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bsmaff said:
Your not a dumbass - I have built many a machine and have bent pins a few times through rookie mistakes.
Mainly cleaning thermal paste and accidentally damaging some pins.

Older AMD are the worse as the pins were on the processor.
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Issue was I didn't expect the AM5 mobo pins to be that horribly sensitive. It's insane. Youn literally need to be a surgeon to put those little fuckers back into place.
 
Tom said:
I feel for you, buddy. It's usually crap like that which fucks me over e-v-e-r-y-t-i-m-e I build new rigs. It's like a curse or something. When I upgraded to my 9800X3D recently, I bent a pin on the motherboard in the process which lead to only half of my memory working. When I noticed the bent pin, I put on microscopic magnifiers and took a needle to gently put it back into its position...only to fuck up 20 more pins with the back of my hand. Fuck that. Had to get another motherboard after.

edit. This post makes me seem like a total dumbass. I'm not, I swear.
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I switched from AMD to Intel not so long back and I hadn't realised that the pins were now on the mobo not the CPU as they were on the AMD, I fucked up two motherboards and lost a core on one CPU thanks to that so it's definitely not just you, and I've been building/upgrading PCs for over 20 years :) It's definitely not just you that's for sure!
 
el niche said:
Welp, it happened to me. At night I installed a new SSD. So I disconnected my PC to upgrade. Easy plug and play, right?
Nope, everything ran like crap, 5fps in the few games that ran, sluggish performance. Ran a bunch of tests..

- Maybe it was the power settings I was messing with a day before... nope, couldn't even remember what I changed
- maybe bios.... nope everything looked fine and updated
- maybe I moved a cable.... nope, reconnected and gpu, took out ram and put it back , could the gpu be fried?
- psu cable damaged and not giving enough power? nope, all looked ok, relatively new....
- f' it, Ill reinstall windows. wiped out C: drive and reinstalled programs / windows... Nope, still runs like crap

there I was, defeated after troubleshooting for hours.... and then, in the corner of my eye, I saw a comment "make sure your HDMI cable is plugged to your GPU and not the motherboard".....

In the words of Forrest Gump : I'm not a smart man......
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The good in all this story, except of anecdotical situation itself - that, in the end, easy solution was found and nothing is wrong with any of pc electronic components.
 
Silly question,.I've been putting off buying a NAS for a while and am finally ready to pull the trigger. I've currently got all my media on a Seagate external HDD, I'm assuming I can shuck these and put them into the NAS?

1. Current plan, buy a Synology DS423+ and 2 x 6tb NAS drives
2. Copy all the media over (around 5Tb).onto the NAS, then shuck the 2 external HDDs (1 is 6tb, I is 7tb and the current backup) I have and put them in the NAS
3. Format the 2 shucked drives and set them up as raid 1

Is that possible, or have I missed something? Current HDDs are Seagate so was just going to get the same brand but NAS versions. Thanks in advance
 
Nvidia you are no more the same...
With my new PC with an RTX 5080 and up to date & last driver I have sometimes just for a second blackscreens. No matter what I do.

I don't want to change to AMD full.

Plus I scared about the Power cable if it would burn or smelting.
But I ordered this new PC in the mid of february at a time were there aren't any informations about this crap.
 
Carles P. said:
Nvidia you are no more the same...
With my new PC with an RTX 5080 and up to date & last driver I have sometimes just for a second blackscreens. No matter what I do.

I don't want to change to AMD full.

Plus I scared about the Power cable if it would burn or smelting.
But I ordered this new PC in the mid of february at a time were there aren't any informations about this crap.
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If you have two monitors - Set the 2nd monitor to 60Hz this fixes the issue.
I have it with the current Nvidia drivers with my 5090.
 
Carles P. said:
Nvidia you are no more the same...
With my new PC with an RTX 5080 and up to date & last driver I have sometimes just for a second blackscreens. No matter what I do.

I don't want to change to AMD full.

Plus I scared about the Power cable if it would burn or smelting.
But I ordered this new PC in the mid of february at a time were there aren't any informations about this crap.
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I hate technical problems and give support. But because this error is often not known to the masses and you can rule it out. (It's not a joke!)

There is a strange error. If your gaming chair is a modern one and you sit down or stand up that for a very short time this has a bad influence on your HDMI cable and causes this short dropout (black screen).

This has nothing to do with an electrical fault of the hardware or a bad electrical (electricity that conducts) but really from the chair.
The gas or where the chair gently lowers when you sit down or stand up.

It is best to test it with a kitchen chair, not a gamer or office chair.

Sorry for the poor explanation as I am Swiss (swissgerman speaker) and lack a feel for the language and the translator is my friend.
 
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As a proud owner of the infamous Ikea Markus chair I can confirm the above. I even invented a special technique when getting up to stop black screens caused by electric discharge from happening. It probably looks like some weird sort of tribal dance but it does the job :D
 
VierGraustufen said:
I hate technical problems and give support. But because this error is often not known to the masses and you can rule it out. (It's not a joke!)

