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Attempted to get my brother into overclocking his PC. I have done it on the past, but while testing multiple setups the PC stopped booting. Here are the specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700x GPU: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2070 MOBO: Gygabyte x470 Aorus Ultra RAM: Ballixtics DDR4 2400 Mhz (Base Speed) SSD: ADATA SU630 The main problem is that the PC turns on, but there's never signal of it getting into the BIOS or the OS. This is what I have attempted so far: 1. Clear the BIOS - By using the CLR_CMOS jumper and Removing the BIOS Battery. 2. Removed Graphics Card since it is not an essential item for the pc to boot 3. Removed secondary RAM Stick Here is the MOBO Manual : Aorus x470 Ultra Gaming When attempting to boot the machine the Status LEDs go all the way up to boot, but then it stays there. Nothing happens. (Status LEDs) information found in MOBO manual page 21 Any recomendations?

HI! So for the last few days i have been having problems with my PC not starting properly. The fans spin but the PC doesn't start, and i have to shut it down and turn it on again. Also today i tried to play R6S with friends and my Pc suddenly crashed. First i thought it overheated, but as i had recently cleaned it i was skeptical and monitoring the temperatures in game they seemed normal CPU around 50 and GPU around 75 Celsius. Afterwards i ran a stress on both the GPU and CPU seperatly and everything worked fine. Than i decided to try to test both at the same time in AIDA 64 and after a second or 2 my PC crashed. I tried it again with the same results. Now i believe that indicates that my PSU is falling. IT is a few years old at this point. It is a no thrills Cooler master 600W 80 plus bronze one. But i just wanted to hear your opinions if it might be something else worth checking out before buying a new PSU since i do not have a spare one to test it. Thanks in advance. PC SPECS: CPU: Ryzen 1600 MOBO:Gigabyte b350m gaming 3 Ram Kingston 16gb 2666hz cl16 GPU: RX 580 SSD: Crucial MX500 500gb

i booted up a PC a week ago and saw an error that DIMM 3 contained a memory error before the OS booted when i pressed F1 to continue and opened task manager i saw i was runing at 6GB which means i only have one pair in dual channel(i have 4 sticks of 2GB DDR3) and the games i played werent runing well i tried rebooting with the same issue next day when i boot up the BIOS tells me that my memory size is different and when i log in it says that i am back to 8GB so i think nothing of it and start playing but my game(Assasins Creed Syndicate) freezes and my whole PC freezes i have to force reboot(i pulled the plug) this would happen again and again whenever my PC told me i was at 8GB and i think the RAM in DIMM 3 is the one causing the problem i have tried switching its slots and cleaning the RAM(using an eraser on the gold contacts) but the same happens i posted this to rule out any software issue that might be causing this??? PLS HELP!!!!!!!

Hello People, I had this server for a long time when we moved to our new house i put it in storage remove the HDD/SSD (i don't have the original SSD/HDD) any more everything worked fine before, few months later wanted to use it again for a school project been trying for few weeks to get some kind of a post or video out of that thing without success, It turns on all the fans run and slow down at some point,all light blink green or stay green. hope you guys can help me further System information IBM System X3650 M2 2x XEON X5570 2,93GHZ 24GB of ram 6x 4gb IBM pc3 - 10600R MT 7947 Model 96G P-ID 794796G MFG date 2010-2-26 i can't tell what bios version is on it it use to run with vmware esxi the original drive i don't have anymore What have you tried? i remove everything that is not used (like external cards network adapters etc) no post/video all cables are in the right place that they should be fully original as it came no post/video tried switch ram modules around running it with 1 ram module swap that around no post/video running it with 1 power supply or 2 no post/video switch them around no post/video Also got no access to IMM no fault codes on power supplies no fault codes on LPD only - - or 1.2 if believe that is normal 1.2 with 1 ram module Video port front or in the back no output (no signal) tried 3 different monitors from lcd panel the the old school stuff switch monitor cables a lot no post/video PS i added a blank SSD noting on. it get a error code if i remove it no drive detected i came to a point that i dont know anymore hope anyone can send me in the right direction if you need anymore information please let me know.

