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  1. So no one has insight into why my first disk didn't decide to break until I decided to put the graphics card back in?
  2. So I thought I'd share my misfortune here in hopes that I can save someone from making the same mistake. I recently decided to change out my power supply from a seasonic to a corsair sf series. I wanted someone a little smaller simply for aesthetic purpose. I was unaware that cables are not cables are not cables. So i unhooked my mostly modular PSU and reattached all my components. And flipped the switch, *click* power off *click* power off. That's off I thought, corsair has an outstanding reputation I can't believe I got a dud. Simply swap in my old psu and power up everything working as normal, - didn't bother wrestling the graphics card back in. The next day I have an itch to play a game, so start it up, my D: drive spins up normally but the game is unplayable as no graphics card in installed so I decide better install my graphics card *sigh* (the replacement psu is arriving tomorrow). I install the graphics card and start up the PC, this time though my D: drive is dead. A 3 TB hard disk with a little over 800 movies, and a handful of games. F^#*, this makes no sense, let's restart the PC. F*$& let's check my cables, nothing, let's swap my cables to different ports on the psu, on the MoBo - nothing. Concede, let's remove the HDD and put it in an enclosure, nothing. I still do not know why it decided to break then perhaps someone can enlighten me. The story isn't over so you'll have to wait though. Lucky for me I had previously had a raid1 setup and thus had a recently mirrored drive to swap in, lost 3 movies, and a couple of programs to redownload at no big loss. Everything is dandy though I am still perplexed as to why my drive died when I installed a graphics card, and still am. Today my new PSU arrives and I start by checking to make sure it doesn't have some problem like my last one, I plug in my cpu header and 24pin mobo monstrosity and flick the switch, yay, we're all good. Power off. Now for 30 minutes of wrestling cables in a mitx case to make things pretty. All done, power on. *click* WTF power off *click*. I flip the switch and go back to just mobo and cpu, powers on fine, add the graphics car, fine, add my swapped in HDD, *click* power off. That's when it hits me, my 6+2 cable wouldn't fit and I was forced to swap it in. Lets look at my peripheral plug. Okay... hrm... same shape, what's this - one has a dummy plug in the corner and one is in the middle, that's weird. I disassemble everything again and install my HDD with the cable included with the PSU and everything powers on fine, minus the fact that my D: drive is gone again. I have yet to power off and spend the half hour it will take to disassemble every thing to remove the drive; however I am guessing when I do that and test it in my external enclosure I am expecting it to be dead. TLDR: lesson learned the hard way, lost both my primary drive and my backup because I never knew that cables were unique to manufacturers. Also, somewhat of a rant as to why this sort of thing isn't standardized since it cost me 2*3TB HDD and tons of data.
  3. Updated the bios to the most current version. I will look up what microcode is as I am unfamiliar. Still receiving the same crash. https://www.dropbox.com/s/e0h64wpwhp1aoi3/DSC_0257.JPG?dl=0 Picture of the blue screen - not that it really helps.
  4. Intel virtualization is enabled. Is there something else I am looking for?
  5. Hey there, I am having an unusual issue. Any time I start a virtual machine I get a blue screen windows crash. System_service_Exception is the error it reports. The crash happens the moment I select the disk image to boot from. Tried ubuntu, debian, and winows - they all yield the same result. System specs: Windows 10 enterprise. mobo: h270i gaming pro a/c gskill: 2400 ddr4 2x8gb cpu: g2650 g.card: rx580 C: bpx m.2 ssd D: 2x seagate 3tb in hardware raid1 Will gladly report other specs or more detailed if relevant. I tried using hyperV first to create a VM on the raid array since it has tons of space. blue screen when launched. At first I thought it was just a hyperV thing (I've never used it before) so I downloaded oracle virtual box. I had the same results with VirtualBox so I thought maybe there is some compatibility with running a VM on a raid array. Tried again: built the VM on the C drive. Same crash. Tried uninstalling entirely and putting all info on the C drive. Same crash. Checked bios to confirm cpu has virtualization enabled. It is. Built the system yesterday so it's essentially a fresh install. Any sort of insight would be awesome. Thank you.
