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I do have a pc with an iGPU, it starts boot looping if I put the card in and try to boot.

My PC started boot looping one day. After troubleshooting I figured out that any PC I put the graphics card in starts boot looping. None of the other PCs had the card in them previously. The card is a RX 570 8Gb. I haven't found anything on YouTube with similar symptoms that shows a solution. One video mentioned that it might be related to the vram when the driver loads. I have no idea if that's plausible. Could this be a firmware corruption issue? Can firmware even be upgraded? Do I need to bring it to work and go at it with a hot air station (I've never done BGA chips before, and I'm fairly new to SMD soldering). Are there any programs that I can run in safe mode that will test the graphics card's hardware? Can you test a GPU without the driver loaded (in safe mode)? Could it be a driver issue when it behaves the same way on 2 other computers that haven't had the card in it before? I tried to do without, but even my kids older games majorly chug on the 4th gen i5 integrated graphics. Thanks for your help, Zack

It was a feature update. I didn't think about a restore point since it was a fresh install. Good call.

Nope. It took me a while before I could start troubleshooting the issue, and it said I had no updates within the last 10 days (stupid arbitrary limit). I tried uninstalling the last updates tonight and it said it had to finish installing updates, and so I couldn't uninstall them. It appears that it is crashing mid update. EDIT: also, thanks for the crazy fast response.

My old (~2009) PC started boot looping last week after a Windows update. Nothing in Windows' restore tools worked (including resetting Windows), so I wiped the drive and installed fresh from a new windows 10 install iso. The reinstall worked fine, but when I updated Windows it started boot looping again. I don't think it's hardware, since I swapped around RAM, removed all non-essential PCI/PCI-E cards and used a different power supply. How do I figure out what part of the windows update is borking windows? Is it because I'm running Windows 10 on old hardware (core 2 quad, DDR2 RAM, etc)? I'm trying resetting Windows now, we will see if that takes, but it won't fix the update issue. Is there any specific info that would help you all answer my question? I'm sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong area, I don't post on forums often. Thanks on advance for your help.

Ohhhhhhhhh... I blame my dyslexia (thank you autocorrect). They could name it Lab Thingie Testers

I guess I'm stupid, but I don't understand how LTT can be retconed into Lab32. In what numbering scheme is TT = 32? The closest thing I can think of is the Audi TT came with a 3.2L VR6 engine, but I doubt that's it.

So right now it's 12GB of single channel RAM? Another stupid question, how big of a performance difference is there between single and dual channel? Could I just buy another 8GB stick of RAM that's the same speed as the 8GB sick that's in there now? Do I also need to match brand/series/some other spec?

Sooooo, funny story. I figured CAD software wouldn't really care about graphics cards all that much (engineering CAD, not blender modeling). Apparently Fusion360 does not appreciate me trying to run it on my integrated GPU. There's a banner at the top saying my hardware is causing fusion to run slower, even though I meet the system requirements (the best I can tell, they are pretty vague). I guess I'll have to pull the rx570 out of my core 2 quad machine (which the kids have taken over as their gaming rig) and try it in the Dell. They won't miss those frames in their Lego games ;). I'll put one of the HD 4850s back in the old PC. I wasn't going to do this originally, since the old PC has become the gaming PC. One other question. The Dell has a 4G and a 8G sick of RAM. Is that a problem with a 4th gen i5 era PC? I know back in the day you almost wanted matched pairs for RAM, is that still a thing? Is it worth it to try to track down 2 matching sticks of DDR3. Thanks for all the good info.

Makes sense. I think I'll go that route. But I'll leave the upgraded power supply in there. I hate cheap, low power, OEM supplies.

That makes sense. So even a mid tier card from '09 is better than integrated graphics from ~'15. I'll stick with the integrated graphics for now, since reliability is more important than performance. Thanks everyone for your quick help.

So long story short, I just upgraded from my old core 2 quad PC I built in '09 to a slightly less old Dell prebuilt with a i5 4460 and no dedicated graphics. I'm mainly going to use it for CAD, not gaming. Should I throw in my old ATI HD4850, or stay with the HD Graphics 4600 built into the the CPU? Yes, I did upgrade the power supply with a bigger one with the proper connections. According to userbenchmark, my old card would be 175% faster. But I know people like to deride userbenchmark, and it might be apples and oranges given the difference in both age and type. I would appreciate any insight.

Has anyone else seen a YouTube preroll ad for Novimaxx? It is ridiculous. It starts by someone plugging in an Ethernet cable that goes to a bare coil of wire to boost internet speed, and just goes down hill from there. Every clip of their internet speed increasing is obviously faked. They even tell you to do a factory reset on your router every day to keep your ISP from throttling your internet. The outright scams that get ad space on YouTube is shocking sometimes. I have never reported anything in my life, but I reported this. Its ~1.5 + minutes of outright falsehoods before they even tell you what the product is. It looks like a basic WiFi repeater, but claims to block your ISP from monitoring your traffic. And somehow, your ISP can’t throttle you if they can’t analyze your traffic. Sorry, I guess I just needed to vent. The hilarious thing is that this ad was before a very technical video. They should pick a different category of video to advertise on if they want people to believe their BS.

Thanks guys. That clears things up. The motherboard was the one thing I really didn't research that much last time (2009) because there weren't many boards that had the features that I wanted.

Hey, one more question. I notice on pcpartpicker that there was a warning message about the board needing an extra 4 pin connector for power that my power supply didn't have. I tried a few different supplies, and then filtered the pet supply results by '8 pin + 4 pin' and got 2 real results. Would a Corsair RMx 650 gold not be able to run the ROG Strix B550 F? If not what kind of power supply do I need? Thanks again for all your help.