McDiamund

UPDATE: Installed different graphics card and it boots up. So now im trying to figure out what is wrong with my rx 580. I replaced the thermal paste and pads so now im worried its worse

Yesterday, I decided to play Valheim for the first time and I was playing it for about a couple hours until my computer suddenly turned off. I went to check my graphics card because I assumed that a game would do that, and the graphics card was extremely hot. So I decided to wait a couple hours to cool down and reboot it. Nothing happened. I noticed when I unplugged my graphics card, then my computer was working perfectly fine. I am actually writing this post with my graphics card unplugged. To try and solve the problem, I removed my cpu cooler and cleaned my cpu, repla

Oh ok, thanks. Seeing the responses I think I'll install windows 10 first then copy the data over to the new SSD. I don't have the windows key anymore because of a lot of different drives being exchanged from old pcs so I think it should be fine to reinstall windows first then copy over. Thanks.

I ordered a 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 250GB SSD to boot instead of my HDD, and its coming in tomorrow. I am really excited to increase startup speeds, faster editing, and game load times but I have a question. Before I copy my HDD data to my SSD I want to make sure Windows 10 is running fine. My Windows 10 right now is a little funky (don't ask) and I'm wondering if I should reinstall windows before I transfer the data over or reinstall windows after? Does it matter? Just want some different opinions I guess.