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  1. PixlRabt
    So on a whim I'm curious if anybody else has had a similar incident. My sister had an iPhone 7, and borrowed a couple pairs of my earbuds (one samsung AGX, and another Sol Republic) about 6 months apart for a couple weeks in each instance. Both times (even though she just used them as any pair of headphones she's ever used with the phone) when the earbuds were returned to me one ear was crackly/not working at all, despite them working fine in the adapter to the best of her knowledge the last time she had used them. She has since experienced a similar issue with her studio Audio Technica over-the-ear headphones she uses for her music degree having one ear fail while using the headphone adapter with her current iPhone XS Max. Has anyone else had similar incidents I can use to fan my conspiracy fire?
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    For anyone experiencing a similar issue, it was just a dead fan. One of the two front mounted 200mm fans is dead, and it seems like it's shorted (?) and caused neither fan to receive power.
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    Greetings all, long time no see. Did an overhaul of my pc yesterday, upgrading to a Strix Z390F with a 9700k and a coolermaster ML240R AIO to match my H500P case. Everything was great until I was leaving for work roughly 6 hours ago and noticed my two 200mm Coolermaster RGB fans in the front weren't spinning. Quickly looked at all the other fans and everything else was fine. These two fans were daisy-chained together to their own chassis fan header. I didn't have time to troubleshoot so I left it. When i got home I tried different headers, no dice. Then in between tests I noticed the system was triggering my monitor to turn on and stay on, but nothing was being displayed. Then looked at the three 120mm Coolermaster RGB fans in the top (whose lighting is powered and controlled through the coolermaster RGB controller box) were very faint, spinning fine but the lights could barely manage to come on. Now the system is running fine, and the lighting on the AIO and MB are fine, but I can't get the two 200mm fans to run off one header daisy-chained together, and the lights of the top three fans are much dimmer than before (about 75 percent of what they were). Is this a PSU issue? Fair disclosure its a Silverstone 600w 80+ silver from 2014, does it sound like its failing? Up until I left for work all lights and all fans were running at full brightness and speed.
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    So I formatted the HDD instead of opting for a new one, reinstalled windows and it runs like a dream now. Pleasantly surprised at how zippy a machine this has become with a completely fresh install of windows, should tide me over well until my next laptop purchase. Thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions.
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    Precisely, and I'm fairly certain sometimes the boot menu is completely separate from the bios. Wish they could just be as straightforward as desktop BIOS'.
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    Cheers, I'll update this thread again with the final outcome once I finally reach it haha. Thanks to everyone for the help, who knew upgrading a laptop would be more of a headache than building and maintaining my gaming rig ever was
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    Yeah I'll definitely check the manual, don't wanna go hitting random keys during boot. My old HP laptop I got at the start of 2014 was F12, if memory serves. Don't know why they can't standardise it and make life easier for noobs like me.
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    That's not actually a bad idea,starting with this HDD first. Problem is I'm running out of space and drives real fast. Small hoarding problem. The HDD in this machine is less than half full but most of it is photos and old school/work stuff that I'd like to keep and my desktop only has about 70GB spare. Think I may just bite the bullet and invest in a new SSD come next pay. If it solves everything, fantastic. If not, it'll still make a welcome addition to the desktop and my overall storage situation.
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    Yeah, I recently reinstalled windows 10 on my desktop SSD only a few weeks ago and still have my USB boot media from the windows tool ready to go.
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    I'll definitely look into this asap but I've never had a reason to suspect overheating. I've never had this machine feel even remotely hot. I've been trying to figure out how to get into the bios but the Acer start screen doesn't tell me which hotkey it is for this particular setup haha, although I'll admit I haven't yet gone to the effort of searching it up properly.
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    Yeah, I can appreciate it certainly wasn't the smartest decision and it's certainly a source that I suspected might have issues. Just thought I'd ask first before going through the long process of testing with a fresh install and all the rest. But, the test I intend to do with stealing my desktop SSD should clear up whether or not that's an issue hopefully.
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    I'm fairly certain that all this has is onboard as well, and I know that it was able to run WoW very smoothly, albeit at lower settings.
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    Yes, but literally all it has on it is the OS, I keep all my data on other traditional HDD's, so it wouldn't be too difficult to format and reinstall windows again.
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    it's an Acer E5-521-47TB, only thing that's different from the original spec is an extra 4GB of RAM and a slightly older and lower capacity HDD.
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    When I originally did the swap the HDD had a lot of data on it and I hadn't used it in a while and didn't have a chance to go through it properly to do a full reinstall, so I took the shortcut and just reinstalled drivers to match the new hardware.
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    I've got a Kingston 128GB SSD in my desktop, I'll steal it and see if it makes any difference before going ahead and purchasing another drive. Getting by on that University student budget, you know how it is haha.