Hi, Got myself into a bit of pickle and would appreciate any input. Are there any issues/pitfalls with physically transferring a primary boot HDD from one PC to be a secondary HDD of another? Can the act of installing the HDD into another PC cause damage, specially resulting in the HDD partitions not being recognized in Disk Management and the whole thing coming up as 'RAW'? Please note i'm not trying to boot from the transplanted HDD and the PC booted as normal from its HDD using Win 7. The reason for asking is my mates 12 year old Vista PC finally died last week. He'd mentioned some issues with the monitor and once I got to look at it I instantly diagnosed it being a graphic card failure. It had all trademark signs, at least to me, after being on for about 5 minutes it exhibited pixel corruption that progressively got worse. Some odd pixels but thinking about it now more like memory corruption of Vista render elements, e.g. explorer, windows, popups etc. In fact I suspect the GPU completely failed as I was there as the monitor went black/turned off completely for no good reason. Although that could have been a sign of something worse, maybe a PSU failure? Anyway while he could look for a replacement GPU ( second hand ) I suggest that he instead take my old Win 7 PC which was a few years younger than his and more powerful. I figured this would be the easier solution especially for the future since not even browsers actively support Vista any more and so moving to a Win 7 machine would give a few more years of application support. With this in mind I grabbed his two internal HDD's ( both 160GB SATA) and took them home to install into my old WIN 7 system. I didn't know which of the two drives were the old boot drive so I just picked one at random. My Win 7 machine had a spare power connector ( its one of those wires that have an end connector but then two others 'spliced' into the line or daisy chained - don't know correct terminology ) and then I hooked up the SATA cable to a spare connector on the motherboard. Booted the Win 7 machine and to my horror a dialog popped up saying to format the transplanted drive! I think this happened after Win 7 automatically installed drivers for the new HDD and auto-assigned a drive letter to it. Did some digging online and discovered the transplanted HDD was coming up as 'RAW' file system under disk management. As far as I could tell looking at device manager the HDD was recognized and drivers installed and claimed to be working. I had been using the Win 7 machine for a day before trying to install the HDD and from what I can tell its in perfect working order. No hardware issues, not temperature issues, no power issues. My Questions: The main question I have is that I have a second drive of my mates ( presumably the non-boot data drive from his old machine ). I really want to try installing that into the Win 7 machine as that is probably the more important one with all of his data on it. However now i'm concerned that the act of installing it might corrupt it? Do you think its safe to install this other drive or should I not touch it? I'm now wondering with the fact that both drives are the same make/model and 160GB if perhaps it was set up in a RAID configuration. Could that explain the issues I was seeing? With regard to the corrupted HDD my questions are; 1. Have I just been really unlucky and normally you can simply plug & play with modern HDD and OS? 2. Are there any issues normally with transplanting a HDD from one machine to another? Is there anything that the act of installing the drive that could have cause the file system to become corrupt? 3. Does the transplanted drive being a boot drive present any issues as long as i'm not trying to boot from it? 4. I assume if the HDD has a SATA connection and a typical power connector then can you simply just plug and play into a motherboard? No issues with different SATA connector types, which SATA connectors to use or Power consumption/watts/amps etc? I.e. anything on the physical or electrical side of things? 5. Are there any bios settings or set up either on my mates old machine or my new machine that might have caused this issue? I looked through my Win 7 bios and could't find anything useful in there that might help. It says SATA is set to IDE mode, the alternatives are ACHD or RAID. 6. Could my mates drives have been set up in RAID configuration? Is there any way to tell? If they are RAID how the heck do I get them working in my system considering I don't want to boot from them as its a different machine? 7. Any advice on what to do next with this HDD? Thanks for any help you can give. General Hardware Information: Testdisk.exe report for damaged drive - Seagate ST3160812S Current partition structure: 1 P Dell Utility 0 1 1 5 254 63 96327 Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot 2 * HPFS - NTFS 6 30 25 19128 110 54 307200000 2 * HPFS - NTFS 6 30 25 19128 110 54 307200000 Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot 3 P HPFS - NTFS 19128 110 55 38903 181 62 317689856 3 P HPFS - NTFS 19128 110 55 38903 181 62 317689856 Disk /dev/sdb - 160 GB / 149 GiB - CHS 19452 255 63 Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection... The harddisk (160 GB / 149 GiB) seems too small! (< 241 GB / 224 GiB) The Windows 7 PC Intel Core i7-920 ASUS P6T DELUXE Intel AMT Support: Not Supported SATA RAID 0/1/5/10: Supported It has 6 SATA points - 3 of them are difficult to access, but two of those are already used for the original win 7 HDD and a CD_ROM. Another two are easy to access facing vertically upwards on the MB and its one of these that I used - I assume all SATA connections are standard and the same? Existing HDD - Serial ATA 3Gb/s - Seagate ST3500418AS

