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Well, I'm thinking more along the lines of, whatever went wrong on the first PC has caused the drive to break. I don't think the drive broke and then the ability to boot failed, because I had three separate OS drives fail simultaneously: I couldn't boot into any of them. While I do have a spare...

Please :) Just sanity-checking my logic here. So, have a 6-7 year old build, Gigabyte Z77 DH3, i5 etc. Running Windows 7. Recently, came back from work, turned it on, attempted to do more work (Excel... ugh) and it locked up, hard. Had to pull power. On reboot... Windows can't load...

I went for it, and all is well. As I said, last time I tried this it all went pear shaped... all good this time. Thanks all...

I would imagine that too, but as I said.. I have done this before, and ended up with no bootable OS. For sure, I can d/c the working drive, plug the old one in, and see what Windows makes of it. It's just that crunch point where you hook up two OS drives and see what happens when you turn it...

I have a Windows 7 OS drive from a dead PC. I want to add it to a working PC (also Win 7) so I can a) recover the data b) potentially set up a dual boot across the existing drive and the old one When I've done this in the past I have either had complete success, without any sort of...

Right... I can't fix it. As far as I can tell, every component is working fine but the system doesn't post (I can make it complain (beeps) about GPU power, or missing RAM, but it doesn't beep for anything else). Fans spin, disks appear active, but no keyboard lights, no video signal, nada. I...

I've did clear CMOS, yes. I can test a few things in my gaming rig, assuming the RAM is compatible... since I now need to use the gaming rig for work, I'm a bit reticent though. Can't afford 2 dead PCs :) Also I felt dirty installing Office on it. Hey ho. /edit... nah, can't check the RAM...

My awesome OCUK-sourced workhorse PC has failed in a way I can't understand... any clues? It's built around a Gigabyte P965 DS4. My other half switched it on the other day (bad karma immediately). It hung on "Memo..." and she just left it there, probably half the day. I tried a couple of...

I think I just got the wrong cooler, but maybe there's something I can do before I have to dismantle the thing and try another one. Gigabyte z77-d3h H70 + stock Corsair fans (noisy) i5 3.4 @ 4.4 Idle temp: 35c I replaced the 2 Corsair fans on the rad with Noctua NF-F12s. Idle temp: 50c...

Heh, thanks Blu. This mobo has some weird voltage/PWM identity issues. What's the current thinking on s/w fan management etc? I always used Speedfan in the past, but it seems these days they want me to sign up for some randomware ****e. ~abc

I finally upgraded! Old system (many years service): e6600 @ stock 2.4GHz, scythe ninja, never bothered with an overclock, just upgraded the gfx card once or twice. Ended with a lovely 460 GTX. It's almost entirely silent. Desktop, productivity etc - hard disk seek noise is the only...

Lovely! Yeh, it's a daft design "feature" really...

Just thought you'd like to know... there's a replacement card in the post. Amazing what help you can get at OCUK :] Thx again, abc

Oooh! 1) I am a car noob, so if that was the obvious thing to do, apologies. However, I have now learned something :] 2) Indeed, it left the factory "with navigation data". I reckon that seals it. Right, where's my shouting hammer... PS = thx :)

Thanks for your reply. Yeh, the problem is that I dunno whether second hand SDs will work - I've read that the cards are keyed to the vehicle in some way, though the number of cards on offer might indicate that's not the case. My local Ford dealer didn't really know. And the cards are...

Longish shot :] Just bought a 2008 Mondeo that was listed as having navigation. It has one of those units that grabs its map data from an SD card... however, it arrived with no card. Supplier says it never had one. Does anyone know if there's a way to tell whether that's true or not...

Um... ok. With apologies for not following your advice in the summer, could I ask the same question again? I didn't get around the upgrade... so I'm in the same situation now, only with a birthday coming up and the urge to treat myself to some shiny new hardware :] Thx! ~abc

Very unfair, but I couldn't help reading this as: TNT 2 ATI 9700 (laptop) [prison] 8800gts 320 [prison] 4870 1GB [prison] 5850 [prison imminent] :] ~abc

Thanks for the specs so far, not much to choose between them. Why the MSI mobo? My current board still has most of its slots empty (1x gfx, 1x sound) after 5 years: the only conceivable use for spare slots would be SLI, or whatever it's called these days (last time I did that, was with...

Dunno, but it seems pretty unlikely seeing as - AFAIK - the i series of CPUs was but a glint in a beardy man's eye when I bought the ninja :)