the Ironwoolf, around the same price, but only 6TB. Both have the same Cache, 256, and same speed 5,400 rpm. In addition, the...

Hi, for making your own mount, measure out a shape you want (as if you were looking down on it from above) here I am picturing an angle on the left and right screens as if you were in a cockpit of a jet for example. do it to scale, 1cm in actual size is 1mm on the drawing. you know the size and...

do you have or can borrow another video card to try?

Thanks, USAF, have tried both version 10 and the older version 8. No luck with either, Windows looks for PX.DLL, I downloaded that file and still no luck. Thanks Warlord, yep, done that even the 'run as admin' struck out in both cases. Keep thinking of giving the VM a try.

I am a lover of an old media player 'Musicmatch Jukebox' Unfortunately getting it to run on Windows 10 has so far been impossible. Any of you who used this old media player found a work around to get it running? Some may ask why MusicMatch, simple...tagging, so easy to do.

Finding a mount like this might not be possible, have you thought of getting square tubing and making one yourself? this way it could be exactly what you want.

Hi, pulled the CMOS battery, (power turned off at switch) waited a couple minutes and but battery back. Turned on and reboot. still same problen, but I will try it again as time & date were still current. guess any caps along the way held a bit of a charge.

Haven't done that, but will give it a go, would pulling the cmos battery have same result? (easier to get to than pins)

Hi all, I have a system here that takes ages to boot. MoBo is a GA Z170X with 2x4GB Hyperx ram, PSU is a Corsair CX600M. Boot drive is a 240 GB SSD. OS is Windows 10 I dont think it matters what the system runs, but just in case it does, a few games, (not the fast action memory & CPU hungry...