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I believe the software is called PeerSync. I'm about to have a look at their website as it would be cool to have a solution similar to what they run as my current storage and backup solution at home is in desperate need of a re-vamp and upgrade.

Hi all, have been troubleshooting an issue with a PC over the past few days and I've pretty much exhausted what I can so reaching out to see if I'm forgetting anything obvious. Original Issue PC shut off randomly one day and since then it would turn on and work fine for up to 5 minutes and would then switch off. You couldn't switch it back on straight away and would have to wait 5-30 minutes even if power was disconnected. I started a process of elimination and started swapping parts out, primarily the PSU, CPU, GPU and RAM. Briefly tested all components in another machine and they seemed fine and everything was also tested on a bench in-case the case was shorting out the board somewhere. I got to the stage where the motherboard was the only original part whilst using other known working parts laying around or from working machines. So I made the dive to clear the CMOS and that was the end of that boards life, it no longer powered up or showed any sign of life, new CMOS battery was tried as well a new BIOS chip which was flashed with the appropriate BIOS. So, replace the motherboard? Right? Well.. Everything seemed to check out fine when bench testing and re-assembling the PC with the original parts, surprisingly the new board picked up the RAID0 SSDs but that blue-screened so we figured it would be best to reinstall. Took some work but managed to do a clean install on a single SSD with a spare RAM stick and creating a 120GB partition on the SSD, I could then put the original RAM back in and extend the partition to use the entire 180GB drive. Current issue (and completely puzzled) The PC works in every aspect except it doesn't turn off. You can use the power button to turn the machine on and you can restart from windows but if you shutdown from windows or hold the power button the PC doesn't actually turn off, all components remain powered on and the only way to cut power is with the PSU switch. After a shutdown from windows, you can press the power button and it will post/boot windows normally despite all components still being powered. I done a sanity check and plugged another known good PSU in and the PC wouldn't even boot, it would power off completely and back on continuously (like a motherboard does sometimes with new hardware when it's finding the best setting to post). To the best of my knowledge the replacement motherboard is a known working unit. I feel like testing another CPU/RAM etc with the replacement motherboard next just to be certain on that last point but will need to strip a working machine down so could be a job for the weekend. Specs i5 3570k 16GB DDR3 1866 Corsair Vengeance 2 x 180GB Intel SSDs Reference GTX 1070Ti Coolermaster 600W/Corsair 500W for testing Original motherboard ASRock Z77 Extreme6 Replacement: Gigabyte GAZ68XP-UD4 (flashed to latest release BIOS for Ivy Bridge compatibility) Thanks all for your time reading and open to any suggestions, obviously spending money on current gen parts isn't an option really.

Both of these are beasts! But the blade stealth is a must, the ultimate portable laptop gaming experience right there. My body is ready.

Thanks! I got as far as trying the uninstaller tool that you linked, but before trying the "lengthy" manual uninstall steps, I decided to try the "reset my pc" option in windows 10 restore options. Both the keep my files and erase and restore to defaults failed and when booting back into windows, everything was "acting up". Luckily I still had the recovery partition on the laptop and one I created on an external hard drive (thankfully not deleted) so managed to restore to that as I had no restore points. Then uninstalled office, and re-installed with the software I needed and now working fine, after many windows updates etc....

Around 30 minutes today, tried it at the weekend and left it for a few hours. Only took around 5 minutes to install when I got the laptop originally.

Hi there, Got a strange issue i'm struggling to resolve on a laptop running Office Professional Plus 2013. It currently has most office programs installed and I wanted to add Lync onto the laptop, when going into "Change" on the installer, it shows Lync as Installed - But it's not? When I go through the install/repair/uninstall process on the installer, it gets stuck on "Configuring Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013", "Repairing Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013" and "Uninstalling Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013" Respectively and does not make ANY progress. The progress bar stays blank and there is no activity from the installer or signs of it progressing and I have to kill it with task manager. My question is, how do I "fix" the installer? So I can properly re-install/repair Office so I can add Lync to the installed products. Thanks!

Yeah it wasn't an entire system outage, my BT fibre has been up all day without issues.

I guarantee if you use the home hub 5, and have disconnects then you must have a fault on your internal wiring or on the external wiring (otherside of master socket) Have you tried the test socket? if you have the newer style socket. If you have the socket with with an openreach logo on the front, I highly recommend you get one of these once BT repair the fault: http://www.amazon.co.uk/GENUINE-BT-Openreach-Interstitial-Compatible/dp/B00NMUXPOS/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1441313031&sr=8-5&keywords=openreach+filter This negates the need for those stupid micro-filters and if you combine that with an RJ45 - RJ11 twisted pair cable for the connection to the home hub then you will be set. There is no need to replace it for non-standard equipment unless you have a need for features etc that other modems/routers provide. The latest firmware on the home hub 5 is far better than previous versions which gave the home hub it's "bad" reputation. The error's you are getting in the logs are normal for a line with faults, I've seen the same countless times.

I've found BT to be a very good provider, despite the controversy you always hear about. I'm on Infinity2 in a rural area, and live super close to the green roadside cabinet so I get max speeds for the package. I understand if you live quite far from your roadside cabinet, their fibre packages drop off in terms of speed, but this would be the same with any provider here. You can put your current phone number into the BT wholesale ADSL checker and that will provide you with an accurate speed that you'll get. I had lot's of drop outs when I first switched to fibre, but it was due to a cable fault, once their support team realises what the true fault is, it gets resolved very quickly, however can take some time for them to stop suggesting all the basic **** like reset your router. All in all, I give BT a solid 9/10. And no I don't work for BT for all those that dislike the ISP

powerline is an option here, however for those connection speeds I'd want to wire the house with gigabit ethernet, very common thing to do these days. Wireless signal may be fine but you definitely won't achieve the throughput you want, nor would multiple wireless connections fair that well tbh.

You say you have Sky broadband so I'm presuming you're in the UK? Depending on the technologies that are available at your local telephone exchange will depend on the speeds you can get. Are you in a rural location on Skys connect package? Have you looked on the BT fibre rollout or one for your local area to see when you might be due an upgrade? It's highly likely that those speeds are the best you can currently get in your area at the moment. What's your download speed?

Looking extreeeeeeeme!

My friend has this with his K70 in the UK, has to restart to stop the light sticking on. Seems to be a few people that get it, no issue on mine Seems it's new contact corsair RMA and they'll sort it out for you

I found the linus tech tips channel when looking for a review on a motherboard I was looking to buy, this one: I then subscribed and even went back to watch older videos to that one and have been watching ever since. Not as an active on the forum as I'd like, but always looking around at posts on here Thanks again to LMG and everything you have done!

I really like the design of it, looks super slick! Owning such a thing with those signatures on would be something I'd never let go! (no idea why it posted twice, chrome had a hiccup, remove this pls)