Recent content by JamesC01

I have an Acer Aspire es1-512 laptop, and while I can boot into windows, I can't seem to change things like boot order, and any useful settings in the bios except for user and hdd passwords. I've even used bios-pw.org to get the bios password, but that doesn't do anything, it just bypasses the...

It's an Acer Aspire E 15 Start (ES1-512-C5YW). Currently there's a 2.5" 500gb hdd in it. There's no space for another hdd/ssd. The laptop is like over ten years old so I'm not desperate to save the HDD, but I do have a hard-drive enclosure, which lets you put in a 2.5 or 3.5 hdd and use it over...

I want to breathe some life into my old laptop that has an HDD. What would be a good budget SSD that will actually make a difference in start-up times and maybe responsiveness? So far I've come across the Kingston A400 in 240gb, which seems solid, and is a good price for £24. Is that a decent...

I have a Novation Launchpad MK II MIDI Controller, and the USB port on it is slightly inconsistent. If I wiggle it, it will disconnect for a moment. On Windows, this causes a complete disconnect, and when I reconnect, Windows says it's 'not recognised', and device manager shows "device...

I need to replace my case fan, it's not spinning properly. I've had this problem for years, and fix it by just manually spinning the fan, and that would usually get it to start spinning properly, but it's just not happening anymore. The fan is 12cm (measuring the whole thing, including the...

What if it turns out that it's not the outlet? What in a PC could cause a buzzing/sparking sound when it's just plugged in, without turning it on (except for the PSU switch being on)?

I added the specs to the original post. Here's the surge protector: Belkin Surge Protector. I've tried the surge protector with other outlets and it's still broken. I'm a bit scared to try it with my PC again. I don't want any of my harddrives or SSD to fail. Update: I used a different...

A bit over a month ago I came here because my PC wouldn't turn on, and there were sparking/buzzing sounds coming from near where the PSU was. I assumed it was the PSU, especially since my other one was 6 years old, and considered really bad. I replaced it with a Corsair RM750e and a belkin surge...

Thanks for the help! Ideally, I'd want it to get rid of the file on the next backup, but it'd be nice if they point it out "kittykat.jpg has been deleted, do you want to remove it from backup" or something like that.

I have my main ssd where most of my files and windows are stored, and then another hdd with some older files on it, that aren't accessed as often, but are sometimes changed. Although I could easily bring the more frequently accessed folders to the ssd.

By silent I mean that it's running in the background, and will only interrupt me to tell me it can't copy a file at the end of the whole backup, instead of like windows where you manually copy files and it just halts the entire copying until you tell it to skip or retry. What is some good...

I'm finally back up and running after over a week of not being able to use my PC due to failed PSU. Thankfully all of my data seems fine, and I'm backing up my files as I write this. Problem is, backing up 20gb is taking hours. It's already been an hour and it's only 20% complete, and this is...

How on earth can you back up 950GB in 3 minutes? Does it essentially make an full copy of the drive, so it doesn't have to scan through the files, so it just treats the entire drive like one giant 950GB file?

Are you using cloud backup or do you have an external hdd/sdd plugged into usb? I've been selecting and dragging files manually to an external hdd, and it's painfully slow. The fear I have with automatic backup software, is what happens if I'm modifying the files while it's trying to back them...

Just didn't get around to it. My files are scattered in different places on my harddrive, and backing up is quite slow, usually takes most of my day due to using a HDD to back it up. And because of that, I would only back up once every few months, and because I've had my PC for 6 years with no...