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  1. Jacob 51

    Question USB drive write protected

    So if I try to move anything to my sandisk 8 GB USB, it shows a write protected error. I tried the clean command, but it shows a I/O error. The drive has nothing inside. It is completely empty. I used easeus to turn off the write protection but it didn't work and didn't show any error. There is...
  2. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] How to reset mouse settings?

    I did something in the control panel mouse settings and the mouse pointer seems to have the hourglass icon when loading anything. Like that windows 7 loading hourglass I want it to get back to the windows 10 round blue loading animation. What should I click? View: https://imgur.com/a/di4xbWG...
  3. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Which is the best file system for a USB drive?

    I want to use full 16 GB of my USB drive, and also use the drive in my phone. Using NTFS means I cannot use it on my phone Using FAT32 means I cannot use the full capacity, only half more or less. Any other file system? And if so, how do I format it with that file system? My windows 10 explorer...
  4. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Difference between UEFI only and UEFI first

    I came across an option "Video oprom policy" while changing the windows from BIOS to UEFI. There its got "UEFI first" and "UEFI only". Currently UEFI only is selected. Ofc there are legacy options too.
  5. Jacob 51

    Question SSD with windows not marked as system

    View: https://imgur.com/a/PPusAaP So my SSD has the windows that I'm currently running. The other harddrive also has a windows that I want to get rid of but doesn't work. The SSD partition is not marked as system even though the windows is running from it. (SSD is disk 0) The windows in the...
  6. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Urgent help needed

    View: https://imgur.com/a/OOV9jLi So my mom's PC got this error. Its a work PC, got windows 7 I'm not sure of the specs. I need urgent help for it. I have tried taking out the hard drive wires and putting them back in The only thing I think would be the fix to is to reinstall windows on it.
  7. Jacob 51

    Question How do I increase the refresh rate in games that don't have an option for it?

    For example, Need for speed 2012. My monitor has 165 hz and this game doesn't have the option for it. It is somehow locked in 60 FPS, even though there is no Vsync option too. My PC runs the other games like GTA V at 165 hz, when they have the option for it in settings.
  8. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Phone Boot Loop after installing Magisk

    I'm not sure if we do phone repairing here? I'm sorry for any inconvenience. View: https://youtu.be/2U6q5GwKKoE I followed this guy till the end. Everything worked fine. At the last part, when I flashed Magisk (Same version as in the video description), the phone started rebooting again and...
  9. Jacob 51

    Question What if you run UEFI without disabling CSM?

    So I've been facing a lot of issues and I was wondering, is it necessary to turn off CSM if I'm running UEFI with GPT partitioned SSD?
  10. Jacob 51

    Question Windows too slow and unresponsive

    So I switched back to my HDD after my SSD failed. It was all speedy and smooth till yesterday. I let it run idle for 2 hours then copied a file. That is when the problem started. The PC became too slow and it showed "Not responding" When I opened a folder. Then I clicked on restart. It didn't...
  11. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Are harddisks more reliable than SSDs?

    Talking about reliability, not durability, is a solid state drive more likely to fail than a hard disk drive I had this cheap 160 GB HDD that lasted for more than 10 years. Data is still there, but sometimes it just turns off by itself, which is normal considering its age. On the other hand, I...
  12. Jacob 51

    Question Need a laptop for my dad

    My dad's old acer aspire is going to die anytime. It runs at like 24 hz in windows, even though it is set to 60hz in the graphics panel. he doesn't do any demanding work. Just online class and microsoft word (hes a teacher.) So I want a minimal laptop, an i3 would be enough for this. a 100 GB...
  13. Jacob 51

    Question SSD died on me for the fourth time ?

    So this is the fourth time I'm facing a cyclic redundancy check on my ADATA SU 630 240 GB. Why does this keep happening? I fixed it three times with HDDscan app, but I won't do it again. Should I just throw it away?
  14. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] How Do I Reset BIOS Without Looking At The Screen?

