coolcommando54

Building a sleeper pc for my parents out of stuff that I had lying around, and went to use this motherboard that was on a shelf in a spare room. A family member has recently painted said room, and other than being generally filthy the board is now covered in paint splatters. Are these dangerous? And how should I remove the paint if so?

right got you, I presumed it was 4gb per chip or something on each. will contact ebay

these are mine here, chips look the same as online and the labels are identical to others I've found online. also has the weird little connector to the right which I presume is something for a corsair product? so I can't see anything that screams "this heatsink doesn't belong"

I bought 2 sticks of 16gb ddr4 2666mhz ram from a guy on ebay and after testing them in my PC just now, windows only sees them as 4gb 2133mhz sticks each, doesn't matter what slot they're in or if there's only one. I'm wondering if I've been scammed because I've never seen anything like this before but the labels on the heatsink look legit. any ideas?

nevermind, just figured out how to extend it and we're all good. thank you for your help!

alright, I just followed all that and it seems to have worked, except theres 1600gb unallocated because the partitions got transferred over from the image files as well. can i make that unallocated storage into a new simple volume or will that not work?

forgot to mention, I use the hard drive as well and I don't want to lose everything thats on that. will it wipe that drive, and am I better off with an empty drive?

I just got a new 2tb m.2 SSD, and I'd like to copy everything over from my old m.2 SSD but my motherboard only has one m.2 slot. I have a hard drive with 240gb free space, so is there a way I can move everything into that space then put it on the new m.2?

So I went back to an older motherboard driver, and it worked perfectly (asus crosshair hero vi btw) until this afternoon, and I'm back to 520mhz. Gonna go check that the board hasn't changed the bios somehow

So I saw another thread about a guy with a ryzen 3600x that was bottlenecking at like 540mhz or something, and I realised my CPU never exceeded 520mhz. He fixed it by rolling back his motherboard driver, so I did the same and it fixed it: until today and the issue is back. Idk if the motherboard has reverted to the newer driver or my CPU is just ruined. I'm about to check

haha, updated my mobo drivers a few days ago because my pc wouldn't boot without them. I'll try rolling it back tho

Just made a thread about my pc lagging then saw this, can confirm I've got a similar issue. Cpu won't exceed around 520mhz, Ryzen 2700x. I have a 2600 lying about that I think I'll try just now.

just checked and I don't even have the option listed under tools

haven't a clue, I'll go find out now. Should it be on or off?

nope, it's a wd one like this https://www.scan.co.uk/products/240gb-wd-green-m2-2280-ssd-sata-iii-6gb-s-3d-nand-read-545mb-s-retail except mine is green I think