Recent content by blaze3000

I'll be honest, now that the weather has cooled down a bit here the noise is not as bad. I'm hoping that's not just my perception at play, the fans are still on but not making as much noise. The readings from coretemp are much lower too - with the range usually in the 30s. Thanks for the...

Thanks! So I just went through the menus in the BIOS and under 'thermal it had 6 pips which turn into squares when you dial it up. I set it half way, and the PC was much louder :) So it was already set to the minimum. I guess that means this is just a very noisy machine at idle?

Hi, Looking for any pointers. I have a HP Z420 8GB RAM running Windows 6 x64 from one 1TB HDD, CPU is Xeon E5-1620 v2. BIOS is HP J61 v03.91, which I believe is the latest (the HP online diagnostic doesn't seem to be working at the moment). Ever since I've had it about 5 years ago, it has...

yes, from the instructions i don't think it would detect the ssd. Besides, if the BIOS doesn't detect the SSD (because it's NVMe) then i don't think this would have worked on it anyway.

Hi I was in the process of cloning my HDD OS to a blank NVMe SSD, (as per this question the BIOS could not see the SSD even though it was working fine as a secondary drive in windows 7), after cloning and restarting the OS wouldn't boot. I've taken the SSD card out, and it will boot from the...

Hi, Please help me diagnose the issue here. My PC won't power up today, was running fine yesterday. When I push the on button, it lights up and flashes momentarily, but the fans don't start and nothing powers up (no noise whatsoever), so I presume something's been triggered so that it can't...