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Sorry it took me so long to reply. I'm not on here a lot these days. I don't think apple gains anything out of addressing each individual piece of malicious software. It wouldn't accomplish anything. But when there is a large misconception about a product, that works to the detriment of your own company and your reputation. Perhaps it's worth releasing a statement or a guide that outlines things people can do to keep them safe online. Or the features and reasons to keep unknown sources disabled. Or the real risks of enabling it. I'm not sure how you would go about doing it, but I'm sure there is someone smart enough at Apple who is much more capable then me, who could do this. There are ways of doing this without scaring people away from their platform, whilst also correcting the misinformation.

Not trying to continue the flame war. I think a bit of context may help. As somebody who works in retail, and sells Mac's. The general consumer does seem to think that Mac's are invunerable to malware. I would say at least half, on certain days considerably more. Even mentioning antivirus to these people gets a very distinct "Mac's don't get virus's" response. Also, being mad at people for spreading this. When correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't apple the one making ad's where the windows computer (man in a suit) was sick. And the Mac (trendy dude) was all like I don't get virus'. I mean they kind of did start it. Don't get me wrong OSX/OS11 seems to be much more secure since they've moved to gpl3.0 compliance and agreement. But apples inability to publicly acknowledge problems will mean that this will likely remain a problem unless they themselves address it. Realistically, the best solution would be people needing a common sense best practises online license to even be able to use the internet. That would likely solve a good 80% of malware cases on all platforms.

Now that Google play music is being shut down. The cost of YouTube Premium needs to drop or I'll be out. I would assume many others too. YouTube music sounds significantly worse that GPM even with everything set to play at "High" quality. The search function is confused and because it doesn't know if you want the YouTube video on just the audio it shows you both results. Mixed together. At least now when you're casting there is a video toggle. On that note, when casting, the cover art for YouTube music stays in the middle of the screen. Rather than the gentle position transition it made around the screen with GPM. (Super useful for those of us with OLEDs) The navigation is a mess, there is no extra way of filtering content. Not a problem with things like artist and album, but very problematic with things like downloads, subscriptions & playlists. The home and explore pages are not only under the opposite headings, they're overly cluttered and makes finding anything difficult. It could really use a video/audio toggle up the top that changes what the app is displaying FULL STOP. I honestly think they'd be better off scrapping the app completely and starting again. Or just put GPM back in full support, at least it got most of the basic stuff right. Also can somebody tell me if the YouTube Premium features for YouTube music listed in Google's FAQ here: https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9266556?hl=en are actually real? If you don't have YouTube Premium do you not get background playback in YouTube music? Can you not use music only mode without the subscription. If this is real. Why the actual F&$% is anybody actually using YouTube Music??? Google has really shot themselves in the foot with this one.

YouTube Music is a Mess. It's really sad, The home page should be the explore page. The current explore page needs to just Die. The library being mixed with your YouTube stuff. They've removed the mood and genre lists from GPM already. Not to mention that email about a 1 click Transfer. Not even being close to 1 click. They really just need to kill YouTube music and go back to GPM. If you're going to have a "YouTube Music" App, you need to build it from scratch, and this time - remember that it's an app for listening to music first.

Does it sound like coil whine? Can you locate where in the case the sound is coming from?

Alright, well the Corsair PSU is dead. Take that out of the equation all together. Test the system with one drive connected at a time and see if any individual drive is causing issues.

Is the sound coming from your speakers?

System idle is your available CPU resource. 10-20% usage while idle is very high it should sit between 0-2% when nothing's happening

It could be. It's just way more likely to be software.

Issue still remains after windows re-install? Did you install he latest drivers from AMD's website? Or did you let windows install it?

Reseat CPU and cooler.

Do you happen to have a multimeter?

I'm stumped. I'd reinstall windows and be done with it.

Did you DDU from safemode?

Make sure there is no debris under the motherboard. Like MojangYang said it sound like it's grounded. Contact the the chassis will do this.

Honestly scrap it. Take anything worth salvaging. Like perhaps GPU? (Although probably not) sell the RAM online. Destroy the HDD's they're IDE so no use to you anyway. This way no data can be stolen. If you are convinced you want to pump money into it get a second hand motherboard and CPU. At that point you might as well buy a new low end CPU motherboard and a 4GB ram kit. That PSU probably won't support a modern system so you'll want to replace that, you'll need new drives a GPU if you want to game. Then you don't want to put all that modern hardware in an old case so a new one of them as well. Then you have a new system. ? If you get second hand hardware and revive it. Don't bother with Windows put like Linux Mint on it. It'll run better than windows 98 and has much more current features.

Download Process explorer. See what it says is hogging resources. Have a look in task manager at disk usage. Reboot into safemode and check again. If it's still happening it's likely a hardware issue. If it's not like @Skiiwee29 said you probably have a virus or perhaps a bug somewhere. You definitely want to reinstall windows on a clean format. Don't just try to repair.

I agree with @Anghammarad. Sounds like a GPU problem. Download DDU. Reboot into safemode. This can be done by opening the run box win+r typing in msconfig, going to the boot tab, check the safemode box click ok and reboot. Run DDU in safemode. Reboot into windows, download the latest drivers from nVidia and install them.

Holy cow. I didn't realise how old the system is. That has a 20pin power connector and no auxiliary CPU connectors. Honestly it's probably not worth trying to fix. Buying parts for that system will cost you an arm and a leg. To get the cooler off you release the black plastic arm under the fan (you do have to apply quite a lot of pressure) once that's released you take the tabs off the clips either side of the CPU socket. My guess is the power supply or the CPU has had it.

Because it's connected via PCIE you won't find an option for nvme, if it's showing as PCIE, you'd he to check from within windows to find what protocol it's using. It's most likely nvme. Unless it's connected to a SATA port. Can you turn off silent boot and disable boot screen. Then it should show you a black screen with all the post steps on it. If the issue is in hardware you'll see where it gets stuck there. If it happens after that it is likely to software. Even if it's running at 2x it still should be fast.

If windows is detecting the controller. Open steam, Go to controller settings uncheck all controller options. Save and restart steam. Go back into steam, turn on all of these options again, Reboot steam again and see how you go. Apparantly a recent steam update broke controller support. It was patched but some people are still having issues, this appears to work for most people, although some people are reporting that they have to completely remove and re-install steam to get it to work.

Re-install direct X. Safe mode DDU your nVidia driver. Reboot and re-install lated GPU driver from the nVidia website. If it was just Forza, it wouldn't be surprising as UWP games run constant decompression all the time. They're just doomed to be a pain in the Arse. Although the fact that it's happening with other games I think you're right as to think it's something else. Check your GPU clocks are stable but other than that I think it's most likely to be a software issue.

can you create a bootable Windows USB? If so boot off of that, I can run you through auto repair, If that doesn't work we can do a manual repair. Note that manual repairs are convoluted and time consuming. If you can boot off of an Ubuntu USB, it would be easier to back up any non replaceable data, Then simply re-install. Much easier and quicker.

Can you check system events in event viewer around the time of the last crash for any critical or suspicious looking events. Note that warnings are normal and very very very common.

Alright can you start troubleshooting with a very Base configuration. Motherboard, CPU and One stick of RAM. (Use the intergrated GPU) Plug only Mobo 24Pin and Single CPU 4 pin in and see if the system POSTs. If you succeed the slowly add components one at a time until the system no longer POSTs. If the system doesn't POST in minimum config then you need another system with the same CPU socket, or another CPU of the same Socket to test any further. It's also worth testing again replacing the first stick of RAM with another if the system doesn't POST, Just to rule out that stick of RAM.