Recent content by Mojavehigh

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    How do I change the colour of my RGB wraith spire cooler

    Did you plug in the supplied cable from the cooler to the rgb header on your board? The extra cable was in the bottom of the box.
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    Question Very confused about how many PCIe lanes I have and how to use them

    I am building a system around an AMD Ryzen 7 2700x, which I understand has 20 lanes of PCIe 3. I would like to put that in an X470 motherboard, which I believe has PCIe 2 lanes (although I am not sure how many) and 1 or 2 M.2 slots. If I plug a GPU into one of the PCIe x16 slots, that takes...
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    System suddenly switched to default display driver

    I had this exact same problem happen to me yesterday. Completely out of the blue! I have an older HP Pavilion 9270f with an ATI Radeon HD 4600 card, two monitors. Yesterday, it blinked and when it came back 5 seconds later, I had one monitor (mirrored on the other) at lower resolution. My ATI...
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    Good replacement card for an AMD Radeon HD 4600

    I have an HP Pavilion 9270f that I put Windows 10 on a few years ago. It has an AMD Radeon HD 4600. It had been working okay until today when it just stopped working. Although lately, the fan would sometimes need me to push start it. And I could never run 4K video without it freezing up. Just...
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    Where is a good place to store 2FA recovery codes?

    I use a password manager and two factor authentication, via an authenticator app, for all sites that support it. Where is a good place to store recovery codes for each site? Is the password manager considered a good place? Thanks!
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    Continuous writing and deleting of large files to external hard drive?

    I have a NetGear router with ReadyNAS and have attached a WD External HDD as an NAS drive. I am using the HDD primarily as storage for 5 IP cams around my property. Each camera writes a roughly 160MB video file every 10 minutes and deletes the oldest file in its folder. I do very little reading...
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    Viewing 2.7k or 4k video on a system that doesn't support it

    I recently bought a GoPro camera and have recorded 2.7k and 4.k videos (required for timelapses). Neither my desktop nor my laptop support videos with that high a resolution. I do plan to upgrade (or buy new) my PC to 4k. Trying to view a 2.7k or 4k video on my PC crashes it completely. I view...