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Old ish motherboard not booting from nvme
I recently bought an nvme drive and attached it to my asus P8H77-I motherboard via a PCIe-NVME (or PCIe-M.2, not sure what the proper name is) adapter. I did this in an attempt to replace the HDD that ...
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Inaccessible Boot Device after m.2 SSD upgrade
I've replaced my old m.2 256GB Samsung XP941 SSD, my boot drive with Windows 10 installed, with a 1TB 970 EVO Plus. This is on an MSI X99S SLI Plus motherboard that was recently upgraded to the ...
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can't boot from usb after motherboard change
I recently changed the motherboard of my computer (ASRock JR455 https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/J3455-ITX/index.fr.asp to ASRock B550 https://pg.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B550%20Phantom%20Gaming-ITXax/index....
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Cant access my UEFI. (Windows 10) (Desktop PC) (Asus Motherboard name: B150M-A). Does anyone know how to fix this?
My problem is, that i cant access the UEFI Bios. I have tried booting it up from the windows bios and hitting the F2/Del key during startup (Startup is not in fast mode), but it does not work. Can ...
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No motherboard splash screen, and cannot boot into UEFI
I have a PC with the following specs:
Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming Motherboard
Ryzen 5 2600
8GB DDR4 RAM
Zotac GTX 1060 6GB AMP! Edition
The problem is that I very rarely get the motherboard ...
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Bizarre startup freezes / Windows 10
For some time now, I have been experiencing bizarre screen/PC freezes that I couldn't find any mention of when searching online. The screen turns into a static color (white or blue inside Windows, or ...
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Is my motherboard faulted?
My girlfriend bought me a cheapish micromotherboard back at Christmas time and I wasn't complaining because I needed one. It worked fine up until now (I think).
I'll start from the beginning. I was ...
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PC doesn't boot after adding RAM
I have Lenovo M91P 7052-b5u i5-2400 (spec sheet) with 2+1 GB RAM
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Because I have 4 sockets, I decided to add 2 more.
Yesterday I added Kingston 4+2 GB RAM 99u5471, but the PC didn't boot. It was ...
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Computer boots up but is completely unresponsive
I have had my computer for 2 years and it has worked completely fine up until yesterday.
I installed the latest update (21.1.1) to my AMD Radeon software and restarted my computer to apply the changes....
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New PC doesn't boot into any OS from any source after windows update (pls help)
I built my first PC two days ago, hooked it up to a monitor, plugged a usb with Windows installation media, installed Windows Enterprise LTSC (i use it on my laptop and love it), and started updating ...
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Pc freezes at mother board logo
My pc freezes at mother board logo and won't take any key input. If i let it standby for a few minutes, it would go to windows repair but even there, I'm unable to press any key to choose an option.
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My computer keeps restarting after few seconds of being on
I had some problems recently with my Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming K5:
I have two SATA drives installed, one containing Windows, and just installed my first SSD:
I was trying to install Windows ...
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Unable to set boot drive in BIOS to the correct drive
My Windows 10 system gets an "MBR Error 1" message during boot because it's trying to boot from the wrong drive. I have to manually select the correct drive from the boot menu. My Boot menu ...
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Can't boot with new RAM on gigabyte X299 UD4 (rev. 1.0)
My pc currently works with a single 8GB RAM GB, I recently bought a new RAM memory exactly the same as I already have.
When I installed the dual channel windows crashes after a stressful use. I did ...
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How to get Windows To Go USB to work on ASUS / AMD hardware?
I have the following hardware:
ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme motherboard
AMD Threadripper 1950x
Nvidia RTX 2070 graphics card
USB 3.0 flash drive with Windows 10 Home To Go
I want to be able to adjust the ...
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Motherboard (Gigabyte B450) cannot retain BIOS settings
I am using Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro Wifi motherbard, AMD Ryzen 7 2600x, Corsair DDR4 2x8GB 3200Mhz RAM (CMK16GX4M2B3200C16). My OS is Windows 10 64-bit.
I have this weird problem with my desktop PC. ...
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Keyboard does not respond at POST screen, but works fine everywhere else?
Mobo: Gigabyte 7TESM
OS: Win 10 Pro
CPU: Dual Xeon X5650s
I’ve been dealing with this problem across two different motherboards. I understand it is an astronomically small possibility this happened ...
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Computer fails to boot
My computer starting freezing (showing 100% disk usage for the boot drive) so I tried restarting. Now it won't get past the motherboard flash screen. If I wait there, it eventually goes to a screen ...
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Strange video signal on first boot
If I boot up my computer, I get a screen which looks like this
(The pixels look like they are changing rapidly, they have a white/blue colour).
If I hold down the power button as soon as this screen ...
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Computer restarts itself
Problem description:
On shutdown -> After shutting down the pc, the power-LED starts blinking some minutes until the computer restarts itself. Everytime the power-LED blinks, the fan start moving ...
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Windows 10 boot fails with 0x82f after update
After last nights update my Windows machine (hpe-420cs) entered into infamous boot loop, reporting MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION as the cause.
I tried to roll back the update in boot menu, with process ...
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How to solve machine check exception on Windows 10 startup
About a week ago I got Machine check exception when I was starting my Windows 10 machine (HPE-420cs), the progress remained stuck at 0% for several hours and no error code was provided.
After ...
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Windows hangs on spinning dots
I did the most stupid move ever. I downloaded an Intel auto-detect-and-update tool from their website and ever since whenever I start windows with my 960GTX, It hangs on the spinning dots.
I swapped ...
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Delayed PC boot
I have pretty powerful system, that used to be able to go from power on to login screen in under 10 seconds. However, fairly recently i've noticed strange behavior: After press of power on button, ...
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Understanding Meaning of Power Indicator Blinks for Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3 Motherboard
I've bought a new desktop computer few days ago. It has the following hardware specification:
Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3 motherboard
Intel Core i-5 4460 Processor
8 GB DDR3 RAM
1 TB Hard disk
Windows 10 Pro ...
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