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40 minutes ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

Well, it is not about soldering in general which is relatively easy to learn but the chip you have is a BGA. It requires something like a heat gun to resolder it.

Well, even worse then lol, I'm not that good with that kind of stuff, still learning.

Thank you anyway for your help, I will give the laptop back to the owner and let them they will need to bring it to the professional.

Hope you have a good day!

2 minutes ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

It would seem so as I have seen this things happen with soldered drives on PC laptops but also some Chromebooks.

I suspected the drive to be dead from the beginning but you never know.

It is just weird that the laptop forces the boot from the internal drive and does not allow USB devices.

Well, I never had to deal with soldered drivers luckily, this was my first one.

If only I could boot Hirens to test everything it would be great, but unfortunately I can't.

It is weird indeed, never had this issue before..
Well, the person can bring it to a proper technician, unfortunately I am not that technical to solder.

Just now, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

Judging by the sudden shutdown when you unplug the cord, is your battery dead?

Have you tried running the laptop without the battery and only on the power cord?

Hi,

Sorry, not mentioned, the battery was unplugged.

Just connected it and then realised the power button works just fine, but as soon as I connect the charger the laptop turns on by itself.

I have a feeling that the drive is dead, but I can't prove it unfortunately.

Hi all,

So, I uploaded a video of the issue to YT.
You can see it here:

9 minutes ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

The thing is, if you force shutdwon Windows on the boot logo, it should pop a screen saying something like 'Your computer has failed to start' with a button to enter Advanced options.

 

For reference:

 

I know that, I am trying to get that but can't because it gets stuck on the boot logo. What ever I do I can't get it to there.

1 hour ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

When Windows logo shows up on the screen, hold down the power button until the computer shuts down. Let me know what pops up on the screen after you power it up again.

It's one of two options. It's either only the boot logo, or the boot logo with a "Preparing Automatic Repair".

I will take a picture when I come home so you can see.

1 minute ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

It should be under Fast Boot. If it is disabled, enable it and test.

Fast boot is disabled as I wrote above. It was enabled by default and it did not work, I tried to disable it to see if that will make a change but no, still does not work.

Unfortunately, I don't have an option for CSM under Fast Boot, only the option to enable/disable Fast Boot.

3 minutes ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

Is CSM Support enabled?

I don't have that option at all in the BIOS.

5 minutes ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

Have you tried pressing F8 in the BIOS and choosing the USB?

If I do that it goes straight to the BIOS, also tried disabling the eMMC boot option and the same issue appears after it tries to boot into the USB.

I tried to check in what mode it is, and it is in AHCI. I don't have any option to change UEFI or Legacy, so it should be on UEFI mode since I have a graphical UI in bios.

Hi all.

I have an ASUS E203NA laptop which I'm trying to make it work, but can't seem to.
The laptop right now has a 32gb eMMC disk which has Windows 10 on it and it won't boot. It's always on "Preparing Automatic Repair" and it gets stuck. I can get into bios, and set that I want to boot to some bootable USB but it just does not want to boot to anything. Tried different USB sticks which all work on my laptop and on my PC. Tried different linux distros, tried to boot Hirens so I can test the memory and the disk, bootable windows iso, but nothing seems to work.

Secure boot and fast boot are all disabled.

Bios is the newest one i could find on Asus website, v321 that came out in 2019.

Unfortunately, everything is soldered to the board, can't even find the pins to do cmos clear.

Please, does anyone know any fix for this?

Thank you very much!

8 hours ago, TomvanWijnen said:

It is on UEFI?! Then I don't know what the issue was, but that's great! (UEFI is "better")

Yeah, it's weird, but, at least it works and that's all it matters for me. 

11 minutes ago, Naul said:

I wish if microsoft still have manners and keep windows 7 living again.

You know everything is heading to the latest, so they had to shutdown it for windows 10  

That would be perfect, but unfortunately, the world is not perfect.

Tbh, I like Windows 10, just those privacy controversies that came with it were bad. And still are.

1 minute ago, aDoomGuy said:

Yeah may still be something left, not that I have seen personally but CCleaner may cause issues so it's best to back stuff up before removing. I've just stopped using it completely, even if there are leftovers in the registry with a modern PC and modern Windows it is not a problem. REVO I mostly use if something is misbehaving.

Yes, I understand you completely mate. Luckily, I did not have any issues with it by far so I'm good.

1 minute ago, Naul said:

I just don't want to regret installing it again, maybe someday.

well its kinda hard to me because windows 7 feels nostalgic.

We all miss Windows 7.

Just now, aDoomGuy said:

CCleaner is like deploying a nuke to delete things. Sure it deletes temp files, registry leftovers etc but it doesn't know if other applications depend on the registry keys etc. I use REVO Uninstaller, it lets me scan through the contents of an application after it has been uninstalled. Which is practical if an application is misbehaving and I want to do a clean install of it. *cough*Origin*cough*

I'm using REVO with CCleaner, and I found it that after I do an uninstall of the app and delete everything with REVO, I find some registry files of the app and some files with CCleaner. 

