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  1. WesTooLoose
    So I have a MacBook 2012 that won’t read drives, the ribbon cable has had multiple attempts to be fixed. the person that tried to fix it said it could be a motherboard issue what is the best way to try to fix this ps the issue is the drives cannot be read and it’s not a ribbon cable issue
  2. WesTooLoose
    Bought a used MacBook Pro 2012 for a good price came with no OS instAlled, went into recovery mode and when it goes to verify the macs info it fails to re install. I have done the following to try to get to internet recovery mode: reset the nvram numerous times tried to make a bootable usb of the OS X Mountain Lion from a windows machine (I have no other macs to use the utility line to make a bootable device) the MacBook Pro can read usb devices as I need a usb mouse to click and it reads the old HDD that’s connected externally. i hVe both tried to connect through both wifi and through Ethernet to reinstall the os. what other steps should I try to get the is reinstalled or at what point do I try to figure what hardware failure is happening
  3. WesTooLoose
    thank you! would it be better to go through acer for those components or third party sellers like ebay? (i dont know if acer is right to repair friendly so other alternatives may be the better option overall)
  4. WesTooLoose
    I recently was gifted an acer aspire 3 that includes an m.2 drive. when i go through the bios it says that a second drive (2.5 in drive) can be added but when i opened it up n could not see a cord to plug a second drive into. can i buy a drive cord separately to install and upgrade another drive for storage?
  5. WesTooLoose
    Thank you for the information:)
  6. WesTooLoose
    That I didn’t know thank you for letting me know about open wrt though! if it can help spring some new life into my routers while saving up for a new one it would be awesome for routers and internet safety best practice is to buy new? Or would a still being updated used router (in good shape obviously) be a good option as long as it’s getting support from the company
  7. WesTooLoose
    So I have two end of life routers the c5400 and the c2300 both no longer receive Canadian firmware updates, but do have a final us update and until I can get a newer router I would still like to have it safely updated for security what can be done with end of life routers? is it safe to update using a improper country firmware or different versions of that same router? c5400 is v1 (discontinued in 2017, end of life 2017 for v1) c2300 is v2 (discontinued in 2016, end of life 2017 for product) any help or idea greatly appreciated
  8. WesTooLoose
    So new issue I made a new simplified volume after doing disk part samsung magician cannot find the new volume edit has to restart Samsung magician oops
  9. WesTooLoose
    So disk management let me delete the OS but not the recovery or healthy partition so I’ll have to do a wipe using samsung magician
  10. WesTooLoose
    So I have a Samsung 860 evo that I used previously as a boot drive. I want to safely wipe it and use it as storage how do I safely remove the files left over and reformat it? using windows 10
  11. WesTooLoose
    so an update after scannow fixed corrupted system files i end tasks including windows file explorer, which then caused the task bar and windows to have a problem, after this it feels like this is a os problem am i correct to guess that?
  12. WesTooLoose
    thank you the scannow tool founds corrupt system files and repaired them
  13. WesTooLoose
    task manager can op[en but is unable to close unresponsive programs, i had issues with handbrake and task manager was unable to close it when it was unresponsive. uninstalled handbrake thinking it was the issue i now cannot open itunes or samsung magician (to check my ssd's health) or even open a video file to play as for a backup, i have most of my important files backed up previously
  14. WesTooLoose
    recently my computer has been having a lot of problems with opening programs startup and shutdown as well as restart, how do i tell if this is any piece of hardware vs the os having trouble
  15. WesTooLoose
    So last night a colleague and I were chatting on the pc through discord he could not hear me well at all and adjusted the audio setting on his side, he suggested I moved to mobile and I nearly blew his eardrums off lol I was using a steel series mic/headphone on pc the headphone has been damaged for a while but I thought the mic would still be good quality and work great, to hear the audio I was using a Samsung audio & mic combo that they included with their older phones. I also tried a microphone that was not damaged that come with dragon naturally speaking and same issue i was using the front headphone and microphone ports for this I was using the EarPods that came with my IPhone XR and the mic quality was ten times better than my pc. is there a reason for this difference? Is there a way I can fix this in audio settings on pc or do I need to upgrade any equipment?
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