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CrystalDiskInfo shows the same thing as GSmartControl and SSDLife. The only SMART value below its threshold is the SSDLife. Here is the output from smartctl: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG...

1: It is Windows 7 Pro SP3, which is supposed to support TRIM. SSDLife Pro showed it supported and enabled, but I just checked to make sure with the "fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify" command and it is both supported and enabled according to Windows 7. 2 & 3: I have no idea, but there...

Are there other factors besides writes that affect the SSD Life Left SMART flag? I had a sudden surprise last night when I RDP into my Windows 7 Pro machine that I use Media Center for recording TV, Steam Game Streaming to my TV and a few other things. There was a an error saying Windows...

For me, it never affects the TV service, just the internet. After they supposedly fixed it last week, the tech told me to call and let them know if it kept happening. When I called Tuesday, I told the guy on the phone what the tech said, but he said he would have to send another tech out. The...

They haven't changed the drop to the house. They always take a signal reading at the pole or at the connection on the house first and can tell the signal is bad before it's even going in the house. So once again, I have to take time off and be at home during the 2-hour window they are supposed...

I have been having problems with my cable internet for 3 months. Something changed around 3 years ago and twice a year in late spring and late fall when the temperature starts to change, I start getting frequent my disconnects. I have to call to report the outages, someone comes out and take...

I own my own modem, they charge too damn much for a rental. If it were a rental, they probably would have replaced it first. I initially used their supplied modem way back when I first got service because it was included for a year (which was a Motorola SB4100). They probably hope people will...

For the several months I've been having constant issues with my internet connection crapping out and I have to call and report it every 2-3 weeks. The problem started back in January when a storm knocked down some utility polls that left me without power and internet for 3 days. They finally...

I covered that in the OP. DL;DR, I couldn't put the side panel on withe the radiator mounted there.

I went ahead and mounted it in the front. I think it's better this way. I make use of the room up front and still have room for a long GPU. I mounted one fan on the front side of the case with the radiator and the other fan on the inside. This is what it looked like after mounting: I had...

It is worth a shot, and I'll try it since I'll have to loosen the screws anyway to remove the radiator. I'm pretty sure it won't work though. The design of this case is unconventional, but not entirely in a bad way. The internal dimensions lengthwise are larger than most cases of its size...

No, I haven't tried that, but if that works, I might have to do that every time I remove the panel, which would be a PITA. Also, I noticed last night that it seems the radiator is pushing the lip on the case out slightly. The joint where the top and back of the case are bulging out slightly...

I wasn't sure whether or not this should go in cases or water cooling, but since I'm going to have to modify my case one way or another, I figure this is the best place. I bought a Corsair 100R Silent Edition for my new build. I've had limited time to work on it, but basically I've had it all...

My understanding was that if you upgraded, it invalidates your Win7/8 key, and you can't use it to install the old version of Windows after July 30. If you roll back from Win10 to your old Win7/8 product, you lose out on the free upgrade in the future. I was hoping they would extend the free...

My HTPC still runs Windows 7 and Media Center, for now, but I've upgraded my other PCs to Windows 10. I share the Recorded TV directory on the HTPC, and used Windows 7 Media Center on the other PCs to be able to watch recorded shows from it. Is there any software that I can use on Windows 10...

My niece has been asking me to fix her notebook for a couple of months. She said her fan was broken and it would overheat and turn off. She kept forgetting to bring it with her when she came over, but yesterday I had to go to her house. It turns out it was this Windows Update bug. She never...

I didn't get time to reply until now, stuff happened. I looked on my two systems and had all of the updates you posted except KB3156417. It wasn't available on Windows Update, which is odd, because I thought those update rollups always came down as recommended or optional updates.

I found this article today and it seems there may be hope.

I have two Win7 machines and both started doing this Tuesday. One is my main desktop/gaming machine, the other is a mix of a Media Center and home server. They're both setup different as to how and when they update. On my desktop I have it set to notify me of updates (which it stopped doing...

I posted in another topic about how my software Blu-ray player no longer supports some new DRM and wouldn't play a new movie. Rather than spend $80 on new Blu-ray software, I'm considering picking up a stand-alone Blu-ray player. I'm looking at a few for under $80. My monitor has the typical...

Oh well, those two were a bust. They were identical and both worked just like that free player. It started the movie, but it doesn't play the chapters in the right order.

I don't rip movies, I just rent and watch. I rarely ever find a movie I'd want to re-watch. Right now I do almost everything on my PCs. I record TV, watch movies and play games. The thing about Total Media Theatre is that it integrated with Windows Media Center and I could control it with my...

