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    SSD that can't be seen.... sometimes

    I just noticed mine starting when I bought the new Gig Z590 MB
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    SSD that can't be seen.... sometimes

    Seems to be a lot of issues with SSD not being seen or other type of problems these days...I have two drives that stops boot process in its track if connected with other drives...These have been cleaned, formatted , wipe
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    booting issue

    I removed linux Mint from the drive with diskpart and created new partition with mini tool...with that drive in the external my computer doesn't even reach a boot screen...I have another drive with ubuntu installed and it boots fine with windows,, With the clean drive that once had Mint...
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    booting issue

    Maybe I'm not understanding....I have a ssd with Ubuntu and it boots with or without the other dives installed I remove one of the internal SSD's and connected the SSD with Mint...I used diskpart to clean, I created a partition with mintool No errors computer boots into Windows with the clean...
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    booting issue

    I installed Windows 10 without any other drive installed, I installed windows 11 without any other drive installed I installed Mint without any other drive installed other than the USB that Mink was on
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    booting issue

    Maybe I found the issue, I have Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB with windows 10 installed, the ssd with linux mint is Samsung SSD 850 EVO 120GB Unhook the 500GB and the 120GB runs fine. I didn't know you couldn't run two drives with the same name even if their size is different
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    booting issue

    gigabyte z590 ud ac 32GB Corsair 6500XT video Evga 750GQ PSU External drive case has its own power and they are sata It will boot Ubuntu with or without the other drives installed the ssd with Mint will only boot with all other drives removed will try and explain this best as possible...
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    Does this board support NVMe Gen 4

    My Motherboard is gigabyte z590 ud ac Been thinking of buying a Samsung 980 Pro Gen 4 but not sure if my board supports it at full speed And having other SATA SSD's slow down the 980? These NVMe drives are new to me never mess with any
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    Installed Linux on eSATA drive

    Thanks
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    Installed Linux on eSATA drive

    If I run lunux that is already installed on a eSATA drive wll it mess with my two Windows (WIn 10 & Win 11) that is on two other SSD's. I don't want to screw up those Windows drives thanks
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    SOLD: Samsung EVO 850 SSD 120GB

    payment sent
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    SOLD: Samsung EVO 850 SSD 120GB

    I'll take it
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    [FS] - sold

    Nice
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    GIGABYTE Z590 UD AC ...Bad?

    I booted from USB and ran memtest...
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    GIGABYTE Z590 UD AC ...Bad?

    After trying to figure out what was going with my drives Drive 0 Samsung 870 (Windows 11) Drive 1 Samsung 850 (windows 10 64) Drive seagate 2TB for storage only I randomly get check disk /fix error on all these drives and had many fails trying to write ISO to usb Bad motherboard only thing I can...
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    Is it just me or......

    Yeah on mine it was both power connection point on the board, edges was razor sharp. I thought my PSU cable were maybe bad because it was very hard to make the connection. I tried the cables (from psu) on another board and easily plugged in....I'm not calling the newer boards junk
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    Is it just me or......

    It's been a while since I thrown together a desktop system, and how things have changed. examples....fan not spinning on video card (thought card was bad) card was fine, fan turns on when needed flashing leds on memory sticks One bad thing to me was how the quality of motherboard ( or least...
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    Too many partitions

    I removed one of the partitions (529mb) but my attempt to backup the drive had errors (trying to give the unallocated space a drive letter. So only other options I had was to expand the recovery partition (now 1GB) and it remained at the beginning of the drive..
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    Too many partitions

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    Too many partitions

    I have it backed up using reflect, but there was error with one of those partitions..I may remove one of those
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    Too many partitions

    Disk 2 has two partitions the same ..when I try to backup drive using Reflect I get error one of the drives not found..Can I delete one of them ? If so which one?
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    Want to trade (please delete)

    Please remove , no longer wanting to trade.
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    Pump question

    Thanks
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    Pump question

    Thanks guys, I found a issue on the Asus z97 I guess I dropped the CPU while removing once the pump died ...Many bent pins on the board the CPU and ram still may be good but no way to test it...CPU I5-4670 ram is 32gb of EVGA...I may offer the setup and let someone test who has a...
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    Pump question

    I bought the Rasa 750 Rx240 kit years ago, and replaced the pump couple of times Seems like the pump is hard to find now, my question the Rad and Cpu block should be fine? My pump went dead and I guess fired my CPU and or Motherboard Here is a link to the kit I'm speaking of...
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    WTB Video Card

    Thanks to everyone, think I got one already.
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    WTB Video Card

    Heck of a deal...thanks
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    WTB Video Card

    I have a AMD Radeon HD 6670 no in my ASUS z97-ar MB..Looking for something about same or close to it. I don't game, ...fan is failing on mine
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    ASUS PRIME Z590-P/I5-10600k

    Thinking of upgrading to the above, right now using a Asus Z97-AR/ I5-4670k. Motherboard getting old still works fine. Haven't read up much on the Z590 are there many issues with this board? How much of bang if any should I expect if I go this route? thanks
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    Looking for External CD/DVD Recorder

    Anyone know which one is decent or all about the same?
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    OC or not?

    Got updated cpu-z all is fine now...didn't notice how old that one was. Bet I went into bios settings 50 times trying to get it back where it was before thanks
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    OC or not?

    Not sure if its really OC or not I have set in bios to do so but looking at these ..now not so sure. This is a Asus z-97-ar with 4670k
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    Boot problem

    All drives removed from computer...In the Bios only thing showing about Booting is Boot Priority Ubuntu
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    Boot problem

    One last thing, using the F8 key is from the bios bbs , connect the linux drive up and using F8 key I can pick any drive I want to boot and it works or I can use grub menu and do the same..I still think that something went wrong with the liniux install and it did something to the asus bios..as...
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    Boot problem

    Yes I did each drive one at a time
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    Boot problem

    I tried to fix each drive/os individually that failed...starting to think if its possible that it did something in the bios ..I lost all my settings when this happen
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    Boot problem

    I ran msconfig and check boot, nothing there that shouldn't be on both drives. Ran reflect backup and did the fix boot from a USB stick, deleted both partitions and ran restore with only one drive at a time connected. Still no go, pick the Windows 8 from the F8 key and boots to Win 10. Go to...
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    Boot problem

    Thanks, are there a way I can fix this without using linux boot menu? I much rather use just the F8 to pick my OS You see when linux is not installed I can't pick any drive to boot from other than what in primary boot in bios even tho they are listed while using F8 key
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    Boot problem

    Update, when using F8 key to pick which drive, if I pick the Linux drive once grub loads I see this Mint 20.1 Cinn Windows 8 /dev/sda1 Windows 10 (on /dev/sdb1/ ..will not boot if I pick that one Windows 10 (on dev/sdc1/ will boot
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