    So I Accidently Set Some Pci Thing To Do Not Launch And there's No Display Now. No Display On Integrated Graphics Either. Removing The Cmos Battery Didn't Fix. I Need A Hotkey Or Something To RESET It.. I Think The Pc Opens The Bios When I Press The Key, but There Is No Display Zebronics H61...
  15. Jacob 51

    Question Why are there two 1080p's in NVIDIA control panel?

    View: https://imgur.com/a/lryr75N View: https://imgur.com/a/74OhGAz So, one allows upto 120 HZ and other allows upto 165 hz (Only in my PC). But what else?
  16. Jacob 51

    Question Low FPS in "Age Of Empires 3 Definitive Edition" ?

    So I am getting like 40 FPS after I low down every thing in the game and turn the resolution down to 720p. This is a 2D game, So the game is supposed to be low impactful on the specs and the low graphics look worse than the original older version of this game. I am having the steam version of...
  17. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Can I increase gaming performance if I tweak windows 10?

    Is there any way to get more FPS by limiting things on windows 10 like disabling some programs?
  18. Jacob 51

    Discussion Do case fans even do anything?

    So I was curious if my case fans are even doing any cooling. I plugged them out and ran the PC. After putting 100% load on the CPU, I saw that there was little to no difference. It was on 65 C both with case fan turned on and off. This led me to thinking if investing money on the case fans was...
  19. Jacob 51

    Question USB Card reader dead after plugging in USB 3.0

    So my USB card reader was USB2.0 and I plugged it in the USB 3.0 port on my case and it got burned. It doesn't work anymore and the SD card is dead too. How could this possibly happen? My motherboard doesn't have USB 3.0 ports but it has a slot to connect a USB 3.0 port to the motherboard, if...
  20. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Windows thinks I had previously installed windows 7

    View: https://imgur.com/a/Jle1ptx So my PC is showing that I had a backup of windows 7, even though I never installed windows 7 on this system. I bought the components and assembled this PC earlier this year. I am having windows 10 64 bit pro on this system currently. I never tried to install...
  21. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Need help with recovering data

    So, uptil 2020, I had this core 2 duo system. It was quite old. I had all the trip photos, thousands of songs on it from different artists, I bought CDs of them for high prices. So, in the beginning of 2020, I reinstalled windows because it was having issues (Windows 10 64 bit). The hard drive...
  22. Jacob 51

    Question Shadow problem in all games

    View: https://youtu.be/GGTTFC9SJMg Look at the shadows of the tree on the left side and the shadow of the fence. This happens in all games. The reason I recorded it with GTA IV is to get it down clear without frame drops. Seems like the there is a square box and only the shadows 5 cm away are...
  23. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] How Much To Overclock A GT 1030?

    I am getting 20 FPS In RDR 2 When I play in 1080p. It goes upto 40 FPS with 720p. And of course the 720p in this game looks worse than Gta 3 (No Disrespect to that game), Because of the high amount of jagged edges and blurred textures. So I was looking forward to overclocking my GT 1030 For...
  24. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Which replacement mouse should I buy ?

    So my "Zebronics Transformer" mouse is malfunctioning (I regret buying this mouse). I need a new mouse. Budget: As low as it can go?? I prefer Logitech. Wired, of course. RGB: Yes, if possible, but only one colour would do it too.
  25. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] HDD turned on after clicking on shut down ?

    I think I have finally found the reason for the fans still running after shut down, which I posted earlier on Tom's Hardware. I found today that after I clicked on shut down, my HDD spins up. (I heard it). It was obviously turned off because of inactivity as I was only using the SSD (windows is...
  26. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Intel rapid storage technology problem!!!!!

    So I installed a driver update for the IDE/ATAPI Controller drivers Intel 6 series/C200 From DriverFix app. It downloaded something called intel rapid storage technology. I installed it, not knowing if it was the driver. Now, it needed a restart. I restarted it and it took a whole eternity to...
  27. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] No media present error on post

    So, before this error, there was the "A2" error on POST, which was visible in the bottom right corner of the BIOS splash screen. I removed the HDD and SSD SATA connectors and there is no A2 error anymore. Now, it shows this error every time I turn on the PC. Take a look at it: View...
  28. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] How do I disable CSM in BIOS?

