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HD 7570 is best value. I own about a dozen of them. Priced between $10 and $25 delivered on ebay.

Look here: https://www.youtube.com/user/mjd7999/videos All flavors of XP and better than XP, but still XP!

I had a lightning strike that took out most of my computers. It came through the ISP broadband coax and took out the ethernet ports and switches. My router is a old Dell running pfsense which I easily replaced the 4 port nic and was up and running with new switches. I was able to swap boards or put NIC's in all except one which is dead and cpu seems dead. And it may have affected other parts of the hardware, I dont know. Anyway: I have a Asus Z170-K board that I picked up cheap, and it could be the problem, but I will explain. The Z170-K now has my i7-6700K in it and seems too work except for a very annoying problem, it will not display BIOS or on boot up any output except VGA/RGB, Will not display on HDMI or DVI, however they will display if I boot up on the VGA/RGB output then switch the monitor over manually to HDMI or DVI. Even when I set the monitor to default settings it will give me an error that says OUT OF RANGE plugged into the HDMI or DVI port on boot up. OUT OF RANGE means it cannot detect the type of signal or the signal is not compatible. I have tried it on two different monitors and two TV's, same results. I reloaded latest chipset and drivers. Could the CPU have been compromised? Is there a bios setting that I can check? Thanks all!

Or get a USB Ethernet adapter

I have found that it really does not make much difference. I use it mainly because it is a good biocide with distilled water. At least Redline Water Wetter is, not sure about others.

If I changed only my CPU from a 95w TDP CPY to a 35w TDP CPU, how much drop in power at the wall will I see? Thanks!

I know this doesn't help, but I have installed 1809 on all my computers except two laptops and none of my folders or files were deleted. Maybe I am lucky but I suspect that deletion of files and folders is not the norm since I updated 1809 when it was first available before they stopped deployment and have updated to the latest version without much problem. There were a few "Features" that were installed that I did not want and some settings that I didn't like which I finally got straight.

Yes. And which settings are you referring to exactly?

My Notification Panel is not working in the new windows 1809 release. How do I fix this?

OK, so who makes it and where do I buy one?

Was that in response to your computer not shutting down?

Nevermind. I found the fix.

I was not aware it was a pre-release version. It was pushed out by MS yesterday.

What patch is that? Are you referring to the 1809 update itself or has MS already started releasing patches???