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  1. l-_-ll-_-l
    From what I know it's an HP Envy 15-j191nb. I will attach the files you asked for. Thanks for your help! DxDiag.txt
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    Indeed, that's why I turned it off. I formatted the HDD and there's nothing on it anymore. When I plug it in the HP wants to boot into the HDD through SATA instead of the SSD through mSATA. In the bios it doesn't differentiate between mSATA or SATA in the boot order.
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    In the end I did that. But even now with a formatted HDD the HP wants to boot into the HDD through SATA instead of the SSD through mSATA, that is the real problem. (I just gave all the other info to avoid suggestions I may have already tried.)
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    Hi everyone, My brother was complaining about how slow his HP laptop was despite it not being that old. I checked it and saw he was still on an HDD and had an empty mSATA port. I ordered the Samsung EVO 860 250GB mSATA SSD and mounted it in a jiffy. When I turned the computer on again it seemed to be stuck in some kind of loop, eventually leading me to the blue screen where you have your advanced booting/troubleshooting options. I took out the HDD, changed the booting order, installed Windows 10 on the mSATA drive and everything seemed to be working great. After that I installed the HDD again, as he wished to use it as a data drive for pictures, but the looping started again. I took the HDD out again, booted from the mSATA drive, connected the HDD through a SATA to USB cable and backed it up on another drive I had laying around. I then wiped his HDD and installed it again, hoping that an empty drive would prompt the laptop to search for the mSATA drive to boot from. Unfortunately the laptop couldn't find any bootable device although minutes before that, when the HDD wasn't connected, it booted into the mSATA SSD without any problem. I found a lot of similar complaints online, but never a fairly easy solution, why isn't the mSATA and regular SATA port differentiated between in the booting order? (For those wondering, I did turn off the Intel Rapid thingy in the BIOS that would use the mSATA slot for caching.) Any thoughts?
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    I used Macrium reflect last week and I found it very easy to work with. Just select the drive you wish to copy (250GB I presume) and click on the "clone this disk" option. In the wizard that is opened select the new SSD as the destination. Since your new drive is larger than your old one you don't have to do anything special and just have to click next. After you have copied it, replace the old SSD with the new one and boot up again. Everything should work as before but you may need to expand the size of one of your partitions to match your increased capacity. Just make sure to test it before formatting the old SSD
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    Hi everyone, My laptop somewhat is acting somewhat strange. When I power it on I immediatly see the screen lit up and the ASUS logo appears, I presume POST-ing. After 2 seconds the screen turns off again and stays that way for 15 seconds. After that it turns on again and boots into windows and everything seems fine. Just last week the pause between POST and windows boot did not exist. Thanks in advance!
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    Thanks! I was able to dissable it in some hidden menu.
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    Do you think it's causing interference when nothing is being transfered? I checked on the Surface and saw it's defined as "Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter #3", I tried to shut it down and it seems to be gone. Would you why the printer would need it, perhaps some Phone to printer scanning function? If so would you think there a way to disable it? Thank you!
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    39.99$ sounds like a great deal actually. A couple of years ago we had to pay over a €100 for a set of a 500Mbps adapter and receiver with 3*LAN+Wifi.....
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    Since you already have a phone cable running from your modem (presumably) to where you want to use a wired connection, you way just want to replace the existing phone cabling with ethernet cabling if possible. If it is not possible powerlines could help you. The things to note are that ideally your powerline adapter and your powerline receiver are, in terms of the electric circuit they're on, rather close to another. Try to avoid the signal having to pass through a circuit breaker. We have Devolo powerlines at home and are rather happy with them, I don't think they sell the particular model anymore, but depending on the speed your ISP is offering you could buy a set (If your ISP is only offering 100Mbps there is no real need to splurge a lot of money on a powerline capable of 1.2Gbps, unless you want to have high intra-network speeds between your laptop and a storage device for example.)
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    I was thinking of replying with a LTT-like comercial message for PIA as a joke, but it seems PIA may be causing the problem.
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    Hi everyone! Whilst reconfiguring my AIO modem and powerline with wireless capabilities I discovered some rather weird things: 1) One of my printers is broadcasting a 2.4GHz signal of its own called HP-Print-EC-ENVY 5530 series on the same channel as the network it's connected with. (The printer didn't have ethernet support ?.) Why is it doing this and would this cause any interference, there shouldn't be any connected devices on that network. 2) My Surface 3 Pro is broadcasting a 5GHz signal of its own, it's called DIRECT-MO<<Devices name>>msR3 weirdly enough on a channel of its own (36). At first I thought I accidentally activated the hotspot function so I checked but it wasn't on. When I activated the hotspot function the aforementioned network disappeared and was replaced by the hotspot network on the same channel. 3) The Macbook Pro (early 2011) (not mine btw) was not able to register any channels over 48 on the 5GHz band. I checked and the network card complies with 802.11n and works fine with a 5GHz channel on channel 36. The country code it's receiving at boot is EU, apparently every time it boots the first router that gets a signal to the mac determines the country code and thus the allowed bands on the 5GHz spectrum. If you have any idea why these things are the way they are, your help would be very much appreciated.
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    Otherwise I would have been perfect for an "Sh$t Manufacturers say" video for LTT
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    And right next to it it says "product only supports the 5GHz band." Why would they lie about that? Is it possible that a receiver can only focus on one band? If it is, perhaps they just did it to save space or something?
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    That's what I thought as well, but it's what it says on the productpage (see previous link or attached image.) I don't see why they would lie about it as it's in effect removing functionality.
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