SydneySideSteveSomewheres

Question is definitely NOT stupid @Spork829
 
The notches on the connector you refer to are called a 'key' and what you described your laptop as having is a 'B & M Key edge connector' which is not compatible with the other two types, being 'B keyed' and 'M keyed'. So there will not be any compatibility across the different types due to their differences in the pin connection placement inside the key.
Secondly, your laptop most likely does have an M.2 type drive and it is most likely that it will be the M.2 SATA and not an M.2 mSATA SSD type, however, it is doubtful that you would be able to fit a 2280 M.2 drive inside the machine (it is 80 mm long!). More common in laptops where space is a premium you will find the 2240 M.2 SSD at 40 mm (my Alienware 14 has an M.2 mSATA drive), because, size matters!
 
As for working out what will fit inside, you will need to dig into what Lenovo has on your specific machine, try and document what drive it shipped with and then find an upgrade path from that. Alternatively, some storage retailers offer compatibility listings and if they list your device you might be able to use that to find an M.2 drive to fit. I have not seen any 1 TB 2240 sized M.2 SATA drives they might only go as big as 512 GB?
 
You should also contact Lenovo support they should be able to provide a Qualified Vendor List (QVL) of replacement HDD manufacturers for that machine.
 
hope this helps
 
Links
Wikipedia
What’s the Difference Between M.2 Modules?

Check the community (the game's and the NexusMods one) to see if the MODS you are thinking of adding have any conflicts with the Witcher 3 patches. Some MODS are not reversible even if you roll back to a previous save-point. And you may have to install the game again from your back-up. Which brings me to 'back-up' your game before installing any MODS, so you do not have to purchase the game again (worst case scenario).
Fallout has its own community that does bug fixes and they say that they are compatible with some MODS and not others, so perhaps look for a Witcher 3 community that does a similar thing?
Hope this helps
Cheers Steve

Check the community (the game's and the NexusMods one) to see if the MODS you are thinking of adding have any conflicts with the Witcher 3 patches. Some MODS are not reversible even if you roll back to a previous save-point. And you may have to install the game again from your back-up. Which brings me to 'back-up' your game before installing any MODS, so you do not have to purchase the game again (worst case scenario).
Fallout has its own community that does bug fixes and they say that they are compatible with some MODS and not others, so perhaps look for a Witcher 3 community that does a similar thing?
Hope this helps
Cheers Steve

Try to pull plug and see it it restarts.
 
Otherwise just boot from a installer and do a clean install.

One of these heat-sink's that are marketed for Raspberry Pi's main processor or graphics chip which are stuck on with thermal transfer tape, might work, or if they are too big something similar?
 

Hi @SPOOKLEZ_YT
 
As @LunaP0n3 said, you will need to create an image of your entire PC that is on the HDD in your laptop, when you buy a new SSD ensure that it is bigger than the old HDD. If your laptop has a DVD drive and you fell comfortable about it, you could use the data and power cables that go to the DVD drive and connect in the new SSD there. You still need to put the new drive into the machine where the old drive was so that it boots from that device, though.
 
I have tried using Minitool Partition Wizard, but have found that the Acronis product has better support and tutorial materials and have purchased three versions of Acronis's true image. Their method of approach is a little different than the Mintool one. Instead of "cloning" the drive, you use Acronis to create a backup image then, recover / restore that system image (the backup) onto your newer (bigger) drive, effectively it is a clone of the original PC HDD image.
 
You can download a free trial of  Acronis's true image and use it for thirty days from the Acronis website -click here-
 
There are plenty of instructions on their website on how to use their software, for example, back up entire computer -click here- and then how to restore files using Acronis -click here-
 
I hope this helps ☮️
 

The process is called "cloning", and basically is a straight copy from one drive to another. It's useful to do if you don't want the hassle of reinstalling everything. Several programs exist to do the job.
My personal favourite is "Minitool Partition Wizard", and it has worked fine for me. As you are in a laptop situation, you'll need a USB 3 external enclosure / adapter or dock to connect the new drive to the system while it clones.
Once the cloning process is done, shut the laptop down, swap the drives, boot into the BIOS to make sure the drive shows up, then Windows should automatically boot from the new drive.
Keep the old drive on standby for a few weeks, to make sure that everything came over okay, then you can reformat the old drive, put it into an enclosure and use it as a portable drive.
The Techquickie Video below explains.
 

