Recent content by Winter Blue

Its a dell bloatware + windows update thing.. I have disabled it all since this happened. Unfortunately I am unable to force it via USB, as there is no RCV file available for any earlier bios.. That I have been able to find anyways.

I have a Dell 7373 laptop that I made the mistake of updating the BIOS a while back. Ever since then I have been having issues with it crashing at random and not coming back to life after closing/opening the lid or sleeping. I recovered to the latest bios via the RCV, but same issues. I was able...

It was dirty electricity. When put on a battery back up it was fine.

Sorry if this is a noob question, but I would it be worth while to put a Sandisk X400 512GB M.2 Sata III and a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB Sata III Serial interface into a raid?

Hey yall, I recently got a consumer grade APC UPS. I only have my server computer and Xbone hooked up to it. It seems to be putting off a hot plastic like smell, you know like when I try to run windows XP on my dell 3700 with a Pentium II. I don't think there is any sulfur smell to it and no...

Did you ever find a solution? I have this issue as well. It continues on Intel graphics and on my gtx 1070.

I got the lovely SYSWOW64 CLEANER trojan and removed it via Malwarebytes. I am now wiping the ssd and reinstalling windows. I am now getting a BSOD and/or an error of not being able to restart windows for installation. At the boot selection menu I am getting lines of random characters where...

I have 2xM.2 960 Evos, one loaded with Windows 10 Pro, and the other loaded with Windows 10 LTSB. As you would imagine LTSB is faster at everything as it doesn't have any of that lovely "free" software MS forces on you. My only question is.. with the exact same setup and same third-party...

It would more than likely work, but it would be sketchy. It should be fine with light usage, but as soon as you start seeing graphical glitches or spontaneous reboots you need to upgrade your PSU. In the end you will most likely needing to upgrade your PSU.

Got it to work via using the Intel Windows 7 USB 3.0 Creator Utility. Just had to flash USB 3.0 drivers onto my installation image. Thank you for all your help and suggestions! ~Winter Blue Solved on SevenForums...

The actual model number is 24-b017c