Recent content by troemich

No. I didn't see no reason to try that. I unscrewed the PCB. At the spot where it gets hot, there's a chip that has visible burn marks. I'll try ordering a PCB. The BIOS Chip is located very close to the plastic of the Sata connector. Any idea how I should avoid the melting of plastic? Kapton Tape?

The HDD disappears after a couple of mintues and the PCB gets very hot. I don't think cloning it will work.

A friend of mine got an external HDD. I took it out of it's casing and plugged it in directly via Sata. The data shows up, copying data is not possible because it freezes up. After a couple of minutes, the HDD stops spinning and disappears from the OS. I noticed that there's one spot at the PCB...

Anyone know how I can remove that CMOS Battery? Normally there's a little clip, but not on this motherboard.

Ok. I fixed it. Seems like ASUS screwed up here. No Recovery Partition on the HDD or SSD and a faulty BIOS Version. The BIOS was in "RAID" Mode and there was no option to switch to "AHCI". You could only select "RAID" under the SATA Section of the BIOS. Downloaded the latest BIOS Version from...

I have an Asus ROG Gaming Laptop Model: ASUS G752VT-GC031T It has an SSD and a 1TB HDD. It`s a newer model with Windows 10 already on it. I tried a factory reset with the built-in Windows 10 function, but it didn`t work. I checked in Disk Management and there is no hidden OEM Recovery Partition...

This error could be because of defective RAM. Try putting in a new one. Sometimes I had errors like this, when the computer went into standby while installing 200+ updates after reinstalling Windows 7. I always disable standby in energy options when installing a lot of updates after installing...

I have a Toshiba Satellite U940-100 Laptop. It doesn't have an optical drive. It has one USB2 port on the left side and two USB3 ports on the right side. Unfortunately the one USB2 port is not working. I need to reinstall Windows 8.1 because of a HDD failure. I can't get the recovery partition...