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A fairly straightforward question hopefully, but is there such a thing as hard drive encryption software that uses a USB stick instead of a password? e.g, I go to my PC, plug in USB, turn it on and it boots into the OS without further prompts, but without USB, won't boot at all. Because of a...

Its the non-black version. I'm not sure if the bios is the same - the revisions are differently numbered on the black, but have the same description, size and date for the most part, so I'm guessing so. I suspect you are correct about it not being the CPU - Going by the thread you linked, I...

Cheers Nelly. If only I'd found that thread a week ago, could have saved myself a lot of bother :)

tl;dr - Its fixed. For those wanting to know, here what happened: Check CPU-z voltage: Done. Got similar result, 1.218 all the way through. Also to note that I ran cpu-z and hwmonitor side by side and they reported the exact same voltages all the way through, so beleive they are both querying...

Have been running with onboard gpu since I started removing components, perhaps that's why it hung? May try re installing the card and seeing what happens I'm assuming that its the "VID" reading in hwmonitor that I'm looking for? If so, it seemed to hover around 1.218 - 1.220 for the most...

Tried Realbench. Went through the encoding, temps touched 100 but didn't go over so looks like throttling is working at least, but seemed stable. Then on the third test "OpenCL" the system locked up. That ones new, it just hung, rather than restarting itself. Didn't even realise it had hung for...

Only by buying one (And yes, need new paste) which I'd rather not do at this stage - I'm not overclocking, at least not yet, so the retail cooler should be fine. Plus, because the power-offs aren't temp related, it wouldn't seem likely to fix the issue. No, will download some now.

Originally was the pad that comes with it. Second time it was too thin and the temps went up, second time, I've gone a bit thicker, probably too thick if anything, but this old paste is like bluetac in consistency. As mentioned, its sitting at 35 idle and not more than 95 under full load. My...

Already swapped the PSU over twice (Original to new and back again), but I'll check it when I get in.

Doh, should have mentioned that. Yes, I re-installed 7 (Several times) and then moved to 8.1 to see if that helped (It didn't) :)

To clarify, the boards vcore is set to auto because that's what it came with, I didn't change it from that. All instability has occurred with it set to auto. Ok, lets see. Have checked all seating multiple times. Reapplied the thermal paste twice. All fans are running, I've run memtest with...

I picked up an i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) and a Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H motherboard. Running stock settings on everything. When I first installed it, it was really quite unstable with random crashes (In the form of immediately powering off and restarting). The crash could be reliably produced...

Ok, sure its the MB now. I've unplugged everything bar the CPU and one stick of RAM and its still doing it. I noticed that it always powered off at the same point in post (there are various LEDs that light up in sequence and it was always when the "BOOT_DEVICE_LED" one came up that it died, so...

Well, I've swapped out the PSU, and its still the same, so that just leaves the motherboard. Any final suggestions before I return it?

No joy from resetting the bios. I'd happily check/update the bios version, but I can't get into it to do so :(

I did think that at the time, but I haven't been into the bios since the machine started working, and its gone back to the problem anyway, so I don't now think its that. However, I will give a bios reset a whirl, and report back.

Hi guys Last week I replaced the motherboard in my system with an Asus Z97A, replacing the CPU with an i7 4790k, and am not having an intermittent problem with it booting. I hit the power button, the lights come on, the fans spin up, but after a few seconds, it simply powers off again. Whats...

I am about to start on my next upgrade, and I am considering the possibility of going to a small form factor, depending on what I am sacrificing. The most important factor is games – high frames at high detail is my goal. I don’t intend to plug in any cards beyond the GFX card, and I don’t plan...

Bump front wheel up against a mates rear wheel. Get him to do a burnout while I lean the bike side to side. Scrubbed in within 5 mins.* *I don't actually do this

I figured this would exist, but my googlefoo has failed me. I want to find an app that will let me take some MP3s, create a playlist, add in the intervals (Including a 'you are half way' marker) for my current c25k week and create a single mp3 to load onto an mp3 player. I have the app on my...