Recent content by johnx125

I know this is the best way to install drivers and used to do it this way too, years ago when I didn't really trust the then new Radeon software interface. Anyway over time you get tired of having to reconfigure every single setting every time you update the driver. And so these days I just...

Hello everyone, today I went to update my graphics drivers the same way I've done it many times.. went to radeon software downloaded and started installing the new driver (version 23.12.1) However this time I got the error 1603 when the install was at 99%. It said the installation could not be...

I tried disabling and enabling highlights and I restarted the computer too. Will try sfc and dism. Maybe even clean boot although I didn't install any programs that may affect windows search when running.

Hello everyone, after installing the KB5031356 update, the search highlights icon thing on the right of the search box refreshes every single minute, which results in the icon fading away for a few seconds and then reappearing and flashing. Needless to say that it's extremely annoying and...

I've tried it with 2 different PSUs and it does the same thing. Also the CX power supply is only 2 years old and is the one that's currently on my new PC so it's a known good unit. My bad, I forgot to mention that I replaced the PSU on the old PC in 2021.

First of all, a little bit of backstory so you can understand the situation better. Back in late February, my almost 8 year old PC suddenly would not POST. At first I waited for a few minutes, then I cleared the CMOS, first by using the jumper and then again by removing the battery. I used...

I know, it could be a number of things and it's impossible to reproduce the problem too, so I'm trying to rule out all the possible culprits. The headset also happens to be connected to the USB port that's used for bios flashback. Not sure if that affects the reliability of the port (highly doubt).

About 3 months ago I upgraded all the main components in my system (cpu, mobo, ram, gpu) after my previous and aging system died. I didn't reinstall windows after the upgrade, I just installed all the necessary motherboard drivers and didn't have any issues, apart from my headset occasionally...

I see.. well I've only done one hardware swap so far and it was 100% successful that's why I was so confident hahaha I hope it all works this time also.. but I don't mind reinstalling windows either since I keep my important files to a different drive. My main priority right now is to have a...

I know it's not a given. But the OS doesn't have any issues, it's the computer itself that won't post anymore. Plus I'm going from an AMD platform to another AMD platform.. it shouldn't have issues booting on the new hardware.

Of course it does, I'm upgrading from an AM3+ platform to AM4. I see.. The thing is I can't backup anything right now because my computer won't even try to post. So after replacing all the parts I'll boot into windows, save all the important stuff and then do the conversion and it should be...

Got it. I'll do some more research to figure out how long it takes to convert, possible complications etc. So basically, this tool finds the system drive and converts it without affecting other drives, is that correct?

I don't have a lot of experience with command line, I just read about how to use this MBR2GPT tool on an article on windows central. I'm just upgrading my system and wanted to modernize my old windows installation. Definitely not feeling adventurous lol.

I want to convert my windows installation from MBR to GPT using Microsoft's MBR2GPT tool. However I have one more drive in my system that contains games and other files. Should I disconnect that drive before I begin the conversion?

I have a Corsair Force LE 120GB ssd which I bought in 2015, so it's about 6 yeras old. Now according to Corsair, the maximum endurance of this ssd is 30TB of writes (doesn't say about reads). Today I found out I've reached 15.1TB of writes but the drive's health level is still at 100%.. How come...