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I don't know whether they spin up, but there was a weird sound, I think it came from the PSU. The 2 hdd's were connected with the same power cable. I have a third SATA drive, a SSD, which is my system drive, that was unaffected.

Hi. I just had 2 non-system hard drives suddenly disappear from my PC at the same time. Tried rebooting, still gone. I bought a HDD docking station, and now one of them works just fine. I haven't tested the other yet, as it is a bit arduous to remove from the pc. So it must be my PSU or motherboard? I recently build my own power cable, to go from the outlet to a schuko power strip. The wire for that is only 0,75mm, while PC power cables, and the power strip, are 1,5mm. I don't know, could that cause a surge, or something, ending up breaking the power delivery to the hdd's? I have no other issues with the PC whatsoever.

Hi. So I have had problems updating Windows since the 2004 version, and still can't update to 20H2. Update history says the error was 0xc1900101. The PC will install the update, then reboot, then reboot again immediately upon reaching the Windows loading screen, and then revert back to 1909. Even when I download Windows using the Windows Media Creation Tool, and then try to boot from the USB drive, I'm having an issue. I get 2 options to boot from USB. One starts with UEFI, and the other starts with USB. When I choose the USB option, I can get to the installation screen, but can't install Windows. When I choose the UEFI option, I get to a weird looking screen, with the Windows logo "messed up" (see attached picture). It will sit like that for a little while, and then reboot. A while back, when I tried to install the 2004 update, the pc failed to revert back to 1909, and the only reason I was able to get a functioning pc again was that I had an old Windows 18XX installation USB drive. So, it seem there's something in the 2004 and 20H2 update, that my PC doesn't like. Do I need a BIOS update perhaps? I'd really prefer not to update the BIOS. I have the ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 motherboard, with bios version 4.50.

I used a 1000mA power supply. While it worked fine with the first hub, I did notice some whine from the power supply. Can that be remedied by choosing a different mA output?

The first hub I had seemed to work fine when connected to the active usb 3 extension cable with the power adapter connected to it, the drive showed up in Windows, and I had full transfer speed. Without the power, the drive would not show up in Windows. With the second hub, the drive also got detected in Windows when with power, and not when without, but the transfer speed was slower. And then the adapter blew. Question is, are you not supposed to connect a hub to an active, powered USB extension cable? Was I lucky that the adapter didn't blow with the first hub, or could there have been some difference in the new hub that made the power adapter blow? The power adapter was 5v, 1000mAh.

Neither of the USB hubs have a power supply. The HDD gets its power from the USB port. I haven't been able to find a USB hub with a power supply, where the USB ports are also on the top side, so I have the active extension cable with a 5v power input, and then connected the unpowered usb hub to that. Seemed to work fine with the first hub, although I just did one file transfer with it. The second one mentions something about having a USB 5V / 500 mA power supply, but there's no power input on the hub, so I guess they mean the power that is coming from the USB port on the computer.

It's is just generic brand USB hubs. Any guess as to why the power adapter would blow with one and not the other? If I have an active USB 3.0 extension cable, with a power input port, and I use the old USB hub, and I want to use my external HDD with that, how many mAh's should the power supply be? The one I bought was 1000mAh, can I get by with less than that?

Hi. I had an active USB 3.0 extension cable hooked up with a 5v 1000mAh power supply. To that a USB 3.0 hub was plugged in. With this setup I was able to get full transfer speed on my USB 3.0 external harddrive. I bought a new USB 3.0 hub, and with the same setup, I only got 25~ MB/s transfer speeds, and the 5v power adapter blew and broke. Checked the specs for the new hub, says it has a 5v / 500mAh power supply. Don't know if that's just the power coming from the USB port on the computer? Why would the power supply blow with the new USB hub? And why was the transfer speeds so low?

Hi. I'm considering getting an A-Data XPG SX8200 Pro SSD, which is 3.5mm high. I have the Fractal Design Define Nano S case and the motherboard is the ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac. The m.2 slot on this motherboard is on the back, and in this particular chassis, the m.2 slot gets partially covered by the case, so I worry whether the NVMe drive will fit. Anybody with a similar setup, or can someone tell me what clearance I have for an m.2 drive in this case? Thanks.

Okay, i'll try then. It's 1 year old, it's a Gigabyte RX580. Thanks.

Hi. I have a GPU where the fans rattle when they spin between 56-60%. Anyone know if that would qualify for a RMA?

Hi. I have a soundbar with rear speakers, which can only be connected with an optical SPDIF cable. With the onboard audio, the only way to get surround sound, with 5.1 AC3, is by enabling passthrough. Enabling passthrough disables the Windows volume control. I find this annoying, so I wonder whether a USB soundcard, with Dolby Digital Live, would allow me to listen to 5.1 AC3 audio without enabling passthrough, and letting me control the volume with the windows master volume control?

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Hi. So, I want to install 3 rgb case fans and a rgb cpu cooler on the ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac. I'm confused about the naming of the LED headers on the board. They are: "AMD LED Fan USB Header (USB_5)", and " AMD Fan LED Header". Looking at the headers I would assume they're just standard 4-pin RGB Led headers, and, if I buy a 3-way splitter, I would be able to connect the cpu rgb to one of the headers, and the 3 fans' RGB to another. Does anybody have this board with RGB fans installed in this way? Or should I buy a controller that connects to the USB 2.0 header?

I'm just referring to the readings in HWinfo. Well, it's a ryzen cpu, single gpu setup. The system uses around 150 watts under light load, I would guess, It's hooked up to a watt meter along with a monitor and some other equipment, so I don't know precisely. But no, it would never reach 500 watts, which is why i initially bought a 550 watt PSU. Two 550 watt PSU's broke down a few days after installation. I then to installed an old 1000 watt power supply, which have run without problems. So, i'm guessing, that the 500+ watt readings from HWinfo is a power spike? And that power spike overloaded the 550 watt PSU's, and they stopped working? And the 1000 watt PSU has worked because it has more headroom to deal with a power spike?