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Get to your bios during boot (depends on the motherboard but during boot try repeatedly pressing delete and f8 (or if the boot screen tells you what to press press that!). When you're in the bios look for options pertaining to boot, boot devices, or boot order. Make sure in the boot priority...

I have a laptop that uses the built-in Windows 10 file history tool to back up to a network drive. I'm getting a new laptop and I plan to point file history to that backup and restore. In the past I have successfully restored from the backup onto a clean install so I know that part works and...

If it makes you feel any better, I think a lot of people are annoyed that Intel's requiring a new chipset for the 8 series processors. It looks like Gigabyte has a Z370 version of the same motherboard you bought, and at least on Amazon it appears to be basically the same price...

Is your wireless adapter a USB stick, a PCI card that you installed, or just part of the motherboard?

Can you be more specific? By "won't boot up" do you mean it powers on, lights blink, fans spin, but it doesn't make it past the POST stage? Does it provide a beep code? If it doesn't, some motherboards come with a little speaker that needs to be attached and wired on to produce the beep codes...

I thought I understood this better but I guess I didn't fully understand how FIOS worked... In our new house we have three levels, a finished basement, a main floor, and a second floor with bedrooms. The plan was to have the TV, consoles, etc. in the basement (so an ethernet connection would be...

Changing the menu icon is usually to alert you to something that needs your attention, like a pending chrome upgrade or an extension that's having an issue or needs permission to do something. I think that type of alert is now used in FireFox and Microsoft Edge as well (and variants of it...

To add to Techy's answer, you'd also need to buy two copies of the game to be able to have you and your brother logged on at the same time. Setting up a VM on your PC and installing another copy of the game would work but that would eat up all your PC resources in a hurry as you'd basically be...

You say it takes 2 minutes to boot, was it faster when you got it? When you say explorer.exe doesn't open, you mean you see the wallpaper of the desktop but no icons or anything? That reallllly sounds like the type of weird issue that a virus can cause...what are you using for virus scans...

Glad it worked out! You might consider doing a clean install when you upgrade again (back up everything!). Issues like you just had always make me paranoid about the state of the system files and boot partitions. Another potential lifesaver is to do like one user suggested and create a bootable...

If you have another computer, could you try plugging the SSD into it and seeing if it boots from it? In addition, you can boot the other PC's OS and see if the disk is working at all. It may have just died. You could also try repairing the boot partition: Try these instructions (the Windows...

Wowwww good job! We forgot rule #1 of troubleshooting problems on a Windows system...blame Windows first!

Yes. Also in the first item in the control panel (Adjust image settings with preview) make sure you've selected "Use the advanced 3D image settings," not "Let the 3D application decide" The games are installed on the SSD or the HDD? If they're on the HDD definitely try installing them on the...

This is always kinda confusing to me because there are so many variables involved. I have a similar build (same monitor! So at least you know it should work), my settings, which seem to work correctly, are GSync on in the NVIDIA Control Panel. It sounds like you did this, but just to check...

The pre-installed versions (which the vendor of your PC paid less for than a full retail version) can't be moved. As far as Windows is concerned, your PC is your motherboard (for the most part, I'm not sure that's strictly true), so you could upgrade a lot of components but if it's on a new...