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All right, I'll give that a shot. Seems like a lot of trouble for installing a drive, but I guess it's just one of those weird quirks with certain hardware. Wish me luck! update: Yup, clearing the CMOS finally got it to detect the drive. Nice of them to put the battery right next to the main...

Motherboard is an Asus Z170-P D3, drive is ADATA Swordfish 2 TB 2280. Current main/boot drive is a 500 GB Samsung EVO that I am looking to make the secondary, and install Windows on m.2 as the primary. I installed the m.2 drive, but it does not show up anywhere on the list of detected drives or...

Pretty much as the title says. A child knocked the monitor off the tabletop onto a hard tile floor, and now it's having this problem. The screen itself is not cracked or broken. It displays a normal picture for a few seconds, then goes black, then comes back on for a few seconds, goes black...

Well you know what, screw it, this thing is going on 7 years old anyway, who am I kidding.

shoot, at this point, I'm considering just keeping the 620W Seasonic until a really good deal comes along on something else, and only go bigger if I ever get a 1080 Ti or something else new that comes out.

I've always thought of Supernova as a top-quality PSU, and Super Flower as a top OEM, it was just this one specific model that it seemed people were worried about. But I guess not a huge problem. A bigger question I now have is, if Crossfire and SLI are really dead now (which seems to be the...

Well, I guess that means there'd be little use for that many watts, then. Honestly, I just have not kept up with high-end GPUs for the last couple of years, as my old single card was fine for running anything at 1920x1080 - but then got this new 4k display for Christmas, which forced the issue...

Basically, I got a deal on a 2080 (less than $500), and in the future it seems adding another one would be the cheaper route. Not 100% committed to that, as the 2080 ought to be sufficient for now. I also need a new PSU soon regardless, as both of the ones in my current machines (XFX 550w and...

I recently got a 4k monitor and upgraded my GPU to a GTX 2080 (arriving tomorrow). I am considering upgrading this further in the future to a 2x RTX 2080 SLI machine, and it seems 800-850W is the safe range to be in for a PSU. I was considering the EVGA SuperNOVA G3, as it is well priced and...

My old video card, a Radeon HD 7970, finally died after several years between two different machines. In the meantime I'm limping along with a spare r7 265, but am definitely looking for an up-to-date replacement. Seems the 1070 is the superior card, but costs about twice as much as the RX...

Well, thanks for confirming what I was hoping was the right answer (but was also afraid of). Man, there are a LOT of things on those RAID disks, and reinstalling them all and matching the save files to everything is going to be a pain. But I suppose it'll also be a good time to do a bit of...

I've got a machine running 2x1TB HDDs in RAID1, which are the only drives on the system. Therefore, they're the boot drives running Windows 10. Lots of data and programs on them. I would like to install a 500GB SSD as the primary drive with the OS and keep the two RAID1 drives as secondary...

Well, overheating is one thing that comes to mind. That will cause the CPU to shut off suddenly and stay off until it's cooled down sufficiently to safely turn on again. Are you able to turn it on at all after letting it sit for a time, or is it permanently refusing to turn on? Oh yeah, and the...