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I installed win 7 on the spare hard drive 160GB, took out the old one 500GB, and then plugged the spare 160GB with win 7 in to the laptop.

Hi guys! So I am in serious need of some help with my laptop, I bought an Acer ES1-512 like 2 years ago now, so the warranty run out and only now is when the problem came up - so no suggestions on returning it to manufacturer to get this fixed . The 500GB HDD that was in there stopped working (makes a clicky noise - which I don't remember what it means, if it's just dead or one of the screws came loose or whatever). When it boots it just comes up with a black screen and a image of a hard drive with a magnifying glass and text saying ''no bootable device''. So my first thought was - Ok let's get in to the bios and change the boot sequence so I could pop a win 7 install dvd and maybe reinstall windows. Well after the splash screen (with acer logo) it goes straight to the missing hard drive screen. Also on the splash screen it doesn't show you what to press to get in to the bios. I have tried F2 F9 F10 F12 and Del buttons as those are the most common buttons that require pressing to get into the bios (or atleast from my experience). But anyway I had a spare laptop HDD (160GB) so I installed a copy of win 7 32bit on to the spare 160GB HDD, and replaced them coz I figured maybe if it has a bootable device with windows on there then it will skip that screen, and still nothing. So I have no idea what to do now and I'm kind of stuck. I was wondering if anybody else knew what to do. If not then I guess I will just have to pawn it off on eBay as spares or repairs, which would be a shame because it's a decent laptop and I could really need to for my college work. Thanks to whoever reads this and takes a minute or two to pop down a suggestion! - Pascal

It's a toshiba satelite c660 with an i3 380m and 2gb of ram (don't ask if ddr2 or ddr3 I have no clue ) and I reinstalled it coz I wanted to format the drive coz it was full with old crap that I didn't need, plus I thought that computers with less than 4gb of ram run faster in 32bit than 64bit. As for replacing thermal pace, I can do that at some point in the future, it's not really an issue right now but yeah I would also need to get like a magnetic board or something to make sure I track the screws, but I've got other expenses right now And Vorticalbox yeah that was my thought process behind giving the drivers a try but still I really didn't expect it to work

So I had a toshiba satelite laptop that overheated (it came up with a windows pop up that said something like - CPU Overheated shut down NOW!) so I thought it died and I placed it in my cupboard to gain dust. Yesterday I was in a dire need of a laptop or something that I can use to run dedicated servers for a LAN party I'm having with my friends, and I thought, maybe a miracle will occur and the laptop will work again, why not? so I plugged it in to charge just to see what happens.....and BOOM - it started working again. So I reinstalled windows 7 (32 bit) coz it previously had a 64bit win 7 and it was running REAAAALLY slowly when I was installing the drivers, I couldn't install the graphics drivers, but I was like whatevs, I'll come back to that one, whilst I was installing other drivers. I tried the drivers from the official toshiba website, then intel HD graphics from the Intel website, then older versions of those drivers (coz maybe the new ones were....too new or something - I don't know I was panicking and I need the laptop to WORK!) But nothing would install, the same error would come up 'your laptop doesn't meet the minimal requirements for the installation of this software' No game would run (and I only need them to run in dedicated server mode, I don't need it to play at 1080p and 60fps or whatever), but nothing would boot because Direct Draw.....even though when I ran DXDIAG it said DX11 was installed but whatever so I saw a post on a different forum that said to try installing HP laptop drivers..... I was like NAAAAAH that would never work. But I had reached the utter point of desperation and was like, maybe this is another night for miracles. Aaaaaand it FREAKING WORKED!!! Sooo can we just take a minute to REALLY think about what life is? Installing HP drivers on a Toshiba laptop and it actually working?..... If you can actually explain to me feel free to try I will happily have a good read I guess this is also a little computer lesson, if you have a laptop and can't install official drivers....try a different laptop make drivers, who knows it might work Thanks -Pascal

It isn't, you can only overclock skylake cpus on a z170 chipset motherboard (I think.....that's what other forums say, but I haven't read these forums yet )

Some say that the 0.6GHz makes the difference

It's ok you can have 5 brownie points for trying it was kind of an impossible task to begin with

I bought the g1 b7 b150 chipset (even more of a budget board) and even that has 2 3.0 slots you've got nothing to worry about, it's 2016 show me a LGA 1151 board that doesn't have a pcie x16 3.0 slot.....and I will give you a unicorn - Pascal

ok so Crossfire option is getting thrown out the window so ok, would you be able to help me narrow my choices down? AMD R9 390 Strix - £275 (but it comes with Total War:Warhammer which is £40 on steam so the card only costs £235) AMD RX 480 Strix - £290 AMD R9 390x Strix - £315 AMD R9 Fury Windforce - £407 Nvidia GTX 1070 Zotac AMP! - £440 Nvidia GTX 980ti Strix - £450 The only reason I added in the fury and the 980ti is coz I might want to get a 4k monitor or tv in the future, and I love playing games at high settings, any suggestions?

Ok so crossfire is out but the only thing about the gtx 1060 asus turbo is that it is a full length card which I would prefer, I don't know I just don't like smaller cards, like small-ish dual fan cards like the rx 48 nitro, but a reference rx 480 I wouldn't mind because it has the fan extension and is therefore bigger, or the ROG Strix edition. But what about other previous cards? 390x? Fury X? 980ti? Titan 6GB?

Hi guys, we're new to the forums (we're because this account is for a group of me and my friends) we've been watching Linus for a while now, and we thought we would seek help on the forums. So I (Pascal) am upgrading my rig, I went from a FX 6300 to an i7 6700k, from 8GB DDR3 to 16 GB DDR4, and from a mATX motherboard with only 1 PCIe x16 slot to a ATX motherboard with 2 PCIe x16 slots (of which one will run at x4 when in crossfire....but it allows for it). So my question is this, do I pick up another HD 7870 and run them in crossfire (btw the one thing I never found out from reading on other forums, but when you run in crossfire, do both PCIe x16 slots run at x4 speed, or does the first one run at x16 and the second slot runs at x4?). This would also mean I would have to pick up a new power supply, coz the one I have right now is a Corsair VS 450w. Oh and if anybody could post a good PSU for crossfire setups that would be great, modular or not it doesn't bother me . OR do I just get a rx 480, or a gtx 10xx series card? - This way I wouldn't need to buy a new power supply OR getting like a used titan 6GB, 980, 980ti? This would also mean getting a bigger power supply. OR something from AMD side, like fury x (to get on board the HBM hype train ) or something like an r9 390x - also a bigger PSU. The only reason I am considering the crossfire set up is because I have never had a SLI or a Crossfire setup so I would love to do this! Also the 7870 was quite bottlenecked by the FX 6300, but now with the i7 6700k I'm able to run a lot games in high and actually achieve higher frames (such as CS:GO, LoL, TF2, Overwatch and COD MW2 - I could even run the SP with VSync on and was getting constantly smooth gameplay, no lag or anything.... I actually cried from happiness I could never run games in VSync with no lags) and I like the look of 2 or more graphics card in a rig - looks badass and that's what I'm all about Oh but it HAS to be a full length GPU (or a shorter length gpu but with a fan extension so like 660ti, gtx 960 turbo) See if Asus released their GTX 1060 Turbo, I wouldn't even be posting on this forum . Another thing is that soon I will be attending a LAN party, so I can either be the big shot 2 GPU guy, or should I be the got the newest/newish gpu guy? Thanks to those who take the time to read and reply to (what may look like a stupid) problem of mine. Pascal