    So, when using UEFI, people have advised to turn off CSM, but the problem is, its showing an error: https://ibb.co/fGXZVrC As you can see, everything is set to UEFI, but still it is showing that error when I'm trying to put CSM to disabled. I am having Windows 10 64 bit on a GPT partitioned SSD...
  29. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Difference between factory overclocked GPUs and stock ones?

    So, How big is the difference between factory overclocked GPUs and normal ones? Do they have more clock speeds? My GPU (GT1030 EXOC GALAX) is factory overclocked, in MSI afterburner, the power limit is maxed out, but core clock and memory clock is on +0. View: https://imgur.com/a/ictqOcr...
  30. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] How do I stop windows from updating?

    View: https://imgur.com/a/tcfEMm1 I'm in a pretty bad situation here. I forgot to turn off windows update and now it downloaded by itself. How do I stop this? I have deleted the update files from software distribution folder. Windows update always screws up my system. Dunno what it does but I...
  31. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Fans keep running after shut down

    So, the fans on my PC keep running after the screen goes black. But it doesn't happen all the time. It happens randomly. Mostly the fans stop spinning after the screen goes black. This wasn't happening a week ago. I have not really installed any apps in that time. I have turned off the...
  32. Jacob 51

    Question Need help, got virus

    So my PC had some virus called "Windows update service.vbe." I found it startup menu and disabled it. Then I right clicked it and selected "Go to file location" and deleted the file. Now the "Windows update service.vbe." is gone from the startup menu but there is something called "Windows" in...
  33. Jacob 51

    Question Texture problem in games

    View: https://youtu.be/n9gUZ6vGdMg (Battlefield 1 Lawrence Of Arabia Mission) I'm having this problem in almost every game. Only the textures that are close are rendered. 5 CM far are blurred away. Changing the settings doesn't change anything. In the gameplay I showed, I was on 1080p low...
  34. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Phone processors faster than desktop ones?

    So now the mobiles have got 5 Nm lithography (Samsung), and the lowest we could get on a desktop is 7nm? (AMD) While intel is still stuck at 12 nm (correct me). Is it easier to make phone processors or something?
  35. Jacob 51

    Question Text blurry when screen is scrolled

    There is some blurriness when I scroll the screen on my PC, especially with webpages. They get super bright in motion and normal without scrolling. This goes away when I Turn on HDR in the settings of windows, but that is another problem. Turning on HDR in windows settings brings up a lot of...
  36. Jacob 51

    Ps3 Heating Up?

    I have a PS3 that I only use for playing RDR 1 and The Last Of Us, because they're not available to play on PC. So it feels like it is heating up. The vents behind are hot to touch. The fan is on normal speed. It speeds up after a couple of hours and sounds like a jet engine. After 10 minutes...
  37. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Should you update your graphics card drivers every time they update?

    I got a GT 1030 and I update the drivers whenever GeForce Experience gives me the notification. I install using the express settings. Is it fine to keep updating it or should I stick to the driver that gives me more performance?
  38. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Is fast startup useless these days?

    With SSDs computers boots in the same time with fast startup enabled and disabled. There's hardly any noticable difference of some milliseconds. So, when a lot of people are using SSDs as their boot drives, why is it "Recommended" in the power settings to use fast startup? What are the possible...
  39. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] How do I reduce the screen brightness?

    So when I turn HDR on in windows settings, the screen becomes a lot bright. I don't know if its supposed to be like that. Is it good for the eyes? I can't change the brightness from the monitor settings. They get greyed out after turning on HDR. Isn't there a way to reduce brightness with...
  40. Jacob 51

    [SOLVED] Sparks from the wall socket with PC plugged in

    I hate to say this but the wiring in my house is pretty messed up. Today, when I turned on my computer, I could hear and see sparks from the PSU plug. It was constant and did not go away before I plugged it out. (I know its dangerous to touch). Also, the HDMI ports of my PC and monitors have...