I've been a long time user of Total Media Theatre for years. I bought it when it was version 3 and upgraded through till the end. It did just what I wanted and nothing else. I also use AnyDVD HD. I had to buy it after I put in the blu Ray drive and bought Total Media Theatre only to be told...

Success at last! Even though NVIDIA's driver download page only showed 15.51 as the latest driver for this chipset, I decided to select a newer nForce chipset which presented a newer 15.58 driver. I downloaded and installed it, and now Windows sees the 3TB drive. I successfully copied...

I guess I'm screwed then. I can't find any newer drivers for this chipset, I can't use an add on controller because it's a MiniITX board, and the only expansion slot is used by the TV Tuner. I'll try reverting to the generic Windows chipset driver and see if it can handle it. If that doesn't...

I bought the drive from NewEgg. It's a Western Digital AV-GP 3TB WD30EURS. I have a dual eSATA dock on my other system. I was able to put it in the dock and copy past that 746GB. I thought about putting both drives in the other system and copying the data on it, but one post I found on...

My HTPC's drive has been running 24/7 for 3.5 years. I decided to go ahead and replace it due to its age, so I picked up a WD 3TB drive. In order to be able to use the full 3TB I also got a 64GB SSD to put Windows on and boot from because it needs to be formatted as a GPT drive, and I can't...

Is there a good way to check an SSD before using it to make sure it's not defective? With traditional HDD I've always taken a few days to test the drive before putting it to use. I start with the SMART self tests, then do a simple surface scan, then use a program like badblocks to write a...

This is what has me worried. Most of the negative reviews I see on both Amazon and NewEgg are due to bad packaging. I've noticed a pattern in some of the reviews which reflects my personal experience in purchasing HDs. Whenever I've ordered a big batch of computer parts which includes a HD...

I've been meaning to replace a WD 2TB Green which has been running 24/7 in my HTPC for over 3 years. I had a bit of back luck when we had a power outage a couple of weeks ago. The UPS crapped out while the system was shutting down which caused some file system corruption. I recovered the...

The Samsung doesn't have a VESA mount so it won't wont work with my monitor arm.

The monitor eventually turned on today, but it took a long time, so I have to pull the trigger on something today. I don't want to go to a 27" or larger, especially if it's a TN panel. As I said, when I went from a 20" TN to a 22" TN, the color changes from the vertical viewing are more...

My monitor is dying, and I don't think it's going to last much longer. I don't know if the backlight is going out or some other electronics inside, but a few days ago I noticed I was no longer seeing the POST screen when I turned the computer on. Each day it's taking longer for it to come on...

A couple of days ago I bumped my glass and some liquid sloshed out before I grabbed it. It landed in the upper right of my Eee 901's keyboard. I turned the netbook over so the liquid poured out at that same corner. The next day the keys in that upper corner were a little sticky, but...

Last year I bought a ZyXEL NBG381S Powerline kit for on sale for $40. I had been using two Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 (802.11g) routers with Tomato firmware with one in bridge mode, but after getting an HDTV and HD channels, it wasn't quite fast enough to stream HD shows. The ZyXEL gear was easy to...

The Buffalo router is 802.11g, the D-Link devices are 802.11n. I need the 11n speed between the two rooms, so I will need two. Originally I was looking for an 802.11n router that supports DD-WRT/Tomato, but the reason the D-Link DAP-1522 caught my eye is that it is dual band and it's on sale...

In my bedroom I have my cable modem, router (Buffalo WHR-HP-G54), a PC and a netbook. On the opposite end of the house I have an HTPC and another PC. I currently have a 200Mbps HomePlug power line network adapter connecting the two rooms together. It works good enough. I get 50Mbps actual speed...

Yeah the A/B switcher won't work because it will need to record things on both cable and OTA without me here to switch it. Another internal tuner isn't an option because I'm using a miniITX board with only a single PCIe slot. I though of getting the HD Homerun single tuner or a USB HD tuner...

I have a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-2250 card, and I just have basic analog cable, which also gets me the local digital HD broadcast stations on ClearQAM. Two of the channels I record shows on became unreliable (bad signal or no signal at all). Now for about the past month those two channels no longer...

It is set to AHCI. This BIOS has three options, SATA (the default), AHCI and RAID. I thought about trying it out in SATA mode, but it should work in AHCI mode. I put the 2TB drive back in, installed Windows and all drivers, and it's not giving me the problem. In the Device Manager, it...