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    I've never dabbled in mixing RAM previously because of this and my limited knowledge on the topic. However, on the original 4GB it ran terribly, program load times were ridiculous and I was getting constant low memory warnings. Now, it's the snappiest laptop I've ever owned. I would however be keen to conduct your suggested experiment, but will have to wait until I'm back home when I don't specifically need it to be running.
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    I didn't think to check, and it's currently in the Laptop. I'd check it but it's not the simplest laptop to disassemble and for the next day or so while I'm out of town and away from my desktop rig it's all I have. It's a WD Blue 500GB drive I believe, and the original laptop it came in was released in 2013, if that gives any sort of indication as to it's performance.
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    I'll give this a shot, as I find it weird that there is no AMD display adapter listed in device manager under the Display Adapter tab. I'm not 100% sure as both sticks are now inside this machine, but I remember that both the stick that was already in the laptop and the donor stick were definitely the same frequency and they were both from Kingston. The laptops are a HP and Acer but were only a little more than a year apart in model. Windows 8.1 Home.
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    So recently the HDD in my sisters laptop failed. After a short lived recovery campaign sentenced the drive to death, I took advantage of the situation to upgrade my very poor quality laptop by simply switching the HDD's and installing the RAM (which surprisingly was compatible) into the inherited laptop. So now I have a surprisingly capable and super snappy uni/on the road web browsing and word processing notebook, running an AMD A4 APU with R3 graphics and 8GB of RAM. My problem now is that anything more graphics intensive than youtube refuses to work. I'm not stupid, I know this thing is certainly no gaming behemoth, but when it was in my sisters ownership I saw it fly through sim's and WoW with ease. Now it struggles with the Minion's game on the windows store, and just before writing this failed to play Splix.io for crying out loud. Have I missed something or is this computer really just a lemon? (P.S. APU driver was updated, made no difference)
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    Has anyone else noticed in recent updates their OS' just outright rejecting anything to do with the apps and tiles? My start menu shows me my list of start menu programs, but all the apps I've downloaded from the store are missing and only appear on random days. Furthermore the tile section that should extend next to the menu is gone, I can get it back by manually moving shortcuts into it, but if I restart it disappears again. Anybody else having a similar issue or want to discuss? It only annoys me because at present if I want to use any of the apps I have downloaded (which are mostly social media apps i.e. Facebook, Instagram, etc so I don't have to go grab my phone) is through going to the store, looking up the app, and clicking "open" where the "install" button would be.
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    It turned out to be Chrome global keyboard shortcut control for Google Play Music, for anyone who is experiencing the same problem.
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    Hello internets, I've been trying to sort out a problem and have been in contact with Microsoft but they haven't been able to help me. I've got an old Razer Blackwidow and a Razer Naga Chroma making up my peripheral setup, and in the past have enjoyed using the media hotkeys, especially since I study a lot and they let me control my music without having to switch or split my windows that are open. In recent months however, this functionality has all but ceased, and after talking to Razer and Microsoft, uninstalling and reinstalling drivers and software and going through miles of "he probably doesn't know what he's doing" red tape, I've narrowed the issue down quite a bit by myself. The media hotkeys only work when the Computer Management window is open, and that was only after I set the Human Interface Device Service' Start Type to "Automatic" instead of "Manual". If I minimise, close, or click on another pane, the hotkeys stop working again. Does anyone know what is stopping the hotkey functionality from being persistent and how I might fix it? Also, it's not all the media functions; the volume up and down hotkeys that I have set on both the keyboard and mouse work beautifully, but pause/play, previous and next track don't work at all.
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    Computer Management becomes unresponsive when the drive is connected, and the command prompt won't process commands while the drive is connected. That is, command prompt wouldn't open until I disconnected the drive, then it wouldn't run diskpart until I again disconnected the drive and so on. It was listed after "list disk" though, as my desktop only has two internal drives and list disk listed three, the third being around the correct size at 465 GB. Edit: because I have to disconnect the drive to process commands it becomes unselected in diskpart and therefore I can't have it list the partitions.
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    Hello internets, So yesterday on a whim I plugged in a 2.5" Seagate Momentus 7200 500GB hard drive from one of the first laptops I owned, a Compaq something or other. It had been dead for a number of years following a sudden shutdown of the pc that caused some extent of corruption to the drive. Long story short the laptop wouldn't boot and when I connected the drive to a SATA to USB adapter the main partition was unreadable. Yesterday, however, I tried to give recovering the drive another shot, and after running a chkdsk /f on the drive was able to have the drive functioning normally again to my amazement, since it had been dead for three years. I then transferred one of the two windows user folders to get back all my documents and files and such, before disconnecting the drive as I didn't want to leave it running too long. Now when I went to reconnect the drive to retrieve the other user folder, trying to access the drive causes Windows Explorer to become unresponsive. So is the drive dead for good now? Would running chkdsk /f again be worth a shot? Just thought I'd get a second opinion before I fiddle with it more and potentially lose the drive again.
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