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gilm0re3

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  1. Here's the drive all disassembled. When I took it apart the Micro USB connector end was broken off from the USB A end of the drive. It looks like if the exposed brown color is part of the actual flash chip, it very well could be a gonner.
  2. With all the playing around with the drive I've done it has yet to show up in Disk Management.
  3. A while ago I dropped my laptop off my bed while my Corsair Flash Voyager Go was in one of the USB ports. Unfortunately, when I picked up my laptop off the ground I noticed that the laptop basically landed directly on the flash drive after a three foot drop. On top of that, when I disconnected and then reinserted the flash drive to see if it was ok, nothing happened. I tried plugging it into my phone using the micro USB end, and still nothing. After some fiddling around I discovered that while Windows Explorer wasn't recognizing the drive, if I had it plugged in in just the right position I could at least get Windows to trigger the "device connected" noise, and Device Manager also recognizes the name of the device in the Disk Drives dropdown. However, that's where my luck has ended, as the Device Manager properties tab for the drive shows nothing in the Volumes tab of the disk properties. Has anyone ever experienced a USB drive behaving like this after hard impact, or know anything at all about getting Windows to see an actual volume with files when the drive is connected?
  4. See I was wondering if purchasing an aftermarket replacement cable without the memory wire style cable guides would help alleviate this problem possibly as well. Even though I don't think that I'm allergic to any kind of rubber or silicone, I was hoping that a braided fabric styled cable might help. However, right now I think the skin might be healing or getting better at least since when I woke up this morning the bumpy skin felt a lot harder and less sensitive to the touch.
  5. I just got a pair of brand new Audio Technica ATH-IM50s from Amazon on Friday and I love them. They're my first pair of actually decent earbuds (coming from my daily driver JVC HAFX32B Marshmallow earbuds) and I'm really happy that now I can enjoy high quality audio outside of sitting at my desk with my ATH-M40Xs. However, I have noticed a very interesting issue with them: the backside of my ears seem to be having some kind of allergic reaction with the cables. So I want to find out from you guys if this is not uncommon for new IEM users, especially since this is my first experience with earbuds/in ears that route the cable over the top and back of the ear. Also, I would not say that I am at all prone to having allergic reactions due to contacting something. So what do you guys think? Is this normal because the skin around my ears is adjusting to the friction from the memory wire on the IEMs, or is there some other reason like an actual allergic reaction? Thanks
  6. Looks like you might be right. Found this on Lenovo's driver page for the 900:
  7. From my experience, I've been able to install a new ssd using a stock windows copy and the windows key transferred just fine. From what I've seen the key has some sort of tie in to the bios or root files or something like that, so it automatically activates when you install a new windows copy even on a new drive.
  8. My sister bought a refurb Yoga 900 off Ebay and she kinda wants to factory reset it so that she can go through the full set up process and make sure everything is to her liking and all that. Now, I suggested having her make a Windows USB drive with Microsoft's Media Creation Tool, and from there booting off of it and installing an oem Microsoft version of Windows sans all the Lenovo junk and everything. My only concern with this approach is concerning the special Yoga functions when you change the laptop orientation. So basically does anybody know if a stock Windows install would still let it do the screen rotation and keyboard disabling when you flip the orientation or if there's a way to install the drivers for that off of Lenovo's website, or if I should just have her do a factory reset from within the current installation of Windows and not have her worry about using a USB drive to reinstall a new copy of Win?
  9. -Solved- Deleted the app from the phone and reinstalled using OpenGapps. For some reason that worked when reinstalling from the play store and apks didn't. Might have something to do with the app being a system app vs being a standalone download app.
  10. Just yesterday google fit started acting up on my watch. I use the standard digital google fit watch face as my standard face and while I was working out yesterday suddenly I received a popup on my watch that android wear was not responding, and so I pressed stop. When it returned to the watch face, I noticed that instead of showing the correct activity time and type, instead the ring had been replaced with a completed circle identical to the color of normally the biking activity and the activity time instead of showing the correct activity time just reflected the current clock time showed on the watch face. I tried uninstalling the app from my phone, and after reinstalling the app to my phone the app won'y reinstall onto my watch, even after two factory resets. Has anybody else experienced anything this bizarre/know what I can do to fix this? Thanks!
  11. G710+ has an orange accent and comes with browns. G710 has a blue accent and blue switches.
