Recent content by John_485

Dude, same thing just happened to me as well, same deal m,2 drive that i've been using for about three weeks

(the concept of 'slave drive' went out years ago) - Haha! Yeah I know, it's all I could think of at the time, sorry about that. Yes, the new drive works fine. I used the M.2_1 slot on my board (MSI Z170A Gaming M5) which luckily, doesn't disable any of the SATA ports, so I should be fine. I...

Why would you reply just to tell me what I shouldn't need to do? If you can help me, cool, if not, that's okay too. It's obvious I need some files off the old drive, I'm just not sure if I have to boot up with that drive or if the new drive will recognize it (as a slave I suppose) when I plug...

My old drive is a OCZ 120gb Trion 2.5" SSD and I'm running Windows 10. I want to hook the SATA cable back up and boot to the old OS. How do I do that, I just installed a new M.2 drive last night but need access to the old system drive? I imagine after plugging in the old drive, I'll boot into...

The experiment that was done (in the link) was anecdotal, as it was statistically insignificant, but the results were interesting none the less. Even in the experiment they had two Kingston Hyper X3K drives, one died while the other went on to be one out of only two that went up to two Petabytes...

Believe it or not Kanewolf, I have a WD Black Caviar that I bought in 2008 that's still going strong to this day. That's ten years of use and I leave my PC on 24/7. Western Digital makes (or used to make) amazing hard drives for the price point. Just read this ...

Should I create a USB boot disk for Win 10? When would it come in handy? I had an interesting problem a few days ago an a Microsoft tech actually helped me out of the problem, I was shocked. I created a new local account and for whatever reason, windows locked me out of my primary account and I...

Stop worrying about voiding the warranty, the chips were made to be overclocked and as long as you don't push it too hard you'll be fine. Even if you did blow the chip you don't have to tell them that you were overclocking. Just day the chip blew all on its own. Not honest but they can afford to...

No problem. I'm glad it worked out for you. Strange though, the description you gave about the HDMI port, that is worrying for sure. Did it ever happen again? I hope it hasn't happened since?

Did you ever find out what the problem was? I suspect it was the pop that caused the problems. I was watching a Tech City Youtube video and the guy from Tech City was doing a budget build with used parts. He sprayed down the motherboard, the GPU, everything really with some sort of pressurized...

So did you ever find out what the problem was?

Buy a PSU tester. They're often only ten bucks and will tell you if you have a bad psu in literally seconds.