Recent content by le721

I'm thinking on pulling the trigger and buying HD Sentinel Pro just to use the reinitialize disk surface option, got a 40% discount coupon. Is it much different from erasing all sectors with DiskGenius? I read that CHKDSK doesn't really fix the bad sector...

I was writing data to my HDD (installed in an external case) and accidentaly hit it and it dropped almost to the floor, it wasn't a big impact, but it disconnected and when I turned it back on, Windows said it had to search for errors, it found some and erase them. View...

I am looking for a new HDMI cable and I notice some 'premium' versions with different shell material Check this one for example: www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005842428816.html There are 3 versions: PVC Shell Model Zinc Alloy Model Aluminum Blue Is there any benefit in getting a cable with...

I have tried a few things I disabled the USB always on feature, disabled any fast start both in Windows and BIOS, reset the BIOS by unplugging the CMOS battery, forced shutdown by pressing the power button for a few seconds, nothing worked. Last try was leaving the Laptop off but without any...

just repaired the usb ports, it involved some soldering I think, but I only noticed this issue some months later, when I bought a new PC and stopped using the Laptop for a few days. Before that it would still drain when off, but not as severe, last year for example I traveled to my sister's...

I have an old Acer Predator Helios 300 (model G3-572) with a GTX 1060 + i7-7700HQ Last year I accidentaly plugged in a USB HUB with a 12v adapter and it caused the two usb ports on one side to stop working (see my post), I send it to repair and they managed to fix it, but after that the battery...

Yes, it is black, thanks for the tip!

When unscrewing the fans to clean, I ended up slight damaging part of my CPU water cooler. I know I should have been more careful and It's only aesthetic, but it's bothering me a bit when I look at it, specially since it's a special model with the Acer Predator logo Any tips on what I could do...

I tried resetting the BIOS, the CMOS Battery, nothing worked. I forgot to mention that the USB 3.0 and USB-C ports work fine, and when I connected the USB Hub, I was trying to use it with an Power supply, but used the wrong one which is 12V 0.5a I'm going to take it to a repair shop and ask...

Hello, I plugged a mains-powered USB Hub in to my laptop and the laptop immediately shutdown. After starting the laptop again, the two usb 2.0 ports on the right side stopped working, they don't provide power and nothing I connect to them works. Did I kill the usb ports on my Laptop?? If so...

Can this cause me issues in the future ? I was trying to remove the connector that power on the fans, and accidentally made this scratch using an anti-static tweezer , like this one: I have been using my laptop for 3 hours after the scratch and repaste and so far nothing bad happened (no...

I know I can't just keep the applied thermal paste after lifiting it, but I did replace the thermal paste just not the thermal pads, I will let that for later, right know everything seems fine, I have the laptop for almost 2 years and never seem such good temps before Nice, I am really glad...

You were right, look how much dust I found: So I cleaned it up, repasted with the paste I have here (Rise Silver Frost 5g 7,5 W/mk) and temps are great now, idle lowered about 10ºC both CPU and GPU, and while gaming both GPU and CPU are rarely reaching 70ºC with fans at max. Results are much...

Hi, I have an Acer Predator Helios 300 G3-572-75L9 with 24GB of Ram, i7-7700HQ and GTX 1060 A few days ago I failed to disassemble the heatsink due to some stripped screws so I decided to pay a technician to replace the screws, clean the laptop and apply the thermal paste. I came back home and...

Yes, sometimes, but I never had this problem before, anyway I just uninstalled the latest drivers and reinstalled an old one (465.89), everything seems normal now. Total host writes stopped increasing every minute like before