  12. Custom watercooling is a bit more tricky without a reservoir, but especially if your rad has multiple ports you theoretically should be able to top it up using one of those ports. It just makes bleeding your loop a lot harder since you have much less excess fluid to deal with when trying to get your loop completely saturated with fluid so the pump doesn't run dry.
  13. That Intel 750 SSD uses the NVME protocol, so it wouldn't use SATA space but it would use PCIE lanes. That could be a problem if you are running more than one graphics cards and the CPU you are using doesn't support much more than 16 or so lanes.
  14. Theoretically you should be safe no matter what you plug into. USB is fairly smart about now allowing more amperage than the device can take, but I could see how something like a cheap USB lighter wouldn't have the proper resistors or whatever to comply with the USB spec for safety. Especially since you are trying to charge a simple lighter it really shouldn't matter whether you charge off of a .5 or 1 amp port since the lighter won't be slurping power away like a phone would because it isn't in an always on mode like a phone. Newer phones usually can't do .5 amps simply because they are using more power by the phone being on and running the display than they are are taking in from the power brick.
  15. Basically the most noticeable difference is the price. The 6800K is going to be faster because it's newer and clocked a bit higher, but for all intents and purposes it will be a stone's throw away as far as the performance you will get from the one verses the other.
  16. I don't think this is really a fair fight at all. I have the first gen G502 with the blue LEDs and I can't find anything that I would want differently on it besides the blue accent strip on the thumb rest and the LEDs. Other than that it's one of the most solid mice ever made. That would be also why it costs more than the G402. It's basically perfect.
  17. I agree. 1060 will be mostly just a sidestep and not a real substantial upgrade. Really the major upgrades you would be getting with a 1060 is better thermals and noise and supported technologies. I would keep saving up to get a substantial leap in performance, especially since I don't think you want to have to upgrade GPUs soon after getting your new one.
  18. Noise dampening foam will help with some of the noise. Obviously it won't get rid of it. Mostly it will just cut down on the echo in the room, which if it is bad enough, especially if you have hardwood flooring or very little furniture in that room, it should actually help a fair bit.
  19. Probably easiest to download a program like Speccy or CPUZ for free and send a screenshot of it.
  20. Can't you just email them and say that you are no longer in need of the RMA since the problem was caused by something besides your 390x? I can't imagine that they would want to sue you for not using your RMA since I can only imagine that RMA's cost a fair deal of money to process since they have to send you a new card for free and take time trying to fix the card so they can possibly resell it as a refurb unit or whatever, which they would then also take a hit on there as well.
  21. Something light like custom vehicles shouldn't crash a game. Stuff starts getting hectic when you start creating a lot of objects that the physics engine has to render, such as hundreds of explosions happening at once or lots of collisions from an abundance in spawned in entities. Other mods like texture packs can put more strain on the graphics card if they are a much higher res pack than the original one. Do a bit of research before you install mods to see if other people are complaining about system instability and you should be fine. I just the other day installed the Menyoo mod for GTA V and my laptop with a lowly 860M was handling it just fine and I noticed no performance hit until I started using the tool to spawning in lots of cars and flying objects and creating lots of explosions. But even then, it wasn't much of a hit. As for hardware issues, really unless the mod has malicious code attached to it you shouldn't do any physical harm to anything,
  22. Funnily enough, Linus has actually done a video on this: Basically all you should use is water and a microfiber cloth or coffee filter.
  23. Or as some people say, "It's just like building with really expensive Legos." Realistically, it's not really all that hard, especially if you have a handy video guide to help you along, and for the most part the components are made so you can't plug them in the wrong way (except the CPU). Linus has a plethora of build guides you can follow here if you so choose:
  24. gilm0re3

    RGB Help

    As far as I know, syncing different effects and color patters across different RGB products from different companies just doesn't work. It's possible that someone has created a homemade program that does this, but the built in software that comes with the peripherals won't have it. Realistically there's no reason for a peripheral company to enable that kind of compatibility because they want you to buy all your peripherals from them so they can sync together. If they enabled RGB synchronization people would be much less prone to buy all of their peripherals from the same company, so they company would then probably loose a lot of money.
  25. I vote for Crucial since it seems like the Samsung 850 Evo is a little bit too far out of your budget. Something like maybe an M500 or an MX100 should be pretty good. One thing you might want to try is just going to PCPartpicker and sorting out everything so you get all the SSDs within your pricepoint that have at least a 3 or 4 star review and also fit the size that you want.
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