There is a strange error. If your gaming chair is a modern one and you sit down or stand up that for a very short time this has a bad influence on your HDMI cable and causes this short dropout (black screen).

This has nothing to do with an electrical fault of the hardware or a bad electrical (electricity that conducts) but really from the chair.
The gas or where the chair gently lowers when you sit down or stand up.

It is best to test it with a kitchen chair, not a gamer or office chair.

Sorry for the poor explanation as I am Swiss (swissgerman speaker) and lack a feel for the language and the translator is my friend.
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Tom said:
As a proud owner of the infamous Ikea Markus chair I can confirm the above. I even invented a special technique when getting up to stop black screens caused by electric discharge from happening. It probably looks like some weird sort of tribal dance but it does the job :D
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I think more the issue is with the Nvidia driver. Because I have my new Pc since two weeks and since then I have this bug.

With my other PC with an RTX4070 ti super and same corsair chair I didn't had such bugs.


And Nvidia know about this bug, but they think they had fixed it with last driver from mid of april...

I feeling now a bit of observed. I stand up and sit down to my chair but no black screen at this moment. :BOP:


PS: @VierGraustufen My english is even more bad then yours - I life in germany.
 
Just to say that it also happened to a colleague after he bought a new PC. He didn't have these problems with the old one.
It doesn't happen every time he gets up or sits down either.
It might therefore make sense to test this described option to see if it is your fault. It is of course up to you.
 
Carles P. said:
Nvidia you are no more the same...
With my new PC with an RTX 5080 and up to date & last driver I have sometimes just for a second blackscreens. No matter what I do.

I don't want to change to AMD full.

Plus I scared about the Power cable if it would burn or smelting.
But I ordered this new PC in the mid of february at a time were there aren't any informations about this crap.
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Can't guarantee the answer is there but the Guru3d forum is a really good place for tech support and finding loads of people with similar setups who might be able to help, check the Nvidia drivers forum: https://forums.guru3d.com/forums/videocards-nvidia-geforce-drivers-section.21/

Edit: @Carles P. there's a hotfix driver out that mentions blackscreen problems: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/nvidia-geforce-576-15-hotfix-driver-download.456121/

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The new driver issues are to do with the computer sleeping.
When the PC wakes up the GPU doesn't update it's temperature, so if you have fan curves then your GPU could be effectively cooking without knowing.

Basically your GPU wakes up at 40c and the PC always thinks it is 40c even if you are playing games and the GPU is at 90c the fans won't kick up and your cooking your card.
 
bsmaff said:
The new driver issues are to do with the computer sleeping.
When the PC wakes up the GPU doesn't update it's temperature, so if you have fan curves then your GPU could be effectively cooking without knowing.

Basically your GPU wakes up at 40c and the PC always thinks it is 40c even if you are playing games and the GPU is at 90c the fans won't kick up and your cooking your card.
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Not the same but I had the C-State low CPU usage issue for a looooooooong time where my PC would shut down/reboot when it wasn't being used, finally learned if I disabled C-State in the BIOS it immediately resolved it!
 
bsmaff said:
The new driver issues are to do with the computer sleeping.
When the PC wakes up the GPU doesn't update it's temperature, so if you have fan curves then your GPU could be effectively cooking without knowing.

Basically your GPU wakes up at 40c and the PC always thinks it is 40c even if you are playing games and the GPU is at 90c the fans won't kick up and your cooking your card.
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You are right, but even after the new hotfix people complain about blackscreens and crashes while gaming. Its crazy.
 
Hello fellas, I hope you have a great weekend. I need your help again, please.

I want to sell 3 old PC's. And my problem is, I don't know how to unistall windows/format the ssd's.

The three PC's are one with:

  • Windows 11 Pro and a SSD M.2 PCIe 4.0 2280 WD_Black
  • Windows 10 Home and a SSD M.2 PCIe 3.0 WD Blue SN550 NVMe
  • Windows 10 (I can not remember which Home or Pro) and a SSD (2.5") SATA3 Samsung 860 EVO
I want to remove everything (driver, tools, data, files, software and the OS) from this 3 PC's but the respectively 3 SSD's should do still work. And the potential buyers may find anything from me.

I had searched with google, but couldn't find anything. I don't know if it is so difficult to do, or I'm to blind, or I don't know which words I should use for the search.


I hope a member of the forum can helps me with this. Where and how I can do this? :PRAY:

Greetings!
 
Carles P. said:
Hello fellas, I hope you have a great weekend. I need your help again, please.

I want to sell 3 old PC's. And my problem is, I don't know how to unistall windows/format the ssd's.

