You need hot air to do that, not electromagnetic waves.
Even then, overheating could have been solved by cleaning the fans and heatsinks and reapplying thermal paste.
Those interface connectors are connected to things. Those sparks you saw were thousands of volts of electricity getting rammed through those things.
You plugged a fork into your motherboard, and now you want to make a fraudulent warranty claim because of it?
Doesn't matter. the motherboard controls the power to everything, since it's dead nothing will power on, even with a paper clip. Throw it all away, and buy a new PC.
You only see the burnt PCB, you cannot see the microscopic circuits inside the chips on that PCB. Those circuits are meant to be powered by 1-3 volts, microwaves can induce thousands of volts. Thousands of volts scramble the circuits inside chips and turn them into blocks of metal...
Since when does Windows 10 use NTLDR? Shouldn’t it be looking for BOOTMGR? Did the MBR somehow get overwritten with WinXP boot code? Is the system trying to boot from the wrong drive (like a flash drive)?
Most motherboards/interface cards had two IDE channels. So as long as you put the optical drive on a separate channel from the hdd, this wasn’t a problem.
SCSI devices still had to wait for the bus to be free to transfer data, but bus management was so much better than IDE (as in, it...
What BIOS version are you on now?
What CPU are you running?
What problem do you think updating your BIOS will solve?
Assuming you are on a version prior to F32 AND support for your CPU isn’t removed in one of the later versions, you need to update to F32 first. Then update to the latest...
You’re selling something you don’t own and have no stake in with the hopes of buying it back later at a lower cost so you can return it to the real owner while making a buck in the process. Not only do you KNOW someone has to lose for you to gain, but you’re HOPING and even actively working to...
From what I understand (and is probably wrong) Big money people saw a company that is dying and borrows a bunch of shares promising to give them back at a certain future date. They then turn around and sell those shares at current market value.
Before the shares are due back they’ll buy...
A rank is 64-bits wide (72 for ecc). Chips that have 8 data lines (x8) require 8 chips to fill a rank. So 16 chips would indeed be two ranks.
However x4 chips would need 16 chips for just one rank, and x16 chips need only four.
(BTW, Bank is a similar term, but applies either to a chip’s...
I don’t have the answer for your first question, but I’d imagine it’d be easy to figure out with a little A/B testing, assuming you can change your PCIe configuration in the BIOS settings.
You second question: yes. 8x 4.0 is the same as 16x 3.0 (for a 4.0 device).
With my work laptops, bitlocker is enabled via group policy. So we never see the recovery key unless we intentionally look for it before there is a problem.
If bitlocker is tripped and we didn’t look that key up, we’re out of luck. Our IT guys can not help us.
Primary and secondary (and tertiary and quaternary) referred to the host bus adapters (HBAs, aka controllers) that provided the (E)IDE interfaces. So you had a primary master, primary slave, secondary master, and secondary slave.
The HBA didn't actually do anything other than direct commands...
If you signed up for a Microsoft account and chose the right options when you enabled BitLocker, you may be able to get the recovery key from your OneDrive account.
https://onedrive.live.com/recoverykey
If not, then you're data is done. Nothing out there can recover it.
As with any big business dealings, this has most likely been in the works for quite some time to determine the feasibility of the move and put together a preliminary plan to execute it.
I’ve known about some of the partnerships and acquisitions my company has made several months before...
It's still early.
Zen1 - 12/2016, TR1 05/2017 (+6 Months)
Zen+ - 03/2018; TR2 08/2018 (+5 Months)
Zen2 - 05/2019; TR3 11/2019 (+6 Months)
Zen3 - 10/2020;
So a TR4 announcement should be coming along sometime in March or April if their cadence holds up.
ahh yes. definitely don't miss the days of tinkering with unlabeled jumper blocks on card that you may or may not have the manual for.
IRQ 14 - jumper two vertical pins three sets over.
IRQ 15 - jumper two vertical pins four over, plus two horizontal pins on the bottom five over.
IRQ 11 -...