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partymarty

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  1. The information in the first picture is strange too:

    Power On Hours = 39146 --> 4,5 years.

    Data written = 0?

     

    How can your C:\ SSD have soooo insanely many 'power on' hours and 0 gigs written?

     

    Edit:

    You have 2 more drives connected, you can always swap the sata cable from one drive to the SSD that you're testing. Just to make sure that it's not the cable

  2. I would upgrade it just to be sure. I've had a similar thing with the pc I've built for my sister, thing worked 99% of the time but as soon as there was some sort of power spike the PSU would turn off and reboot the pc.

     

    It's a good idea IMO to have some wattage left :) 

  3. When I put thermal paste on a die like that I use this method:

     

    1- Put a small dot on the die

    2- Just the syringe thingy (where the stuff came out) and just spread it out until the entire die is covered with a thin layer.

    3- Put the cooler on it.

     

    It is REALLY important that the entire die is covered. If not? High chance something dies cuz of too much heat.

     

    Edit: they added a spatula thing with your paste. Just put a small dot on the die and use the plastic spatula to spread it out nicely over the die.

    When the entire die is covered just screw the cooling back onto it and you should be good to go.

  4. Resolution? What application?

    I think a 4770k shouldn't bottleneck a 1080ti that much, I don't even think you need to upgrade an I7-4770k to run good with a 1080ti. Intel hasn't done many improvements on their chips in the last few years. I've ran a 1080ti with a 6700k and my experience is that a 4770k is pretty comparable (a bit weaker) to a 6700k.

    (I think you mean I7-4770k instead of I7-4470k?)

  5. 19 minutes ago, iAzriel said:

    OK I know that this matter is widely discussed already but I am at a loss... Got a 9700K yesterday on an Asus ROG Z390 H Gaming with the latest bios version, dated yesterday. With default settings or auto or whatever, the CPU doesn't go beyond 3.9GHz in any Windows situation (gaming, AIDA64 etc). I have tried -almost- anything in BIOS disabled and enabled all the relevant options (asus multicore, 5G OC setting, TPU, C states etc), the only thing that seems to work is disabling SpeedStep and Speed Shift options which allows the CPU to work -constantly though- at 4.6GHz max. 4.9 or 5GHz are out of the question I don't know if there is any way to see these numbers. For starters I only want boost to work as intended and not get the stupid limit of 3.9GHz. Hell, my i7 4790 boosted at 4GHz... Any suggestions or ideas are welcome.

    Have you tried disabling power limits?

  6. 1- Monitoring temps: I would use HWInfo 64.

    2- Alcohol swabs are fine.

    3- I would strongly recommend that you use non-conductive non-capacitive thermal goop (like MX4), just to make sure you won't short something when some of the paste gets onto the PCB. That way you can just slap it on and don't worry about a thing.

    4- You should make sure that you just do it slowly and that you don't any possible parts on the PCB.

     

    It's not that hard, but just be calm, don't be to rough on the chip and you should be fine.

     

    The part that I think is by far the most important: make sure that you use thermal paste that CAN NOT damage your system in any way, shape or form. I replace gpu/laptop thermal paste on a regular basis for friends of mine, I always use Arctic MX4. I always put more than enough of that paste onto those chips and I've never killed a chip with it (even though I know a 100% that it will spill out onto the PCB).

  7. 20 hours ago, Laputacake said:

    Stop using diskpart. Just wipe them completly as if they're new. Don't even format them and try to get to windows setup and go on custom and windows will do all that.

    I manged to install windows 10 on the 500gb SSD.

     

    They way I did it:

    I downloaded the oldest windows 10 version I could find.

    Did some tinkering with the MBR (Master Boot Record).

    Started a custom windows 10 installtion (waited for at least 2 hours for it to reach to screen where I could pick which drive I wanted to install it on). 

    Installation gave an error 2 times.

    The third time it did install correctly and is now working a 100%.

    I only have to do the updates for the last 2 years with MediaCreationTool.exe (from the Microsoft website)

     

    Thanks for all your help yesterday, really appreciated your commitment helping me ❤️ 

  8. 1 minute ago, Laputacake said:

    Image result for windows custom setup

    Even that point the installation won't reach.

     

    I think I'm going to try to swap some things:

    I will give him my 850 evo 500gb (yes I've got a 850 pro and a 850 evo in my system) and take the 860 evo 500gb for myself.

     

    Let's see if that will work.

  9. 7 minutes ago, Laputacake said:

    Is the SATA on the laptop dead then. 

    No because my own 850 Pro does work.

     

    I got the bios to 'see' the drive, but I keep getting the message: no boot device detected.

    I think I need to partition it in a certain way.

  10. 19 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

    connect it to your pc and using samsung magician update the firmware, also check for any bios updates on the laptop 

     

    how old is this laptop, can you disable CSM?

    Samsung Magician won't see it when it is connected though a external drive circuit board. It just sees AsMedia USB 3.1

     

    I'm now trying to create a windows to go on the drive and see if the lapto recognizes the drive.

  11. 14 minutes ago, Laputacake said:

    You said you were using PS so assumed you were able to use windows with another drive. If it doesn't show in the bios its either not installed correctly or DOA

    Ah now I see, it's not DOA. When i connect it via USB I can write and read files from/to it.

  12. 3 minutes ago, Laputacake said:

    Is it showing in device manager?

    As I said in the first post: his HDD died so I wanted to give him a small surprise.

     

    So there is no such thing as a device manager when the only working drive the laptop has is brand new.

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