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Thanks Scott. I've never changed these settings before, I take it I do this by going into bios during start up? I'll wait and see how stable it is over the next few days cheers

Thanks for the response only just seen this sorry. While I was waiting on a reply I spent some time looking for similar threads and saw someone suggesting turning off PC, switching off from mains and leaving for a few minutes. Remarkably this actually worked and all seems good at the moment -...

*mouse not muse!

Hi all, I've had a PCS desktop for 3 years now (see spec below) and it's been brilliant with absolutely no problems at all. However last night when I went to shut down it had frozen and was totally unresponsive to the muse and keyboard, forcing me to shut down by holding down the power button...

Hi all I noticed today that my Windows Defender was apparently not turned on properly and I couldn't do this manually due to "group policy" settings. As I have the Home edition of Windows 10 there is no group policy editor so I couldn't do anything even after reading countless posts and...

Hi all I thought I was going to be able to do this myself without begging for help but it's not as easy as I was hoping! I've removed the 2 x 1tb WD hard drives from my old PCS desktop and have successfully installed them in my new one. I've bought a brand new WD Blue 1tb hd to put in my old PC...

Hope this works - there are 2 round lugs on each side of the drive which fit into the caddy. It looks like I need to slide these lugs in opposing directions to release the drive but they won't budge. In a minute I'm going to get a large screwdriver and force them out but it won't be pretty and I...

Only 5 working days to build and dispatch so top marks to PCS, link to the thread relating to my build here https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?51908-New-gaming-PC-help-needed-with-spec-please!&p=381931#post381931 and also a big up to DPD who delivered next day on time (i paid...

So my new pc spec is settled and ready to order (thanks Oussebon!), the only thing that's stopping me from getting it sorted are the stories I'm hearing about overheating of the Kaby Lake cpu's. Are there any truth to the stories? Or is it too early to say? I haven't seen any complaints on here...

Hi all Not been on here for a while but I'm looking at replacing the PC I bought from here nearly 6 years ago. I bought a good system with a decent CPU and graphics card last time and want to do something similar again - I like to play the odd AAA game (though not as often this days sadly due...

Hi all long time no post. I upgraded to Windows 10 earlier this year and apart from a few randow freezes and restarts when idle it's been ok until now. However last week it updated itself to the 1607 anniversary edition and my PC's performance has slowed dramatically. On opening task manager I...

Hi all Ok so i've got things almost as i want them since my reinstall (although my outlook backup didn't seem to contain any of my sent emails for the last 2 years but that's another story). I've done 1 windows backup since i got things in order and that completed fine however i've got it set...

Hi after eventually successfully reinstalling windows 7 and drivers (thanks again to all those who helped!) i see i've now got a drive H in My Computer which is a reserved space of 99.9mb, of which 65.8mb is currently free. What is this? I didn't have it prior to the reinstall. Can i delete it...

Hi all Not been on here for a while as my pc has been running like a dream for a couple of years! It's been slowing down of late though so i decided to do a clean reinstall of windows 7 home edition today. It's up and running again now after HOURS of windows updates but my problem is that some...

Hi all not been on here for a while but i've returned for a bit more advice. As above my mother in law is interested in getting a laptop so she can get into internet shopping, keeping in touch with family etc. Will be used pretty much for that ie not gaming or multitasking etc. I thought a...

Hi all my first post on here for some time just had my first problem with my pc which i bought about a year ago. I have a sandy bridge system which has the buggy motherboard, i went for the option of having a sata port adapter sent out to me rather than returning my pc to them for fixing. As i...

Hi all Was just wondering who else bought a pc with the dodgy motherboards this year and what they did about it. I opted for one of the SATA port adaptors rather than returning the pc which PCS duly sent me. However due to not really knowing how to plug it in and the fact that my pc wasn't...

Hi all not posted on here for a while. Not sure if this is a problem or not, i make regular full system backups including the image backup onto my internal 1TB 2nd hard drive, but i'm finding that it fills up quickly resulting in me having to wipe the HD and start again. Is this normal as i...

Hi all. Once windows has loaded on startup, i get several dos boxes coming up on screen, varying from three to seven in number. The dos boxes have nothing but a flashing cursor in them and i have to close them all individually every time i start the pc which is getting very annoying. The boxes...

Have tried setting up my ps3 controller using motioninjoy but haven't been able to get it to work - only tried it on mafia 2 so far. So having had a look on the internet it seems that the xbox360 wireless controller should be pretty straight forward but might need to buy the xbox 360 wireless...