Recent content by Kevin Spring

My mistake I forgot to mention that I think the battery is shot, when I turn it on its on ac, without the charger you don't get the CPU fan or power led

I have a Vizio CN15 laptop When you push the power button: Power LED turns on, CPU fan spins for about 5 seconds then stops, about 15 seconds later the CPU fan will kick back on and stay on No display on screen, no display on secondary monitor over HDMI What I have already tried (and willing...

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97E-ITXac/ according to asrock you can do the flash in bios, dos, or windows, but all of those involve being able to POST, so I'm not sure if it'll work

I'm looking at a new custom build with the Asrock Z97E-ITX/ac mobo and the Intel i7-4790K, and that processor is not supported without a bios update. In the past I've used Asus BIOS flashback with a physical button that lets you flash the BIOS without posting or turning the PC on, will I be able...

I work at a retailer and lately we have had a LOT of customers bringing back laptops that are stuck in a loop of installing windows updates and then failing and reverting changes for hours if not days. In most cases the only way to break the loop is to pull the battery and the cmos battery, and...

nope, this looks like a perfect build, with the bonus of being able to add a sata express ssd later on, thanks

no issues with Asrock boards? Functionally it has 2 less power phases, 2 less usb 2.0 and no eSata but adds a Sata Express port, so barring any qc issues it should be pretty good and $100 less which allows for another 500gb ssd. I'm going to buy the XFX card from a friend who used it to mine for...

new and improved idea PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8HKrYJ Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8HKrYJ/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($339.99 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($99.99 @...

I should probably just get a couple 2tb reds and throw them in a raid 1, I doubt I'll actually need 4TB

for the price of 2 fans, silence would be nice. Also, is there any real benefit to using Red's instead of Green's if they aren't going to be in RAID?

so maybe two 2tb wd greens? I really don't care about speed, they're just for backing up my family's data as well as some media like songs and movies so I figured greens will be quieter and cheaper. And possibly Noctua fans on the H100i?

Just sold my PC and I'm ready to build a new one in the next couple weeks or so. It's going to be my primary computer mainly used for gaming, backing up other computers to (4), some moderate photo and video editing, and other general use like web browsing and Netflix bingeing. I have Amazon...

Per Asus's documentation and online chat support, they state that you can only run crossfire/sli in the 1st and 3rd pcie slots, which are physical and electrical pcie 3.0 16x slots. I'm wondering if I could run crossfire in the 1st and 4th slots (the 4th is a physical 16x but an electrical 8x)...

For my new build, I was planning on using 2 Samsung 840 Pro 256GB in raid 0, which is about $400, but I wonder, would it be faster to use 4 PNY XLR8 240GB SSD's in RAID 0, which would be about the same price? I have enough SATA 6Gb/s ports, and it wouldn't change the budget so it seems like a...