manno
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I'd be tempted to format and see how you get on, unless it's a ball ache
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Update: I ran a windows reset (basically, It deleted all apps but kept my files etc) things seemed to be a little better for about 20 minutes, but when running a game to see how it was coping with that, it BSOD. not only that, but I'm getting a shit tonne of disk errors and warning in eventvwr. one of them says "The IO operation at logical block address 0x4f1c9189 for Disk 1 (PDO name: \Device\00000031) failed due to a hardware error." while another says "The IO operation at logical block address 0x32cd6d8 for Disk 0 (PDO name: \Device\00000030) was retried." so this thing is showing multiple errors for multiple disks. the question is: have I got 2 shagged disks, 1 shagged Motherboard, or both?
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Have you installed the drivers? if so, try wiping them all, and just plug it in to see if it works
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sorry. You just need the letter set up the script and run it on a test folder. keep fiddling until it works, and then alter it to the proper folder
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quick update: while testing, I suddenly found myself with an almost totally dead PC, which couldn't switch on properly. Luckily, after much meddling, I managed to get it back on *phew* anyway: I decided to focus on my SSD and memory this evening. with the SSD, I decided to do a chkdsk /f /r, which involes restarting the PC, and running the test outside of windows. This seems to freeze at 17% consistently. Interesting. for the memory, I used memtest86+. this seems to get to test 10 or 11 before completely shutting down my PC. so, not good so far... right now I'm looking into exactly how much power my PC needs based on the components, while running some more memory/ssd tests. I've also got an older gfx card, which I'm going to use to rule out any issues with my rx480 when running games
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yeah
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create a ps1 file. copy+paste the script in that page. edit it for your hdd locations. use windows task schedule to run the ps1 once a day
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I haven't used powershell much. I may look into it now the company I work for is pushing for windows 10
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could just create a schedule that would run a .bat that copies the files to your HDD every day or so
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good call on opening them up. I'll make sure everyone gives me the go ahead before doing anything. I've got everything important on my gdrive so should be all good
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have you got a second PC? if so, get a cradle. stick the HDD with the password issues onto it. rename the file that runs the sticky keys to something else. make a copy of cmd and rename it to whatever the sticky keys was. stick the hdd back in the PC, run it. When you get to the login, press shift 5 times, then see if you can change the password with net user %username% %password%. or enable/create a new user
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I don't suppose you have a link?
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Yeah, I know SMART isn't brilliant. I may try some benchmark tests on them to see if they can cope. I'm also going to look into the RAM, but that'll be after I've ruled out the hdd/ssd's thanks
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Thats a good idea. when they get back to me, I'll reply with a load of pics. I will need to open up the surge protector for them to see, but I'll make sure this is ok with them before proceeding. I'm defo looking into better solutions once everything is fixed Noted. I'll contact them after I reply to this.. thanks I've tried a few things with the HDD, but not samsung magician, I thought that was just a cloning tool. I'll run it now I think clearning the CMOS will be a last resort thing. Thanks for the advice. I think my next phase will be to diagnose the SSD/HDDs one by one. then move on to the scarier stuff!
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Thank you, Doctor that does sound possible, but I've tried a few tests including chkdsk,SMART,surface level, etc, but none of them are showing any issues on any of my HDD/SSDs
