Recent content by overclocler14

So I'm back with progress. I successfully removed the one stubborn Offline uncorrectable sector (198) by plugging the drive into an external SATA power source and leaving it overnight. The drive was not connected to any other device, so it was idle for hours and i think successfully completed...

My goal is to try to do as much as possible without spending money. I OBVIOUSLY know that I can buy a new drive, but I think I did not stress this enough, but this drive is going to have only games on it, no critical data, so no matter if it fails. Game saves will be stored elsewhere so drive...

Hi everyone, over the last few weeks I've been pulling my hair out and decided I must be missing something. Prepare for a long read since this situation is insanely difficult to explain. Basically I got a 1 TB WD Blue 2,5 inch HDD from my friend to take a look at. The exact model is WDC...

I thought it should have lower clocks when doing nothing, similarly to a GPU (which depending on chip drops as low as 140-ish MHz). Instead it jumps around 3,8-4,8 GHz. I reset all power plans to deafult a couple of times, enabled the balanced one and it seems to work, now the clock fluctuates...

I recently upgraded my old, bottlenecked PC to another bottlenecked PC but it is much better, and I'm saving for some decent GPU. I got an i5-10600k a Z490-A PRO motherboard and an AiO cooler from MSI (MAG CoreLiquid 240R) for future overclocking. The problem is although the CPU is not doing...

Turns out I was lucky, testdisk found all files and now I'm copying them to another drive. Lesson learnt. From now on I'll hava a backup of a backup disk

I cannot even imagine I'd ever make a mistake this dumb. I wanted to reinstall Windows but i forgot to unplug my two HDD drives beforehand. I accidentaly deleted partition on one of them. After realising my mad move i connected the drive to a different computer and it shows as "incorrect" or...

So it turns out that this TVicPort64.SYS was necessary for TPFancontrol software that I use because it gave me an IO port error after I deleted the driver. So I reinstalled it. Also found advice to put physical drive on top of the boot list. I tried updating Intel Rapid but with no luck - says...

So basically what can I remove? Definitely this XP driver because i don't know what is it for. Also will update Intel Rapid. I'll post if it worked or not

I took a peek (previously ran driver booster (I know all those programs aren't the best option but it once helped me) and it found and updated some drivers with date from 2006 to much more recent). Sadly the problem persists. Now the only questionable (earlier than 2015) drivers are...

I installed the same kind of PSU in a case that had mounting points ot the top and it worked fine. Just make sure the fan is pointing down inside the case and not up against the top of the case so it has space to suck the air

I've upgraded all drivers from Lenovo Vantage app and the newest BIOS is from 2019. All drivers are (as far as I know) designed for Windows 10. Still I can see a quite significant difference between fast start and without it (couple seconds from pressing power button to desktop vs around 20-25...

Hello, for some time I've been experiencing an annoying problem with Windows 10 on my ThinkPad T430. It somehow refuses to boot with the "Fast startup" option enabled under the power settings. When I want to power the computer it shows Lenovo logo (normal), then tries to load Windows but instead...

So, quite long time, an update. I didn't manage to install it on the Toshiba BUT.. I got a hold of another old laptop - high end from 2006 it even has a TV tuner inside! Specs almost the same but little bit different. CPU is once again Celeron M @ 1,6 GHz but 420 instead of 380 and the major...

So, many days later, I'm giving up for now. No matter what I do, it just doesn't work. 1709 is the last version that turns on. But even in 1709 many drivers start to fail for no reason (even the system devices like PCI bridge, some devices appear twice and the device manager generally looks...