Recent content by PaulJ678

Who knows, the only person that does is the engineer that carried out the inspection. i know the usb header socket on the motherboard was damaged because we noticed it when cable etc were moved to disconnect cards and drives during fault finding. It is impossible for me to know if the pins...

If it does not fit then what else could it be. We have the old motherboard and there are bent pins. What/who caused them is impossible to know for sure. It now works, which is our desired outcome. Hopefully, no-one else has a similar issue...its been a time vampire.

The expert has twenty years trading and has a superb reputation locally. We trade mutually with each other so know each other. They have always resolved issues where we have not been able to or do not have the inclination. The issue started many months ago on an intermittent basis and...

Hi All, I am back again. The PC is fixed so here is what happened in case it helps someone else. As a last resort a clean install of Windows was carried out. It did not resolve the issue. After the clean re-install the PC would not boot at all unless the SSD SATA was disconnected then we...

Sorry...I was wrong. Windows was clean installed from USB. I was thinking about a laptop that came with Windows installed that was then linked to a Microsoft account. I had several new PCs around the same time, some with, some without the OS .

Hi ubuysa, Windows was installed on the PC buy PCS for testing purpose so I simply entered our credentials using a digital licence. It was installed on one hard drive only. This morning was a cold boot with the USB removed which stalled again at the same place. Forced restarts as before to...

Hi ubuysa, Thank you again for your help. I can answer all those very easily. Windows was installed from a digital license from my Microsoft account. Anything to do with windows (including boot partitions) is on one of the M2 SSD drives. Nothing other than apps/programs that must be on the...

I got someone to send me an image

The BIOS reset when battery changed. Yes, I will upload an image when next at location of the miscreant PC. From memory only the Windows Boot Manger is listed. Thank you very much for assistance.

I have experienced this issue when cold booting only. Usually after a few times of turning off (press and hold) and on I can access the BIOS (F2). I have to begin pressing F2 after the POST beep before the freezing boot screen appears. Hoppfully, you can do this then manually boot to begin...

Thanks for the response ubuysa. Don't worry. Fortect was only used to scan in case we had missed anything, I dont let it apply fixes. After scanning it was uninstalled. There were a couple of minor fixes which we manually applied so they can be undone. It made no difference. We get the...

Hi Tony, Thanks for the response. I have booted from USB when cold boot has failed then it becomes a warm boot and boots oaky. Not tried with a cold boot beacuse you need to let it go cold and do not know if the cold boot will work or not. Cold boots now fail 4/5 times sometimes fine for a...

Case PCS 3601 CASE Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i7 Eight Core Processor i7-11700 (2.5GHz) 16MB Cache Motherboard ASUS® PRIME B560-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s) - ARGB Ready! Memory (RAM) 32GB PCS PRO DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 16GB) Graphics Card 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 710 - DVI, HDMI, VGA 1st M.2 SSD Drive...

Hi All, Before I reset the PC just asking if anyone has any bright ideas. PC Specialist supplied desktop in August 2022. A few months ago it presented the fault of not booting from a cold boot. It was very rare and always started when power reset. Now it happens every time PC is cold...

Hi there. I upgrading a certain amount of hardware at work due to the super deduction tax break around and that some of our PCs are old. Most of the client PCs have been done an d can be dealt with off the shelf products. I cannot find what I want off the shelf for some of the more powerful...