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DanielThePear

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  1. Hi! I'm running Windows 10 Home on an Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-54). It has a 128GB SSD (C:) and a 1TB HDD (D:). Its SATA mode is set to "Intel RST Premium with Optane", but my laptop has no Optane hardware, nor does it have a RAID. I'm trying to install Ubuntu 20.04 alongside Windows, but Ubuntu doesn't wanna install becuase of Intel RST. In an attempt to disable Intel RST, I followed the instructions in the attached file. After I entered the BIOS and switched SATA mode from "Intel RST Premium with Optane" to AHCI, I booted into Windows safe mode and noticed that my D: drive didn't show up in file explorer. I was able to re-enter the BIOS, change the SATA mode back to its original state, and boot into Windows successfully with my D: drive functioning. I've contacted Acer support about this, they're basically useless (The instructions I was given by them were copied from the PDF file I attached, which I found when googling.) How can I install Ubuntu with RST enabled? Or, if I can't, are there any other Linux distros that work with RST? (I will be using it mainly for gaming.) Finally, if the answer to both of those questions are "No", how can I disable Intel RST while still having the full functionality of both my drives? Switch-Windows-10-from-RAID-IDE-to-AHCI.pdf
  2. Hi! I have an ASUS K501UX laptop, with an i7-6500U and a GeForce GTX 950m. For a while, I was having a problem where my laptop's CPU fan (The larger one) was making a grinding noise, so I sent it to a repair shop to be fixed. Ever since I got the laptop back from the repair shop (With a new, perfectly functioning CPU fan) there has been a concrete difference in the FPS I get in games. Before, I was able to achieve around ~80fps with medium/high graphics settings in a game called Smite, and around ~60fps in Rainbow 6 - using 1600x900 resolution and all low settings. Now, I'm getting around ~30fps in Smite with medium graphics settings and ~20fps in Rainbow 6 with the same settings. According to HWINFO64, my NVidia GPU constantly has "Performance Limit: Thermal" reporting as "Yes" when I'm playing any game, and instead of clocking at ~950mhz (And that's without boosting) like it should, my GPU is clocking at exactly 405mhz (Note - it's slightly higher when I start the game, but after a few seconds it underclocks to 405mhz, and stays exactly there: no higher, no lower.) HWINFO says that the highest the GPU temperature got during my gaming session was 74 degrees celsius, and then it stayed at 69/70 degrees for the rest of the session. I took my laptop back to the repair shop, where they re-applied thermal paste to both the CPU and GPU. It didn't help. After this, I got suspicious that the GPU fan was not plugged in properly, as I could not hear it running, and since my PC's air vents are covered by the hinge, it was difficult to confirm that it wasn't running. I took apart my computer, took out the GPU fan, cleaned it, cleaned what I could of the air vent, made sure everything was plugged in properly. After putting my computer back together, I was still experiencing the same low FPS in games. Unfortunately, I have no HWINFO recordings from before, when my computer's performance was nominal, but I have a few of them now. Just as a side note, I purchased a laptop cooling pad on Amazon and it definitely makes a difference in my framerate when I use it, but my laptop is still underperforming severely. Note - Even with the horribly grindy CPU fan (Before my computer was "repaired"), I was still getting consistent high framerates in all of my games. I have attached two CSV files - recordings from HWINFO while I was gaming. They are named accordingly, one is from when I used the cooling pad, and the other is from when I didn't use the cooling pad. I'm beginning to wonder if my sensors may be malfunctioning? Or maybe it's a software issue? (I've updated all of my drivers, and everything I can) Please help With cooling pad.CSV Without cooling pad.CSV
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