Hi axe0,

Thanks for your reply.
I ended up buying Neosmart Easy Recovery Essentials, which fixed the problem with it's "Automatic Repair".
A web search revealed that many people have reported...

When I boot from a USB stick and choose repair + console, I can see my drive.

bootrec /rebuildbcd find my drive but gives me: "The requested system device cannot be found."

Hi,

My Windows 10 machine updated itself today (taking a really long time).
When it was finished I rebooted it and I'm getting:


Recovery
Your PC/device needs to be repaired
A required...

They're pretty old, so I am assuming they are 800MHz, and the BIOS says so too.

Anyway, I guess I'll just have to try different configurations and see what works.

Thanks, but I already have the two unmatched pairs.
What is the best way to install them together within my available mobo and sockets?

So now I have 2x8GB-1600MHz installed, 2 empty slots and 2x4GB-800Mhz extra sticks.
What's the best configuration to install the spare sticks?

I found this in the mobo manual (pp16):
136158
So apparently, IIUC, I need to split them.

Is that so?
This implies they have to be in order.

Thanks guys! :cool:

OK, I don't remember it being 400MHz with my 800MHz DIMMs.
So do I need to actually move one module to Slot #3?

Really? Why is that?

I replaced my old 800MHz 2x4GB RAM with 2 new 8GB RAM modules that work at 1600MHz.
My motherboard supports these higher speeds and the BIOS also indicated 1600MHz as the supported speed.
...

Apparently I had a WPR session that was restarting on every boot.
I reinstalled Win 10 SDK and ran a new WPR session.
When this finished it apparently cleared the process that was restarting and...

Hi,

I have a desktop Windows 10 x64 machine that's been working fine for months/years. It was automatically updated from Win7 last year. Ever since the upgrade it is relatively slow. Last week I...

Thanks for the answer - how/where did you find this?
Is there a tutorial somewhere about how to read those reports?

Anyway, uninstalling ESET did seem to do the trick and the computer booted...

Hi,

I have a desktop Windows 10 x64 machine that's been working fine for months/years. It was automatically updated from Win7 last year.

This morning I replaced the 2x4GB DDR3 memory with...