Recent content by thx1138v2

Something to ponder... It's been said recently that the first person to live forever has already been born.

"This is what I have my brother and I share #4" Keep in mind that breakers only protect the wiring. So if you are both pulling current from the same breaker that is most likely he problem. Get an electrician to install another breaker so each breaker pulls its current from a separate leg of of...

Probably an ownership issue. Learn how to take ownership of files from Windows help system.

I just finished loading Linux Mint Cinnamon on my old W10 machine. It's not hard. The hardest part was creating an install DVD. After that it was pretty easy. Now that I have it, I can install it on as many machines as I want to.

The SSD is not 3 drives. It is 1 drive with 3 partitions. I think this is from ancient times when all hard drives only had 1 partition and there was no ability to partition floppies so the letter was called a "drive letter" rather than a partition letter which is what it actually is. C:, D:, and...

DIY calculator: https://www.newegg.com/tools/power-supply-calculator

I was building a new machine one time and I had connected my HDD when the power went off and before the HDD finished spinning down, the power came on again and went down for a couple of hours after that. It trashed my brand new HDD. Since then I have changed my BIOS settings to NOT reboot after...

There are quite a few available depending on where you live...

", but I just wanted to see what I could do with such a build..." And now you know.

I suspect you have a lot of unneeded services running. Go through the lists in Task Manager\Services and Task Manager\Processes and see how many you see hat are not needed. They are typically installed "bloatware". Disable/ suspend all the unneeded ones and see if that helps.

The one thing to keep in mind is that hot air rises. So where does that hot air go when it exits the case?

1957 Ford Fairlane 2007 GMC Sierra

Temperature readings are meaningless unless you include the ambient temperatures also.

Think about what is on that HDD out of the Dell: motherboard drivers, disk drivers, DRAM drivers, etc. And in your HP you will have a different motherboard and probably disks (other than this one), and different DRAM. Yes, a fresh install is called for and that's why.

I'm not sure but I suspect this has something to do with your weird DRAM configuration and the fact that you did not let the system complete its initialization. xeon modded x5470?