Recent content by ajh24

I built my first PC and wanted to go as small as I could without too much difficulty (Metis Plus=13.36L). My goal was to build it cheap (<$800) and have it perform well for photo editing. Full story and details are with pictures in this Imgur album: Parts list...

Full build details and story of the fault here... it ended up being a bad case audio cable!

Interesting... It works when I take the motherboard out of the case. I guess it was shorting out??? I used the included brass standoffs... need to figure out where the short is, but at least it's working!!

I guess so...? It was wiped before and that appeared after the safe mode install. Tonight I went to Best Buy and bought another hard drive to try. Same exact thing happened!

I don't, but I could buy one at Best Buy. I did wipe the hard drive using bios, and it appears windows safe mode was able to transfer files to it... here are some screenshots:

I did... this morning I burned a Microsoft CD and tried booting that way, same result. I also tried Ubuntu and got the same result. To further try to troubleshoot, I booted into Windows safe mode. This worked longer - I was able to work through the process a bit, even past the point of...

I actually a full check via MemTest86 overnight, it comes as part of the Hirens Boot CD package - it did a full scan and didn't find any errors :( I've also tried using both sticks one at a time in case one is bad...

Hey everyone, I wanted to share an update and ask for some advice. I had hoped my next update would be a completed build - but instead I am stuck in troubleshooting! A week ago I finished gathering up all the parts for my build - final list here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tNrhkd I...

Thanks all for the suggestions, I've been doing more research and think I may be close to finalizing the design. I like the small size of a NUC/barebone type but feel like that would hold me back from future upgrades. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself... maybe I just want the...

I'm very interested in the case - I just discovered Geeek online, but I'm thinking it would take a while to get a new case shipped from them. What was your experience with using it in a build? Did you have any problems with it? I'm new to building and am looking to build something fairly small...

Thanks for sharing the Puget Systems benchmarks. From reading that and other forums I've seen, it does sound like the intel chips still have a slight performance edge for Lightroom compared to AMD. The NUC boxes are promising but it sounds like they run very loud under heavy workload. The...

Hey there! I'm new to this site and looking for help in building a small form factor PC for photo editing in Adobe Lightroom. I've done computer repair before but have never built one from the ground up. I've been using PC part picker to try and build something I like, but I'm having trouble...