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  1. Akita
    Update: I went to put the 730 in and restart then promptly got a bluescreen. apparently whatever was happening borked windows again, so badly it could not repair itself (like several registry problems). and now I have successfully screwed up the drive when reinstalling windows from an install media cd & while it is actually on the ssd it is no longer recognized by the boot mgr and the bios. and now i will screem.
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    Awesome. I'll go try that
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    sadly I cant test without the riser because I'm a dum dum and didn't measure space before buying the card. I haven't tried windows 11 though I'm not sure if I want to just yet since I'd probably have to do the work around thing since its an unsupported motherboard type (missing that chip thing)
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    I mean It did work though. that's what I cant figure out. something got borked somewhere. I almost think its a windows problem but I really cant tell
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    I've almost got this build working. in fact, I actually HAD it working at one point but I am once again lost. Working on upgrading the graphics card in my system from a gtx 730 to an XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT CPU is a core I7 6700 power supply is EVGA 500w, the 5500 has to be connected with a Thermaltake riser cable. Windows 10 on an m.2 without a screw I'll try to explain what has happened so far as simple as I can initially, the first time I tried installing the 5500 this would happen: it would try to boot then freeze. after switching back and forth between the new card and the old card a few times I ended up having to reinstall windows. Then the freezing on boot stopped and I got into windows with the 5500 without issue. Used it for a few hours even. Next step was to install the AMD drivers for some reason Any version of the Adrenaline drivers I downloaded would give me error 182, saying my and hardware was not compatible. looking up the error, a common solution is to make sure old graphics drivers are uninstalled. I download DDU (Display driver uninstaller) & it tells me the best way to uninstall the old drivers is in safe mode try to boot into safe mode (still with the 5500) computer freezes at boot...wth I put the 730 back in PC starts back up Uninstall the drivers & restart...works fine shutdown & puts the 5500 back in... the PC has gone back to freezing on boot this only happens with the 5500. I'm sure the card works because I was able to use it for a few hours without issue (without the AMD drivers) before uninstalling the NVIDA ones. I've since tried system repair & system restore with no change. and windows won't let me do a reinstall of windows 10 via the cloud download anymore for some reason. not that doing a fresh install again would help. Yes I have tried to install the AMD drivers with the 730 in & it tells me you can't do that without AMD hardware in your system I can actually get into the bios and boot mgr before it freezes w the 5500 just nothing windows related Honestly, I have no idea what to do at this point. Like I know there is a way to get it to work. I've SEEN IT WORK. But I'm completely lost at what to try. sorry this post is abit long.
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    oh nice! thanks!
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    I do like to mess around in blender a bit which is why it worried me
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    Recently got my first graphics card, an XFX RX 5500 XT went to install the driver's & they offer 2 diff versions adrenaline and pro. They say one is for gaming and one is for creators. I'm an artist and a gamer so I do both pretty heavily & I'm not really sure which driver to download. Does it really make a difference in performance or is the difference negligible? If it does matter which should I download or what is the difference between the two?
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    Oh there isn't anything else on the drive other than windows, I didn't install anything when I got the PC because I knew I'd want to switch the boot drive to the SSD
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    Recently bought a prebuilt to do upgrades on that came w Win10 Pro. This is my first time doing upgrades & I'm trying to switch the boot drive from a 2TB HDD to a 500gb SSD but my biggest question is how do I safely do this without loosing the OEM license (as I do not actually have the product key) I have never signed into my Microsoft acc on this pc either as I prefer to use a local account, so I don't know about linking the license. Asking here because everything I read seems to tell me something different. some sites say windows will recognize the hardware signature of your system and automatically activate, others say you have to be logged in to your Microsoft acc for that to work. Please..help a noob out.
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    I recently managed to get a good condition TC710 with an i7 6700 in it. It came with a 2Tb hdd & I'd like to use a 500gb m.2 as the boot drive and the HDD for storage. Doing some research, Acer seems to say the Max size for an M.2 in this pc is 256gb but on one older forum someone said it would likely work with a 500gb one. Does anyone know if the TC710 is compatible w a 500gb? Or should I not take the chance of wasting money & stick with 256?
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    No I have one of the first gen ones that didn't come with a audio jack that's why I have to stream to the laptop to play games
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    I've never really had a reason to look into this before because I usually stream from my Xbox to my laptop to play games with audio as I don't have any speakers that use optical audio and my controller is first gen too. Recently however, I wanted to watch Blu-ray on it but since you can't stream Blu-ray over the network like games I was thinking a 3rd party Bluetooth adapter might be the cheapest easiest way to go if it works. If anyone's done this and knows if it works I'd like to know! Or if you have a better solution that's cost effective that's good too.
