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    I microwaved a R9 390X gaming and now my pc won't run after 3rd time

    Considering the technical aptitude displayed thus far... I have to wonder if you really did what you think you did.
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    I microwaved a R9 390X gaming and now my pc won't run after 3rd time

    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.
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    I microwaved a R9 390X gaming and now my pc won't run after 3rd time

    You’ll have to replace all 6.2 billion transistors in the GPU core to make it work again.... maybe.
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    I microwaved a R9 390X gaming and now my pc won't run after 3rd time

    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?
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    I microwaved a R9 390X gaming and now my pc won't run after 3rd time

    Some manufacturers still had lifetime warranty on GPUs back then.
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    I microwaved a R9 390X gaming and now my pc won't run after 3rd time

    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.
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    I microwaved a R9 390X gaming and now my pc won't run after 3rd time

    No.. nothing is okay. You stuck a fork in your PC and killed it. It's done, get rid of it.
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    I microwaved a R9 390X gaming and now my pc won't run after 3rd time

    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...
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    ntldr missing Windows 10 Home

    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)?
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    HP purchases HyperX from Kingston

    Man that blows. Wish I could have helped you out somehow at the time.
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    HP purchases HyperX from Kingston

    I worked for HP during the separation, and that just doesn’t sound right.
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    HP purchases HyperX from Kingston

    If you’re getting emails for Aruba and Proliant, hardware that’s not HP, that’s HPE which is a completely different company now.
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    Do Alienware computers use Founder Edition RTX cards?

    I’d have to look again, but I’m pretty sure the the 3070 in the R11 I bought was not a founders edition.
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    NVME write/read speed capped at 590-630mb/s

    Could be that Epic game launcher is making a bunch of small writes, which tanks performance.
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    Windows 95 is 25 Years Old Today!!!

    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...
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    Scalpers Paradise Rules

    I’d think you’d want to have the scalpers pay up front based on their asking price. If they don’t pay within x hours ban’em.
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    There's a million BIOS options to download for the GA-A320M-S2H. Please help me with which I need.

    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...
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    GameStop Stock keeps going up no end in sight

    I sure they have it worked out to minimize any risk of loss.
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    GameStop Stock keeps going up no end in sight

    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...
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    GameStop Stock keeps going up no end in sight

    Changed until the regulators step in to protect their own.
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    GameStop Stock keeps going up no end in sight

    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...
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    Please confirm/refute several statements about RAM

    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...
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    Question How to access to disk encrypted with Bitlocker without password

    Seems to me you’re confused about who said what in this thread. Pendragon actually said it does NOT magically turn itself on.
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    Question How to access to disk encrypted with Bitlocker without password

    That only works if the key was stored in MBAM’s key database.
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    Question How to access to disk encrypted with Bitlocker without password

    It’s one of the bigger IT hardware companies, I’m sure they have a reason for not doing that.
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    PCIe lanes used by graphics card

    Run your workload at 16x (condition A). Then run it again at 8x (condition B). Compare the results.
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    PCIe lanes used by graphics card

    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).
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    Question How to access to disk encrypted with Bitlocker without password

    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.
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    Cannot get my 3200Mhz RAM to run at 3200

    Ooops, yep. Don’t know why I put ns.
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    Cannot get my 3200Mhz RAM to run at 3200

    JEDEC has a DDR4-3200 standard (actually three of them)... but the timings are horrid (20-24ns).
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    Windows 95 is 25 Years Old Today!!!

    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...
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    Question How to access to disk encrypted with Bitlocker without password

    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.
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    difference between a 24-pin and a 20-pin motherboard power connector?

    Whenever they moved to PCIe (04-ish?) since the extra 4 pins were put it to provide the extra power PCIe slots needed.
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    difference between a 24-pin and a 20-pin motherboard power connector?

    Or up to about 2006 when they finally quit making 20-pin PSUs and everyone had at least a 20+4 pin connector.
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    Help: 3090 install issue?

    Every card I’ve ever had that has HDMI or DisplayPorts has been like that.
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    TSMC and UMC producing Intel Chips

    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...
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    AMD at CES 2021 @ 10am CST

    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.
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    Windows 95 is 25 Years Old Today!!!

    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 -...
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