Can they not even enter the bios? Won't even POST? If not, some basic core hardware's definitely screwy. Groundhog could be right about the battery or memory. Two or more power plugs to the motherboard, right? Could the CPU cooler fan do that if plugged into the wrong port? It'll never install Win7 ...

I totally hate Win10 myself but it's the best game in town unless you go open-source. If you can get an academic version you can at least configure some of the worst shit.

If you have a Windows 7 or 8.1 product key kicking around you can still get Win10 for free. I did something like this for 3 machines, works great. This guy knows what he's doing, keeps it all up to date & answers questions. You may have to join the Microsoft Insider's Program in order to downloa...

Oh, now I see it's just a (God forbid) empty slot, right?

Wow, not a speck of dust! Looking good Hog.
It looks like one catch is not fully seated on the memory closest to the processor.

Yeah, she's out of my budget too!!

It sucks to the max, but that's why I support this clan.

Holy Sheepdip 4! I hate when that happens...
I think you left your computer on...thought you were pulling a marathon rave party!
I bet it was the beer...oh, and the football, oh, and the weather and the ahhhh, oh, the music, uhhhh...
tap 'er cool bud

Here's what I figure about a new Intel build. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/coffee_lake Socket As of Oct 05, there's a new type of Intel Socket 1151 for the new Gen 8 Coffee Lake CPU's. They changed the pinout, so it's NOT backwards compatible with ANY older CPU's, but it doe...

LOL, I too have a Scythe controller. The Kama Meter model. Pity it isn't programable tho. Then it might be more useful. & the damn fan speed knob isn't linear, you have to crank it like 20 times! I see you like Sapphire too, they've treated me well. Drooling all over your nice SyncMaster... :ok:...