it's an internal drive
i switched both sata cables and ports but to no avail
i'd think it would be a physical problem if made ticking noises, but it doesn't
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this is the source drive
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this is the boot drive which i noticed has an error
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this is the destination drive which has the writing error
all indications point towards the destination drive being at fault
i have tested the drive with seagate's tools with the results saying the drive is working fine, additionally i made a bootable usb with their tools and chose the setting which tries to fix any bad sectors it finds. it run for...
if by source drive you mean the boot drive, then i don't think so. i have multiple drives in my system and the one acting up is a secondary drive. none of the other drives have this issue
i have an 8TB seagate hard drive which, after being tasked to transfer several GBs of files, grinds to a halt and the writing speed drops to 2-3 MBs. i have run a test to check for bad sectors and nothing came up as damaged. the hard drive has no problem reading for long periods of time, but it...
update: after installing the drivers for realtek and tweaking with the menu i've found a "swap center/ subwoofer output" option and the subwoofer is now correctly responding in the speaker configuration test, however when playing music, only the speakers are active
in windows settings if i turn...
i've checked and they're correctly plugged in and to try to resolve this issue i've updated the sound card's drivers and disabled the onboard audio but to no avail
the subwoofer has a subwoofer cable that i connected to a 3.5mm converter which in turn is plugged into the 3.5mm sub/c port on the sound card
thing is, this is the way i had it for months now and it was working properly which indicates it's a software problem rather than a port/hardware mishap
i have a sound blaster audigy fx sound card and 2 speakers and a subwoofer hooked up to it
this setup had been working up until now until i unplugged then re-plugged the speakers
ever since the subwoofer doesn't play during songs and the only way it can make a sound is when i test the center...