Recent content by Jake Maverick

ok folks, thanks for all your help! Really tight budget here so I can't buy optimally, have to grab stuff when i see it about to go for good price.....I will try what you have suggested and hopefully get back to you tomorrow....

if one of the 16GBs is faulty, surely it would read as 32GB available?

Seems I have 16gb in slot one and two and 8gbs in three and four, I know rookie mistake...but that should not do it? Just looked at imgur.com, not happy about putting phone number on internet.....any other option? They must all be compatible? As they are seen by the motherboard. it was 2 x 8GB...

This is a weird one that I can't figure out. RAM is seen in the BIOS as well as by windows 10, but only 23.9GB is available? I don't have an option in BIOS to set to 'Dual Channel' as some of the other threads suggest.... What can I do apart from swapping the sticks about on the board to see if...

i got a 1 tb ssd in my main rig, only just starting using windows 10 there as well...no issues on health but it does not get nearly as much use....but thinking on it, it was showing degradation before i dual booted it, but 10gb should be plenty though i would have thought? I'm thinking these...

this could be the issue! i have since split it to dual boot with linux, but not managed to fully switch over to linux yet. do you know of any good progs for xubuntu that will monitor ssd health? i couldn't find any which is main reason i'm on windows 10 here just so i can keep an eye on health...

this is weird, the drive started losing files in the end...so i figured failing usb drive, i just got a dodgy one....but new drive now and fine at first...now it's started doing the same thing. I'm wondering if too much power is going to the usb port and that is what is killing my drives? i need...

A few days back it dropped to 98%, now it's dropped down to 97% @ 18 days 1 hour use. Same drive in identical linux system not deteriorated at all. Am starting to worry here...most of my important data is on this machine. Just no funds to get another system. HP Compaq systems seem to be much...

I always have the monitoring s/w open, HD Sentinel. Crystal Disk info is also picking up same damage now. Strangely the other machine running linux has been on for a lot longer but still at 100%.

2 days 4 hours of use...and health just dropped to 99% with 713.89gb written :-( I'm starting to think something dodgy with the optiplex's now, will check the other one tomorrow :-(

um, fb tabs don't even load until i click on them though...and only about half a dozen of them. Starting to think it is windows 10, the linux machine doesn't do it and have similar there..... it's a bx500 240gb...thanks for the link! doesn't specifically say for that drive but looking like 5...

nah not at all! just a few emails and surfing about, not a lot of videos, few short clips on twitter maybe.....but i do have a lot of tabs open, it's looking like Chrome could be the main culprit, no twitter there but facebook though?

Linux (xubuntu flavour) seems to be mostly running fine on these machines. But it is extremely slow at copying files to usb 3.0 drives. Anybody else had this issue? I did find https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=630g8 but that is from 2013....surely newer...

ok on new crucial drives now....health wise everything looking good, but is it normal for windows to be writing about 50gb of what i presume are temp files a day? looks like a lot of unneccesary wear and tear to me :-(

i had the same problem on my old PC....until i replaced the BIOS chip, then was fine for 6 months to a year, until i needed replacing again. Over time a sata port went and one of the pci- slots stopped working as well so in my case i'm thinking slowly dying mummy board.....