AlphonseK

I've had this problem many many times over the years and I've never been able to figure out why it happens. and with a wide range of hardware. I'm installing a 120gb Kingston A400 ssd in my friends pc to speed it up. how he's survived with only a 7200prm hdd all this time I'll never know. The issue specifically is that no matter what I do to the drive, after I run windows 10 install media it completes the whole process then restarts as intended. only to loop back to the install media. I hooked the drive up to my pc and I can see what looks to be all the necessary files and folders for windows but even using boot override it gives the black screen saying "insert proper boot media then hit any key" (maybe not exactly those words but hopefully you know to what I'm referring.) I find it very difficult to fix problems that even the computer fails to recognize. I've Googled around and found a video of a guy upgrading a laptop with this exact ssd and having no problems, so that plus the fact that this has happened many times before on different platforms and hardware I seriously doubt this is a hardware issue. Is there something obvious I'm missing? any and all feedback is greatly appreciated.

So we just recently cleaned out our garage and now have a ton of space (like a good 15'x15'x10' of open space) and I would love to be able setup my vive kit down there, but lugging my tower down there just to play VR won't do. I need a way to have VR down stairs and PC upstairs. I think something like a thunderbolt hub would work, only thing is that if you ran a cable from my PC in the most direct route to the garage it would be 50-100 feet of cable and that's not accounting for looks... which would run you about 1000$ from what I've seen, plus or minus the hub itself. I do have a laptop that would be easy to relocate but its very old and I don't think steam in-home streaming is up for the task. (or even possible for VR) I might be asking for the impossible I know, but any feedback would be great. Thanks for any and all help, let me know if there's anything I'm missing.

Both Display 1 and Display 2 say driver model: WDDM 2.1 I've included the DxDiag file in case there's anything else there you may need. DxDiag.txt

I apologize in advance for the long post, also thanks for any and all help. I had a few BSODs relating to driver issues recently, (I don't remember most of them, the last few were "SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION" and hasn't happened since) so I went and did a fresh install of windows. (long over due.) After which task manager wasn't displaying my gigabyte gtx 1070 ti, Though both my monitors were working, and at correct resolutions, through the gfx card. More over, it shows up in device manager and other monitoring software (Speccy, Cpu-z, HWmonitor.) thus far I haven't measured any real performance loss due to this. I would still like to get it fixed simply to have my fresh, clean install working 100% properly. One really weird thing of note is that the card works fine, EXCEPT in one very specific instance. When playing darksouls 3, and in full screen mode, you go to options, then to the graphics tab, ONLY while in the graphics tab where it lists resolution and such, the game will chug down to like 3-5 fps to the point that the game disconnects from the internet and kicks you out of your session due to "unplayable frame rates". everything else works, and it doesn't chug in windowed or borderless mode either. For reference my build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/alphonseTK/saved/8Jyhyc So far I... restart after pretty much any change is made, Tried geforce EXP drivers, Tried gfx drivers straight from gigabyte website, uninstalled and reinstalled gfx drivers, Tried windows native driver update in device manager, and finally, physically unseating and re-seating the card itself. Thanks again for any and all help.

Hey all! Planning a new build for later next year (towards the end of 2019). I've jumped from jank to jank with my personal pc builds doing what ever to make it work up until now, now I'm saving some money to do this thang right. budget: 2000$-2500$ (don't need peripherals) Criteria: 1st performance. 2nd noise. I don't really care about aesthetics (most components nowadays look great as is), I definitely prefer performance over looks. I'm not partial to intel or amd. I like the idea of water cooling, but have never done it myself and I'm not liking the idea of maintenance. I would like a quieter pc, but not so much as to compromise on performance. I do have a gigabyte gtx 1070 ti that I bought at an awful time (thanks bitcoin and impulsivity) so I was hoping to keep using it and get my moneys worth out of it (So maybe an Sli config??) My usage is split 75/25 gaming/working (Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro.) If y'all wanna make a build in PCPP, great. If you wanna just point me in the right direction to make my own that's cool too. Thanks in advance for your time as well as any and all advice!

Yes, it is the primary boot option. I've also tried to boot directly through boot manager, even when it is the only drive installed, still nothing.

I have a fairly old Lenovo "gaming" laptop ( Lenovo Y510p ) It has two spaces for storage, 1 standard 2.5" bay for a hdd (Currently https://www.amazon.com/Black-750GB-Performance-Mobile-Drive/dp/B00DSUTX3O) and 1 m.2 bay for the boot ssd. (https://mydigitalssd.com/sata-m2-ngff-ssd.php#42mm-sbe-m2-ngff) However, when I attempt to install windows 10 via the windows media creation tool provided by Microsoft it always fails one way or another. I'll boot from my flash drive, go through all the steps to install windows, I can plainly see the ssd and properly format and create partitions on it and everything. (It should be said that when I gave up and installed on the hdd, I could save files and install programs on the ssd so as far as I know, it works perfectly fine.) When the program finishes installing it says success and restarts, but boots back to the flash drive as if nothing happened. if I remove the flash drive it says no bootable media. I can't fix a problem the computer doesn't even know it has.......

Seems like a lot of people are having issues with this kind of "preemptive thermal throttling". To my limited knowledge, as far as laptops go, there's not a whole lot you can do for better temps, besides what you've already done, or taking even more drastic steps. I've seen reports that liquid metal cooling dropped temps in laptops by 10c-20c, although it's NOT easy and very risky, AND you have to clean and reapply the liquid metal periodically (9-18 months) because it will dry out. I would try reapplying your thermal paste again and be extra careful that you do everything correctly, look up video how to's just to be sure (especially the amount of thermal paste) and if that turns up nil then maybe consider liquid metal?

What thermal compound did you use? And is it possible that you reassembled something incorrectly after applying?