  6. Hey I got everything working a day or two ago just wanted to say thank you for the help, that was all driving me crazy.
  7. I have a friend that can mail me an old second gen i5. In theory it should work with that right? Then I could apply bios update? -and if it doesn't work with that then I know my mobo is broken, right?
  8. Thanks, Jrock, good call on that - never would've thought about that. Went on the msi page to check and my cpu is listed as compatible.
  9. Is there something I am not seeing that would suggest a z170 mobo would not work with a G4560? The specs on the MOBO claim to support i7/i5/i3/pentium/celeron and the sockets are the same. Also I am assuming there's no way to install a different bios if it won't post. Is my issue that this mobo isn't new enough for my Kaby lake pentium?
  10. I am assembling a pc for the first time in about 12 years so this is basically new for me. Every part I am working with is "new" and they are as follows. MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard SeaSonic SSR-450RM 450W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC ... Intel Pentium G4560 Kaby Lake Dual-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1151 54W BX80677G4560 Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics ... G.SKILL Aegis 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Intel Z170 Platform / Intel X99 Platform ... MyDigitalSSD 240GB (256GB) BPX 80mm (2280) M.2 PCI Express 3.0 x4 (PCIe Gen3 x4) NVMe MLC SSD ASUS VZ239H Frameless 23” 5ms (GTG) IPS Widescreen LCD/LED Monitors, HDMI 1920 x 1080 Ultra-Slim Design, w/ Eye ... (this I tested with laptop and same HDMI cable, can verify working) MSI Radeon RX 580 DirectX 12 RX 580 ARMOR 8G OC 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX ... (not even worrying about this until I get bios) When the computer is powered on: The PSU fan spins up; The CPU fan spins up for a split second the CPU debug light flashes on MOBO. screen reports no signal. Things I have tried: Turning it on and off again; Turning it OFF and ON again; TURNING>>>...; Reduced ram to just one slot (furthest first, closest second) Removed ram entirely; Re-seated CPU; re-seated the 24 and 8 pin and cpu fan connectors; tried to post with no HDD; drank some wine to see if it'd work if I tried later; looked at the manual. Am I missing anything? And if something is broken is there a way to tell if it's the brand new cpu or the open box item MOBO. (newegg says they test open box but I am leaning towards the mobo as I've never heard of a bad cpu)
  11. Hook up that 4k monitor kick up the resolution and see if it's still bottlenecking.
  12. Remember how large that case was or should I say the cases heatsink? 100 watts is 100 watts (afaik) if I remember right from the video it was cooling a relatively high end CPU so 100+watt range and a relatively high end CPU would draw a comparable amount of energy and thus generate a comparable amount of heat and thus require a comparable size passive heatsink. I think that's why they don't exist. I'm no engineer so if I'm way off base tell me and I'll shut up.
  13. Okay well it seems like I'll be going with the 580 since their prices aren't so bad. I've seen enough benches with people getting solid framerates anyway. Thanks for the help guys.
  14. Yea it'd be really nice if and would come out and say "no you can't afford it" or "yes it's the best thing in the world and it'll be 3.50"
  15. 1440p US dollars I'm about to build a pc and I don't currently play any demanding games. I might pick up witch because it looks cool but otherwise graphics isn't a huge thing. We've been waiting for veg forever and it's supposed to be awesome so here's the question. Should I buy a cheaper card like a 460/470/1050ti and just wait for vega or do we think that vega cards are going to be hella expensive. I don't see myself ever spending more than about 250-300 on a card. So I guess if we are thinking these vega cards are going to be up there in price I'd rather just buy a decent card now like a 1060 or rx580. Also on the subject of rx480 or 580 is there much a difference in 4gb vs 8gb models? (it looks like the 4gb models run about 30 dollars cheaper) on the 1060 I think the lower ram models have an even greater price difference.
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