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    Question How To Secure Erase a Crucial MX500 CT1000MX500SSD1 SSD ?

    Hi, I am extremely interested on how do you securely erase all data/overwrite the drive before donating or selling your computer with the Crucial MX500 CT1000MX500SSD1 SSD? As most manufacturers like Samsung have a tool where you can download from manufacture website to securely erase your...
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    [SOLVED] 0 bytes free on EMPTY SSD AND HDD

    I had recently wanted to secure erase my SSD using parted magic and attempted to do so last night, but I accidentally secure erased my hdd instead, which isn’t a big deal since it’s not my Windows drive. After I realized I did that, I went back and secure erased the SSD that I wanted to...
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    [SOLVED] Secure Erase M.2 SSD on Lenovo IdeaPad L340-17IRH Gaming

    I want to sell the mentioned laptop, but before I do I would wipe its original SSD drive clean and reinstall Windows on it. I found that some Lenovo (including IdeaPad) laptops have a Secure Erase option in the UEFI settings, but this specific model does not seem to contain that option. At...
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    [SOLVED] Secure-erase problem on Samsumg 970 Evo Plus ?

    I recently bought a Samsung 970 Evo plus 1 TD SSD for my Dell G5 5590. but I'm unable to secure erase it from the bootable USB created with Samsung Magician software. It stuck in. decompressing Linux..... parsing elf..... no relocation needed.... done. Booting the kernel. I was enabled legacy...
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    [SOLVED] How to secure erase a Crucial SSD (CT250MX500SSD1)?

    Hi, I'd like to secure erase CT250MX500SSD1 but apparently the Crucial Executive tool does not support this. Tried running hdparm from a Mint USB drive but terminal gives errors (I don't remember the specifics, can edit them in this post later) SSD works fine and was a good purchase, but I'd...
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    Questions about LFC for FreeSync Monitors

    Hey guys, I’m hoping to purchase a new FreeSync monitor and just have some questions on the Low Framerate Compensation (LFC) feature. I kinda have a special gaming situation here, I play Total War, Mount & Blade and Men of War extensively. I always run mods which triples the amount of troops...
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    Asus Laptop CPU frequency drops

    Hi, here is my problem, i have an ASUS laptop, i7, gtx960m, 8gb ram and everytime i play a game, the CPU frequency drops massively every 1-2 minutes for 30 seconds going from 3,40 to 0,9 and this is making me lose fps in games (from 100 to 8-9 fps in warframe for example) is the problem from the...
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    ECC RAM in non-ECC mode support mode in Asrock motherboard

    I have this motherboard: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/B150M%20Combo-G/?cat=Specifications and I was looking on second hand DDR3 (cheaper than DDR4 at the moment) and instead of normal non-ECC RAM I found a quite cheap KVR16LR11D4/16KF or KVR16LR11D4/16HA ECC Kingstone RAM. The board specs...
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    Windows 10 onboard reinstall boot loop

    Just reset Windows 10 on my laptop because I was unable to sign into my Microsoft account therefore I couldn't access Cortana or the Store or any of the new Microsoft 10 features. Everything else worked fine. So I started the reset process and chose the option to save all my personal files, and...