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    first time I've seen something random and felt like it needed to be shared on the forum.
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    This is a potentially dum question bc I'm kind of a noob, but it never hurts to ask especially if it means more performance. Before the pandemic hit I bought a flex 14 ( the one shown in this ltt vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfz46HXvPLc&ab_channel=LinusTechTips) to use for school. I mainly use the laptop for things like digital art (photoshop, etc), light gaming, and occasional light video editing for school projects. While it's served it's purpose very well lately I've been thinking of upgrading the ram and ssd. The problem is I'm genuinely wondering how much ram I can actually upgrade this to. Right now it has 8GB and most guides online are saying it can support up to a single stick of 16gb at most, however when I check for max capacity in the cmd it tells me it can support around 64GB of ram. I'm thinking the 16GB is a cap set by Lenovo but I'm not sure and If I actually can upgrade to something higher (and have it actually work) I would like to mainly because one of the games I play is a big ram hog. If anyone can shed some light on this I would really appreciate it. (And yes, I do at least know that single channel ram is never the best but I can't do much about that XD)
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    Thanks!
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    I have a Redmi 10x 5g on TracFone through the byop program. It's worked beautifully since I got it except for the fact that for some reason the voicemail litterally won't stay recorded. Like almost every time I have to call to check a message I'm greeted with the setup message and it makes me re-record my greeting and password every time. Normally I'd go to Xiaomi or TracFone about something like this first and then come here but I can't figure out if this is a problem related to the phone or the carrier. If anyone has had this problem and fixed it please let me know, it's annoying as hec.
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    Thanks! sounds like this is gonna b fun!
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    Noob here, I have an old Toshiba encore write 2 (windows tablet) that I've been thinking of switching to Linux for awhile now to give it a bit of a refresh. My biggest reason for this is that Id like to use it for sketching and every time windows gets another update it gets seems to get alot slower which is not good from an art perspective. This would be my first time trying Linux on a device from scratch and my biggest concern would be support for the digitizer ( it uses Wacom active es with the Toshiba trupen). Would it be possible to switch it from windows and retain full functionality? Any advice is welcome
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    I'm not sure, I don't really use it outside of home.
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    So this is a weird problem. Around a month ago or so we had a heavy electrical storm that fried my previous Netgear router (modem is completely fine). I couldn't find a similar model Netgear when I went to replace it so I had to get a Linksys. I've tried googling the problem but most people just say "check your pc's settings and change it so it stays connected when asleep". The thing is, with my old router I never had any issues with WIFI disconnecting if my laptop fell asleep. With the new one something strange happens and I can't figure out why it does this, I'll connect it to the network, let it go to sleep then when I wake it up It says that I'm still connected to the network but there is no internet, every time after this i have to fiddle with turning WIFI on and off (on the laptop) and disconecting/reconnecting to one of the 2 hotspots until one lets me connect. Honestly it shouldn't be a big deal because I can eventually connect but this is getting really annoying.
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    Both of you just gave me the brilliant idea of pulling up my current phone and the 10x on Kimovil side by side to see which bands they share in common. Luckily the 10x shares almost all of the 4g bands that my Note 7 has compatible with my current network. Judging from the fact that I've had little connectivity issues w this phone, it looks like the 10x should be perfectly fine atleast for 4g. Big thanks to everyone who've replied to this post, you've all been really really helpful!
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    Hey thanks for reminding me about that! I use Tracfone GSM which basically uses other carrier's towers. I checked on Kimovil and it looks like this phone has 3 4g bands that almost all carriers support and 1 5g band that T mobile supports. Should I be concerned?
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    Does anyone have experience using a China ver phone (specifically Xiaomi) as their daily in the States or Europe? I recently saw a really good deal on a Redmi 10x but I know that phone has never gotten a global version. Would it be as simple as choosing English, removing bloatware and installing the playstore or is it more complicated than that? Would I have to flash GAPPS or would just installing google apps like maps & gmail be ok ? Preferably I'd like to not root the phone but I do have experience with rooted phones ( although I've only ever rooted android emulators which probably doesn't count tho). Basically if anyone has experience using a China rom as their daily driver I'd like to know what I'd need to expect ?
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    I simply wanted more recommendations that I could check out and only received one. Which was helpful (that's why i marked it the solution) but when you're looking for something like a phone sometimes more options is better. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to ask twice.
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