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    PCSPECIALIST Would £900 get a gaming PC?

    Hiya So we've had a look through and we would require Windows yes. I've also noticed yours has a wireless network card whereas Spyder's doesn't. Son would need to connect via wifi from his room so i'm guessing i would need that? Also, If we were to go for a quieter power supply, would any of...
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    PCSPECIALIST Would £900 get a gaming PC?

    Thanks guys, appreciate the time you've taken to do this - i'll take a look through with him when he's home later :)
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    PCSPECIALIST Would £900 get a gaming PC?

    My son (16) has saved up so far £900 for his first gaming PC He mainly wants it for playing games like Fortnite, Minecraft, Rainbow 6 and Fifa Is there a spec out there that would be close to his current budget that also allowed in future to be upgraded (don't worry about a monitor or...
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    PCSPECIALIST PC keeps booting into BIOS

    Noob here so apologies but how would I know?
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    PCSPECIALIST PC keeps booting into BIOS

    Just need a new hard drive as the old one went kaput. 👍🏻
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    PCSPECIALIST PC keeps booting into BIOS

    So this is the motherboard in the machine ASUS® Z97-P: ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs Will any SSD drive work/fit with it? (I cancelled the order before it dispatched as had a mini panic it would be right)
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    PCSPECIALIST PC keeps booting into BIOS

    Oh ok - superb. Even easier then. Thank you :)
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    PCSPECIALIST PC keeps booting into BIOS

    So i have ordered a new hard drive and found my windows disk that came with the PC - however its Windows 8 Do i have to install from this and then upgrade or can i install W10 straight away and just use my W8 licence key?
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    PCSPECIALIST PC keeps booting into BIOS

    When i use the USB i get to the "install windows" screen and select "Repair your computer" - i run the startup repair but it tells me it's not able to fix it......
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    PCSPECIALIST PC keeps booting into BIOS

    Hi all - so been a few months i know but had a bit of time over xmas to try and sort this. Before i go ahead and get a new drive i found a Youtube video that says to try and format and rebuild the Boot partition on the drive - not sure if this will work but worth a go. Thing is, which of these...
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    PCSPECIALIST Laptop for son - £400 budget

    Oops sorry 😣
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    PCSPECIALIST Laptop for son - £400 budget

    Would this be ok, you reckon?
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    PCSPECIALIST Laptop for son - £400 budget

    Ok thats cool What sort of spec should i be looking at with them? (ie processor and ram size?)
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    PCSPECIALIST Laptop for son - £400 budget

    I'm looking to get my (16 year old) son a new laptop for Christmas and have £400 budget. He will only be using it for school/collage work so doesn't need to game etc - so it's more for running applications such as word/powerpoint etc His current laptop (a HP) is so slow it takes about 5 mins...
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    PCSPECIALIST PC keeps booting into BIOS

    Doesn’t look good I’m afraid “Startup repair couldn’t repair your PC” Any other options/steps? 😩
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