Recent content by Tom_T1993

Hi, Thanks for your reply, checked that after work. nothing malicious, although it does list the PID of the true taskhostw.exe, which believe it or not, perfmon shows a different PID. I'm reformatting, don't particularly feel comfortable knowing it's there. Thanks for the help. Hopefully a...

Hi all, I'm quite stumped by this and would love to hear some insight into what I'm seeing. I have a desktop gaming PC, and recently i had a run in with an exe supposedly hogging CPU performance. However this is far from straightforward from what I'm seeing. Ok, so occasionally i run...

After a bit of searching, i cured this myself. Although it was at a price. To fix this i turned off the "Fast Startup" Setting in Windows. Found by going power>change what the power buttons do>Change settings that are currently unavailable About 30 boots later the system has not repeated this...

Probably not, mixing and matching memory is usually a no go if you're adamant you want to try, only use sticks that are of the same capacity and frequency, frequency will be noted on the module as xxxxmhz with x being numbers. Capacity is the size xgb again with x being a number. If the pair...

Hi There, I've recently encountered an issue with my system and without taking drastic action, i'm unable to isolate the cause, nor am i able to cause the issue deliberately, it's completely random. My system: MSI Z270 GAMING M7 Motherboard Intel I7 7700k (OCed to 4.5ghz) 32gb Corsair...

Could you provide an image of what happens when you try and install the operating system? I'm curious to see what's going on, at what point of the installation is it failing?

I wouldn't recommend uninstalling a CPU unless you have nothing left to check, it just doubles the chance of socket damage and contamination. Try flashing your BIOS first of all, as i said these new NVMe's have had issues, and your HDD could have problems of its own, although it would be a...

A 1080ti + 7700k combo is more than enough to max most games out at 1440p@60fps with ease. The 7700k is a great gaming CPU, but gaming performance is usually more dependant on the GPU, with a few more intensive games seeing performance gains from that CPU. That being said, the i5 7600k would...

Windows key + R and typing control panel is another fast way to access it.

You may need to flash your BIOS to the latest version for full compatibility with newer m2 SSDs, my 960 EVO was striken with performance issues until i got the latest drivers and flashed my BIOS. Although you mentioned a failure to install on another disk, I'm worried that your CPU could be...

I found a solution to this problem, and it's slightly urksome, but I'll post it nontheless (It may help others) My image is fine, i successfully launched a DISM, and it reported no issues. As for WMI Provider Host, it was actually MSI's gaming app causing my issue, which i chose to keep, as...

Oh and try an sfc open a comand prompt and use the command sfc /scannow

What gpu are you using? When you say freeze, does the system not boot at all, or do the dots just freeze right before windows loads? as that's normal. if it is a crash, consider checking your startup via task manager (ctrl+shift+esc) as well as running a virus scan.

Hi, I've spent a bit of time researching this problem, but have found no joy, i'm looking for help relating to two issues i'm having with my machine (Been running it for around 2 months) Spec: i7 7700k (4.5ghz) Corsair Vengeance 2400mhz 32gb (4x8gb) Samsung 960 EVO 1tb (Firmware up to date) MSI...

Your operating system only allows for 16gb of physical memory to be used. Windows 7 professional is the lowest version of WIN7 that will allow you to utilise the memory, so if you're running home or below, you're gonna have to change operating system.