I'm pretty sure Microcenter quoted this fix at $99, if I was paying attention. Assuming other places value the service at the same cost, what can I do myself that would be cheaper?

My HDD died the other day, so I bought a new one and a SATA to USB3.0 connector to transfer my files. The dead drive doesn't register when I plug it in via USB with the connector, and plugging it in...

The HDD was the problem. I thought I had unplugged it previously to check, but I guess not. If I had then I probably wouldn't have had to format my SSD.
After unplugging the power and SATA my...

I probably should have waited longer before doing this, but I reinstalled Windows after formatting my SSD. I'm currently typing this on the same computer, so there's that at least.

I'm still...

Yesterday I was using my computer as normal, playing some Overwatch, downloading a mod for Witcher 3, when it started to act really strangely slow.

My CPU usage was near 100% but from Task...

Thanks for the reply axe0. So far I've updated my bios, configured my system for small dumps, done the CPU stress test with no errors, completed the short DST and short generic tests without errors,...

Hey guys. For the past few days I've been getting frequent BSOD crashes with various errors. Some of the ones I've noticed are: Attempted execute of noexecute memory, cache manager, irql not less or...