Magicpandajuice

Ive been trying to update to the newest windows release, version 2004, for a few days now. every time i try to install it, the system boots into the windows recovery environment and when i restart again it says the update cant be installed, i get error code 0XC1900101-0xC20016- the installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation ive tried all the troubleshooting steps provided by microsoft and still the same error, i recently tried updating directly from the iso in windows and it still isnt working. the only other option i can think of is to just a fresh install (probably wouldnt hurt but i dont wanna have to reinstall everything)

If it was drivers then computer would Atleast post, I don’t even get that, I’ve also tried a new psu, starting to think my motherboard took a crap

So, I have a prebuilt dell inspiron 5675, I was going to throw an old gpu in it as an extra gaming pc for my nieces, I’ve tried 5 different gpus in the computer and none of them have a display, the computer has been sitting for awhile so from what I’ve read, either my motherboard or the psu is going out. The computer turns in and all the fans and rgb and everything go as normal, but no sort of post noises or anything

See, what’s really confusing me is that when I put it under load (not hard, opening chrome uses 80 percent of the old duel core cpu), it jumps to around 30 or so or even higher under sustained load

I have an old MSI p55-a33 motherboard with a AMD a4-3300 APU thst I’ve recently been messing around with, its on an open air bench with a somewhat decent offbrand Chinese CPU cooler, I set the fan speed to 100 percent to do a stress test and I realized my idle temps are anywhere from 9-15 c, while my house sits around 20 c, is it just possible that the motherboard is reading the wrong temperatures or is it possible that it’s actually running below ambient on just regular air cooling?

It looks like a good case, kinda pricey and I would prefer a little cheaper, but if I can’t find a better option by the time I start upgrades I’ll definitely look into it

I have a 5 spare 500gb hard drives, I want to get a case that can easily fit them all, needs to be atleast ATX to fit my motherboard, preferably Under 100 dollars, I would prefer AT LEAST 3 built in 3.5 inch drive cases, and then if I really need to I can just set the others somewhere in the case and find a way to secure it, but no less then 3 actual drive cages,

So, I have a couple of hard drives, 2 x1tb and a single 2 tb drive, I’m planning on putting the 1tb drives in a hardware raid then combine them with the 2tb with a software raid, the way I see it, Raid 0 on hard drives should increase the 4K and small file performance significantly, but does it? I’m fairly new to raid, I don’t really care for any sort of redundancy as the entire thing is strictly for games and non important files

I figured that’s probably what I’d end up doing, I have a ram cache on my computer using ddr4 using primo cache, it helps even with my nvme Ssd, I know it wouldn’t be nearly as fast but I figured something of an 4-8 gb of ram cache on a hard drive may make a difference, oh well, I googled a few things and found a thing from like 2009 that is a 5.25 inch bay drive that supports ddr2 in a way that the I-ram did, but I couldn’t find it for cheaper then 500 dollars

I have about 16 gigabytes of old ddr2 ram just laying around, from different computers I’ve had, and I’m trying to find a way to use it in something of a ram cache/scratch disk, in a similar way to a gigabyte I-RAM did, I can only find DDR models of the I-ram sadly, anyone know of similar products I could get? Or just a way to do this in another way?

It’s not an issue about graphics, it’s just it’s hard to see texts and icons on my tv from where I sit, which is why I want to find a way to zoom the entire system in a similar manor to display scaling on windows

I’m relatively new to linux, but I have an old core2quad system that I’m using as an HTPC, and i use it on a 73 inch 1080p TV, which as you’ll probably quickly guess makes things kind of difficult to see on occasion, and I’ve been trying to find tools that allow for something similar to the system wide zoom features from windows 10, maybe linuxlite is just not ment for something like this? If so I would happily take recommendations for other distros to try

I mean something similar to a bsel mod for older cpus, blocking parts of the pins that let the motherboard read what speed the part should run at

On a few older systems I’ve messed with, stuff like bsel modding can provide an overclock, and I was wondering if there was some way to do something similar to ram? Like, say I have ram slower then the motherboards maximum speed it supports, but the bios doesn’t allow for ram overclocking, would it be possible to block off a pin or something that tells the motherboard what speed the ram should run at so that it defaults to its maximum rated speed? I’ve never messed with fam overclocking before so please correct me if there is extra steps I’m missing

I’ve used software raid before on similar drives, but I’ve recently ran out of space on my main rig , which has a single 1tb drive,and I was planning on moving 2 of my 500 gb drives into it and running it in raid 0, then I realized that it makes a 1tb volume once put together, would it be possible to create that 1 tb volume using software raid 0, then put the 2 separate volumes together in another raid 0