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Update on situation: I have managed to install a generic Intel UHD Driver however 1. Brightness is not working 2. Upon restart it does not work again Any tips?

Thanks, I'll try an older UHD 620 Driver later, however I do want it installed so I can adjust the brightness and have OpenGL etc.

Hi Community, So I recently wanted to upgrade my 768p TN panel on my Acer Aspire A515-51G to a 1080p IPS Panel (N156HCE-GN1). I have already installed the new panel on my laptop, however I am unable to boot into Windows as it black screens after the logo. Thinking it was the display driver, I booted into safe mode which boots fine, and installing the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter and booting back into normal Windows works fine too. However as soon as I reinstall my Uhd 620 driver, the display black screens again. Could it be that the display is completely incompatible with the driver? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Sorry, should have been more specific - I replaced my old card with this new one so I could run a Hackintosh - Bluetooth worked before. I was wondering if anyone could provide me with the proper driver?

Hi Community, I recently installed a new wifi card into my laptop (BCM94350ZAE) however I have not been able to get it to work, even when trying some drivers. Could anyone please help me? The Bluetooth menu simply does not show up in Device Manager, not even in hidden items, and wifi works just fine.

Ah OK< thank you for the clarification!

Hi Community, I have a Dell Latitude 3390 2 in 1 that says it supports DP 1.2 through its USB C port, and I have a regular HDMI monitor. Does this mean I will need an adapter from USB C to DP, and then DP to HDMI, or will a USB c to HDMI be just fine? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Ah OK, thanks for the clarification.

Hi Community, So I just bught a LG 24MK430 that supports 1080 @ 75Hz. However as far as I know my lapotp (Acer Aspire a515-51g) has an HDMI 1.4 port. Looking at the Intel HD Graphics Control Panel and Windows settings it says that the monitor is indeed running at 75Hz. Does this mean that my laptop actually has an HDMI 2.0 port, and therefore supports 4K 60? Any ideas would be appreciated. If you need anything, just ask.

Hmm, it says on the website itself that I shouldn't do this through the USB interface? Did you recover your drives through a SATA interface?

Wait really? So I just create the installation on a USB and boot it from that? Wow my life is a lie

Thanks for that, I'll get LInux installed on a dual boot at some point within the next few days and give you an update to see if it worked.

Try the Gigabyte Z390 Designare: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z390-DESIGNARE-rev-10#kf

Thanks for your help, and sorry for wasting your time as a restart fixed the issue, so dumb for not trying that the first time ;(

dont think i could do that, as i dont want to void my warranty as there is a warranty void if seal is broken sticker. Any other ideas?

122GB free

Hello Community, So I've recently been noticing that my laptop feels slower than usual and also transfer speeds are slow. I didn't suspect much of it until I ran benchmarks on my SSD (on both AS SSD Benchmark and CrystalDisk). I was getting only about 30mb/s both read and write and response times are out of this world. I've included a screenshot. Any help would be appreciated. System specs if it helps: i5-8250u 8GB DDR4 256GB Micron M.2 SATA Geforce 940MX

Yep I've tried diskpart, but it still does not recognize it.

Your motherboard has a LGA 115x socket, so it supports any CPU of LGA1151, LGA1155 and 1150.

As the previous replier said, just buy the fastest speed you can afford. Most of these are just marketing, and should pretty much always work with any system, with negligble performance difference between what they consider "ideal" for said RAM and not "ideal". I would say the best would be 3200Mhz for gaming and general use. If it really worries you, just get some generic HyperX from Kingston RAM for example.

Good point, I'm probably going to end up chucking it anyway. Besides it's only about like 50 dollars for 500GB anyway. Thanks for the advice. I don't mind too much about my data, but I have 7 hard drives and an SSD from old laptops that are unusable ( I mean the laptop) so might as well take advantage of it for now and use it for backup, even if it is a "time bomb for data loss"

Hi Community, So I have a 500GB WD Hard Drive from a Lenovo laptop from about 2013-ish. After using said laptop for about 4 years, it died. However during the time I was using it I set a Hard Drive password on it, but could never revert it as it didn't let me remove the password?! So I assumed it would be fine, however by the time it died I am now left with a 500GB Hard Drive that can not be initialized by Windows. I really want to keep this hard drive for backups etc. But it's giving me a really hard time. I've tried diskpart, I've tried using Linux to format etc. it, I've tried MacOS, I'm honestly about to give up on this thing, as calling for recovery services isn't worth it since I don't have any important data on it (in fact it's all on my new laptop), I just want it to work. BTW trying to load the disk now in Disk Management, it absolutely freezes disk management until I remove the drive (as an external drive using a SATA to USB Cable). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Ah OK, sorry I've only just gotten into tech like a couple years ago so the older tech I haven't really tied into. Thanks for that

Intel always supports the last gen chipset with their latest CPUs, a good old BIOS update would do the trick. But yes, I agree with you, to the original poster: sometimes there are issues and it simply won't work. It is better just to get the new Z390 chipset as mentioned above, and is only around 30-40 dollars more most of the time.

I wouldn't recommend getting two, as the extra temperature, cooling, power and cost does not justify the moderate framerate increase. Besides you'll get issues with scaling etc. among other issues. If anything get a RTX 2080TI coz it'll be cheaper than two RTX 2080's and the performance will be only a tad worse in most situations than the 2 in SLI.