PC Tech Thread

Amazing. cheers all for the feedback. will go have a play with one in the metal

Another vote for them, have a Surface Pro 4 and it's great.

It's not whether it can replace an iPad, its whether it can replace a MacBook. But a decent Core i5, a 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM means it's very much in proper laptop speed territory rather than novelty plaything.

Oh I get that. It's primarily a comp, but wondered if I could also ditch the iPad for couch time and travelling.

Thanks tho. Seems what I want.

The only weird bit is the battery life can be a bit hit and miss. Most days it's good for 8-10 hours, but occasionally it seems there's some process or other that has it running out in a few hours. Might just be my machine, but they definitely had a few quirks with the drivers in the Surface Pro 1 and 2. Doesn't happen often, but whereas I guess a MacBook you could be confident would last all day, the Surface sometimes trips up. Drivers rather than hardware, and Windows 10 is pretty good, but still.

I love my ipad pro for faffing about with watching videos and such but it's crap for real work or even web browsing where you interact with the page more than you read (forms etc).

if i need to do anything of worth my macbook pro always gets pulled out.

PC folks... my Hack keeps shutting down randomly when gaming in W10... no BSOD just straight to black screen.
It's not overheating as I have ran tests and have kept check.
I get a Kernal error 41 something 63 in my crash logs which from what I have read may be power related, but may not be at all...

Any thoughts? Suggestions?

When you calculated your PSU requirements, how much headroom did you leave?

Yes I'd suspect power issues. If its output rating is sufficient, then could be dodgy/failing, maybe just its fan. I'd remove and refit all power cables to motherboard, graphics card etc, and if problem continues, replace power supply.

You're right. Its sad but true.

One of the reasons I ditched that shit.

Good money in trying to sort out that shit, but it kills you in time.

I had a Surface Pro 3 for a few years in my old job and could see potential but it as a little underspecced for standard office tasks. I think it was a low end model though.

I took a punt with a SP4 for home use (the i5 model) a few weeks ago and I am very impressed. The potential has been realised. One observation (rather than complaint) is that while it works very well in tablet mode the fact is that it is a little too large to be a comfortable tablet device for me. Not a real problem though, its just noticeably heavier than an ipad etc even if it is still pretty slim.

I'd give it 7/10 as a tablet and 10/10 as a laptop. I haven't tried to do anything other than standard office related tasks on it though.

As others have said, Kernel error 41 is usually power related. One thing that may not be obvious is, if your PCs plugged into a surge protector try removing that. I've heard of knackered surge protectors sometimes causing the problem.

Cheers all! I don't think I have a surge protector so won't be that... headroom wise I think I have plenty? This is my build... i've updated to creators edition and my Nvidia drivers as well as reconnecting all cables, lets see how that works out. Would not like to have to buy a new PSU.
Build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Eightarmedpet/saved/#view=XDNycf

7/10and 10/10 will do me!

Cheers dude

It looks like that should be fine. Edited- saw you've got 16gb ram not 8gb

Try plugging the psu directly into the wall rather than on an extension.

Good plan. What was the edit before the ram? I just updated that parts list as I popped more ram and a new cooler in recently..

I thought you might be running out of memory with 8gb..

might be worth downloading Speccy and watching the temperatures, see if it's getting too hot maybe.

Ahhh... nah all good.
Have HW monitor running and 70 is usually my max under heavy load.
Prime95 got it to 70 ish and Intel Burn test to 80, which is totally fine I believe?

That epic WTF have I just done, when you realise the D: drive wasn't the USB fob you had planned to create USB boot disk on, but your 4TB external drive, with all your photos, TV, important docs and the like on.

Recovery time states 21 hours.....

PC won't boot at all. Had a few BSODs, so should have seen the warnings. Is this a bolloxed boot disc perhaps? Or something worse...
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUZ0dUcgdNZiba8zYOrM8pKw2HvVjqu-abZB-E0/

This is a failure long before OS boot process. Probably electrical problem one way or another. Could be just a loose connection. Try again with as much as you can unplugged, e.g. memory, drives, video card (use motherboard video out instead). Look for crap in slots that could cause short circuits. You might get a LED/beep code that you can look up in motherboard manual.

You can also test power supply on its own, unconnected from motherboard - you'll need to short 2 pins.

That doesn't look like it's getting to POST nevermind boot.

Try unplugging everything but the motherboard and then start plugging the other bits of hardware in.

Almost certainly not the disc, motherboard short, duff power supply. sticky power button.

Are just a few things it could be.

I now have constant power, after removing an replacing Ram, but nothing more. checked with another HDMI. Nothing on screen, no power to mouse.