Recent content by Tony Case

KB&M software is the only one set to launch on startup. Will try safe mode later on but not sure if that'll help. Ed. Tried safe mode, not sure if this is once again Windows 10 overriding settings or if that's completely normal in safe mode but display doesn't even turns off and instead fades to...

Thanks! That setting is responsible for lock screen time out. Personally I'm okay with just 1m. But any idea why my display wakes up periodically?

So the thing is, when I lock my account and I'm away from PC, my monitor goes off after ~1 minute and then periodically turns on and off (after 1 minute of being on), as if I move my mouse periodically. I remember that Win10 ignored display timeout settings where it didn't matter what settings...

So out of interest I thought to myself 'nowadays many PC cases only have 2x 3.5 bays, so how can I use my 4x HDDs if I were to buy one of these cases?' What options are there? The most obvious first option is buying a DAS and the second one is to enclosure each HDD in a separate external box...

Hello! Recently one of my HDDs (ST2000DM001) died, today I remembered I have an external HDD which I barely used at all. So I disassembled it and put HDD (which turned out to be ST2000DM001 as well) from it to my PC. Deleting partition, switching from MBR to GPT, formatting, etc. The next thing...

That's what I have with every plan. I tried 5, 10 or 15 for minimum but none of these helped. All plans are min5 max100 (max99 is capping clock at 3200 for some reason). All these are idle. Balanced, Boost is disabled (I'm forced to use this plan for now). Temps are 35c. View...

I have to reopen this thread. So far I've discovered that in power saving plan CPU don't like to rise clock from 2200 most of the time, even in CPU-depended scenarios, which leads to stutters in games and stuff. Right now I have to constantly switch from power saving to balanced when playing and...

Thanks for the responses. I forgot to add I've been using Balanced power plan. I've also tried Ryzen balanced but both these plans worked pretty similar - Ryzen master shows that one random core almost always sits on 4.2Ghz and voltage jumps between 0.9 and 1.48 all the time. Average clock of...

Hello there. So recently I've upgraded to 2600x and it is pretty painful to make it work the way I want it to. With everything set to default, I can see that one of the six core almost always is trying to sit at ~4GHz even when there is nothing else but desktop/browser. This results in almost...

Sorry for the prolonged response - New year and stuff, you know - and for the confusion. It seems that I did a mistake when tried to benchmarks HDD shortly (~5-15 minutes) after copying something from or to it. Other HDDs show the same patterns with dips and stuff. When done normally (some time...

Yup, all of them. Also, previous HDD (the one that malfunctioned, hence the purchase of this new HDD) was connected to the same port, and there wasn't any problem viewing its SMART. Hmm, I have CrystalDiskInfo installed and from here I can see SMART. https://i.imgur.com/kaofKhR.png

Nothing is installed on it. I was going to replace my 7200 with this 5400 one as a file storage, no programs or anything. No, benchmark was running on its own, without any background processes. As for the Health section... strange, but it's completely empty. https://i.imgur.com/9DMO0aj.png...

Ummm what the heck. New one (5400): https://i.imgur.com/uXNb9Ay.png The one I'm using right now (7200): https://i.imgur.com/m22utej.png

So I've bought a new HDD a week ago, 2Tb Seagate Barracuda 5400RPM/256Mb cache. Tested it with Victoria and other stuff right after the arrival, got nothing suspicious. Now I'm finally using it and... well, the speed is kinda strange. I'm trying to move files from my 2Tb Seagate Barracuda...

Okay, this thing happened again. MSI logs from the first one (around when I've created this topic): https://i.imgur.com/1Fcy9j7.png MSI logs from yesterday: https://i.imgur.com/2F9Qva8.png Any idea?