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normally id disagree, but in this case, most likely. im just glad he didn't do something entirely beyond my knowledge... cuz like im a hobbyist man, there's a lot i don't know. but each time something new happens i try to fix it before resorting to buying new parts, i learn more and im able to help more people. He will get what he deserves :)

unfortunately no, but it finally worked in disk management assigning a new drive letter to it, not sure if it was setting my bios settings to default or if it was the 5 restarts i did trying to get it to work, but it finally let me set it as a new drive letter. but every time i tried even this it'd just say something like "you don't have access to make this change" same thing when trying to open the drive to see if something was on it, it'd just come back saying i needed to change its security settings and it wouldn't have a sec tab. i mean when it comes to drive partitions etc... i do not mess with them unless i absolutely have to. i worked on this trying to figure it out and doing research for like 3 hours before work. on lunch now, ill make a flashdrive this weekend for fixing everything. thanks everyone

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i cant delete the partitions, it fails every time i try, it actually has me locked out of messing with it

Alright, so i let someone i know use my streaming/gaming pc for a bit, they told me it was running slow. my pc that boots in 10 seconds and can run everything on ultra is going slow, im like ok, maybe they just have an obscene amount of stuff open or maybe a part is failing out etc... then they tell me its taking 5-10minutes to restart... so im like ok, ill look at it in a bit and now im left with an actual mess on my hands. the ONLY drive thats being read apparently is my HDD, my SSD isn't even appearing in my bios and when i go to check... its been partitioned, half of it is labeled as a new drive, the other half is WIPED and set to fat32, oh right and im locked out of it, i cant alter it, i cant pull up its sec tab, its listing its space as unassigned, like how the hell do you actually do this? and im at work now so i wont even have time to fix this or attempt to + get all my games re-downloaded before the weekend. if anyone knows how to actually fix this, advice greatly appreciated. ik its risky, but i'd also be willing to pay someone if they are able to fix it and get it back to booting in 10seconds. file attached for what im dealing with

Can an Aegis B60 vap run doom, the answer I have right now is maybe, I mean we've gotten doom to run on a bunch of weird stuff. Here I am today to find out what is or isn't possible before I dive in and try to figure this out, so the manufacturer said it has no memory for running games and that it's firmware is on a chipset. So I'm thinking maybe a highly custom firmware that basically just has a doom port on it, or I rip it apart and modify it the way they did the pregnancy test and lcd screen. Now I know if we do that it's basically guaranteed to work, what I want to try to do is get doom on it and keep the vape itself working. Any ideas or advice appreciated because I'll admit I need to do more research before even attempting to upload anything to it's chipset or modifying it. The people at geekvape advised against this obviously but, they did give me some helpful information on their device and advised against hacking into it or loading on third party firmware, but they also told me to factory reset it if need be to get it back to its old self. So I see this as a we don't recommend it but want to see it response

i believe it's a Z690 PG riptide, i've contacted them as it appears the drivers i've found were already up to date, so hopefully they have something i didn't see listed. i will update here once the issue is actually fixed or if this fails to fix it

so i recently bought a pc through one of the companies that builds them, picked out my own parts, OS etc... i had to go into the motherboard later on and enable it over to user mode because they forgot to do that in order to get valorant to run, i suck at it but it's still fun to mess around with occasionally, but let's get into the issues. it came with windows 11 and i asked for windows 10 on the form, no big deal, i can always downgrade it back to 10 myself if i truly have to. however after having the PC for a few months its started having issues, the main one and only one i haven't figured out how to fix being it resetting my usb devices, for example in the middle of a gaming session such as RDO or valorant or FFXIV or minecraft what have you since i'm a variety gamer/streamer so i have a ringlight, webcam, mouse/keyboard, usb mic, headset, capture card etc... it breaks everything for anywhere from 30seconds to 2 minutes and it's so hit and miss im having problems narrowing down the fix for it, for example it might not do it for a month, then all of a sudden it does it three times in a week. if it was a PSU issue which who knows maybe it is, usually everything would mess up but the game and everything is still running fine, it's just my USB devices that are resetting on me, i've only downloaded things from official sources such as steam, riot etc... so i highly doubt it's a virus but we know steams file checks aren't entirely full proof so who knows. but this is me reaching out to see if maybe its something with my motherboard or my usb ports or maybe someone else had this issue and upgrading the psu fixed it, it's still under warranty and with my job i don't really have time to buy new ports and attach/remove the old ones if that's it, from what i saw on the motherboard i couldn't find any solders linked together or any cracking or anything. these same devices never had this issue on my other PC so i know it's not the devices themselves

