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Try going to nVIDIA control panel / display. Play with the settings a little bit to see if it's a display profile issue. If it is, choose 'use nvidia settings'.

It's likely that have a bad drive. Try using HDTune and conduct a slow scan on your hard drive to confirm. If everything checks out try to low level format your hard drive and try again.

Technically you can, but it defeats the purpose of having a desktop PC. If you use a server board with BMC functions you can have a computer that does not have either dedicated or integrated graphics. You can then use some kind of remote access to use it. If that's what you're looking for check out this Asrock Rack board: https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X570D4I-2T Otherwise, you should get yourself a dedicated graphics, or flip the chip for a Ryzen with Vega on it.

Looks like a bad graphics card? To determine: - Go find a keyboard with some indicator lights (like CAPSlk), - Attach it to your PC - Restart your computer - After a minute or so, press caps lock. If the indicator turns on and off, you have a dead graphics card.

Some possibilities I might consider. Hassale from low to high: 1. There is an error in your BIOS somehow. Flash the latest BIOS. This would also deal with potential problems caused by OC. 2. PCI-E slot is somehow bad. Try another PCI-E slot. 3. There are some bad blocks on your SSD/ memory where your graphics driver happened to reside on. When the system trys to read from it it freaks out. - Reseating, or replacing your memory sticks - trying another SSD or load a Windows to go image or a linux distribution on a flash drive and try to run some games on it. 4. The power supply might only be marginally capable of handling your system or it's dead. Try another power supply. 5. Your power line is not very stable. Plug it in somewhere else and try again.

Try update your SATA controller driver. In device manager it woud be "Standard SATA AHCI controller". You can find the update in AMD/ INTEL offical site.

Yes. However LTSB versions are hard to find, and You don't have "an option“ to refuse all feature updates. You won't have ANY feature updates. (say LTSB 2015 would always be 10.0.10240). I hate those information mining shit, but I do want a kernel update where there is one. Also licenses for LTSB versions are hard to get. Finally I have a Windows Server key for free, so whatever LOL.

4. Install Windows Server 2016 on my Surface Pro 4 Installing an OS that's not Windows 10 on Surface is a bit tricky, as surface would not even boot up if that image is not an Windows 10 official ISO. However, it is easy to bypass by restarting the surface into "command prompt" mode. Please note that this operation is risky. You will lose ALL DATA permanently on that device if backup is not made. (and you may void your warranty and/ or break your device). Proceed with your own risk. (1) Extract the Windows Server 2016 ISO file and copy install.wim file to a flash drive; (2) If you are not familiar with Dism command, find some GUI tools to help you. I use "Dism++". Extract that tool to your flash drive. (3) On Surface Pro 4, go to "Settings" app and choose "Advanced Startup/ Restart Now". (4) On rebooted "Choose an option" screen, select "Advanced Options" and then "Command Prompt". (5) Connect the flash disk with install.wim and Dism++ (if you had it) (6) Use Dism command to unzip that install.wim to the SSD on Surface Pro 4. (or use a GUI tool to help you). Although there is nothing like a start menu or file explorer, you can directly type the full location of the exe file to start a graphical tool. (7) After the extraction is complete, restart the computer. It would be running a copy of Windows Server 2016. (8) Mount the Windows Server 2016 ISO and re-install it after you get into the desktop. (9) You can find drivers for Surface Devices on Microsoft Website. (10) Set it up as mentioned before. Theoretically this method can install any version of Windows after Windows Vista (or even not Windows as long as you have a working wim file) . However Microsoft official drivers does not support these legacy operating systems. (because I tried LOL). You may have to hunt for these drivers if you are dedicated to do so. Something not working: Everything worked apart from some minor hardware whose driver does not work on Windows Server. Windows Hello is there, but I haven't found a way to enable it.

