Recent content by Andrew Fox

How are you measuring the draw? What tools are you using to attempt maxing it out?

Yeah, as you can see from the picture the other guys suggestion that you open it in case cables are loose is also not really applicable since it's just a single board with the connector directly attached to it. @MrRaven do you see the drive at all in device manager or disk management when it's...

Try opening up disk management (right click your start menu it should be an option). The drive might be Bitlocker encrypted.

The solid light on the GPU is probably some sort of status indicator LED where a solid light means it is operating correctly. I know some GPUs will start blinking an LED at you if you forget to plug in one of the GPU power connectors or they aren't able to draw enough power. Do you know what...

Unfortunately, opening the case won't help with this drive, it's non-removable. I would try leaning the cable on specific angles and see if you can get it to show up. Sometimes you can get lucky and propping things on your cable to hold it in the sweet spot will let you see the drive for long...

Dumb question but if you hold windows key and press P to open the project menu is it set to extend/duplicate? On very rare occasions I have seen this somehow reset to "pc screen only" You can also try pressing Win+Ctrl+Shift+B to reset your graphics driver.

You can run through the Avast Cleanup Tool to fully remove any leftover files from Avast https://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avastclear.exe It isn't going to be what stops you getting updates though as Avast has never used Windows Update to deliver its updates. Has your Vista version got Service...

That 4th screenshot you added to the album of cloning to fill the 931GB is correct, proceed with that and it should be good.

You can try installing Minitool Partition Free while you are booted from the new 1TB SSD and resizing the partition in that. It will get you to reboot and then boot into a minimal environment where it's able to extend the partition before rebooting again into Windows...

Check that the power connectors for the graphics card are plugged into the card fully. If your board has more than one ram stick in try pulling out all of them except for one. You can also try a CMOS reset by removing the button cell battery and the power cable from the computer, holding the...

I can only speak for myself but I have a 6950 XT and I wish I bought an RTX 3080 instead, DLSS is miles ahead of the early generations of FSR. A lot of the cool AI stuff (language models, image generation) you can play around with only works on NVIDIA cards too.

Ah the dreaded double post, I had that on my 2600k system which was a problem with quite a few sandy bridge boards and I understand your frustration. Have a look in your BIOS if you can adjust the function of M2_1 as some will let you set between PCIe/SATA/Auto mode, setting it to SATA mode may...

2230 SSD is a rare form factor and usually comes at a price premium over 2280 SSDs. It's not unusual for laptops to not include the 2230 screw holes, framework probably should've since their whole shtick is freedom in upgradability but it's unlikely you have one of these 2230 drives on hand...

I am not sure if this is supposed to be a removable storage, it seems to be marketed as a regular external drive enclosure. The use of a male USB-C connector is just puzzling to me though, i'm not sure what devices they have in mind for it. Normally drive enclosures have a female connector and...

When you look at that table it does show SATA2 being disabled when a SATA SSD is used in M2_1 port, probably just a quirk of the board rerouting the SATA2 lanes to that M2 slot that it displays as SATA2 in BIOS now, since the drive is detected it does seem to be operating as normal. Does the...