Recent content by tanmayvij

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    What's dying in my PC?

    Is there a chance the SATA controller on my motherboard might be dying? Coz the issue I'm facing is only with HDDs, that too just the boot partition. In the middle of operations, the PC stops interacting with the HDD. Windows to Go on USB worked perfectly fine
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    What's dying in my PC?

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    What's dying in my PC?

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    What's dying in my PC?

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    What's dying in my PC?

    PC Specs: Seagate Barracuda 7200 HDD (320 gigs) G31 Chipset Motherboard 4 gigs DDR2 RAM Zotac GT 710 Graphics (2 GB DDR3) Windows 10 64-Bit I was facing frequent BSOD on my PC until it stopped booting completely. So I thought Windows is corrupted, I reinstalled Windows. After 1 Day, even the...
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    Should I clean and reformat my HDD?

    I suspect my Seagate Barracuda, used as a boot drive along with two other volumes, is not doing good. My Windows 10 Pro 64-bit v1803 got corrupted twice in three days. As of now I have performed a fresh install of Windows, but it might die again, so to be safe, should I do a clean reformat of...
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    Avoiding Windows 8.1 reinstallation after changing motherboard

    My previous motherboard was a Foxconn Napa which died so I'll be replacing it with a G31 motherboard Zebronics G31. Other components remain the same: Core 2 Duo E8400, 2 GB DDR2 RAM. I'm running Windows 8.1. Unfortunately, I don't have a backup of my files inside C drive. Can I boot into...
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    Free disk space automatically increased for no reason

    Generally people face their free disk space going significantly low due to some virus/infection.But with me, the opposite happened, which makes me a bit worried. I was rebooting my PC after facing a BSOD (which happened for some random reason).On the Windows 8.1 loading screen, I got a message...
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    Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Core i3 4150 vs Core 2 Duo E8400

    Thanks for the help.... I might just go for the 750 ti plus the q6600 and 8 gigs RAM...