The three PC's are one with:

  • Windows 11 Pro and a SSD M.2 PCIe 4.0 2280 WD_Black
  • Windows 10 Home and a SSD M.2 PCIe 3.0 WD Blue SN550 NVMe
  • Windows 10 (I can not remember which Home or Pro) and a SSD (2.5") SATA3 Samsung 860 EVO
I want to remove everything (driver, tools, data, files, software and the OS) from this 3 PC's but the respectively 3 SSD's should do still work. And the potential buyers may find anything from me.

I had searched with google, but couldn't find anything. I don't know if it is so difficult to do, or I'm to blind, or I don't know which words I should use for the search.


I hope a member of the forum can helps me with this. Where and how I can do this? :PRAY:

Greetings!
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Don't know if this hint is what you're looking for, but just a basic "Reset this PC" via System - Recovery in Settings should do the trick. Don't forget to change there that you want to format everything. That will format every HDD/SSD from your PC if you want so and could take some hours depending on your system, plus will have your PC cleaned until the Windows 10/11 setup intro boots up. Generally, you can't use your Windows 10/11 license key on another machine (at least the basic home edition) if you activate it already on yours, so I don't think it matter if stays there (as permanent)... In other hand, all info that you have, account info, config., files and everything else will disappear (because when the windows setup starts it asks for your account credentials again, like a factory 1st boot).

In few weeks or months I'm also thinking to get a new desktop pc and format the actual one, because the one that I have right now even if still stands the test of time, is already 6 years old and the future releases in gaming could be a challenge... Even though, loved a lot my 2060RTX Super, no issues at all during this period.

Regarding the next one, I'm very excited but also still struggling to think component wise if will be an ATI or Nvidia based PC during my next 5 years or so...
 
You can get Secure Erase tools from the SSD manufacturers - This will erase any data from the SSD.
Some motherboards also provided Secure Erase for SSD's - Every motherboard I have purchased over the last 5 or so years have all had this option.

Data Recovery doesn't work the same way on SSD's as it does on hard drives.
Once the data is securely erased on an SSD it is gone - Unlike an HDD when it is fully formatted you can still get the data off.
 
@etb10dmk and @bsmaff thank you both so much! I do realy apreciated your help.

bsmaff said:
You can get Secure Erase tools from the SSD manufacturers - This will erase any data from the SSD.
Some motherboards also provided Secure Erase for SSD's - Every motherboard I have purchased over the last 5 or so years have all had this option.

Data Recovery doesn't work the same way on SSD's as it does on hard drives.
Once the data is securely erased on an SSD it is gone - Unlike an HDD when it is fully formatted you can still get the data off.
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Thank you, I will do that in the coming week. If I have trouble again, I will get back here.

:BEER:
 
I'm now the proud owner of this.
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But I still need to figure out the key assignments and which button is which.

And I've now installed both MSFS and DCS World Steam Edition.
I'll try to finish my SimRig in the second half of the year.
 
Carles P. said:
I'm now the proud owner of this.
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But I still need to figure out the key assignments and which button is which.

And I've now installed both MSFS and DCS World Steam Edition.
I'll try to finish my SimRig in the second half of the year.
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Congrats mate and enjoy that new hardware.
I’m pretty sure you can find button templates to import so you don’t have to deal with assigning them all by yourself.

Just search for „thustmaster hotas button template“…

With my Ursa Minor I couldn’t find a lot so I assigned buttons in MSFS24 myself. ED was a game I did not start assigning buttons yet (just too many) and left it aside… for now. 😊
 
PRO_TOO said:
Congrats mate and enjoy that new hardware.
I’m pretty sure you can find button templates to import so you don’t have to deal with assigning them all by yourself.

Just search for „thustmaster hotas button template“…

With my Ursa Minor I couldn’t find a lot so I assigned buttons in MSFS24 myself. ED was a game I did not start assigning buttons yet (just too many) and left it aside… for now. 😊
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Thank you mate. I will search for it.

❤️
 
Played Division 2 last night for the first time in ages and had an annoying issue, every 10 mins or so the monitor goes blank and I have to press alt+tab to get the game back, not ideal in a game that doesn't pause! Played GTA5 to nigh on 100% and RDR2 for 44 hours on this current save with no issues at all :(

Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti with latest drivers.
 
Seems to be a common theme with Nvidia cards and the latest drivers.
Mine flashes all the time unless I set my 2nd monitor to be locked at 60Hz - Can't have both monitors running at 144hz.
 
bsmaff said:
Seems to be a common theme with Nvidia cards and the latest drivers.
Mine flashes all the time unless I set my 2nd monitor to be locked at 60Hz - Can't have both monitors running at 144hz.
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I only have 1 monitor connected but maybe because the card has outputs for up to 4 I think it is maybe it's getting confused, I didn't really want to get distracted from 100%'ing RDR2 so I'll go back to that for now which is flawless and worry about rolling back to an old driver another time for Division 2 :)
 
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