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Update: I requested an RMA for the Corsair AX760 on their website and it was accepted as a "one-time courtesy" according to the rep I'm emailing with. As they have no stock of a similar unit, they will be replacing it with an HX850i. I have returned the PSU and will very likely receive the HX850i in the coming week. I'm actually quite happy that they accepted the RMA, I expected it to not go through w/o any proof of purchase.

My prior build is the "old build" in my signature. While this system did not pull more power, there was for sure more heat. Though I have always had this PSU with the fan facing downwards so it should always have gotten fresh air from the filtered intake of the bottom of the case. I think the main problem might have been heat cycling. As I usually only stress my system for about 20-30 hours week and for the rest of the time it is only used for web browsing.

No it actually wasn't. It was working completely fine actually for all of these years. Things is though I don't have a receipt anymore of the purchase. I have opened a ticket on Corsair's website just now to see what happens. But I think I might be SOL on this one.

While heat fatigue might indeed explain the cause of the PSU dying, I wasn't even close to using the maximum potential of the 760 Watt unit. My system is the "Ryzinator" in my signature and shouldn't pull much more than 500 Watts at full load. Note that none of my components are overclocked.

It's been a long time since I've posted on this forum. But 2 days ago the Corsair AX 760 PSU that I bought in 2014 failed out of the blue. The unit had been working completely fine ever since my very first PC build. It failed while I was playing CS:GO, I noticed my GPU was making a lot of noise, which is normal and fine as I always have V-SYNC off. Then a few minutes into the game, I heard a loud pop and the power in our house went out. One of the fuses had blown, and a burning smell was coming from my PC. Upon opening up the case, it was very obvious that the smell was coming from the PSU. Nothing inside of the PC looked damaged. Today I replaced the PSU, and all components have seemingly survived. I find it very odd that a high quality PSU like this one could just fail after 6 years. What could be the reason of it just failing out of the blue? I suspect the fan might've died, however normally the unit would shut down without a popping noise in case of overheating. I don't have any warranty on this unit as the retailer I bought it from is out of business. My question: I wonder how a high quality PSU can just fail like that. Especially because I have seen systems with very low quality PSUs last more than a decade. I know for a fact that one of my friends family had a PC running almost 24/7 for 11 years with a MS-Tech 350W unit. After those 11 years the only thing that died was the hard drive inside of the PC.

Microsoft still needs to make money, so they likely want you to buy a new license instead. The free upgrade was mostly a marketing stunt, if everyone had to pay to upgrade many people wouldn't have done the upgrade. They made it seem like a limited offer, because they can't just give out free software while the company needs to make profit too.

For Windows 8.1 you would need a new license key. For Windows 10 you can use your Windows 7 key for activating AFTER installing. This method is not on Microsoft's website anymore, but it still works and has no ramifications.

That would be weird considering some lesser known sites and my school website show up with the favicon for me just fine. I suspect it's just a bug, maybe try removing cache/history etc?

Does your website have a favicon? It should display that favicon in top sites whenever it detects that the site has one.

Go to color filters in Windows' Settings app and turn off color filters. It would be a good idea to also turn off the shortcut key too.

Aha I misread that part at first. Then I have no clue, almost sounds like a UEFI BIOS issue at that point. As far as I know, Surface BIOS updates are delivered through Windows Update so it could be that it screwed up when updating. I think it might be best to turn to Microsoft for this one, unless someone else still has ideas.

When you start from a Windows 10 installation USB drive, you can open the command prompt using Shift+F10 (after clicking Install now I believe). It's just another thing you could try, I have no other clues really.

There are no drivers for Windows 8.1 for that laptop.