Hi I have bought a Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F a couple a weeks ago and now I tried to boot ist up but the on indicator led blinks for maybe 0.2 sec and the fans spin up but turn off also after a 1 sec or so until now I tried other ram thats known to work with supermicro boards. Any idea what could be the problem? Thanks in advance EDIT: Mainboard: Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ Rev.1.20A (Dual Socket) CPU: 1x Intel Xeon E5-2670v2 (10 Core, 2.5GHz-3.30GHz) RAM: 64GB (8x8GB) MICRON PC3L-10600R ECC MT36KSF1G72PZ

Heyo, my HD suddenly stopped detecting since last night and I can't figure out why. Connections looked good, it shows up in disk management but is not allocated and gives me an I/O error. After a quick shut down and reseating the connections, it shows back up again no problem. It randomly just stops detecting when I'm in the middle of doing something. Has anyone else had this issue before?

Recently ive been having issues with my nvidia drivers remaining installed on my pc. I figured that reinstalling the drivers would solve this issue but it didn't. Every time i get to the end of the installation it says restart this PC, and once i do nvidia is not installed neither are any of the graphics drivers that are meant to go with it. It was working perfectly fine this morning which is dubious, so if anyone can help me out.

Ryzen 7 3700X upgrade. I have just recently upgraded my PC from Ryzen 7 1800X to the Ryzen 7 3700X. All seemed to be going well except that it was not finding my DDR 4 3200 memory. I can use DOCP and finds my 3200 memory and will run at that speed. However, the Bios still shows 2133 on dimm slots A2 & B2 on main page. Not sure if this is common. I tried 3 different kinds of 3200 memory with the same results. Unit posted and loaded windows when I installed my Samsung 970 eve plus boot drive. Now, sometimes, when I boot the computer it hangs at the yellow board LED. Everything lights up and runs as thought it is going to post properly but stops at yellow LED. Pressing the reset button on the case (sometimes multiple times) the unit then restarts the post process beeps once and works its way through the remaining 3 LED lights and boots into windows. There are no error messages and the computer works fine. The next time I reboot the computer is may post fine or I'll have to do the reset thing. I have tried all the trouble shooting steps mentioned on various posts on this forum. Have been in contact with Gskill tech support and ASUS tech support and still have not found a solution. The computer is RUNNING a Ryzen 7 3700X on an Asus Prime X570 Pro board. BIOS 1405. Ram DDR4-3200 8GBX2 G.Skill Trident Z RGB 2X8 F4-3200C16D-16GTZR. EVGA GTX 970 GPU; CORSAIR H100i RGB PLATINUM SE 240 RGB LIQUID COOLER AIO; CORSAIR RM850x PSU In a Cooler Master Storm Scout 2 case. COULD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP?

