Recent content by PapaHomey

This actually has to do with failing to qualify for win 11, because of secure boot. I have a motherboard that has TPM 2.0 and secure boot. I activated them in EUFI and that damn app still says that I don't have secure boot enabled. The only thing I can think of is that a while ago I followed a...

Just clean it off real well using isopropyl alcohol.

Oh, sorry i misunderstood. Yes there were a number of windows open but the system was idle.

No it wasn't idle. The fan was running at ~ 1450 RPM.

I've been using Open Hardware Monitor to control my CPU fan. This was the only app I could find that controlled my fan. I have an Asus Strix B450 F motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 overclocked to 4150 MHz, and the stock AMD CPU cooler. I tried to control the fan from the motherboard but it didn't...

I'm very interested in buying a Phanteks Enthoo Pro case, but I want to be sure that it will house a Corsair H110i GT water cooler. Phanteks website says the case will house radiators this large, but I've heard that you can't always be sure based on measurements alone. Has anyone attempted...

The laptop only has one drive, the ssd I installed. I have an external hhd for backups and images of the ssd. If I delete the recovery partition and reclaim it's space, I won't be able to boot into windows recovery, because it will have been deleted. Somehow I have to move the MBR and edit it...

I will look for and download Partition Wizard, that may fix the problem with extending into the partition at the beginning of the disk. However, I already tried making the OS Partition active and that still gave me trouble by saying there was a missing boot file, or there was no OS found.

I have a Dell XPS 15 Laptop, into which I have placed a Samsung EVO 840 1TB SSD. I used the recovery partition at that time to bring the SSD on line, but now I use Acronis True Image 2015 to make images of my laptop drive onto a USB3 3TB HHD. I've tried just deleting the drive and expanding my...