Windows 10: Giving up after 3 months. I'm not good enough to solve this so all yours gurus!

Dell Inspiron Gaming 7577 + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 ti 4 GBIntelR CoreTM i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2808 MHz, 4 Cores, 8 Logical ProcessorsPhysical Memory RAM: 8.00 GB 2x 4gb Dual ChanBIOS Version: 1.16.0 - 12/3/2021 LatestSMBIOS Version: 3.0 Embedded Controller Version: 255.255 BIOS Mode: UEFI Windows 10 Home Single Language Official Dell Copy10.0.19043 Build 19043 System Type x64-based PC The nightmare begins and started from a windows update and restart prompt in first week of December- It black screened immediately right after the update so I power cycled so just I can boot i

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Solved

Solved! or fixed! or whatever! I was able to absorb the extra space in a 3-step process:

1. resize the System Reserved partition to use the space after it
2. reboot
3. stretch the M: data partition to absorb the space after it using the EXTEND -- not RESIZE -- command

System rebooted and working normally. THX all.

 

Pentium M

Not sure what I'm looking at. Though when I do go to Options and then CPU it lists my CPU
as Intel Pentium M processor 1.73 GHz, and then under that it lists speed: 799.9 MHz
and then features and cache size.I ran the benchmark test and don't understand all
those numbers, but while testing I checked CPUZ and it still says it is running at 800 MHz.

 

Is there a good guide out there on actually assembling the new rig?

List your system specs (All of the parts you're using), putting a computer together isn't very difficult. I can give you some steps on doing it no problem.