Why are harddrives made to this size if harddrives have more rates of total drive failure and slow speeds? And does the Harddrive speed matter if it’s an SSHD?

Hi Guys, Maybe somebody here can help me out. Ive reinstalled my ASUS X542UN (WINDOWS 10 Pro)laptop and swapped the hard drive to an SSD. Everything went well, everything was working until this point. It started throwing some Kernel-Power critic error. It shuts down the computer like usually an hour or so but sometimes some minutes and gets back and working. But is is not that convient. Log Name: SystemSource: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-PowerDate: 2020-01-22 19:32:00Event ID: 41Task Category: (63)Level: CriticalKeywords: (70368744177664),(2)User: SYSTEMDescription:The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly. I tried to find some information about it, tried to switch some drivers uninstalled and reinstalled even downloaded IOBit Driver Updater Pro and check with it. I was thinking some driver failure. But cant find a really good way for it. Also the battery icon is not showing in the taskbar. So it is strange for me. Somebody please help me with this. I hope somebody has something for me! THX This is the XML messeage: - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331c3b3a-2005-44c2-ac5e-77220c37d6b4}" /> <EventID>41</EventID> <Version>6</Version> <Level>1</Level> <Task>63</Task> <Opcode>0</Opcode> <Keywords>0x8000400000000002</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2020-01-22T18:32:00.470926600Z" /> <EventRecordID>3252</EventRecordID> <Correlation /> <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" /> <Channel>System</Channel> <Computer>DESKTOP-HH769F3</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /> </System> - <EventData> <Data Name="BugcheckCode">0</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x0</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0x0</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x0</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x0</Data> <Data Name="SleepInProgress">0</Data> <Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data> <Data Name="BootAppStatus">0</Data> <Data Name="Checkpoint">0</Data> <Data Name="ConnectedStandbyInProgress">false</Data> <Data Name="SystemSleepTransitionsToOn">0</Data> <Data Name="CsEntryScenarioInstanceId">0</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckInfoFromEFI">false</Data> <Data Name="CheckpointStatus">0</Data> </EventData> </Event> Anhd as I see there is one more warning that more interesting about the PCI Express Root Port. Log Name: SystemSource: WHEA-LoggerDate: 2020-01-22 19:32:00Event ID: 17Task Category: NoneLevel: Warning Keywords: noneUser: SYSTEM This is getting genereated like two minutes always. I dont get it The XML for this - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger" Guid="{c26c4f3c-3f66-4e99-8f8a-39405cfed220}" /> <EventID>17</EventID> <Version>1</Version> <Level>3</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Opcode>0</Opcode> <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2020-01-22T18:52:23.220341900Z" /> <EventRecordID>3326</EventRecordID> <Correlation ActivityID="{115ed1a8-b8df-43d0-90ef-e7f2d480e49d}" /> <Execution ProcessID="3388" ThreadID="5088" /> <Channel>System</Channel> <Computer>DESKTOP-HH769F3</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-19" /> </System> - <EventData> <Data Name="ErrorSource">4</Data> <Data Name="FRUId">{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}</Data> <Data Name="FRUText" /> <Data Name="ValidBits">0xdf</Data> <Data Name="PortType">4</Data> <Data Name="Version">0x101</Data> <Data Name="Command">0x10</Data> <Data Name="Status">0x406</Data> <Data Name="Bus">0x0</Data> <Data Name="Device">0x1c</Data> <Data Name="Function">0x5</Data> <Data Name="Segment">0x0</Data> <Data Name="SecondaryBus">0x0</Data> <Data Name="SecondaryDevice">0x0</Data> <Data Name="SecondaryFunction">0x0</Data> <Data Name="VendorID">0x8086</Data> <Data Name="DeviceID">0x9d15</Data> <Data Name="ClassCode">0x30400</Data> <Data Name="DeviceSerialNumber">0x0</Data> <Data Name="BridgeControl">0x0</Data> <Data Name="BridgeStatus">0x0</Data> <Data Name="UncorrectableErrorStatus">0x0</Data> <Data Name="CorrectableErrorStatus">0x1000</Data> <Data Name="HeaderLog">0100004A040000030000000000000000</Data> <Data Name="PrimaryDeviceName">PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_9D15&SUBSYS_1B101043&REV_F1</Data> <Data Name="SecondaryDeviceName" /> </EventData> </Event>