There was one thing left to do,sort out some kind of cooling for the VRMs and VRAM. Since the midplate is used and is dissipating the heat a bit i just used some random RGB fan,made some feet out of old PCIe covers,bent them by hand and voila,it sits about an inch away from the card and hopefully does something,but im not happy how it looks,gotta figure out some other mounting for it.
 
And one more thing i would love to do is remove these chinese RGB fans and put some ML120s with only white lightning.
 

Hey @ZWELINHTET
 
Your Zen 2 (Matisse) CPU does support DDR4 up to 3200MHz, and the AMD X570 Aorus motherboard memory support list does also show support for 32GB RAM density DIMMs. However, the Crucial branded memory on the memory support list only runs at 2666MHz. So, you may find that the 3200MHz speed of the Corsair DDR4 branded memory may not be achievable without a supported BIOS update.

If there is support for the Corsair Vengeance DIMMs, and I suspect that there is, buy a matched pair and insert them into the same coloured slots, for example, DDR4_A2 and DDR4_B2 to enable Dual-channel.
 
I hope this helps ☮️

Looks okay, but what is cooling the VRAM and VRM on the board now after you removed the heat-sink?
 
Maybe, add some heat-sinks on each one and a fan to circulate some air over them?

From the value perspective, yes.
 
You may spend more but you'll solve your issue while the other way around you'd only half solve it and still feel unsatisfied while still spending considerable money.
 
Wait until you can grab another 8GB stick and never worry again.

Hi @keenhydra
 
Unless you have not updated your graphics driver for quite a while and you were only upgrading to a better Nvidia GPU, then you would not need to install any new drivers.
 
However, you are changing GPU architecture so you will need to uninstall your AMD driver in SAFE mode using DDU and then install the latest Nvidia driver.
 
Use this tutorial, and FOLLOW Wagnardsoft's instructions closely...here-> Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) Tutorial/Guide
 
hope this helps ☮️

Hi @keenhydra
 
Unless you have not updated your graphics driver for quite a while and you were only upgrading to a better Nvidia GPU, then you would not need to install any new drivers.
 
However, you are changing GPU architecture so you will need to uninstall your AMD driver in SAFE mode using DDU and then install the latest Nvidia driver.
 
Use this tutorial, and FOLLOW Wagnardsoft's instructions closely...here-> Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) Tutorial/Guide
 
hope this helps ☮️

Hello @Harry123,
It is likely that there is a couple more settings in power management that you need to change, also you need to keep in mind that if you are not connected to the wall outlet then your machine is NOT powered after it runs out of battery, no matter how fast you close the lid!
 
Change the setting for when the hard drive should sleep and more in the advanced power management settings.
 
Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Power Options > Edit Plan Settings > Put computer to sleep (set to) Never. Then select the >> Change advanced power settings.
Turn hard disk off after Setting (minutes) Open Sleep tab (click on +)
Sleep  > Sleep after > Setting: Never. Sleep > Allow hybrid sleep > Setting: On Sleep > Hibernate after > Setting: Never Open Power buttons and lid tab (click on +)
Closing lid action > Setting: Hibernate Hope this helps ☮️
 

Sorry, I should have explained that more clearly, my mistake. Originally the OS image was an Education version of Windows XP which I had updated to Windows 7 from an ISO image downloaded from OnTheHub. Because I heard that my old machine may not be allowed to run Windows 10 (although the BETA worked fine!). 
 
Maybe, a Microsoft update feature has upgraded the OS from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Perhaps because my account settings were set to 'opt-in' for the allowing of security updates and patches.
 
That makes Windows 10 a pretty big security update from the previous OS version, in their opinion of coarse!

Hi @FunnyFenrir94
 
Spend your hard earned on upgrading that PC to do that HDR. As it is likely the cost of the latest HDR monitor technology will come down the longer  you wait, not the other way around.

Going to post some snippets from the below source that i posted in a previous thread that makes me very weary about how this is going to turn out
 
https://restoreprivacy.com/cyberghost/
 
 
So yeah, Shady as hell parent company, based purely on them now owning PIA, i would not trust PIA to keep your data safe

Glad you found the information assistive.
 
One of my attached drives had a licenced Windows 7 32bit (x86) OS installed on it, and the machine it is connected to is a 64bit one, so it cannot be the boot HDD device. I am not sure how or why but it has been updated to Windows 10 (WinVer: 0x2800000A) build 10240 which is the official release to manufacturing (RTM) build of the original version of Windows 10! ?
 

