Recent content by essbeemorton

Found a setting in the BIOS to enable "switchable" graphics so I can use my i7's iGPU. Unfortunately, I'm getting artifacts just sitting at the desktop and sometimes the screen turns off as if to protect itself. Tapping the power button a couple times usually gets it to turn back on. The RTX...

You should just be able to disconnect the battery from the motherboard without completely removing the battery.

I got it to boot properly by disconnecting the battery and holding the power button for a minute and then restarting. However, once I was in and trying to reinstall the latest drivers, it crashed with no warning and rebooted with a black screen again.

Was playing a game today when I got a "video TDR failure" BSoD. Rebooted and relaunched the game and promptly got another BSoD. On the next reboot, my display would not show. I signed into the laptop on another computer with Chrome Remote Desktop to verify that it was booting and I just couldn't...

I have a set of JBL LSR305 monitors and Sennheiser HD650s I run at my desktop. I also recently bought a turntable (with built in preamp), so I have 2 inputs (PC/turntable) and 2 outputs (headphones/speakers). I run the speakers at 70% and have volume control on the Schiit Magni 2U amplifier I...

I bought a Lenovo Legion Y540 a few months ago. First thing I did when I got it was install an Addlink S70 1TB M.2 SSD, this one. When I first installed it, I struggled for awhile to get the computer to see the drive. It wouldn't boot at first. I think I eventually changed the boot mode to...

Anyone have any ideas?

I know this is a very specific question, but I don't know who else to turn to. I was using my computer until around 12:30 PM today when I left for school. I left my computer powered on. When I got back around 4 PM, my computer was turned off. I started it up, and found that Steam had been...

By the way, do you overprovision your SSDs?