Diremarxman

I have used testdisk 7 , which is free to use, to fix a few bad memory sticks and a couple of lost partitions, very comprehensive but it is command line only. It is still straightforward to use if you read the documentation. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Getting sufficient mounting pressure on custom mountings can be difficult, if you mount the motherboard flat you could use gravity to help.

That's ambitious, kudos! I assume you are scrapping the laptop heatsink and fans, have you thought about how you are going to mount a cooler? I doubt the mounting holes if any on the motherboard would fit any standard sizes. I would recommend using an AIO cooler because the pump/block can be much easier to make a custom mount for the motherboard than a standard air cooler.

Thanks for the response, I don't have access to a windows 7 or 8.1 key but I suppose I could just test it without activation to see if it works. Although I would be surprised if it was incompatibility with windows 10 since it worked before but there was an update involved that might have caused the issue. When I built the system It was a first time install of windows 10, not an upgrade so it shouldn't have too many issues. Will give it a try after I try windows 10 fresh instead of the refresh.

thanks for the reply, I have tried different hdmi cables and a different monitor. The temps on the gpu are the normal mid to high 20's (celcius) and it sits at around 68 under load. One thing I have noticed though is that the metal backplate is quite warm to the touch under load but I I doubt that is causing any issues, its certainly not overheating. Will try a full clean install next then, should I format the drive first?

The computer I am having issues with is my friends which I built for him recently (November I think), it has been working fine until now ,the computer restarted during the division beta I checked event viewer and found that this was caused by 'nvdlkm driver stopped responding' which I know is a display driver crash. I removed the graphics driver using display driver installer and did a clean install of the latest Nvidia driver 364.51 (an earlier version was installed before around 342 I think) it worked fine . This didn't fix the issue permanently but it worked until a game was run, I could boot without any bsod but I got no signal when I connected over hdmi after a reboot. I could however connect over vga so I uninstalled the graphics driver fully and did a clean install again, this allowed me to boot using a hdmi monitor but the display output stopped when running a game, this time leaving the computer running. I tried removing the graphics card and running on onboard graphics, this worked over vga again, but it didn't output anything over hdmi, even when I installed the intel graphics drivers. I tried different monitors over hdmi even using different cables but having no luck. Because its a recent build it didn't have much on it so I did a windows refresh (reinstalling windows via usb but keeping old files) I tried the graphics card in my own computer and it ran fine. Could this be a corrupted windows update that keeps breaking my gfx driver? or is it more likely a hardware error? The specs of the system are: windows 10 64bit Asus strix 980, 4690k, asus maximus vii hero, corsair modular650i power supply, samsung 850 evo ssd. All of the parts are at stock speeds and have not previously been overclocked. I don't know what bios version it is running but I have updated it when I built it and can find out if it is needed. If I'm missing anything or need me to give you more information please let me know and I'll do my best. Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks!

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