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  1. Anyone know if it's possible to get Windows booting from nvme on Intel Z77 platform? Once Windows is booted it can access the nvme disk fine but it won't boot from it. I tried putting the bootloader on a SATA SSD and had windows partition on the nvme but Windows crashes/bsod.

    Motherboard is ASUS Z77M-Pro with latest UEFI

  2. My little cousin dropped off his keyboard to me because the USB C connector broke. It's a Ducky keyboard and I would hate to return it to him still broken. I can solder just fine but I'm not sure if there is missing pads on the PCB as I'm not completely familiar with what pins are used and not used on this keyboard. The USB connector is cleanly broken right off the board. I don't think a repair was attempted and it almost looks like it wasn't soldered correctly from the factory.

    If the pads/traces are damaged I was thinking I could bodge some wires on but I don't feel like spending hours tracing where all the connections go. Maybe someone has some info on this? I was also thinking of just adding a USb cable to the PCB and just not having the connector.

    Here's a picture of the damage

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  3. 11 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

    @Eigenvektor made a salient point about the sata.  If you only checked a few the others might be working.  I was really hoping to get models there so I could get some idea of the age of the machine.  The existence of an optical drive means more than a year or two generally.  It’s still possible to put 5 1/4” floppies on new machines though if you can get the right adaptors (Haswell was 2014 btw)

    Turns out having a m.2 drive in disables some of the SATA ports. I had no idea this was the issue because I didn't try all the ports nor did I read the manual to see what ports get disabled.

  4. 19 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

    Which SATA ports did you try? If you check the board's specs (https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/PRIME/PRIME-B450M-A/techspec/), you can see the following:

    So depending on which ports you tried, this could be the reason

    By the way you were right. Some of the SATA ports were disabled. I had the drives plugged into 5/6 and they are disabled. However I also used 3/4 and it didn't work but 1/2 do. I'm guessing it has something to do with having that pci-e wifi card in as well. Maybe it disables other SATA ports. I was 100% sure I used 4/5 and checked the BIOS and saw nothing. Maybe I need my eyes checked or maybe they don't work. Either way I'm not going to waste my time checking at this point since I know 1/2 are working. Also maybe I should have known better also. I've always built myself higher end systems and never had this be an issue however my grandmas PC was built on a budget and I picked up a b450 board on the cheap not thinking that some SATA ports may be disabled when some pcie devices are used. I never had this happen to me in the past so it didn't even cross my mind.

    Thanks.

  5. 18 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

    Has it ever had sata stuff on it before?  Also specs may be needed.  They’ve been putting m.2 on motherboards since at least haswell.  I don’t know if this is a new machine or an old one.

    It had a SATA optical drive since it was built. I don't know if it was ever used. Most likely worked at some point. Currently the system has 1 nvme drive, 1 SATA SSD, 1 SATA optical drive, 1 pci-e Wi-Fi card and other than some ram and a APU nothing else.

  6. To make a long story short my grandmas PC had it's nvme disk fail after only having a total of 5.5TB of data ever written to it. She had it about 3 years and only even used it to store Windows and a few basic programs. Anyways I since replaced the drive with a better one and because there was some data loss I figured I'd grab her a 1TB SATA SSD and use it to make regulars backups of her data so that if in the event that her boot disk ever dies again there will be a copy of it on another disk. However after replacing the main boot drive for some reason her computer won't detect any SATA devices at all. Now I'm generally pretty good with computers and am rarely ever stumped however i can't figure out why this is happening. At first I thought maybe it was a bad connection. I double checked all the power and data connections and I'm convinced they are fine. If I plug in the power cable for example I can hear her optical drive power up and seek. I can also open the disc trap no problem. So I ruled out the power cable. Next I checked the SATA data connections. I used an old SATA cable from her previous computer because I was lazy but I thought maybe the cable had failed so i replaced it with some brand new cables and nothing. Both the optical drive and SATA SSD won't show up. I tried different SATA ports too and nothing. I also updated the BIOS and nothing. I loaded optimized defaults and nothing. In the BIOS it says the SATA controller is enabled and in AHCI mode but nothing shows up under the SATA ports (ie: no connected devices). I was under the impression that when the drives didn't show up in Windows that it may have been related to not having installed the SATA drivers however I've never seen this on a modern PC as almost all onboard SATA controllers are supported out of the box. I also connected the SATA SSD in question to my main PC and it showed up and formatted just fine so I know the disk works. Also 2 SATA controllers show up in Windows so it makes me think that the SATA controllers are working just fine unless they aren't but they're still reported to the system.

    I'm kind of out of things to try at this point so i figured I'd ask here and see if anyone has any ideas. I'm probably just gonna go out and buy her a SATA HBA card and slap it in because I don't know what else to try.

    Also the motherboard is a ASUS Prime B450M-A rev 1.01 for anyone who is curious.

    Also my grandma doesn't know much about computers so I really doubt she did anything to it that would damage it. I'm pretty sure it just sat in the same place since the day I set it up for her. theres also like no dust in it since it's just a basic APU based system running a 3200G.

    Anyone know of any good SATA 6gbps HBA cards on the cheap?

  7. So to make a long story short I've been doing per core curve optimization overclocking and I'm using Prime95 as my main stability test. WHat I've been doing is setting Prime95 to run the equivalent of a blend test with in place FFT on a single core with hyp[erthreading/SMT enabled and using task manager to manually specify what core the workload runs on. o far it's been working out fine until I got all my cores roughly dialed in and wanted to test all core. The issue I'm having is that randomly task manager will report low CPU utilization on some cores and both frequency and power reporting fluctuate. It doesn't seem to be caused by thermals or power limits as both are under control.

    Anyone have any ideas?