0 Background I'm an university student and just built myself a Ryzen 7 gaming PC for gaming and a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 for academic purposes. As is generally known, Windows 10 is not as stable and trustworthy as their predecessors: unexpected reboots may interrupt your workflow, strange problems occur after updates, and Microsoft is harvesting your data in the background. However, if you build a system after Kaby Lake, you have no option but to use Windows 10. You can technically install any version of windows using DISM, but it won't receive any updates. Well, I want a version of windows that is stable, and would not harvest user information in the background. After a quick search I found that Windows Server 2016 is exactly what I expected: Based on Windows 10, No app store and data harvesting shit, and is really stable. A brief google search reveals most programs that would run on Windows 10 but not on Windows Server 2016 (other than some programs that intentionally don't want to run on Windows Server). It turned out that with a little modification, Windows Server 2016 can be a capable desktop OS. (Much less modification than previous Windows Server releases). I actually installed Windows Server 2016 on both my Ryzen PC and Surface Pro 4. On Ryzen it worked perfectly, but on Surface Pro there are some minor inperfections. Here's how I did it. 1 Obtaining a copy of Windows Server Obtaining a copy is easy, search for "Windows Server 2016" the trial version is the first result. (University students can even obtain free fully activated copies from Microsoft Imagine). 2 Installation and Initial Settings on a normal PC System Installation is just like normal Windows, other than that you would be welcomed by a more simplified welcome screen: you must use "Administrator" to login. That account has a very high privilege, so it is strongly recommended that you disable it after some initial settings, and setup another user account. (1) Install drivers. Go to Intel, AMD, NVIDIA etc. to get these drivers. Most drivers that would work with Windows 10 also would work on Windows Server 2016. Reboot system as required. It is strongly recommended to update the SATA controller driver. For Ryzen Chipsets, it's in the chipset driver package, only that it's not installed by default. (2) Second, go to "Control Panel\System and Security\System\Advanced system settings". Go to "Advanced" tab, click Settings under "Performance". Under "Visual Effects" tab, select "Adjust for best apperance"; Under "Adcanced" tab, Adjust for best performance of "Programs". (3) Right click the Audio Button on the taskbar, and select "Playback devices". Windows would ask you if you want to start Audio service. Click "Yes". Then you would have audio. Select the default audio playback and recording devices as you do under desktop Windows. (3) Go to "Server Manager" (it's on your start menu). Click "Local Server", and disable "IE Enhanced Security Configuration" for both Users and Administrators. (4) Go to Internet Explorer/ Internet Options, under "Security" tab, disable "Enable Protected Mode". Ignore the warning. (5) Reboot the computer. (6) Go to Server Manager, click "Manage", and then "Add Roles and Features". (7) Click "Next" in the wizard until you are welcomed by "Select Features" screen. Select these Services (from bottom to top) * Wireless LAN Service (if you have a wireless card) * Windows Search Engine * Windows Bio metric Framework (if you have a fingerprint sensor or something) * Quality Windows Audio Video Experience * Media Foundation Click Next to the end and click "install" to finishlize the wizard. (8) Reboot as required. (9) Create a user account. Right click Windows Logo and select "Computer Management". Select "Local Users and Groups", then "Users" Right click any white area, and select "Add new user". Fill the highlighted fields as required. After creating the user account, right click that account, and select "Properties". In "Member of" tab, click "Add", and type "Administrators" in the highlighted field. (10) Reboot the computer and login as the user you just created.. (11) Install a program that you use, and need administrative priviledge to install it. (12) If (11) succeed, Go to "Computer Management", right click "Administrator", select "Properties", and disable "Administrator" account. (13) Go to "Server Manager" , Select "Manage" than "Server Management Settings". Click "Do not start Server Manager automatically at logon". All's Done. Now you can use Windows server as a desktop OS. Everything I tested worked, including some steam games, blizzard games, MS office, etc.

I mounted a virtual disk that's connected to a HyperＶ virtual machine that has snapshots directly to Windows by doble clicking it. Thus I crashed my document backup server that holds all amendment history, but I didn't loss any final revision files because I back them up in all PCs sitting around my home.

It's not. In 7 gamer 1 CPU all 7 gamers have direct access to a graphics card. However in VMWare the graphics card is a virtual one and there may be performance loss.

Some time ago my IM software keep popping annoying windows when I plug in my phone. So I moved it to a virtual machine running in VMWare workstation to prevent that. That is a total success and after that I thought that maybe I can move all daily softwares to virtual machines, so that they would immune from crashing caused by software and hardware environmental changes (such as a failed update of windows 10). Moreover, if I buy new computers I would not have to reset and reinstall all those softwares, some of them requires re-activation. And I'm wondering that, can I game on VMs? I asked some professionals and they all gave me negative answers. They believe that VMs, regardless of the performance of hosts, can play no larger games than minesweeper. But I looked into the performance index of windows 7 and it showed a graphics score of 7.9 and I think that it might be untrue. I'm aware that linus has done that successfully in 7 gamers 1 CPU series video. However this is not the same case, because in linus' video each client uses a discrate GPU. However in my case I would have to use a virtual GPU. To verify that I decided to put the idea to the test. Now I'm currently using a relatively old computer. i7-3960X/ 32GB DDR3 1600/ GTX970. In both host and client OS is Windows 10, latest version, and VMWare workstation is reversion 12.5.2 build-4638234. 3DMark results VMware 12 currently doesn't support DX12 so I had to use Cloud gate instead. In Item[Host,4C VM,12C VM]: 3DMark Score[27126,14689,18663] Graphics Score[78995,60192,35287] Physics Score[8225,4029,7046] Defintely running games in VMs lose performance. However, to my surprise: (1) it's the physics score, not graphics score, that makes a major difference. This may be caused by the absence of physX support in VMWare. (2) You may want to wisely allocate the number of virtual CPUs. The more virtual CPUs allocated, the worse graphics performance is. In conclusion: Unfortunately latest AAA titles are out of the question. However I believe that most 3D games can run in VMs without a problem if they don't rely heavily on something like PhysX. Result links: Host: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/17228010 VM, 4Cores, 16GB RAM: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/17227594 VM, 12 Cores, 16GB RAM: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/17228440

You could have avoided cutting redundant DVI ports by using one of these.. I found the pic on the Internet though

1 Check the integrity of your hard Drive using tools such as WD diagnose tool. It is strongly recommend that you run it in a Pre installation environment. 2 Switch off power saving functions. If you use the PC exclusively for NAS, you can use windows server, or try bespoke linux(BSD) dists such as FreeNAS, though you may have to wipe your disks before using these bespoke distributions.

Yes. I've been playing A variety of games on my Dell precision M4700 with quadro 2100M upgraded by myself. It would perform very closely to a Geforce card with similar spec. Though it would not support Geforce only functions such as Gsync, some quadro only features are very useful such as nview.Nview allows you to merge multiple multiple monitors, just like it is aw single monitor.