Recent content by Aumakua

DUH, yesterday I got a 10% coupon from Ebay on top of 5X Ebay bucks on any purchase!!! Newegg won't take returns and they show the product as not available anyway (980 ti classified), would have been $570 if I waited and bought it with both coupons, would have been a crazy deal for that card...

free shipping but have to pay tax. don't forget about Discover card 5% cashback bonus if you click through their link (which can offset a lot of the tax)...

for those of you not on eBay, you might want to sign up and get e-mail "deals" because when they have 4X or 5X eBay bucks they have some pretty damn good prices. recently I was offered 4X rewards on purchases over $100 used it to pick up a GTX 980 ti Classified from newegg (who sells on...

yeah VRAM is an issue, which is the biggest reason I wanted to switch. Plus I don't care for SLI, used it a few times in the past and I would rather go with the best single GPU even if the cost/performance isn't as good. I would prefer a gsync monitor and even though I like IPS for photo...

I have been running a GTX 970 with my Dell U2710 (2560X1440) since last year and have been happy with the performance (was running a GTX 670 with that monitor before, so big improvement). I recently upgraded to skylake (from sandy) and was considering jumping into the ultra wide 34"...

not sure if the price is the same for everyone (depending on zip code?) also not sure exactly how Jet works, I ordered a 500GB Crucial SSD from them 2 weeks ago for $140, got it in about a week and it works fine, but would be more skeptical about buying a monitor from them, if there are dead...

Now this just keeps getting stranger! so I finally gave up, hooked up my new motherboard again with the drives I know are working, AND added two of my "media" drives to the mix, these are drives that I disconnected before the new power supply issue even came up, I never connected them to my new...

So I have tried everything and nothing works. Put my old setup back together and it won't read it. New motherboard only had SATA options. Old one I tried ide and nothing. Old power supply still works, I think the new one somehow fried it, not sure how, but for it to happen to two drives...

found this! http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/How-I-fixed-my-M4-that-wouldn-t-detect-in-the-BIOS/td-p/110964 going to try that first, hopefully it does the trick

yeah I checked it all, if it was a setting I don't think it would be recognizing any SSD or hard drives, and it is recognizing everything but this one. Plus the ASRock board only has SATA, no other option. I tried resetting my BIOS too (took battery out). Thanks for the help guys, I know...

yeah its not the cables that's for sure, connected a new SSD to the same cables and it detected it right away! which makes me think it has to be the drive itself. things I am going to try next: 1) SeaTools for DOS, on Seagate's website it looks like this can be used to detect drives that...

unfortunately I am a loner on building computers, no one I know does it, cousin 2 states away is who got me into it 20 years ago! :( I was thinking of buying an external dock for $25, I thought I read somewhere that someone was able to read their drives from one of those (connected through USB...

has this ever happened to anyone? So I just installed a new board, cpu, ram (skylake setup) a couple weeks ago and everything has been running fine except my power supply was a little long in the tooth (5+ years) and I think I was having some overclocking/stability issues because of it. I...

So as strange as it may be, it looks like all this was Windows Power Management settings! I had set this to 50% minimum, so when at idle the cpu core would be around 1800ghz (speed step). Well it turns out this was the problem. I upped it to 75%, still had the same issues, changed it to...

okay, so I updated BIOS to one that actually just got put on ASRock's site today. it reset everything for me, tried running at "stock" with XMP profile 1 and without it, still have the issue of everything locking up when toggling between a game and desktop. Also getting crashes while...