    Also I'm well aware how boosting works on modern CPUs and that Prime95 is a very heavy load that will make clocks drop under load. With -30 curve set to all core I can do 4.6Ghz all core but randomly the clocks, power and utilization drop and I don't know why. I think it's related to Prime95 but I can't say for sure.

  8. On 10/2/2021 at 4:56 PM, NZgamer said:

    Arch is a cool distro, but I don't think it's right for this challenge. As OP said, the distro choice is important as we want to encourage people to switch to Linux and my concern is that the CLI installer could scare new users away. Ultimately we want to show LTT viewers that Linux is a beginner friendly OS that they can use instead of Windows with distros that make everything easy.

    My point was more that if Linus the person is personally going to or is interested in switching to Linux then he may as well get used to using arguably one of the best power user distros out there as I know Linus would love to have his ultimate setup that Windows could never make possible but if all he does is use Linux like Windows by just always accepting how the next version will be then I think he would miss out on what he otherwise might have really gotten into.

  9. I've got an old Ivy bridge system laying around and it's got 6 SATA ports on it. It's got 16gb of RAM and I figured I'd turn it into a giant networked storage server running some kind of Linux. Anyone here experienced in this know if a 3570K would be fine for a 10 gigabit NAS? I plan on using 4 NAS drives in raid plus some kind of SSD cache for the hard drives. I don't expect maximum possible performance but I would like to be able to have it be faster than a local disk via SATA interface.

  10. Not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes...

    So I watched the latest WAN Show and during the show Linus and Luke did a poll to see what distro they should use. I just wanted to say I personally think they should use Arch Linux. I know someone will call me a fanboy or whatever but I seriously think it's what's best suited for both of them if they actually do plan on daily driving Linux. The main reason I think they should use arch is because both of them tend to be what I would consider power users. Arch is a very power user friendly distro and if the point of the challenge is to learn linux and see if you can daily drive it then what better distro to use than the one that you setup yourself. You can pick your own desktop environment and all the accoupling packages. Plus the arch wiki is by far one of the most useful linux documents out there and it all directly applies to arch (and other distros).

    You guys could have the first challenge being getting through the arch installer and getting to a working desktop. it's really not that hard and I'm sure Anthony could give you guys some tips like how to use and setup sudo on your user accounts. it also offers the most vanilla experience out of all the distros imo and I think that will make it easy to start with something basic and over the course of the challenge try and make your arch install your own. I'm almost certain Linus will want to use KDE or maybe GNOME and most other distros come skinned pretty ugly out of the box and I think that might be a bit of a turn off for Linux and Luke. maybe not but I know a lot of people don't like how Linux looks as it's not always flashy.

    I also think it would be a good reason for them both to dive deeper into Linux and learn how it works. Maybe they can both come out of this more experienced linux users than they were before. Arch is great and if they need any pointers I'm sure the arch community will help them out.

  11. 2 hours ago, danomicar said:

    Titanfall 2 is my personal favorite multiplayer EA game. Not that there are a whole lot to choose from. Shame it wasn't allowed to take off.

    I personally prefer BF4 but Titanfall has a pretty good campaign mode. Reminds me a bit of Crysis and Halo.

  12. 2 minutes ago, Levent said:

    Her effort was admirable. She did much better than that guy from The Verge claiming he built PCs before and continued to make insane mistakes. I agree though, they should do a video starting from planning phase to all the way down to installing drivers.

    Yea she definitely gave it a good try but she made some mistakes that I would personally not consider acceptable if I built a system for a friend for example. Like not having an IO shield. I would feel bad if a friend of mine built a PC without my help and it turned out like that. Maybe it's good enough to play some games but I personally think the end user should get everything they paid for. For example she plugged the display port into the motherboard slot. If she didn't know how her GPU was supposed to preform she coudl have easily been playing games on iGPU and never used her real GPU.

  13. As a GTX 970 owner myself it's not worth it to pick up a 970 now. 2060 isn't super great compared to 3000 series but its much better than a 970. You may want to consider another upgrade when parts are more readily available and you have the budget for it. 3000 series is waaaaaay better than 2000 and anything before 2000 series imo isn't worth it in 2021.

  14. So I just watched the latest video where Sarah built a PC and as much as I enjoyed the video I couldn't help but cringe along side Linus. I know Sarah isn't the only one at LMG that doesn't know how to build a PC well so I think it would make for a good video if Linus held a sort of class or workshop where the LMG staff learns the correct way to build a PC. Maybe there can be some kind of test or grade at the end to see how everyone did.

     

    Thoughts? 

    Also Idk if this is the right place to post this.

  15. For the last little while I've noticed some applications on my PC seem to crash or lock up after my PC hasn't been used for a while. Not really sure what's causing it as This has never been a problem until somewhat recently. For example discord will not have a close button in the top right and while I can move the window around I can't interact with it and I will have to close and reopen it. Same goes for Steam. I think this may be a software bug but I'm not 100% sure.

    Any suggestions/ideas?

    PC Specs

    OS: Windows 10

    CPU: AMD 3700X

    MB: MSI X570-A Pro

    GPU: Nvidia GTX 970

  16. I have a BluRay set that I want to be able to playback and rip on my PC but I'm not sure what optical drive to be checking out. I would like to be able to rip and play 4K BluRay discs also. I assume I need one with the BDXL format but I'm not sure what one to get. They're also hard to find for under 100$.

    Any suggestions?

  17. 18 hours ago, JarredTX said:

    Did you check to see if there's a jumper on the drive?  Also, it could be set to IDE instead of ACHI which could be limiting the speed.  Beyond that, it could be fixed with a firmware update, but good look getting that from WD on that old of a drive.

    Everything is setup correctly from what I can tell. The SATA controller is running in AHCI mode. The drive has never had any jumpers installed on it nor is it old enough to need jumpers.

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