Thanks that is very much interesting  and helpful  ? thanks I was trying to use a windows 10 drive from old pentium g620 system so no wonder it didn't work

Windows XP Service Pack 1
@Ben17, if your original Windows OS build were not installed on a machine with an AMD Ryzen, then yes the OS would not boot without errors. As, when the system's boot loader encounters, back-to-back BSOD's on the initial power-up cycle. The underlying programming code or kernel of Windows will attempt to boot several more times before it defaults to, the OS initialisation and installer screen. (I am not sure of the exact number lets 'say' nine times for descriptive purposes.)
 
Then as the OP described in the first post (comment-13037347) all attempts led to the same boot-loop situation with Windows showing the load the driver-files screen, and then the error code status of '0xc0000225'. That means that the boot configuration data was different because components attached to the main-board were incompatible and not expected. Therefore, those system files in the boot loader are corrupt (reminds me of Windows XP Service Pack 1 ? ).
 
That is not to say that this could not be recovered from. However, you would need to have the old system in an operational state, which is not always the case. Basically, all you need to do is put the HDD with the buggy OS, back into the old machine and then load all the new drivers for the new hardware into the kernel. You can use this, for example, if you own the Windows licence on an old machine that is headed for the recyclers or are parting out a computer you no longer require.
 
@Reese1080 hope that helps ☮️

Are you sure your motor vehicle has positive ground?
My understanding of what you are saying is that the positive terminal of the battery (which is the fat one of the two) on your car is connected to the chassis?
 
Regardless of that @Joveice, if you look at the *.giff that I uploaded a little closer you will notice that the positive (+) and negative (-) change on the relay, so it does not matter whether the current passing through them has a positive or a negative discharge, as they both create the magnet that attracts the metal bridge arm and closes the switch thus completing in this case the LED light circuit you want to control!
 
If your coupe is a 1950-60's or 70's vehicle, they are not hard to convert to negative earth systems as the only thing that is needed, is to change the polarity of the generator (called re-polarising), or replace the old tech with a more reliable and efficient alternator. And if this old vehicle is gasoline (petrol) driven you could also change the terminals of the primary coil over as well to make the spark plug, spark, arc in the same direction.
 
Perhaps @Joveice you have over complicated the message, for example, if you consider the first circuit diagram which shows only that the circuit is being grounded (no polarity, i.e. + positive or – negative mentioned). Then every switch you wish to employ to turn on an LED light bank would need that circuit whether that is, as I show in the second more complete circuit diagram, one switch triggering all the LED's which has only one low gauge wire inside the cabin. Or three switches and three wires attached to the internal wiring loom, which would need three of these fused circuits (as below).
 

Hi @Reese1080
 
You can download and run Ubuntu from a live CD or thumb drive it is FREE.
 
At least then you could look at some the diagnostics to see if one of your HDDs is corrupt or a piece of add-in hardware has operational errors that might stop Windows from booting.
 
Ubuntu Desktop 18.04.3 LTS

The method of using the four rail-mounts to attach the keyboard tray to the underside of the desk-top with six screws per fitting is unsound as per your original concern. However, if you were to connect two metal strips the width of the desk-top, (one for each side of a similar type of material as the rail-mountings), to both of the rail-mount points using nuts and bolts. Then you could attach the metal strips with many screws that are not long enough to drive through the wooden desk-top to the under-side of the table. This method will spread the force needed for retaining your keyboard tray across the entire width of the desk, instead of the six per rail-mount and negate your concern of structural integrity!

Hi @Dogggo
 
What about using software to do the rendering from normal photos to make the 3D models, for example, Strata's  Foto 3D CX. At about $400 it is not as cheap as the fish eye lens kit, but apparently there is a free trial available (Mac/PC).
 
Link:
Foto 3D CX

Thank you all for your time. So i think that they are so close in performance but like what @GoldenLag said, id rather pick the cheaper even if its the 1080 ti considering its a little bit older than the 2080 and the 2080 has i guess preferably up to date technology now dont take my word for it because im not a gpu geek but i guess in the end theyre both excellent cards and deliver excellent performance and i guess nobody would doubt that. BUT, I still think amd wins when it comes to price/performance ratio then again its just my opinion. Thank you! @SydneySideSteveSomewheres @JoostinOnline @Streetguru