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Ah... Yup that appears to have done the trick. Weird that minitool couldn't get it done though... Cheers!

I had 2 4tb seagate barracudas in a dock and one day they stopped working properly. I lost all the data on both of them. There was nothing on there i majorly lament losing. I've scanned one of the drives and found no errors. For some reason the drive has initialised as MBR and i cant get it to switch to GPT. Windows disk management cant do it, and Minitool partition wizard (free version) tells me its completed the conversion successfully, but as soon as i close the confirmation dialogue its shows MBR again. Obviously i want to get it to GPT because its a 4tb drive. Any advice?

So I saw Secretlabs sponsored WAN Show. I have one of their chairs and I'm pretty happy with it. But they recently launched a gamer desk. Any chance of a review even if its sponsored? It's pricey and i could probably do everything they claim it can do myself for waaaay cheaper, but what if i'm too lazy? Will it give me a sweet setup with less hassle?

Did a bit more experimenting and the video is actually streaming fine for viewers, its just the preview panel i get to watch to make sure everything is working as intended that seems to be failing. I can live with that, but if anyone has any ideas why its suddenly working wrong please let me know. Its difficult to stream like this. I can't be sure what the audience is seeing.

I'm trying to stream using OBS and youtube is only getting the top left 1/4 of my stream. I haven't changed any settings and it was working fine 12 hours ago... I'm outputting at 1920x1080 60fps using nvenc. Recording is working fine.

I will have to try to find another cable where that pin20 isn't connected. Pulling the cable isn't too bad a solution as i pretty much only turn my computer off or restart when i'm updating certain drivers or windows updates. But a more permanent solution would be better. I've been running completely stable since my last post and i've been playing games that can push things like WDLegion and Monster Hunter World. I just hope that was the problem because I'll be playing Cyberpunk in a few days and i don't want a borked system. In game bugs i can deal with, but if thats compounded with an unstable system too its gonna suck.

So a little more information. I can get the system to post if i unplug the display port cable from my monitor. This is a weird one, but that cable does provide enough power to keep the RGB on the AIO block lit even when the PSU is off. And i noticed that the new ram modules, which i hadn't given a hardware RGB profile in iCUE, were also lighting up with the PSU off and even unplugged. So the display port connection is passing power from the monitor through the graphics card to the mobo. Perhaps there's enough coming through to stop the ram from shutting down or clearing properly on a reboot and its causing issues. I don't know if thats a thing, but i had got to a point where i couldn't get it to post at all and eventually i tried pulling that display port on a hunch, and lo and behold i immediately got a post. I also have an external drive plugged in. One of the ones with a seperate power supply and when i pulled the display port cable i heard it spool down and then up again. I ended up putting the extra 2 sticks of ram i now own in as well as the old ones (since they're exactly the same kit, same latency, speed etc.). So now i have 4 8gb sticks instead of 2. Did a run of memtest while i was putting together my new chair which just turned up and after 2 passes with no errors at 3200mhz i'm baffled again. Can RAM not powering down properly cause a system to be unable to post? Can the power being supplied to the mobo through the display port from the monitor be doing it?

Brand new RAM, system still wont post 90% of the time. Tried all slots with a single stick with xmp turned off and bios at defaults.. I can still get into the system occasionally, but the cmos is cleared when i do. Last night i could get it to boot with any settings, but as i said when i ran memtest86 with xmp on i got tons of ram errors. So i thought it was a ram problem and went out and bought new ram. But when i put the new ram in my system wouldn't post again. So after turningthe computer on and off again several times i got into bios and got the message that tells me the cmos had been cleared. Exit without saving and it wouldn't post. So i turned it off and on again several times and eventually it posted and i got into windows. And now i am here hoping someone can help me further, because its not the battery or the RAM.

Well I got a BSOD today "System Service Exception". But i couldn't find any driver issues, but on a hunch i tried restarting my computer. It restarted fine and my XMP Profile did not reset... So i was wondering what it was, but then while streaming to YT the game crashed twice and the second time it somehow messed up steam so i couldn't start the game up again for a third time. I tried restarting again and i got a BSOD as it shut down. Don't know what the error was this time. So i booted into memtest86 again and about 80% through the first pass of tests started getting error after error. So i turned off the XMP profile and tried memtest86 again and got nothing after nearly a whole pass. Turned XMP back on and tested one more time as a sanity check and got tons of errors. So maybe it was my RAM after all and the one time it passed all 4 passes of memtest was a fluke, or it was already on 2666mhz and i hadn't noticed. So now i have to start the returns process from the store i bought it from who is in the next state over. I could go straight to corsair, but from what i've heard i'll have to post my ram all the ay to china from here, whereas if i go through the retailer i'll only have to mail it to them and they'll mail it to corsair. But that will leave me without a working PC so i'll have to go and buy some RAM and then sell the warranty stuff when it comes back or something... Pain in the icehole i can tell you that.

Seems to have been the battery... Which is weird considering how old the system is. I had thought of the battery but dismissed it because why would the battery already be dead. But i was out grabbing a wifi extender since i moved my shield to a different part of the house and the signal back there sucks, and i figured changing the battery couldn't hurt, so i picked one up. I say one, but its a 2 pack. Anyway. It seems to have resolved the problem. Thanks for sticking with me. Hopefully i wont be back.

When i'm in windows i never use the case switch. The times i've used the case switch is something i tried when the system was on, but wouldn't post. What i meant by the section you quoted is that: when the system is off, turning it on at the case switch lights the RGB on the fans and the fans ramp up to full speed, but other than that does nothing. Pressing the case switch while in this non-post state will turn the system back off again. Once it has turned off again, further presses of the case switch does not power up the system. The RGB flashes for a second, but the system does not power up at all.

I've been running it at 2666 because whenever i restart no matter what its set to (2666 or 3200) the bios resets and my xmp profile turns off resetting the ram to 2666. I actually cant work out how to change the ram speed except to enable the xmp profile which is 3200. I was going to try 3000, but i couldn't find a way to change the multiplier. There's an option that's set to auto and has the multiplier (or whatever its called, i may be getting the wrong terminology here) next to it and its set to 26.6 with xmp disabled, and 32 with xmp enabled, but i cant change it from auto despite the option not being greyed out. with xmp enabled i cant change it either. The BSOD said PFN list corrupt which is why i did the memory test and got 0 errors on memtest86 after 4 passes of all tests. I don't know if the BSODs i got from Watch Dogs was the same. I only remember being pissed at Watch Dogs as it was clearly the problem. I haven't had a BSOD since that one nearly 2 weeks ago and my system runs fine except it wont start again after shutting down.

So it's been days since i last restarted my computer for anything, but this problem persists. I still don't know why it would be happening. I haven't had any crashes or BSODs (Watch Dogs: Legion got patched and works fine now thankfully), and no other indications that there's anything wrong with my system except that it wont start properly 9 out of 10 and when it does start the CMOS has apparently been cleared which removes my XMP profile which is the only thing that isn't default in the BIOS anyway. Still looking for any assistance i can get on this one because its a real annoyance.

Are your games running on that C drive? Very full drives can sometimes cause problems. I would recommend freeing up some space on that drive regardless. Especially if its your windows drive.

Oh and i did a complete scan including for rootkits, with malwarebytes premium trial on all drives. Nada detected.