Recent content by yosemitewg

Thank you Ralston18 and Karadjgne! I guess the question now is if the static discharge would have: traveled through the enclosure's 12V/2A AC 2-pronged power adaptor that was plugged into the power strip surge protector that was then plugged into a 3-pronged grounded wall socket; OR traveled...

Thank you! I have updated post with additional information per your guidance.

Had HDD in external enclosure that was plugged into grounded wall socket and drive was running (formatting) and accidently touched the metal top plate of the HDD and felt a static electricity discharge. Did not touch the underside with exposed circuit board. Updating post with additional...

Thanks SteveRX4! I thought my GPU was getting a little long in the tooth. Will have to wait to upgrade before moving up on the monitor.

Hi, Looking to buy a new monitor (currently using ASUS VH238). What would you recommend as upper threshold for specs on gaming monitor with following components: GPU: Sapphire Nitro R9 390 CPU: i5-6600 @ 3.30GHz RAM: 16 GB OS: Windows 10 I don't want to buy a 27" 1440p 144Hz monitor with a...

Thanks SamirD! If you happen to remember the name of the program you used, would appreciate it!

Have a Pro Master SDXC 64GB V60 UHS-II speed class 3 card for my Sony camera. Last night was viewing images from card while in my camera via my TV using USB connection from camera to TV (worked well). This morning put SD card in my computer memory card slot directly (have done this before...

Thanks Scottray. I've used this as a learning experience for the other users of this home computer that failed to backup their files ;)

My current desktop failed to boot, so I pulled out internal HDD and put in an external enclosure and plugged into my other desktop via USB. When I turn on external enclosure the HDD is recognized in Device Manager and displays, but nothing is displayed in file explorer. Then after about 30...