Recent content by ratjacket

how can this be a bottle neck, if the 760 was getting 300+ and the 1060 is only getting 180-300 on the same game, if it was a bottle neck it would only be getting slightly more than the 760 not a shit load less. there is something wrong, try the old card again with the current drivers? what...

on second thought ill just use back up software(I hate intslaling stuff I don't need to) it looks like it might not be that easy and I don't know the disadvantages of changing from basic to dynamic disk, if anyone would like to enlighten me?

ok SSD's are cheap enough now to upgrade my 120GB to a 525GB drive I have never really used backups etc. in the past (just reinstalled windows at a cost of time). It seems fairly simple with third-party software or using windows to create a disk image & back up from a bootable usb or (or a...

I think it would work in pro as well as long as you didn't have a certain patch

Hold up if your stable under safe mode and unstable in normal mode its software related

another reason windows 10 is awesome cumulative broken updates

the best workaround I have found is once you hit the wall with manual updates. Is set it to automatic (download but manually install) and leave it to run overnight this seems to get the last lot of updates through. it only makes it take a day longer than it should :'(

I have never had a problem with chkdsk and I have run it on hundreds on machines a quick run in cmd prompt from windows for a start then the more intense operation listed above my only regret is I haven't run it enough on some machines I have wasted time on a clearly failing HDD when I...

what if you created a ram drive then set that as your page file?

Yea I don't use much I go old school if I suspect something and download the stand alone Kaspersky antivirus removal tool and run a malware scanner. Some antivirus solutions are worse than a virus. and most don't block any real threats remember the windows xp system admin shutdown virus...

there is a wee programme called move on boot try that it works when no other method does. http://emcosoftware.com/move-on-boot

My last experience with windows 10 made me realise what a good choice it was to uninstall it on my wife's laptop. The neighbour had a cheap windows 10 laptop, resume is very fast but full reboot is nothing to write home about the same speed as 7 IMHO. Now her antivirus had craped out and...

I believe this is true it happened with windows XP and now its happening with windows 7. I have had the same issue with two laptops one in December and one this week I use an old version of seven it updates the updater and I can get SP1 after that it just hangs on checking for updates I...

I have my computer located 20m from where I use it Computer in cold laundry far away so no one can here the vacuum cleaner sound, my cheap noisy but very powerful industrial fans were purchased because noise was not an issue this runs under the house with a 25m DVI-I cable and a 25m HDMI...

to study the AS5 break in did you turn off the comuter and allow it to cool to room temp " This break-in will occur during the normal use of the computer as long as the computer is turned off from time to time and the interface is allowed to cool to room temperature. Once the break-in is...