So I'm thinking about buying a new Motherboard/CPU/Ram upgrade for my pc. I was wondering, how's modern windows (8.1 in my case) handle changing so much hardware? I remember that, last time I was in that kind of situation, windows 98 wouldn't really work without re-installing after changing so much stuff.
How's Win 8.1 working in that kind of situation? I formated to install Win 8.1 like 2 months ago and I don't really feel like re-installing everything again.
Not at all. You'll have to reformat.
Well you might be able to boot but you're gonna have a shitload of problems. Better to reformat.
Hey guys,
So this weekend I plan on backing up my files from my HDD, installing a SSD, installing Windows 8 on the SSD, installing a new HDD (for supplemental storage as the SSD is limited), and migrating files from the old HDD to new HDD.
Here's the new HDD I purchased:
Amazon link. It's a WD Red 3TB NAS HDD. Since I won't be using it as a NAS drive, I've read that it's discouraged to use this drive as a stand-alone in a PC due to how the read-write error correction is formatted out of the box.
Via Wiki I've discovered that at one time WD put out a utility allowing this error correction setting to be re-formatted to something more friendly for stand-alone applications, but that it is not offered on newer drives (like mine). It states that Green/Caviar drive should be used in stand-alone applications and Reds should be used for RAID.
I was really hoping to work on this project tomorrow when I have time and to not have to wait another week for Amazon to ship me a new drive. Is there anything I can do to get the drive in the format I need it or should I cut my losses and replace it? I've already checked and no brick-and-mortar stores around carry the drive I'd be replacing it with.
I don't see why that hdd wouldn't work in a desktop. If you're scared of using it because of what you've read (you didn't link it and i couldn't find what you're talking about), then i'd just replace it with something you feel comfortable using.
But i see no reason tbh.
One of my hard drives isn't being recognized in windows but is in the bios and device manager. I want to pull some data off the drive if possible.
Help me GAF
check disk management, it might be formatted in a file system that windows can't handle.
try other sata ports.
if all else fails, create a linux boot stick and see if you can access it through there. Ubuntu is fine.
Got a sweet ass Lenovo with the windows and it's touchscreen. I'm not computer savvy as you can probably tell. But my question is how do I close the open windows? Obviously on pages you hit the "x" to close it but I mean how do you close the actual windows pages, they seem to stay open. ie. I'll be looking at my pictures, and then I'll go work on my essay, but if I hit the back button it'll go back to my pictures. How can I close things like that so I don't have the problem of going back to pages I thought were closed.
Alt+F4, i guess? They will be introducing the close button for windows store application with the new update, which is soon about to land i believe.
pretty much everyday i've gotten 1 blue screen during use (always during a game)
today, the shit hit the fan and the thing reset like 5 or 6 times, crashed with a blue screen each time -- once just restarted without one. the event viewer always has a "power loss" event, with little to no info. WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR is the thing that pops up on the blue screen.
i'm hoping its just an overclocking issue -- i somehow stumbled upon resetting the auto-overclocking settings in the ASUS suite thing by setting the RAM profile in the bios to XMP (never set it up like that to begin with, and when i was researching the RAM it said something about needing to do that, so i thought it could be an issue)
so i re-overclocked it and the top speed is about .2 ghz less than it used to be.
it doesn't appear to be overheating (it never goes about 40 degrees as far as i can tell), the game i'm playing works fine the initial couple of hours i am playing, and then i am typically hit with 1 blue screen at some point, but it doesn't happen again until the next day. today is the first day where blue screen came one after another after about 20-30 minutes from the last reboot.
i don't know what i'm really asking, but basically, how can i figure out what is going on with the computer? it seems to only have a problem in a high-performance environment, so i'm wary that it might be the GPU.
Remove your overclock and check your stability. Also run Prime95 as another user suggested when overclocked. Sounds to me that you don't have a stable OC rather than the GPU.
You could also test RAM with memtest to rule them out.
If it was a problem with the gpu it could either be driver related but if it was hardware related you'd likely see artifacts before any bsod would appear.
So my pc blew up. kinda. The problem is that I don't know what it was since I wasn't in the room when whatever got burnt burned. Furthermore, the damn thing still kept on running as if nothing happened.
Anyway, going by smell that was left over I singled out the graphics card as the culprit. Not to mentiond that the errors that occured afterward were gpu related (white/black screen freezes on hdmi/dvi displays).So I switched out the gpu (660ti) for an older one and the issues stopped for a day or two.
That's when one of my hdds (3-4 year old Samsung F3 1TB) began to drop out from bring recognized by the OS and just generally failing.
Failure is normal at that age but I'm starting to wonder if thr PSU(3 year old corsair Ax 750w) isn't murdering its companions at this point.
So my question is: how likely is it that the real culprit here is the PSU and how the do I check It?
Very likely, but it's also likely it could be your motherboard. You'll need a known working PSU to test it out.
You should also backup everything important because it sounds like your drive might also be about to die.
And no, 3-4 years isn't common drive failure. I've got drives that's been running 24/7 for 10 years now.
I have what I think might be a simple question.
I have a dual monitor setup. Running out of my graphics card I have my monitor connected via DVI and a television connected via HDMI.
Is there a way I can get the sound that's meant to output to the TV (second monitor) to do so, instead of coming from my speakers that are plugged into the PC?
And have the stuff that's supposed to be on the main screen play from the PC speakers?
Yes, some games and applications have support to change your source, look into that.
For example, if you wanna run a movie on your tv while still wanting to hear your in-game sounds you should be able to set the audio source for the tv in your preferred media player.
