Recent content by Bastaklis

For anyone that stumbles across this in the future somehow with the same or similar issue (HOW??) - Not sure how much of this is even necessary. Unsure how any of this happened still, but... whatever. The GPU was likely fixed from CMOS reset or switching to/from legacy/CSM in BIOS. The boot...

Almost impossible to see - but "EDIT TO EDIT" - Either I didn't look carefully enough and thought this was the 2.5 SSD by the same company (SPCC), or we're back to square one somehow with what shows as a bootable disk. Just the old-bad NVME. Now, this is territory I don't understand at all -...

Starting PC - F9 Listed drives/partitions. My guess is it is trying to boot into whatever it is listing/seeing as Vol 15 by default. Where/how/why Vol 15 exists, I don't know. Vol 2 boots into windows upon selecting it. Same install that has been there for however long it has been. But...

Update: After some more fiddling and ultimately making a new Win11 flash drive and ensuring the settings are correct - I'm able to boot into the drive. However, I'm only able to boot into the drive when the flash drive is plugged in, it throws an error about repairing PC, but all of the repair...

Update: So, the SATA drives do show as selectable boot drives in CSM, but after setting boot priority it results in "reboot and select proper boot device" on next restart. I guess it's kind of odd, I can almost 100% recall my BIOS being set to UEFI previously with no issues. But I guess it...

Magical fix #1. All components removed. Motherboard on top of box. All non sensitive components - case, blu ray drive, drive bay, fans, etc cleaned with 75 ipa. All sensitive components that were actually cleaned ram, GPU fans, mobo, etc were air dusted. 99% ipa and qtips to clean old thermal...

Several issues after cleaning. MBD: MSI Mag Z490 Tomahawk CPU: i5-10400 RAM: 32GB (4 x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR4 GPU: ASUS TUF 3060 Ti 500 2.5 SSD (Main Boot) 1TB NVME (Old, problematic drive) 500 NVME (New-Old drive) Random irrelevant HDDs I decided to do a deep clean after way too long. I...

Well, thanks. Guess I'll just have to wait for the new headset.

That's really strange... I used it on Windows 7 previously with SCPToolkit for PS3 controllers all of the time.

My normal USB headphones finally gave out after 10 years and the only speakers I own have a very distracting and headache inducing pulsing. I've already ordered a new headset, but with everything going on the estimated shipping date is over a month away. So, I decided that I'd use this old...

I'm experiencing some PC issues that I'm working through and it seems my thread in Systems has been deleted. It doesn't appear in posts and has strikethrough text in latest activity. I noticed a post here about editing threads causing this. I just wanted to figure out what happened before making...

I suppose I didn't pose an actual question, so... What tests can and should I run? Specifically in regards to remaining hardware, such as drives, mobo, psu, ram? As I don't think it's the cpu, gpu or software. I guess it's also worth mentioning that this happened randomly and the build is a...

Idk how much of, if any of this is relevant so I'll just tell the story. tl;dr at bottom. PC started randomly freezing under virtually no load while watching youtube. I decided to use it as an excuse to finally reinstall OS and format drives in hopes of solving some other small annoying issues...