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Recent content by kello

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    Should I install Windows recommended drivers or older versions my MOBO manufacturer supported?

    The MOBO in question is a Maximus VII Hero: https://www.asus.com/SupportOnly/MAXIMUS_VII_HERO/HelpDesk_Download/ Unfortunately many years later these are not up-to-date. Should I still follow the best practice of installing these after a clean install? I ask as Intel recognised and installed...
  2. K

    BSOD on Windows 10

    Must add, this is after following phillpower2's advice to clean install Win 10.
  3. K

    BSOD on Windows 10

    I have seen other users advised to use Speccy as a best practice. I will run this now. Thank you very much again in advance.
  4. K

    BSOD on Windows 10

    I honestly had forgotten I posted on this beforehand. Covid has been a long old thing! Here is the previous thread where @phillpower2 kindly helped me. https://pchelpforum.net/t/can-you-help-me-rescue-the-family-computer-post-water-damage-please.53926/#post-99254
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    BSOD on Windows 10

    Hi all, First of all, thank you for all you do. You saved me once before in the past and many friends and family of mine. I wondered if you could cast your eye over the following. I will give you a full background just in case something I deem irrelevant is. I custom built a PC with an i7...
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    Can you help me rescue the family computer (post water damage) please?

    Thank you Ad. Had planned to backup and then install the ISO as you recommended. However, I've tried to boot it up again today, got the initial Windows 8 logo and whirling circle and then just black for 5 ish minutes before FINALLY getting to the login screen. Is there a particular issue yet to...
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    Can you help me rescue the family computer (post water damage) please?

    I forgot to mention it's been in storage for 4 years so I think we're as dry as it'll get. I'll get onto cleaning it, thank you! Do you feel the best thing would be to backup all files and then perform a fresh Windows install? Just things like, I'd forgotten we have Mcaffee on here and it's...
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    Can you help me rescue the family computer (post water damage) please?

    Thank you for replying so quickly. The taskbar is there right at the bottom, it’s now slowly loading my icons pinned to the taskbar and my wallpaper is there. Is it just a case of waiting and future boots will be faster? Re the MB and GPU, the GPU is completely out so just plugged the HDMI...
  9. K

    Can you help me rescue the family computer (post water damage) please?

    Update: Desktop is SLOWLY loading, from black screen to this took 10 minutes...
  10. K

    Can you help me rescue the family computer (post water damage) please?

    I hope you are all well and keeping safe. I wondered whether you could help me get out of this sticky predicament. Specs: i7 4790k Corsair H100i cooler Nvidia 970 Graphics card (MSI edition) 500GB Samsung Evo SSD Almost a week prior to moving country, the PC suffered very light rain when the...
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