Recent content by Sam Poland

I followed your instructions to clear the CMOS. No change. I went into the BIOS, loaded the defaults and hit save and exit. After a few minutes I got the "...POSTed in safe mode" again.

Win11 was installed 2 years ago when I bought all the parts listed below and built the system. CMOS battery was removed for about 2 minutes, not 30. Other specs not listed in my original post: Cooler: LST Deepcool 360 AIO RAM: GSkill Trident Z5 DDR5 6000 4x16GB SSD: Samsung 980 Pro 2TB PSU...

I was having problems installing NVidia drivers, even older ones, so I decided to update the BIOS. I have a Asus Tuff Gaming Z790 Plus wifi with a i9-13900K installed. I upgraded the bios from 1663 to 1805. Everything seemed to go fine. After a couple minutes of not booting it says the "system...

I use my #QNAP TS-032X and #RunWithIronWolf so I can backup my family photos and videos.

Does it still happen if you boot into Safe Mode?

You're welcome.

This I assume is what you are looking at? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883165609&ignorebbr=1 I can confirm that the 290W PS that Dell uses will run a modern graphics card. I've installed a GTX 1050 and it runs fine. Mine's an OptiPlex but I'm sure they use the same PS.

Dynamic discs is a Windows technology originally, I have no idea if linux supports it? Acronis makes .tib files when it makes a backup image of a volume. Once that's made you can boot into windows and if you have the Acronis app installed you can just browse the .tib image file. Once you...

Okay, so you can't backup a disk to itself even if there's free space. So if you don't have a 3rd drive then you will have to back up one disk to the other part of what was its mirror which is RISKY. I would try to avoid this scenario if at all possible. You wouldn't want to clone it, just...

Too early....brain no worky yet. brb...

I would get Acronis and boot from that to backup one of the physical members of the array. Reboot into Windows, browse into the image of the backup and just manually restore the files to a separate location. That's what I would try first. Then never use dynamic discs again...

Your PRI DNS should be the same as your DHCP server since it also is hosting DNS.

Is DHCP turned on in the router? You can keep it that way you just need to point the Pri DNS setting to your server. And of course you should configure DNS in the server. The key is making sure your workstations first DNS server is your Windows server.

Have you considered a refurbished? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4E96JZ9964