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Hello, my problem looks rather serious. I'm somewhat keen on the software side of things, but not really knowledgeable about hardware. I would really appreciate the help, since there's lot of useful data on this drive. The drive in question is Samsung M2 Portable, 750 GB, external obviously. An...

Hi guys, sometimes when I start up my pc, D disk(internal hard drive) is not showing up in time. (it needs 2-3 minutes maybe to show up) I changed sata cable but it does not work... Is my HDD damaged?

Hi I've bought this: https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/laptops/new-inspiron-14-5000-2-in-1/spd/inspiron-14-5491-2-in-1-laptop/bn51906?fbclid=IwAR2bL_L9nvYvt7J-mEbG8zjLzJ_OacImkdOp8IpOlGQuQssy81Na2Eag-hA Note no thunderbolt 3 or firewire. I am wondering, is there zero chance of getting...

Hello everyone, I was wondering if there is an app for Windows which checks to see if every port and jack on the computer's I/O works correctly. Something that is like a diagnostics app, but for the computer's external hardware instead of its internal components.

Hello. We are using a Matrox Orion graphic card as an additional graphic card to our PC (used to receive 2 video inputs from another system). Currently we're using a big desktop simply because the smaller ones only have one PCIe x16 slot (and it's taken by the OEM graphic card). My problem is...

Hey Everyone! This is my first post on the forum and I really need your help! I was arranging and moving files from, to and within my WD external hard drive and at some point I attempted adjusting its partitions. The operation was interrupted halfway through and I think this messed up the...

Dear Community, I would be very grateful to get someone's approval of my solution or if someone suggested me a better one before I commit to buying unnecessary components. I have two old HP U160 15.6-inch LED Backlit Monitors which I would like to use in our laboratory as wall mounted monitors...

Hi there! I'm having an issue with my external HDD. As the title says it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting when the hdd is in use. I use it mostly for watching movies and tv shows, but I also have some games installed on it. Doesn't matter what activity I use it for the issue will happen...

Hi, I have a touchsmart 520 desktop WINDOWS 7 HOME and ASUS notebook laptop WINDOWS 10, I do not have windows installation discs for either of them; what I would like to do is create a complete c drive copy of both computers and reinstall from a single external hard drive; is this...

TLDR; I thought I broke my hard drive but now it works again! Hello! I was transferring some data from an external hard drive to my (C:) drive. When I was moving data from the drive, the power in my house went out. When I tried to restart my computer again after the power went out it did not...

Hello! I have an external HDD with 500GB capacity, but when I plug it into the computer, it only shows 15MB of it, and it's filled with EFI-System files on it. How can I revert this, so I can have my space back? It was an empty drive as far as I remember. Oh and please simplify it, I'm not an...

Hello, Windows 10 allows me to selet multiple internal and external drives for backup. After it backs up it's shown that it's backed up on the backup drive but file history only shows my C drive no other internal drives are visible in the file history. Is this the way it's intended for Windows...

I'm thinking to invest in few GPU cards for rendering 3D and instead of adding them to my main workstation I thought to create an external computer with rendering as the main purpose. Mainly to be able to work and render at the same time. I would be happy to not have extra screens and operating...

I just bought an external 4 TB Western Digital Elements USB 3.0 Harddisk, with the purpose of using it for Back-up PC and Smartphone Data. So when i plugged it in with my Samsung Galaxy S7 a message popped up that I have to format it to use it with Android. I own a 2TB WD Elements HDD i...

I have an external USB 3.0 HDD. My old laptop (Toshiba A215-s4747) has only USB 2.0 ports and I'm trying to figure out if I have any options for getting around that bottleneck. My laptop has Firewire, but the specs don't say which version, so I'm not sure if getting a firewire-to-USB3.0 adapter...

Hello everyone, This is my first thread and first build on budget gaming.I've recently purchased the following components; CASE: ZALMAN z3 PLUS mid atx tower case. ( 5 fan cooling, changed all the stock fans with; 5x cooler master jet flow 120) PSU: ZALMAN 500W LE MOBO: MSI 970A-43G CPU: AMD...

Hi, my computers been rebooting and I finally figured out what it was-my cpu. I was taking a fan out my pc started having problems when I put it back in and tried to start it back up. First my PC would turn on but I got nothing on the screen so I reset CMOS. Then the reboots started to happen, I...

Hi, first this is my Rig: Gigabyte AB350M-Gaming 3 Rev 1.0, latest Bios Ryzen 7 1800X 16GB G.Skill Trident Z silber/rot DDR4-3200 DIMM CL16 Dual Kit PSU Therma Take Smart SE 730W Windows 10 with latest Drivers for all except the GPU*** Since i have Upgraded from an GTX 1070 to GTX 1080ti i...

Looking for a gaming laptop that would be able to atleast run GTA V, while not sacrificing battery life. My budget is $1100-$1400 AUD. P.S. Preferably one that looks normal (without all the ugly aesthetics that scream gamer.)

