Recent content by banibrata.dutta

Just check if you have ASIO drivers installed by any chance, and/or try updating the drivers for your audio interfaces if possible. If you have special ASIO drivers (s.a. ASIO4all) try removing them.

In that case, I'm afraid I've nothing more to add, other than one final thing about the operating system configuration regarding input/recording device. I just hope that when the default (motherboard's inbuilt) sound source (mic-in) is selected, some odd/incompatible setting is not getting in...

Thanks folks for all the answers. It appears to be fairly unanimous that HDD is the primary bottleneck here. I think I might add a 120GB SSD SATA (since this mobo doesn't support m.2, not intel Optane) so that's my best bet. When we add a smallish SSD drive, is there a commonly accepted...

Afraid that the notion of "slow" is going to be a bit abstract and subjective (not surprisingly), since I've not run any benchmarks and not aware of many benchmarks that are easy-to-setup and run on Linux. Yes, the new build is running a flavour of Ubuntu Linux (LXDE based one, called Lubuntu)...

Thanks @DragoR. No worries. Not surprising about the Mobo docs and specs. It is the absolute bottom-of-the-rack entry-level Mobo. I will try adding the second monitor and see if the multi-monitor option appears under BIOS, even with IGD selected.

Check if you CPU cooler fan has a 3-pin or 4-pin cable connecting to the CPU fan header on motherboard. AFAIK (and I might be wrong) is that you can do RPM control of the CPU cooler fan if it has a 4-pin cable, connecting to a 4-pin header on the motherboard, via PWM. Bios is support to report...

Hi, My brand new build (i5-8400, MSI H310M-PRO-VD mobo, 8GB DDR4-2400, 1TB-SATA-HDD) is showing the current BIOS setting (before any OS installation) as "UEFI+Legacy". My intent is to initially install Linux (Ubuntu), but shortly also multi-boot into Windows 10, and MacOS (as per...

Hi, My MSI mobo's BIOS settings under "Integrated Graphics Devices Configuration", has a parameter called "Initiate Graphics Adaptor", that has a the value PEG. However, I do not (currently) have a discrete PCI Graphics Adaptor, and use the intel HD630 IGD only. Should the value of "Initiate...

Possibly an issue with the motherboards onboard audio codec subsystem. I've seen a similar report on MSI motherboard forum, where it turned out to be some damage inflicted by the person performing some component installation / replacement. How about getting one of those USB sound-cards. There...

Was your HDD encrypted s.a. using bitlocker by any chance ?

Thanks a lot @alexoiu. That solved it. I spent 2 sleepless nights wondering how and where could I've gone wrong in spite of so much precaution. Learnt something new too. However, I suppose this means that the slot-1/slot-A is bad. Is that considered a reasonable reason for an RMA ? I've never...