Hi everyone! So here is the story. This is a build I just updated/upgraded for my bestfriend. Only two days after the build was booted and AMD Radeon software I believe is fully up-to-date this issue occurs. See attachments. Specifications are listed below for parts. I haven't found a solution to this issue yet as it has just occurred today. But most solutions are to keep the monitor powered off until the PC has fully started up. This setup is a double display monitor setup. BenQ monitor is DP to DP and is a G-sync monitor refurbished only two years old and Samsung monitor is HDMI to HDMI. I did a fresh install when I did this build and the product key didn't work so we had to buy a new one(new one is Windows 64-bit Pro). Upon doing this I didn't get to install much of anything else as far as updates including perhaps a BIOS update and other drivers. Images of what my friend sees https://imgur.com/a/dlWCiVm Specifications: Motherboard: PRIME B450M-A/CSM Ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (Model - F4-3200C16D-16GVKB) GPU: MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G OC Edition CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 8 core 16 thread 3.2 GHz Base Side note: His Turtlebeach headphones are plugged into the audio front panel of the desktop but Windows Audio isn't recognizing he has a microphone. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as well.

Hi everyone i just got myself a new stick of ddr4 8gb corsair 2666mhz i have checked everything and made sure that is was compatible, which is should be. the other stick i have is also ddr4 8gb, but kingston and 2400mhz When i insert it it fits and everything, but when i turn on my pc, there is now a red blinking led, next to the ram, which blinks between "CPU" and "RAM" that is what is stated on the motherboard next to the ram. When i removed the stick everything worked as it should again. Cant seem to figure out what is wrong. Please help, it would be a pleasure. Thanks, Merry christmas.

My pc sometimes give an error of SYSTEM thread expception and code: stornvme.sys Once it went into a BSOD bootloop, am completley stuck and have no idea what to do. Is my kingston A2000 M.2 500GB NVME broken? I have seen a thread regarding that specific ssd, is it just a coincidence or is it the same issue?

I recently built a new gaming PC that was working fine until I started messing around with the overclock. Randomly when I tried booting to Windows 10 (I have booted more than once before), the the startup was frozen. I hard reset it by holding down the power button and shut it down. I started it up again and got to Windows 10. The problem was that it said that it failed to start it. I went to bios and I turned off Ai overclock tuner provided by ASUS. This time it perfectly booted to Windows 10. I really wanted to overclock so I restarted and went back to BIOS and turned back on Ai Overclock Tuner. When I booted to windows 10 it gave me the same error again. I tried this 2 more times until finally when I turned on the pc, it just started Windows 10 without the option to press delete to go to BIOS. I restarted and went to windows 10 advanced startup options and click on the option to go to the BIOS. I clicked on it and waited but all there was is a black screen. Can someone please help fix this? Do I have to jump the motherboard, take out the cmos battery and put it back in, or etc.? This is my part list https://pcpartpicker.com/user/OutsideBeast/saved/

Hiya peeps! I have posted regarding this topic previously (previous topic: ) Soo it's back... It all starts with a random shutdown and after that whenever I press the power button, it starts the booting sequence. Everything powers up for maybe half a second (computer does send a video signal to the monitor) but then the boot fails and refuses to react to the power button again. This to me seems peculiar as why it wouldn't react to power button again. Only way to make the power button react is to remove the power cable from the wall that the pc is completely removed from all power, flicking the power supply button isn't enough. At one point this made the os corrupt and had to go to a backup. After re-installing it worked for a while, but it was a short fix. So far I have tried the following: -powering down normally and restarting -disconnecting all the cables -removing the power cable and turning the power button off at the back of the power supply (this resets the whole situation and at that point power button works once again) -removing and re-installing the graphics card -dusting the computer -re-seating all the ram -removing the CMOS battery Somehow this seems like a short circuit somewhere but I have no idea how to diagnose it. I'll try diagnosing it tomorrow afternoon as soon as I get home from work. Any suggestions would be greatly helpful.

