I have a very old 1 TB hard drive with one bad sector. Using the "Surface Test" option in Macrorit Partition Expert v8.1.0 I have narrowed down its location down to the exact Megabyte (it's at at...

Hmm. I might be able to try something with this info. Thanks! :-)

Not sure if my backup has all the necessary folders for this (there seem to be several ones with similar names, but not all of...

Issue still exists.

There was an update to the Photo Viewer app on April 22nd, literally a day after my last post, ironically enough, but... the update didn't fix the bug, in fact I've discovered...

Ah, sorry if I came across as patronizing or aggressive, I guess we were just talking past each other. ^_^;;





yeah, but it has its drawbacks, and I was hoping to not have to deal with those...

What?? o_O

I'm sorry, but that's simply not true. I've been using it like this for years, and even on Windows 7 it worked like that. In fact I did still use this on March 31st and it worked. Then...

On April 1st (fantastic timing), an update of Microsoft Photos introduced a bug, where, when used in a list of Windows Search results, the previous/next arrows won't show up ... for most of them[1]....

Okay, you guys are right.

I would've wanted to do "one more test" to feel more secure in my decision, but I'm not taking the risk of messing up with overclocking when I don't understand how to do...

I'm guessing msi Afterburner (used in the article you linked) may let me set higher values, but is probably less safe to use than the software that came with the GPU driver-DVD, AMD Software...

Okay that sounds like good news! :)

If this really is just a case of "one component isn't perfectly compatible with the rest of the PC", then it isn't physically damaged, and that means the...

Apologies if this post is a bit long, and the formatting a bit wonky. Posting a bit in a hurry.


Okay, so things outside my control happened last week that hindered my productivity.

Didn't...

Okay, thanks! :)

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No errors found after 12+ hours and a little over 8 passes.

384116384117

I guess according to that article you linked memtest86+ is the better option.

Okay, another quick question: I can't seem to find where to change the number of passes in memtest86+:

384058...

Crash now replicated on new Windows without any stress tests or anything special on autostart*, just "turn PC on for 10 minutes, turn it off for 10 minutes, turn it back on for 10 minutes, repeat"....

I already ran a RAM Test (Test Mix = Extended, Cache = ON, Pass count = 3) -> "The Windows Memory Diagnostic tested the computer's memory and detected no errors".




I'll have to put checking...

Hmm. Oh a fresh Windows install? I mean okay, I did have to install a few programs, but I didn't go overboard with it. Can't look up what's on autostart there atm unfortunately, I'm on my primary...

I admit I quickly glossed over the article for now (lots of stuff to do today, 'cause if I do send the PC away I'd basically have to do that probabably tomorrow-ish so it arrives by Saturday).

But...

I don't know, how do I find that out? As in: How do I find out which BIOS version I have, and which is current?




Well considering the main OS is installed on a M2.SSD with only 500 GB, half...

Okay, several updates.

First of all, I realize something really stupid happened. I had never installed the msi (motherboard) or AMD (GPU / CPU) drivers when I received the PC. :shock:

So......

You are correct, I don't overclock my cpu.



Too late, already installed a second Windows 10 copy. ^_^#

In any case, the Customer Support told me to "reinstall Windows to fix your problem",...

Thanks, I'll be looking into that, need to type up a post for that other sub-forum first.






My first thought too of course.

One thing I do want to point out though: All the Event...

I've made a small 70 GB partition (better to have some space just in case).
I've downloaded the MediaCreationTool22H2 ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 or...

Thanks for your quick replies!

I'm a bit in a rush atm, so sorry if I miss any detail from the posts already made, I'm gonna go over them again tomorrow.



I confess, I feel like a bystander...

Alternate title: "Why am I not even getting Bluescreens? As in, never?"


Hi,

not 100% sure which sub-forum is the right one for this... Well, I'm trying to narrow down / exclude a hardware...

Neat! Thanks. :-)

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Hey,

quick question about the check disk command.

The drive is 8TB (=...

Actually, it did crash on me one more time after changing the setup. While updating my PC backup. Which didn't even take that long, like, an hour at most (it had been a while since the previous...