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I've had similar errors when the bootable USB had an error, make it again , maybe download a new ISO incase the ISO had errors.

fan is failing, replace it

Last Nvidia update refused to accept one of my monitors resolutions, Driver Uninstaller, clean removal and reinstall of the Nvidia driver suite fixed it.

explorer.exe crashing, happens every now and then for me too, Windows 8 Pro licence as well as now upgraded to Windows 10 Pro. Never found a fix, but you could find more info by searching the event log start > run > eventevr

Hey, mine does the same, change the button sensitivity seems to help but it returns ever now and then. PS running Cyanogenmod and it occurred with the original ROM so it is likely to be hardware, similar to the camera module overheating and tuning every picture purple.

It will be when the FPS increases rapidly, I used to get issues that if I alt tabbed out of a game the GPU fans would spin up to max ... R9 290's on Far Cry 4....

If you RMA it it would get dismantled, they will notice that the thermal pads have been reused and the thermal paste is different. You will get a email back stating you broke it and you will need to pay to have the card either repaired or pay for it's return in a broken state. Having dealt with MSI (Europe) for an out of warranty fan replacement their customer service was brilliant so please don't try and abuse the system. If you are happy with SMD / hot air soldering replace the component or pay for a service to repair the card.

When you have finished your repair may one suggest you use a PSU tester rather than your rig to see if it works, one would not like to damage any other components.

well try a driver reinstall , usually under the Chipset driver package. it would seem unlikely that dust would disable data pins on every single USB port around the laptop.

Does this happen on every USB port, do you have ports on different sides of the laptop ? ie do you have all the USBs running from the same daughter board / mainboard ? Sounds like it is providing power but no data connectivity. Have you checked the event viewer for driver crashes ? Windows Key > Run > eventvwr then look Windows Logs > System

If you can still access the volume normally copy any data of the drive immediately if you fear a drive failure. Please do this before trying to perform any lengthy software drive recovery options, if the drive is failing / has limited life left then retrieving data gets priority. once you have the data off the drive use the WD utility : http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx and write the drive to zeros, this will erase any data so make sure you have everything you want off. once that is complete perform a long format through windows (Disk Management) run CDM test again, if you are not happy with the results RMA the drive.

most thermal paste especially factory rubbish degrades over time and becomes hard but 11 months is not a long time for it. it's purpose is to fill the gap between a thing making heat to the thing radiating it. air, ie and air gap between the two, transfers heat worse than the paste so you use it to ensure there are no air pockets between the two surfaces. the smaller the distance between the two surfaces the better but do not worry about surface finishes on either for the most part, most CPUs are not flat anyway (convex). in an ideal world removing all the old paste, cleaning the surface with alcohol / CPU cleaner kit etc should make the new thermal paste perform better / apply better but really the real world performance difference between most aftermarket thermal pastes is small. mounting your cooler poorly will do a lot more to give you bad cooling performance. ps please note some thermal pastes can be conductive so they are fine on the heatspreader of a CPU / GPU but you could cause a short if you get it over the surrounding SMD components so due care and attention should be taken when dealing with it. Ed

download the latest drivers direct from the vendor. use this : http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html remove all remains of the old drivers. boot into safe mode (software above has that option) install the new drivers. cross fingers, toes and eyes and hope it fixed the issue.

if it does not want to move use a plastic card (store card etc) to scrape most of it off. You can get alcohol really cheap on ebay or use alcohol wipes (from first aid kits) etc