Recent content by McVitas

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    Build Advice need help building small PC/server on miniITX mainboard

    well, it seems my topic is just too advanced for Tom's Hardware, so nobody dares to comment, not to say something stupid?...
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    Build Advice need help building small PC/server on miniITX mainboard

    so it looks like Intel Core i3-10100 would be a good choice... but is there a miniITX mainboard for it?? EDIT: there is but it's 3x more expensive then mATX! So I might just buy a new case for mATX...
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    Build Advice need help building small PC/server on miniITX mainboard

    Hello, so I have this little case LC-POWER LC-1370BII Mini-ITX with an old Core 2 quad Q8200 socket LGA 775 which I use as a home server mostly for file sharing, backup and music streaming. I am thinking about upgrading it, so it would handle running a Minecraft server also, which I currently...
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    [SOLVED] similar mouse to wireless optical mouse 5000?

    Hello, so I have been using this mouse for more then ten years and suddenly it seems like right click stopped working so I will have to make a difficult step and buy something new it seems :) Problem is I don't really like any of the current mouse hardware. Do you have ideas which mouse can be...
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    private messages from tomshardware - anybody there?

    Oh such a horrible deed I commited :-\ I just wonder if deleting that reply and warning me woudn't be enough. Why the whole thread had to be deleted? Fortunately I have posted it to reddit as well so it's not lost. You are pretty strict here. I wonder what you think about somebody posting...
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    private messages from tomshardware - anybody there?

    Hello, I have a problem. My thread was deleted. I put a big effor into getting all that info. I replied to the private message asking kindly to have this explained. Is there a chance that somebody replies to me or is this just a robot and the responsible moderator is hiding behind it not ever...
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    2 TB external Hard drive not opening on my PC

    What app did you download? Did you format it on your Mac?
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    When beep codes no longer make sense

    I would try different power supply.
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    GTX 770 giving me beep code

    It can be a power supply problem. Are you sure the PCIe power cables are plugged in the GPU? If yes and still there is problem you might want to try another power supply.
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    HDD is giving me problems in games

    It can also be bad or weak sectors. Open event viewer and search for events containing NTFS or disk. You might try using SpinRite, which often revives crashed or slow drives, but that might not be worth buying it if you have some really old drive...
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    Making program look for usb instead of com

    Communication protocol to interface with USB is totally different then the one for COM so I am sorry you will not fool your app to just use USB instead of COM. There is no chance it would work unless you get some patch for the app.
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    Pen Drive showing 0B of data and also shown as unreadable in disk management.

    It's simple. The flash drive is low quality. It happened to me several times with various pendrives from ma y manufacturers. Believe me this is nothing unusual. How much did it cost? When did you buy it? If it's still in warranty then just return it. There is really no point trying to fix it...
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    How do I remove files from a hard drive that stopped working?

    I was about to suggest CCleaner which would find invalid shortcuts. Maybe somebody else with similar problems would use that ;)
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    C Drive storage help

    80GB for Windows 10 is really tight. You should really move the D: data away and do the partition change as suggested. If you can't from whatever reason you can try moving some dirs from C to D and use junction utility to make an NTFS link so the apps using that folder would still work