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Thanks for the support so far. I got a bit busy with stuff not on the PC, and haven't looked at it for a week. During that time it was left switched on but some form of sleeping (monitors off, so GFX may have been powered off/low?). Did a bit of photo editing this eve: Didn't notice any red...

Thanks. It seems a bit odd to me, I last kicked the updates about a week ago, I think, and I usually tell it to take all the optionals. But I wonder if those have been hidden since I let it update to W11 or something. Following the advice on that DDU vid, this evening I unticked the option for...

Winver: Optional Updates:

"You don't get graphics drivers from the card manufacturer, direct from nVidia" Did that get garbled? If I assume it did, are you pointing out that I should go to NVIDEA, not ASUS? I went that way cos that's what it has (Asus not NVIDEA) in the PC build list for the GFX. But of course, they're...

Thanks both. In the meantime, Windows Memory Diagnostic came up clean. I've started some of the steps in the DDU video. It's a bit long winded, and so's his delivery. Sure it will get there in the end. Although I'm not sure whether it will tell me how to install, or indeed find, the replacement...

Thanks, here it is: Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Eight Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.7GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4) Motherboard ASUS® TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX) - ARGB Ready! Memory (RAM) 16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3600MHz (2 x 8GB) Graphics Card 6GB ASUS DUAL GEFORCE...

Hi, advice sought. The last couple of days I've noticed an interesting and worrying phenomenon on my 2021 PC Specialist Desktop. I'm using Lightroom (the 2016 legacy permanent license type). So, I'm looking at pictures. I've noticed is a red spot vaguely near the upper left 1/3 1/3 junction...

Belated follow-up. I did look into the BIOS settings, as discussed, but didn't do anything in that vein. Because, as per my last above, I had for some reason specified an extra USB board, perhaps I overlooked that the motherboard has about a gazzillion USBs. Anyway, when I plug the power...

Yes, Tony, as you say, there it is in section 1.6.4 of the BIOS manual... https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/TUF-Gaming/TUF-GAMING-X570-PLUS/HelpDesk_Manual/ And, that also implies I can't have the peripherals turned off when the PC is asleep. At least, not by that...

Thanks, that sounds brilliant. I'll sit on it for a tad, then experiment. I also realised that I own a USB power monitor (shows voltage & current), that I bought because my bicycle's dynamo has a USB output, but, unsurprisingly, rather erratically. Anyway, I can use it to spy externally and see...

Hi Folks, I'm after some advice... My PC is driving two monitors, 24" decent ones, but not new, 2014 or so. One on HDMI, one on DP. And, I have a mains-powered sound system. I got fed up with powering all these devices up and down, or rather, forgetting to. One of the monitors especially, goes...

Well, just to sign off a few weeks later - no recurrence of issues, albeit usage tailed off a lot as more heavyweight tasks took over. Thanks for all the help, and PCS support too.

I have to say it's looking good. As the last days of testing didn't touch the scratch SSD I made a little batch job to fill it. That seems to be ok too. Next test would be to reinsert the HDD (which wasn't supplied by PCS). I'm still very bemused as to why it would be different in this way...

I'm pretty sure HDD was only a data partition. The drive's never been a boot disk, only local data, and I'd reformatted it (I can't remember if I even wiped it with the install tool). And, if install had put anything important on the HDD, then I should probably have seen some difference when I...

Well, there's an early indication Martin might have a point, but it utterly beats me why :) Yesterday I did a new, clean install, exactly (?) as recommended by Martin: Change 1: I had removed my SATA HDD with its one, empty, partition. Change 2: I purchased, downloaded to and used a...

Thanks guys., UBUYSA, I concur, as it's brand new I feel I should comply with PCS official line. That's in no sense a dismissal of technical value of advice here. I will however continue to post status, if that's ok. I reset the BIOS settings around 3pm. It ran. I assigned the admin user's data...

Hi Martin, Following your and UBUYSA advice, on Wednesday I did a clean install onto the fast SSD. What I hadn't done was completely wipe the (I'm hazy on names) UEFI and Recovery partitions off the slow SSD. I *guess* Windows install saw those and decided not to make them on the fast SSD. So...

Thanks, sounds good. Since I figured this install was doomed, while I'm waiting, I went ahead and put the up-to-date NVidia driver on. Still hung. Shame. Slightly to my surprise PCS support are there at weekends (thanks guys!), but interestingly the advice there is diametrically opposite...

Thanks Ubuysa, That sounds technically sound, good fault hunting, but I shan't rush into it as I'll have to go buy a new flash stick and a new W10 media download is an overnight, or offsite job. I also think that, as it's a new delivery, and it didn't hang AFAIR as delivered with the test...

Oh dear. It hangs. All done as above. Deleted all partitions on both SSDs. Ok, I didn't delete the (single) data partition off the data HDD, but, err, that's the point of putting the data HDD in it. As discussed, it got a clean install, one user created to do so, and Windows Update allowed to...