In reply to Jord's message of 5 Jun 2026:

And that's on top of a half busted motherboard that has USB problems on its own.

I'd suggest bite the bullet and replace it now (with something DDR4 based), or wait 3 years till prices become less insane.
Unless the AI juggernaut collapses in a heap soon, forecasts are that DRAM, NAND, HDDs, CPUs, motherboards etc supplies will get worse (and continue to get even worse still) well into 2028 (if we're lucky).

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Grant
Darwin NT.

The mouse works, I just have to click multiple times. Can't select any text though. But then I have a working keyboard.
I have a new motherboard, it's been laying here for slightly over a year. Trouble is, the one I have now is an Asrock (my fave brand), the replacement is a Gigabyte which is my nemesis, I always have problems with them. So hesitant to replace it and fix Windows (10).

Maybe once I am completely out of my depression. Or maybe I'll just give up on the big case and plug in a small NUC or other Barebone system and add the present SSD and HDD in an enclosure.

Wholly before that I want to try flashing the BIOS to a lower version, as now there's one on that allows a Ryzen 3900x CPU, whereas the present CPU in there is just a 2700x that doesn't need the BIOS that's on there.

At least you've got what you need.

The latest news on RAM prices- Lexar regional manager says that RAM prices are expected to double by the end of the year

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Grant
Darwin NT.

I've got a second set of 32GB DDR4 lying here, and I think I have a further 16GB DDR4 elsewhere in the flat. Also 16GB of DDR3. I'm rich. 😊

Yay, I fixed the left-click problem. But how, I don't know. As before it was fixed, it got even worse. To the point of not being able to use many programs. Especially those that required mouse or cursor navigation.

So I installed Logitech Options and that must have fixed the mouse driver problem, but it locked me out of the mouse and cursor navigation. Uninstalled Logi Options and hey, I can select text again and navigating in Google Maps and Google Earth works again.

Although I do have to give credit to Google Gemini as I just asked it how to fix the mouse glitch and we went from there for half an hour. I now know I urgently need a new motherboard, or the barebones system, as my present motherboard's south bridge is causing all the problems. Gemini did give me a script to rescan the USB ports after Windows startup, so I put it as a scheduled task in Task Scheduler. Hope it works.

Sheesh!

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