Recent content by Pollin

Only one TDR error, it hasn't reoccurred since I updated the driver. And there's no doubt about me having a VRAM leak, I was literally watching it happen and tracking the VRAM usage by process, which immediately went back to normal once the offending process was restarted, and has stayed...

Yes to G hub, no to the blue yeti. It's not quite the same anyhow given that my VRAM issue was rectified by killing explorer.exe, which theirs wasn't. Also Windows 10, not 11.

Thank you for the advice. I did update my driver, but I didn't do a clean install as I've learned from experience not to trust that the latest nvidia drivers will work correctly and I wanted to be able to roll back if needed. That said, everything has been perfectly stable today (so far, at...

Just as a note for anyone who might stumble across this with the same issue: After talking with a level 2 WD technician, I was informed that the operating temp of the WD Elements Portable drive is -20 to 65 degrees celsius, and the non-operating/idle temp is 5 to 35 degrees celsius, which is the...

So, while watching some video files, my screens went black and then came back on. According to Windows event viewer, the driver was restarted due to a TDR error (No BSOD, it recovered successfully). Naturally, I started monitoring my GPU more closely for the next few hours to see if it would...

Thanks for the answer! I'm not using it as a primary drive or anything. Backups and archival storage mostly, with occasional video files and such. I just had to transfer a large amount of data in a fairly short time. I wouldn't have had to move nearly as quickly but the drive that was holding...

I recently received a WD recertified WD Elements Portable drive (WD Elements 2620 2tb to be specific) as a replacement for another Elements I had to RMA. I noticed while transferring files onto this drive that it was hitting a peak of 54 celsius. Running an extended SMART test made it hit a...

So, I recently installed some new fairly silent case fans in my PC. After doing so, I started hearing what I thought was just the CPU fan being loud, or maybe a case fan that wasn't quite so silent after all. Instead, I discovered that the noise is coming from at least one, possible several, of...

Interesting, thank you. I'm not enamored with having to buy yet more splitters since the ones I do have are four pin, but I'll keep that hub in mind. Though estimated time of delivery is over a month for me so I'm going to keep looking until I'm sure there's no other (and faster) options.

Hello, everyone! I have an old(ish) MSI 970a-g43 motherboard which I bought long before I had any real understanding of good PC builds. I recently discovered, while trying to replace some case fans and add some extra ones, that of the two SYS_FAN headers on the board, one is 3-pin but with only...

So I have a rather intriguing problem. My laptop, an HP running Windows 8.1, (not entirely sure what specific model, though in this case I doubt it matters) has a fan that acts rather... strange. If I put the laptop in hibernation mode and then wake it up, the fan makes a god-awful noise, like...