Hey guys, I'm just wondering if there is a way to be able to take my 2tb hard drive and move motherboards (and systems) along with a not-OEM copy of windows. What I'm wondering is; Will it be hard? Will I have to find my product key? Thanks! ~Luca

So this motherboard, I'd like to buy has 6x fan header, 1x CPU fan header, 4x system fan header and 1x water pump header. I'm not planning to use a water pump so I'm wondering if I can use that header for another case fan. The motherboard...

I recently bought and put all the parts together for a new PC. After getting everything hooked up and turned on I got a Key for installing windows 10. After getting a USB with a tool and going through the first few steps to hook it up, it reads the drive but it says it has 0mb on it. It is a...

I plan on overclocking and i need a good thermal paste that is better than the thermal paste that comes pre-applied to the CPU. I don't care about budget. I just need a thermal paste that can stand up a little better to the stock thermal paste pre applied to the CPU I want to use. The CPU I want...

I have a question about the temperature I'm getting on this build https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XrTZr7 I build this pc last week and i try it for games like csgo , dota2 and overwatch with high settings , now my question is im getting about 70 to 80c sometimes it went up more to 80 to 90 is this...

All in the question. Here are my specs if you need i5 6500. GTX 1060 6GB, 8GB. Don't ask me for budget since I need to know the cheapest on earth. IDC about branding and looks tho. :)

So I've had my build for about a year and four months, and I've been quite a shit owner I'd say. I hadn't dusted it until a couple months back, and overtime the performance became worse and worse. It came to a point I want to say a month ago, where the computer would randomly and very abruptly...

Hello everyone, About 7 months ago I bought the i5-4460 but only began using it about 1 month ago when I built my computer but I wanted to ask the community something ever since I bought it, is the 4460 any good anymore? Will it be able to run the latest Triple-A games at relatively good...

Does this allow my laptop to charge through the USB-C without plugging into the power supply...

Here is my specs : Intel Core i7 6700 3.4 GHz Processor ASUS H170 Pro Motherboard Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4 RAM ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card CoolerMaster 700W PSU WD 1TB HDD Kingston 240GB SSD CoolerMaster Force 500 Cabinet Microsoft 1000 Series Wireless Mouse(not new)...

This is my first Asrock mobo, and this is a really basic question :-) I read that boot device should be on sata3_0 port. I see the labeling for sata3_0_3 on mobo. My question is which port is sata3_0? the top port or port closest to mobo? Apologies, Ron Hilton

I'm currently going into my 2nd year of college and am wondering what laptop I should get for the next 3 years of school. I already have a desktop build at home (i7-4790k, 980ti, 16gb of ram, etc.) in which I can do a lot work on. My concern is that I'm going to spend $800+ on a laptop that I...

Hoping for confirmation that the components I'm looking at shouldn't have any compatibility issues. It's my second PC build but I did my first 6 years ago with help from a friend who now lives in another country. From everything I can see it should be fine but I'm on a tight budget and can't...

So to start from the beginning my friend dropped my computer and after that the screen stopped working correctly so I( foolishly without much experience) opened it up and tried to fix the problem however I had to remove three strips that where connected to ribbons one of them which was the power...

The tablet ran out of power during a factory reset and bricked (windows doesn't boot up). I tried to fix it by trying to boot from usb with windows. However I made a mistake and set efi as the second boot choice. The tablet does not boot from usb for some reason and goes straight in to efi. I'm...

I am planning to buy this used computer(HP Compaq dc5000) for 20$ for free nas.And I have 2x1tb Wd Black drives and one Seagate 500gb drive.I want to add these drives to a computer that has only a 40gb Seagate drive.How many drives can I add(I need to know how many sata ports are there on this...

Hi guys ! I just want to know what is the quietest and coolest GPU Manufacturer? I want to buy a GTX 960 / 970, and i can't decide what is the best brand. I heard MSI has the best cooling solutions and it's the quietest, but I want to see your opinions. Thanks !

My Laptop: Asus ROG GL551JW-WH71(WX) 15.6" Gaming Laptop Computer (http://goo.gl/LX85zy) Problem Description: So starting from the very beginning my laptop has had some problems with crashing and such. I've opened threads that have dealt with the problems (located here: http://goo.gl/dG66oN...

Hi all, I have just recently acquired a 4k screen. Initially I was very dissapointed because I found that games and even Steam start up appeared in some strange resolution and certainly not 4k. I realised through just trial and error that when you set the scaling of Windows to anything more...

Hey folks! Greetings from Indonesia. Was contemplating on a Xeon, but the new 6700K popped up, and so why not spend a bit more for gaming? Here's my build and justification. I'm mostly gonna game in this build, and edit videos for wedding, and also 3D rendering for some industrial crane...

So i recently bought a new video card. I took out my old one and realised that i needed and 8pin power connector for it. So i needed to buy an adapter for it. I put in my old graphics card again and now when i start my computer. I hear all the fans and the light starts to shine. After a brief 15...