System was running fine until I was looking at my system properties and saw my RAM reading that said: 8GB (3.79 Available). I thought that was weird since it used to say 7.4GB available, so I turned off my pc and decided to take out both Ram sticks and install them again and now my pc powers but doesn't post (yes I have read the pinned topic). Tried using only 1 ram stick on both slots with both ram sticks, still nothing. I would also like to note that after a few moments (40 seconds or so) the fans and lights stop and go for a split second as if I reset the machine, this continuously happens. Any help would be very appreciated. System Specs: Athlon X4 860k (Stock Cooler) Radeon R9 380 Western digital 2TB Seagate 3TB 8GB Ram (4GB Kingston 1600hz) (4GB Ballistic 2300hz) Corsair 450 Watt Windows 7 Starter edition 64 bit

Hello! I have had some weird issues with my computer lately, I believe it could've been a power surge (I have an EVGA 500W 80plus) since my monitor suffered a weird color flickering and couldn't get my PC to boot. Piece by piece I started discarding issues and I got to the WD HDD which was responsible for the system not booting. I immediately removed it and tried to use an external 3.5 SATA enclosure to try to recover the data and this is where my post really begins. The drive shows up in Disk Manager, however, it appears as unallocated space and not initialized. As I try to initialize it says it's write protected. In this state I have tried to run Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows which approves all test on the hard drive but immediately says "Too many bad sectors" when checking the data. I have tried to initialize the drive with ThumbScrew and manually insterting the DWORD value in regedit to try to change the readonly attribute with no effect. I have also tried to use DiskPart to clear this readonly attribute but it fails with no more information. Recuva is useless since the drive has to already have a volume (such as C: or D:, which it doesn't, I have tried looking for the volume in DiskPart but it's not there, only the disk shows any information) EaseUS recovery doesn't let me hit "Proceed" even though it has a "Search in Unallocated Space" option, it asks me to give it a partition, which is not there. Scanning for files just gives me 0 files on LostPartition-RAW. I have tried HDDRegenerator but when I try to fix the bad sectors it just tells me the drive must be installed internally, which I can't do because I'm on a Mac at the moment and soon I'll be getting an SSD for my PC and then try that option. TL:DR: I have an HDD with unallocated space, a hell of a lot of bad sectors, not initialized and write protected. Anything else I should try? Where I'm from it will not only be expensive, but hard to find a trustworthy data recovery centre. I will miss this data, but it's not the end of the world for me, apart from party footage with family and friends, graphic animations I have designed and just quitting Fallout 4 and Skyrim since I will never go back without my savegames. Specially Fallout since, well, 76 is sht. Thanks a lot and I hope I'm doing something wrong or there's a way around the issue

Hi, I got a pc that since a week ago start failing, it haves sudden reboots or shutdowns, when it turn off the monitor after no use, I move the mouse to get it back again, the monitor turn on but only a black screen comes up, so I need to reboot it manually. Also the mouse and the keyboard fails here an then, I need to unplug and plug it again to get them to work again. Dont know whats going on.. My rig is an Asrock extreme 4 z87 mobo, a msi armor gtx 1080 gpu, i7 4770k, 32 gb ram team dark 1333, a psu evga 750 gq, os installed in ssd sandisk 480 gb. The mobo, core and memory ram are 5 years old, the ssd and psu are 1 year old, and the gtx is one month old. I think is the mobo, however I need any input i can get to be sure whats going. Thanks in advance for your help.

