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Hey guys, I bought a 980 Pro 2TB 3 days ago and after hours of testing found that the drive was faulty, I returned it and got another one today, which turned out to be faulty aswell. After doing my research I have only just found out about the Firmware issues that the drives were having causing them to be read-only. Is it possible to still update the firmware after the fact? At the moment windows is seeing the disk as Unkown and not initialized, and Samsung magician is not detecting anything.

Thanks for the suggestion- At this point i can only have one m.2 drive on the machine at one time so cloning and external programs are out of the picture without me having to buy an external m.2 enclosure. But I wouldn't be surprised if this is the same issue, I have read some people had similar issues

Hi guys, been going at this for the past 7 hours and still, no luck. Previously, I was running a WD Green SATA M.2 on my ROG B350-F board with a Ryzen 5 3600 I just bought a new Samsung 980PRO NVMe to replace the WD Green with, I planned on completely installing Win10 fresh on the 980 Pro. I did the normal install and chose the nvme drive, an error popped up (windows setup could not reinitialize the deployment engine) and i had to exit out of the installer. So now, in the bios; I can see the bootable drive and it gives me to option to boot to it, but the bios does not recognise the drive and says the m.2 slot is N/A in ezmode view. I am currently using the default settings meaning CSM is enabled, AHCI is enabled, Secure boot is enabled. Attempting to boot the NVMe just takes me back to the bios. I'm thinking some how the windows installer half installed the bootable partition on my drive and now it is stuck in some sort of limbo. So to some capacity, the bios is detecting the drive but not to the point where it recognizes it as a valid one? Honestly I have no clue what is wrong or how to even approach fixing this. Have tried: Reseating Drive Resetting Bios settings Disable CSM -> Enable Secure Boot Enable TPM & All combinations All of which either end up not being able to boot to bios what soever or the drive just not showing at all. Any help would be much appreciated thanks

So whats up with the new AMD navi naming scheme? RX 3080 seems like they're trying to get a chunk of Nvidia's RTX 2080 product or even preventing them from using "RTX 3080" in the future? Edit-- Just want to clarify i understand that these are just speculations- just discussing if they actually go through with it.

1. Buy a 1050ti 2. bought an overpriced powersupply, turns out it was the graphics card which was dead so wasted like $150. 3. buy a non-Ryzen AM4 cpu. (save up if you have am4!)

hand it out evenly... that rings a bell

Yeah, I've heard that most manufacturers don't want to have any 'anti-miner' schemes because its just too good for business

yay, another bitcoin post amirite! Well anyways. I was considering upgrading to a 1080ti or even 1080tis in SLI when a friend told me that i should wait for bitcoin to die, he estimated that 1080ti's would drop price by atleast $600, which tbh i find obscene. When do you guys reckon bitcoin will drop and in affect how much do you reckon card prices will drop? Im considering waiting as I'm not in a rush but many people reckon it wont be for another year that bitcoin will die, also raising the question if it doesn't die anytime soon, when Nvidia or AMD releases a new generation of card, will miners sell their old cards or keep them?

It was years ago I no longer have the mouse

Hey guys, I was reminiscing about the old gaming days and thinking back to my old setup and remembered my first gaming mouse a Razer DeathAdder which I bought off ebay. Now that I think about it i am slowly starting to think that it was fake. My main reason for concern was that there was no Mouse 3&4 but the mouse worked perfectly with Razer Synapse. I have been searching for the past hour trying to find a Death adder model that has no extra buttons but can't find any. The mouse also didn't have braided cable. This is stuck in my head, what are your guys' thoughts?

Need help from anyone whose used scorptec before. I bought my item and I have no idea if I chose pickup or deliver and it says courier pickup? Does that mean the courier is picking it up and delivering it or I have to pick it up. The site really isnt specific about it

Damn, it's fairly old. I mean if it's dead i might aswell try the freezer trick.

Hey guys my harddrive suddenly stopped working after the pc went into sleep mode. im running some samsung hdd with an asus tog strix b350f mobo ive tried using other cables. But the beeping kept happening

Talking strictly software wise, i would not think so as Windows (if you are using it) usually scans for new components. Hardware wise, after a while it could ware the pins on the pci-e/dimm slots

Wouldn't it be easier to find out more about a monitor by getting it's pixel desnity. for example a 25" 4k monitor would be much better than a 75" 4k TV, why isn't pixel desnity it's main selling point rather than resolution

pack it in between pillows

Never seen any, but wouldn't cable management be a hassle?

I've been searching around for some good ddr4 ram and I decided to go with Hyperx Fury's as they were quite cheap and relatively good looking I wanted whites as it fits my build but soon realised that they don't provide 2x4gb White, while they have 2x4gb for the black variant, anyone can explain this?

Personally, I LOVE THE NZXT S340 & S340 ELITE. There are no words to describe it's beauty. It's sort of ironic, that I love the case but I do not have it, I cannot afford it. lol, either way I am getting it soon and I am very hyped. Although, aside from it's beauty. I was thinking of getting another case (yes even after what I just said), for the sole purpose of having vertical gpu mounting. I was wondering, what are you favourite cases? I am looking for one with as I said, vertical gpu mounting & a good cable management system. ALSO I was also thinking of just modding the case to support vertical gpu mounting, but I wouldn't know where to start.

If you're at home I recommend using your PC over laptop. The only clear advantage i can see is portability

Okay good to know, thanks everyone

Okay, But would a long pci-e riser work?

Yes

Title says it all, I was wondering If Pci-e Riser daisy chains are possible, and If so do they make a huge difference in performance?