Recent content by TooOldForThis

550W, both second hand in good condition for £55.

Monster is right. It’s an old school Cooler Master HAF. Full tower beast, excellent for a roided-up gaming rig but major overkill for my current needs. Honestly, I hear nothing but good things about Fractal Design. I guess I’m just wondering if there are additional features I should be aware of...

Hi all, I have an opportunity to pick up either of these units at the same price. Is there a significant difference in the two? Is one considered better than the other?

It’s interesting that you call the ionz a mid-tower and the Fractal Design a micro ATX tower - aren’t those two different scales of measurement? The dimensions of the ionz are actually a little smaller than the Fractal Design. FWIW, my current case is 14.35kg, so anything under 5kg is going to...

That makes sense! The Fractal Design case I can get for a little under £30, so unless there are really spectacular reasons to spend more, I guess that’s about my limit. I’m not a fan of RGB or side panels, particularly. Never really understood the love they get. I’d much rather a simple, sleek...

Hi folks, I’m looking to downgrade my system and would like to move into an understated mATX case. I read good things about the Fractal Design Core 1100 and I definitely like the aesthetic. However, I then randomly came across the ionz KZ 11 and wondered what the difference in price was buying...

Well I'm back, nana-na na na nana-na na na kshh! Ok, I took a couple days to rest up and recharge and I'm back in the game, baby, yeah! I'll have a good read through all comments and see where to go from here. I did very briefly notice Colif's "I told you so" and yeah, you did. And yeah, I...

At this stage, it might be best to just leave this unsolved. Unfortunately, my system has now died again and boots into an Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC error. That then cycles and I can’t get anywhere near an actual Windows screen. I have a horrific sense that perhaps my computer...

I have enabled Driver Verification, yes. Did that a few hours ago. Confirmed verifier /querysettings in CMD at the time and just double-checked now to be sure. I haven't experienced a crash in Safe Mode, no.

Managed to get some individual files uploaded, if it's at all useful: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9oxwkeykmc6bzw2/AAAZOOEW6hOtAw58x2GkFPd_a?dl=0

Ok, thanks. I hadn't realised I needed to move it out of the folder it was in! I ended up just running Sysnative again - link here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rrxiu3hnawbnli9/SysnativeFileCollectionApp%205.zip?dl=0

I did all the wizardry and ended up with a BSOD. For a brief and worrying moment, it sounded like my computer was starting to make some weird noises, until I realised my cat was actually just snoring behind me. I have the .dmp files, but I can't seem to do anything with them. WinZip won't load...

This is the kind of thinking I like. Flush the thing out into the open and turn the tables! I do now have a handy USB flash drive which I can set up as a boot drive. I may do that anyway just so I have it handy for future use. Will certainly create a Restore Point and go from there. I don't...

Was flagged by moderator and edited on my behalf. Apologies. Sometimes I get a bit carried away.

Well, I never said I knew what I was talking about.... I'll get on this as soon as I feel safe to go out into the Bad Place (which I assume is the opposite of Safe Mode?) I've seen images of Legacy BIOS while looking for info and my BIOS doesn't look like that. I suspect I have a UEFI BIOS...