Specs: i5-6500 Asus B250 M-A (Only some months new) Patriot 8GB Ram PSU is from some workstation, like 700w. Phoenix Pro SSD I bought a brand new EVGA GTX 1050 from amazon, (replacing my old HD 5970). It just fails under load, sometimes even just browsing internet. I can't play games; I can't run Kombustor (stress test it). -The screen will cut to black or just lose signal. -I've tried DDU a couple of times, reinstalling the drivers. -I've even completely uninstalled windows and reinstalled it, resetting everything. -I've ordered a replacement GPU and it does the same exact thing -BIOS is updated (1205) -Messing with the GPU clock settings doesn't do anything

Hello there. I would be glad if someone could help me. I bought a 3TB Toshiba HDD around 2 months ago and 2 days ago I got a message from HD Sentinel which said the health state is critical (29%), and it detected 85 uncorrectable sector failures. I was freaked out, so I performed a retest to make sure it's not a mistake, and the error is mystically disappeared, the health state is 100% since then, but the performance is..well.. crap... I think this is the best word. None of the programs I used has detected any error, but the write speed drops to constant 1.5-2.5 MB/s from the original 110-140/s in a few seconds after the operation starts. The read speed looks kinda okay, but it also decreased from constant 170/s to an unstable number between 55 and 160 MBps. Btw it's an archive drive, so in theory, it shouldn't be impacted by any windows background operation. Model: Toshiba HDWD130 ( https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Desktop-7200rpm-Internal-Drive/dp/B013JPLOQQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1540637010&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Toshiba+HDWD130&amp;dpID=41X-19gBXYL&amp;preST=_SX300_QL70_&amp;dpSrc=srch Could it be a simple software failure or it is the drive which closes to the end? Thanks for the help!

I went to turn on my laptop when plugged in and i get a message from the Bios saying that my battery has experienced permanent failure and needs to be replaced. And underneath that it says warning, the battery cannot be identified and cannot be charged. This is strange becasue the battery was working earlier today just fine. And when the laptop is turned on with the laptop plugged in, I can see the percentage the battery is at, but it says it is not charging.

Ok, so I have been having an issue with Windows update (big surprise, I know) for the entire month of October. So, after the whole debacle with data deletion and what have you, I'm seeing an influx of posts around the web of people running the 1809 update, but mine keeps refusing to install! It shows up, it "downloads", it restarts my pc and then just says a restart is required. Then I looked at the update history, and it is just a string of "failed to install" messages (picture posted below). So, after literally spending ACTUAL HOURS trying to find someone with this issue, I simply cannot. It took quite a while to even figure out that error code 0xc19001e1 means "MOSETUP_E_PROCESS_SUSPENDED, or The installation process was suspended. (Link to where I found this https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-itpro-docs/blob/master/windows/deployment/upgrade/resolution-procedures.md) Does anyone know what is causing this? Any help would be appreciated, as I am currently pulling my hair out between this and several other projects... THINGS I'VE TRIED Installing windows from boot media (Downloaded from MS website) Disabling Malwarebytes Disabling antivirus Updating drivers Sfc scan command Playing with insider preview settings Probably other things I can't remember.

Motherboard has power (2 Amber light by graphics card, 1 white light on graphics card) I've tried the green to black wire on psu I've tried reseting the cmos INFORMATION Intel H270 chipset Intel core i7 Asus 5x Protection lll UEFI BIOS ASUS EPU M.2 Windows 10 64bit 1.2v 8Gx8 ram(I have 2) 500w power supply (Allied) iBUYPOWER i-Series 504 120Gb SATA (WD GREEN) 1TB HARD DRIVE SATA/64MB Cache (WD BLUE) 1Cpu fan 1 Fan 1psu fan ATX form factor

My hard drive makes clicking sounds while the laptop boots and booting takes too long (the OS is on a SSD). And for some reasons it fails(ie game just crashes and the hard drive restarts) while playing only FIFA 19. Any ideas what's going on and any solution?