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Yeah, still the most compatible, but also not the most reliable.
 
I would keep the important documents NTFS and mount that read-only on linux, and have one exfat drive for steam and as "exchange" between the 2. But then I'm mostly using Windows and when I'm on linux I usually can do with only reading the Windows docs.

Yeah, still the most compatible, but also not the most reliable.
 
I would keep the important documents NTFS and mount that read-only on linux, and have one exfat drive for steam and as "exchange" between the 2. But then I'm mostly using Windows and when I'm on linux I usually can do with only reading the Windows docs.

Definitely. Any memtest fail is unacceptable and means the machine won't work right.

Definitely. Any memtest fail is unacceptable and means the machine won't work right.

Definitely. Any memtest fail is unacceptable and means the machine won't work right.

It's alive and well, got an entire aisle of them at the hardware store here....
 
https://www.stanleytools.com/systems-campaigns/stanley-systems/stanley-fatmax

It's alive and well, got an entire aisle of them at the hardware store here....
 
https://www.stanleytools.com/systems-campaigns/stanley-systems/stanley-fatmax

Use something like Process Hacker, set it to highlight starting/stopping processes for 10 seconds, plug the dock in and see what comes and goes. 
 
It's likely something the driver does when it sees it, the dock itself should not have the ability to run something on the host machine.

It's alive and well, got an entire aisle of them at the hardware store here....
 
https://www.stanleytools.com/systems-campaigns/stanley-systems/stanley-fatmax

Avata 2
 

They're not going to run any modern esports games very well, if at all. 
 
However, if you wanted to make a LAN for games up through the mid 2000s on XP (Unreal Tournament 2004, Quake III Arena, etc), they'll run those no problem.
 
To me, Pentium 4s and Core 2s fall into a void where they're too "new" to be interesting but far too old to be useful. I'd pass.
 
Those are the refreshed "Wolfdale" dual core processors. 2 cores, 2 threads. 

Why AI?
Those problems can be solved with algorithms and not much computing power.

Bottom line, it makes no sense to install applications on D: as that wont stop it from storing the configuration files on C:.  If C: corrupts, you'll have the same problem and have to reinstall the applications anyway due to all the registry stuff.  Its never ever worth trying to hack things back into the registry to make applications work without a reinstall, you'll just mess up your new Windows install again.
 
I've always stored as much as possible on D:, before moving to storing most stuff on a NAS.  When it comes to getting application settings back, its just safer to start from scratch than try to move things over.  Your OS got corrupted, so anything you move over from there is a risk it was corrupted.  So its only worth moving what is absolutely essential.
 
The only thing I ever used to move between installs was my Firefox profile, that was dead easy.  Depending on why your previous OS got corrupted, it could be your Brave profile is corrupt and why it keeps refusing to use it.
 
This was actually one reason I fell in love with Linux, its so much easier to backup everything and a complete OS reinstall can be done without wiping anything in your user folder.

Customer dropped off this behemoth for recycling. Dual Intel Xeon X5570 processors, 12 sticks of HP DDR3 ECC 1333mhz RAM, Nvidia FX 580 (I replaced it with a GT 1030 in the meantime). I'm taking this baby home to play with, no way I'm letting it get recycled.

In the Shift-F10 type explorer, that'll launch explorer then you can browse to your driver and run its setup program.

-> Moved to Hobby Electronics
 
That's not gonna work.
 
It's currently wired for 2-phase supply. It can be wired for single phase (the right 1N diagram) but for that you'd need to remove the existing cable, install a properly sized 3-wire one and the bridge shown. But it still needs a proper fixed circuit that is appropriately rated, that thing draws >3x the power you can draw on a common outlet.
 
So yes, get a professional involved.

Your hardware is supported so you shouldn't bypass the check but fix the reason why it fails. Pressing Y to clear the TPM should do it.
Would reinstall afterwards at this point.

Your hardware is supported so you shouldn't bypass the check but fix the reason why it fails. Pressing Y to clear the TPM should do it.
Would reinstall afterwards at this point.

Xeon v2s are based on the same Ivy Bridge architecture as your current i7, so they're comparable clock-for-clock. If you're using software that doesn't scale past 4 or 8 threads, you'll see the same performance at best.

Of course the i5 14600 won't work in that motherboard, I didn't mean to imply it would.
 
My point is that decade-old workstation parts will make a relatively slow power hog. Fine if you can get them extremely cheap, but even today's "budget" parts will be faster than something that cost $10,000 a decade ago.

Your programs are allocating 17GB of RAM in total, even though they're not actually using all of it right now they're still causing the OS to have to be ready for when they are, i.e. it'll push stuff to pagefile preemptively and keep physical RAM usage low in anticipation for when the programs are going to fill that RAM they said they need.
 
Might be able to find which program reserves that much in advance by starting them and using them a bit one after the other, and then see if there's some setting in the culprit to limit RAM usage.
 
Or try to just disable the pagefile altogether and see if that reduces those writes. If so see if the programs still work and never actually need that much RAM (i.e. they're poorly designed) or if you actually need more RAM.

A couple of our internal apps stop working. I inform IT, they put the updated apps into our internal app store. I download them and check that everything works. I notice that one of them has trouble logging in, so I restart my phone and everything works fine after that. Given the hiccup and knowing the complete lack of tech affinity among my coworkers, I decide to write a short guide on how to go about downloading and installing the apps in question with plenty of screenshots and mention that in order for them to work properly again, they might have to restart their phones too. I send an E-Mail to everybody in my department with all the information. A couple of minutes pass and someone asks me for help with the steps I clearly outlined in that little guide. More people come by asking for help doing the things I outlined in the guide. One person managed to nuke her enrollment in our corporate MDM entirely. I reevaluate my will to live and question why I even bother writing guides for people who are either too stupid to follow them or too disrespectful to put in the effort before consulting me.