I'm using CCleaner for a few years now, and for me it's great. I have it scheduled to clean every week, so I don't even need to worry about it. Unfortunately, this option is only in the paid version, but it's pretty cheap at £13.45/year. 

On 6/1/2020 at 6:18 PM, TomvanWijnen said:

Great, happy to hear that! I'm curious, is it on UEFI or legacy mode? You can check that by following the (easy) steps from this link: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85195-check-if-windows-10-using-uefi-legacy-bios.html Just following "option 1" is fine.

Sorry, was not on my laptop before.

Just checked it and it is on UEFI mode.  

4 minutes ago, TomvanWijnen said:

That's true, but sometimes you have other hardware that doesn't immediately support one or the other (I've had that happen with my GPU recently).

 

That's a good sign.

It's working! Booting into the SSD without a problem now! Thank you very much!

22 minutes ago, TomvanWijnen said:

It could be that the laptop's bios is legacy (instead of UEFI), and that the SSDs OS is UEFI, which means it wouldn't work. If you try to use a USB drive or a DVD to install Windows, does that get you anywhere?

Well the OS on the HDD was Win10 so I thought that it was setup correctly. Then when I plugged in the SSD I had the issue. The HDD was set up as AHCI, and I'm sure that when I was setting up the SSD on the PC it was AHCI as well. Either way, plugged in the USB with the OS installation, and now it's installing windows on the SSD. Let's see if it will boot from the SSD!

9 minutes ago, Jae Tee said:

Any decent bios should have a setting to configure the way it boots. Have you had a look around in it?

I have the option in the BIOS, but can't access it. I don't know why.

Hello everyone,

I have a problem with a laptop that I got as a gift, it had a HDD in it already (1TB 5400rpm) and I wanted to put my SSD that I had on the side just to make it a bit better for office, yt and stuff.

I installed the SSD, and as I turn it on, it goes immediately into BIOS. I check it the SSD is recognised an it is. Try to see if I can setup the boot configuration but it's disabled. Okay, let's try saving the settings and reboot, but I again get force boot into BIOS. I don't even see the POST screen, nor I can see the display where it says press F2 to enter BIOS. Tried clearing the CMOS, formatting the SSD (already had the OS on the SSD, formatted the SSD on my PC) but have the same problem. Tried putting the original HDD in to the laptop an it works just fine.

I don't know what else to do with the SSD, do you guys have any info please?

The laptop is Asus X550C with the Pentium 2117U cpu and 4GB DDR3.

Thank you very much!

Hello everyone,

So, I'm a noob here obviously, so I'm editing my post.

1. Budget & Location

Jersey, Channel Islands (UK), £1500-£2000

2. Aim

Programming, some games

3. Monitors

For now 1 but gonna upgrade to 2 down the road (if i could fit 2 in the budget, even better), ultrawide 27"

4. Peripherals

Yes, mechanical keyboard, already know for the mouse and the mousepad, don't need speakers but would like some nice headphones. 

5. Why are you upgrading?

iMac struggling to compile code.  

Currently, I have an iMac (mid2014, i5, 8gb ram) that I'm gonna give to my brother when I get myself a PC, but I'm mostly doing programming, so nothing too intensive (ok, for the iMac it is when is compiling a butt ton of code )

Also, would like to play a few games then and there, but I'm also not a big gamer.

BUT, where the problem is, i want a mini ITX build, but can't find some case that suits my needs.

That's why I'm posting here, in hope that someone will give me some advice.

Currently, I was thinking of Ryzen 7 3800x, 32gb 3200MHz ram, m.2 ssd, etc, but can't find a suitable mobo and a case. I'm not too big into OC but would like to play with that.

I was looking at everything on Amazon, but don't want to post any links cause I don't want to break any rules. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I want a keyboard because my Coolermaster Quickfire Rapid is done.

My favorite thing about the G3 is the screen and the back side buttons, these buttons are just amazing, I always press side buttons on my phone...

Well, for me, Intel is not as fun as AMD. 

But, I didn't mean to write that I don't like it, I failed.

If I had money, I would surely build an Intel based rig.

Yeah, I was reading about that modded kernels, so, I have to buy the Intel hardware i don't like.

Hello guys.

I have a question for you, I saw a video of Linus that he reviewed Hackintosh, and I would like to install it on my system.

This is what I have:
AMD A6-5400k currenty at 4.2 GHz

6GB DDR3

ECS A55F2-M3

AMD HD7540D

Can I install it on my machine?

I'm sorry if I failed with something, correct me!

And, thanks for answers, if there will be any. :shy: