Recent content by Megunticook

Thanks for all the tips. I'll check out your recommendations. I wish Lenovo would address their hinge issue, like the company and have had 2 of their laptops but seems like they have a serious issue with that hinge problem.

Thanks for the tips. I do want the 17-inch display, so that definitely narrows the field quite a bit. Am hesitant about Lenovo because of the hinge breakdown I'm experiencing with apparently is very common. I'll check out the HP line though. Always tricky to balance hardware capacity vs...

Looking to replace a budget Lenovo IdeaPad 330 I got for $400 back in 2018. Great price for a 17-inch laptop but unsurprisingly the CPU is underpowered (AMD RADEON R2 1.8 GHz) and the hinges are starting to break. Basically just want a 17-inch display in a quality device that will last, don't...

No...should I?

External HDDs use USB. I'll try reintroducing them one at a time and see what happens.

Sorry for the delay, here's those crystaldiskinfo screenshots you asked for.

OK, will try and get to that later today. A few more clues. I shut down last night and when I returned to the office this morning the screen was still showing the "shutting down" indicator. So it was hanging all night. Never seen that behavior. Ctl+Alt+Del did nothing. I warm rebooted with the...

Well, devious as it is, there's also a positive aspect--some of these kids are going to have very successful careers and make a lot of money in tech. I tell my son if he decides to become a cyber security expert he'll never have to worry about having a well-paying job.

C:\Users\Ed>net use New connections will be remembered. There are no entries in the list.

No errors on the extended SMART self test.

I ran a short scan and a SMART self-test on the SSD using Samsung Magician. No errors. Am running an extended SMART test now, will be done in a couple hours. I'm all for process of elimination and appreciate your advice here, but seems unlikely to be a disk problem given the fact that this...

OK--you suspect bad sectors on the SSD? I already have Samsung Magician installed--will that give you the same info. as crystaldiskinfo?

OK, so maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but File Explorer is really starting to impact my productivity. It's extremely slow, it hangs, and it seems to even be affecting other applications when I try to browse my directories (caused Google Chrome to hang several times today when I tried to...

I guess that's what I meant by "digital power timer"--you program it and it automatically switches the power on/off with an internal clock. He actually doesn't have his own computer at the moment, to make a long story short I offered to buy a nice PC for him in exchange for some work and he...