As The New Guy mentioned, the folks over at Haswell were relying on integrated graphics that are a massive step up from the previous socket—so honestly, you might want to just grab the 4440.
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So, here’s a slightly more modern Intel setup using the LGA 1150 socket. Everything listed is available to order—except for the processor, so you might want to do a little extra digging to track that one down. Honestly, though, isn't this plenty for basic Microsoft Office work and web browsing? You've got integrated graphics built right into the CPU, 4GB of RAM, and a 1TB hard drive to boot.
If you're running Windows updates for the very first time, there’s usually a massive backlog waiting for you—so just let it run its course. It might take an hour or two to wrap everything up. Once you finally have a moment to get through all those pending updates and everything is fully installed, that yellow icon should disappear on its own.
It’s possible you’ve got some nasty malware hanging around your computer. You might want to download Norton and run a full scan—just to see if there's anything active lurking in the system.
Just let that update finish its thing... Seriously, don't pull the plug or cut the power mid-way—you might just end up making things a whole lot worse.
I need to run some updates from Windows Update—is there supposed to be a progress percentage shown while it installs, or does it just sit there doing nothing?
Are you talking about the Bootkit when you mention the second key? If so, just boot into Safe Mode and uninstall it from there—basically run the loader itself and hit the uninstall button. By the way, you can always just do a clean install of Windows using a USB drive—just whip up a bootable one using Rufus.
Hahaha, you know what? Just give me those 22 bucks—I could probably pay for my driving test and still have enough left over to pick up a beat-up used Ford Focus. 😛
What Alexander Moore67 posted is a pretty decent setup, but if I were in your shoes, I’d probably aim for an i5 4690k paired with a Z97 motherboard—plus a few other tweaks. You could grab a 4K monitor and still have about $80 left over in your pocket. And hey, if you decide you don't really need 4K and just stick with Full HD, you'd end up with even more breathing room—maybe like $100 or even more...
It really depends on where you were building the PC—whether you had it sitting on a carpet, some tile, or a wooden desk. You’ve got to be mindful of static buildup and stay on the same electrical "level" to avoid any surprises. It’s one of those things where you just have to be a little careful. So, there's a chance you might have run into an issue during the assembly, or maybe the motherboard was just faulty right out of the box. There are plenty of variables to consider, but honestly? You’ll most likely need to pick up a new board. In my experience, processors almost never fail or arrive dead on arrival—it's usually the other components.
I don't mean to sound rude, but did you really just take your PC in for service only for them to test the power supply and nothing else? And then they just handed it back to you without fixing a thing—and now you're coming to a forum to ask for help? I'm honestly a bit confused... I mean, what can we actually do here? To be blunt, the only real way I can help is if you grab a different motherboard to test out—just to see if the system will actually boot up properly.