Recent content by niemiro

I am genuinely very sorry to hear of this. John had an amazing way of recognising, nurturing and trusting upcoming talent who others may not. He was always a great advisor to me over the time that I knew him and the help that he gave me along the way played a large part in building me into the...

Hi Will, I'm not going to try to answer most of this, but two thoughts I have: 1) The motherboard supports M.2. I would suggest switching the SSD to use M.2 rather than SATA. 2) Remember to add in some thermal paste to the order unless your nephew already has some.

Are you able to put your SSD in another computer or do you not have another M.2 (?) motherboard to test with? I'm sorry to hear you're having all these issues. I had similarly hard to track down hardware failure after a home build of mine a few years ago and it was very annoying.

Without commenting on whether or not it's hardware (i.e. assuming for now that it's not), these are the interesting event logs I see: Event[867]: Log Name: System Source: Service Control Manager Date: 2019-07-24T18:55:15.033 Event ID: 7045 Task: N/A Level: Information Opcode: N/A...

I would uninstall ESET and/or any other security software you have installed and use Microsoft Defender / Windows Firewall instead.

Hi Stephen, Could you also upload C:\Windows\Inf\setupapi.dev.log and Event Logs? It would be nice to see if any new device drivers were automatically installed for some reason or other over the last few days. Richard

Meh. I am unconvinced. The major release vs biannual release schedules are totally different and mean that this three year "rule" probably doesn't translate anymore. Microsoft have also somewhat recently had a failed release and have at least learned some things from those mistakes - the...

Nicely done :) Congratulations

It's probably that your computer / area of the internet now looks suspicious to Facebook so every account you create now gets more scrutiny than a usual account. We cannot help to bypass any restrictions, and indeed we don't actually know why Facebook is blocking you. The only two suggestions I...

I eventually managed to solve this. In the end three of the four pins came out (and later went back in) perfectly but the bottom right one was a nightmare to get out and will still not sit properly on reinsertion. It made some clicks then jams at the wrong height. I think if I ever needed to get...

It's completely stuck. I've turned all four pins 90 degrees, and two of them (after a bit of effort) came free but the remaining two seem to be stuck in the motherboard. I've tried pushing the pulling them, to the point the motherboard bends so much I am concerned it's going to break. I cannot...

Thank you all :) It was a very nice and somewhat unexpected surprise to get awarded. I hope I can make good use of it.

Well done John!! The same to you, really well deserved as always :)

Well done Corrine!! A happy day, deserved every bit as much this year as all the past years :)

Congratulations John!! Amazing work as always.