Recent content by yeatzee7786

Alright so I was able to get it to finally boot by disabling the fast boot and secure boot (delete the keys) while keeping CSM Boot enabled. So now that I'm in Windows, what should I do to make sure everything is fine before I update the BIOS and attempt the CPU swap again?

Not sure where else to put this thread but I'm in desperate need of your help! My computer won't boot into windows, and yes the SSD with the OS is showing up in BIOS. Long story short I'm in the process of upgrading my PC with new parts. Added in new ram and a new SSD which is a clone of my old...

Got it. For whatever reason my SATA cables apparently decided to no longer work... or work but not all at the same time. Bought new SATA cables for each hard drive and they are all showing up now. Everything seems to be running tip top!

Figured it out, had to go into disk management and right click the primary partition and click extend. Now I've got the proper amount of space available. Thanks everyone for the help! For reference here's a link that shows how to do it (method 2)...

I bought a 1TB SSD to replace my 256GB SSD which is just about full. I'd like to just transfer everything over, including the OS, to the new SSD. I downloaded EaseUS Todo Backup like everyone says, and following these directions...

I built my PC a long time ago and it's still running ok but I'd like to update it a bit with better parts. It's been a long time since I've been in the game so I'm just not sure what's out there and what I should go with. What would be a good upgrade from the 3820 chip? Would be totally fine...