As you know, I fucked up my new-used computer royally not long ago when I tried to make a change to the RAM. Since then, the computer only crashes and restarts.
I downloaded the Windows 10 Clean Install file onto my old computer, and put it on a flash drive. Tonight, I plugged in the new computer, hit F10 as it started, and changed the boot order to USB.
It crashed and restarted.
I tried hitting F9 and changing the boot order.
It crashed and restarted.
Just to mix it up a bit, the fan started to run very loudly, almost as loudly as a small hair dryer, and the screen went black. I couldn't turn it off, so I had to unplug it.
I don't know what the hell is so wrong with that machine, but all I can think of, now, is to replace the hard drive. My old hard drive (about 10 years old) works just fine, as far as I can tell, but given its age, and especially given the fact that I've never done this before, has prevented me from trying.
First of all, would it work? I've put pictures here of the old hard drive in the old computer, and the hard drive in the new computer. The older drive is 1TB. The new one is 320GB. One photo shows the new one, the other two show the old one.
Should I try it, or just buy a new hard drive?
Also, the old computer is having problems with the graphics card. The motherboard bit it some years back, so I've been relying on a card. It's an AMD Radeon HD 6450. The driver seems to be out of whack, and I keep getting error messages saying that I need to update it, but according to the computer, the driver is updated. What should I do?
What an electronic mess.
I downloaded the Windows 10 Clean Install file onto my old computer, and put it on a flash drive. Tonight, I plugged in the new computer, hit F10 as it started, and changed the boot order to USB.
It crashed and restarted.
I tried hitting F9 and changing the boot order.
It crashed and restarted.
Just to mix it up a bit, the fan started to run very loudly, almost as loudly as a small hair dryer, and the screen went black. I couldn't turn it off, so I had to unplug it.
I don't know what the hell is so wrong with that machine, but all I can think of, now, is to replace the hard drive. My old hard drive (about 10 years old) works just fine, as far as I can tell, but given its age, and especially given the fact that I've never done this before, has prevented me from trying.
First of all, would it work? I've put pictures here of the old hard drive in the old computer, and the hard drive in the new computer. The older drive is 1TB. The new one is 320GB. One photo shows the new one, the other two show the old one.
Should I try it, or just buy a new hard drive?
Also, the old computer is having problems with the graphics card. The motherboard bit it some years back, so I've been relying on a card. It's an AMD Radeon HD 6450. The driver seems to be out of whack, and I keep getting error messages saying that I need to update it, but according to the computer, the driver is updated. What should I do?
What an electronic mess.
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