Recent content by mikejs78

Hi, Got my first mechanical keyboard from Amazon, the Keychron v6 Max, and I think I'll unfortunately have to return it. While I loved it, my wife (who has small hands and tendanitus issues) did not, and we figured out why. There are two issues she's experiencing: Compared to our previous...

Was an ATI HD 7850...

I have an old system that I primarily use as a Plex server/Media PC. Recently, the GPU died, and so I need to figure out a new alternative. I had ordered an AMD RX 5500 xt on a good deal, but when I boot with it, the Bios screen flashes (and I can get into BIOS) but after that, I get a black...

Definitely did a happy dance. Just glad to have it back. Yeah, I've never had a CPU fail before - I got a bad one once but that one didn't even POST. And I'm not doing any kind of overclocking or anything, just running it stock, and have been for over a year - good thermals, my case has great...

So it's a couple of weeks later, but I'm finally back with a working desktop. Figured I'd post my troubleshooting steps since my last update in case anyone runs into this in the future. * Tried cleaning the RAM and DIMM slots - no go. * Tried new RAM, no go. * Tested PSU and everything...

Latest updates: When testing yesterday I realized I never installed a speaker on the MB, so wasn't hearing the POST beep. Installed it and was getting the normal one beep and then immediate reboot at almost the same time. I disconnected SATA, graphics card, and the secondary NVME drive...

Ok. More weirdness. * It's not just Windows RE or my installed windows. I tried booting into Hiren's boot CD PE. That also failed. But my Backup software PE still works.. * It's not all versions of Linux. Earlier I was trying some barebones Linux Live CDs, along with utils like...

It's a USB thumb drive - SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 128GB. Interestingly the drive boots fine on my laptop. But interesting that: * It's the same symptom as booting up from the system drive * Another drive of the same type but with a slimmed down version of the OS (Windows PE for my backup...

I'm at a bit of a loss on my current situation. Have a desktop that is a little less than a year old (self-built). Everything was working fine until yesterday when my system rebooted itself (my son was using it at the time) and got stuck in a bootloop. I get the Asus logo (I have an Asus...

What does everyone use to clean their PC? Compressed air / blower / computer vac? I've heard mixed opinions about all of these. What else do you use?

Windows on all, Aomei backupper for backups.

It's an older WD commercial NAS that doesn't have that built in.... I plan to upgrade to a Synology in a year or so but not in the budget at the moment.

Hi- I have a pretty good backup routine set up for my desktop and laptops - back up to a NAS every two weeks (full) with daily incremental backups. Last 3 months of full backups are retained. What I am looking for is an automated off-site solution to store the most recent full backups...

Probably want to spend ~$700 and change or less. My two concerns with OLED are screen burn-in and brightness, as this desktop is the family desktop and is used for other things besides games... Basically I want to be able to get a really good picture for both games and standard use, and...

Built a new PC recently, have a Ryzen 7700x paired with an AMD 7900xtx. Looking to upgrade my decade-old Asus WUXGA monitor to something 4k. I don't want anything curved or ultra wide, and I'm not really interested in OLED ( I do like the Samsung QLED TV I have) - and I'm not sure what things...