Recent content by Naossoan

Yeah so I don't know why this happened but I just called in to the automated Microsoft activation centre. I had to enter in an Installation ID number then they read back a long Confirmation/Activation ID and I just clicked Activate Windows and it's all fine now. Why this happened in the first...

Nope I just use malwarebytes, windows defender, occasional CCleaner...no idea why it was prompted to activate. I'll just call microsoft tomorrow to try to figure it out I guess. Quite odd.

All of a sudden Windows 8.1 is asking me to activate my product when it is a purchased version of Windows 8 from when Windows 8 first came out. I've been using it this entire time, even right from when 8.1 first was updated and it never asked me for an activation until tonight. I have no idea...

Hi guys, I'm trying to uninstall Acronis Disk Director 11 Home but it will not uninstall. I go to add/remove programs, select it in the list and click uninstall. That window comes up and says please wait while Windows configures etc. etc. then it just disappears and nothing happens. The...

ok thanks when I go to bed I will run memtest on one stick, then the next night I will run it on the other stick I guess. Corsair wants me to test each one individually I think. Thanks

I got memtest to work finally, and thanks Tarka but I am not using a CD ROM as mentioned in my original post, it is a USB thumb stick. As it turned out when I pressed F8 to select a boot option there were 2 version of my USB stick in there. One was just the stick and the other one said UEFI...

The USB stick works fine otherwise. I have used it to play music in my car, transfer files from one computer to the other and stuff like that, plus it's almost brand new. I haven't tried only the suspected bad RAM kit. It's 2 4GB sticks and when I had them in before it would only crash/reboot...

OK So I guess my BIOS was a fairly older version. I updated it to the newest version and there was then a Secure Boot settings in the Boot section of the BIOS. It was set to Windows UEFI whatever, so I set it to "Other OS" yet the USB stick still would not boot even when manually selecting it...

I tried to find it in my BIOS but I can't seem to find it anywhere. I looked at BIOS for P8Z77-V Pro which is similar board to mine and it's apparently under the Boot section, so I went there with mine but I don't see anything about Secure Boot there. I will try to find it on the net and then...

I don't know what that is. Where can I find it?

No it's not pre-installed. I installed it myself from a previous Windows 7 installation. Meaning I had Windows 7 before, created a Windows 8 bootable USB from the Windows 8 "Upgrade" I purchased when Windows 8 first released and installed it from there after doing a clean format on the drive.

Hi all, I'm trying to run MEMTEST86 to test some memory which I suspect is bad so I can RMA it. I have 2x kits of 8GB DDR3 memory. Since I put in the second kit my PC has randomly been rebooting with no onscreen errors. I took that 8GB kit out and now it doesn't reboot anymore. But in order to...

Hi all, I'm trying to add this wireless printer to Windows 8 Pro but it's not doing anything. I can ping the IP Address of the printer, so I know it's reachable. All attempts at "discovering" the printer fail. When I try to add it by IP address it fails as well. How do I do this? It's a...

Hi guys, I thought I would just post some of my findings here. This happened with my old motherboard as well, but I just installed a new one the other day and the issue resurfaced. My other board was a P8Z77-V and the new one is a P8Z77-M Pro (I bought a new case and rebuilt my system). When...

Oh ok thank you, fair enough!