So to save you all like 10 paragraphs here's some bullet points. I'm in Tennessee, near Chattanooga areaish 1. Craigslist has been a bust, I've tried buying full rigs but they refuse to turn it on or get back to me when I get there. 2. Rigs and parts aren't sold on Craigslist often around me 3. The small mom and pop shop here and the only shop in town that deals in PC repair and such, is now ran by their son who steals top of the line parts from ignorant customers and resells them on the side and tells x customer they'll need to upgrade eventually due to hardware issues, said customers usually don't even know what's in their PC to start with. So buying from him is out of the question. 4. I need to somehow build two PC's capable of recording and editing video/streaming with about 1000$ total. 5. At least 6 people I know who bought a Walmart PC lately in my town got screwed somehow with either 2gb of ram instead of 4 or they somehow had a Nvidia 545 or something instead of a 1060 or whatever was labeled on the box So if anyone has any idea on builds from a trusted site or shop or anything in this area or in surrounding towns, it would be much appreciated. Yes I'm also looking at potentially waiting until cyber Monday/black Friday before buying the parts

Hey, so a friend of mine only has 1,000 dollars to spend on a PC, currently hes using a 5 year old hand me down laptop. He streams off it but it's super laggy and just bad, he's talked about wanting to edit videos for YouTube as well which thankfully I talked him out of for now because he doesn't have a real GPU or a good CPU or ram or anything. Anyways, I honestly don't even know where to begin for his build because everything i think of comes out to at the very least like 1500-2000$. Any and all build recomendations appreciated.

Thank you both, for the suggestions, I'll probably add a bit more in to spring for a bigger hard drive though seeing as I had to get a 1 terrabyte micro SD for the switch and honestly with my steam library I need all the space I can get. I'm a variety gamer

I posted all this here as I've not found it all in one place before

So as some of you probably know if you tried to stream off the switch or know someone that has its not exactly a fun experience, you buy the equipment you buy the switch and you still have audio issues and if that wasn't bad enough, the program the capture card wants you to use is extremely scuffed. What you need. 1. Switch/dock for switch 2. TV 3. A computer or laptop, literally anything will work even if it's the dinosaur in the attic.... As long as its on-board chip set can handle OBS 4. OBS - it has the least amount of usage out of the alternatives I've used and is great if your a budget streamer, let's be honest most new streamers are budget streamers. 5. Elgato HD60P capture card - this is the best capture card the switch can actually support. 6. ELGATO record program (this becomes obvious soon) 7. A second mic preferably USB Ok so you have all the items and programs downloaded, now let's hook up the Elgato HD60. 1. Plug the HDMI from the switch dock into the Elgato input port. 2. Plug the micro USB which you should have got with the Elgato, into the Elgato and your PC 3. Plug in the last HDMI cable to the Elgato and your monitor or TV Now that's all set up let's configure OBS 1. Start a new scene just right click and name it anything or use the new scene/+ button. 2. Under source add video capture device and select Elgato HD60 3. You should now see it in OBS. 4. Tweak OBS settings as needed. So now that all set up, you do a test stream and realize a lot of things aren't working. 1. In-game chat not accessible. 2. Audio splitter isn't viable for switch (in my experience) 3. No sound output to the stream for in-game sound and music. 4. Stream has game sound but you don't Now I will address all these issues, this is where the Elgato studio comes in to play so go ahead and close OBS for now and open it. 1. Open Elgato Game capture program 2. In the top right you should see where it detects the device from there go into it's settings. 3. Select the device you are recording from 4. Make sure it's on HDMI Audio 5. Feel free to shutdown Elgato Game Capture now. 6. Open OBS - Edit the Source settings as you like, just make sure it's running properly 7. Go to mixer go to HD60 settings and make sure it's set to monitor and output. 8. If you have echo issues or audio issues still plug in your headset to your computer and tweak the mic on it to work on twitch Keep in mid the switch can only handle 1080P at most so anything higher is generally a waste of time. In-Game Chat fix. 1. Plug in a USB mic to the BACK OF THE DOCK IT HAS TO BE THE BACK. This should fix all issues from No display to Audio messing up as well as give you in-game voice chat still for fortnite or overwatch or whatever it is you play

I've done both over the years, honestly don't care which as stated above. I even tried frankensteining two broken laptops I had together before admitting there's no repairing it without refurbished parts, didn't see any corrosion on it either which would of been an easy fix.

So my laptop died, went to work come home it was posting error blinks, basically everything in it failed out except for the power supply and motherboard, so I'm in the market for a new PC or laptop my budget is 1300$, looking to get something decent that can handle casual gaming maybe overwatch or dauntless or a few steam games. So any ideas on what parts I should get or on any PCs that might actually be worth buying prebuilt