I've gotten into the habit of Looking at peoples Mechanical Hard drives with a Ubuntu thumb drive to boot their system.
I understand the raw values are not really uniform between manufacturers, but I have noticed that high seek and read error raw values at the very least correlate to a drive that is going to have sub par access time, and extremely slow OS booting.
The odd thing is I've often seen very high seek and read error rates on drives with fairly low on time.
Does anybody have any other takes on evaluating smart data? I've used Crystal Disk Info, It seems to present...
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by reformattCouple of Windows 11 machines have come in this week with the same issue. After you login, the taskbar will not appear (or just be a black bar). No access to Start Menu. Task Manager (use CTL+SHIFT+ESC) works, however the Performance stats seem stuck with CPU on 100% for Task Manager itself. Trying to exit Task Manager result in it hanging as well. No issue if you boot into Safe Mode.
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And my question. It will be fine to plug pc in this new apartment with that fuse box,i think it is aluminium,right?
PC WILL BE: Rtx 4090,14900K,1600W PSU
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i got this laptop from a friend to solve a problem.
The Laptop got a black screen. After turning it on, the keyboardlight is on and the fan working sometimes but nothing to see. The LCD is fine.
I did the LCD selfttest.
I think my friend tryed to update the Bios and failed.
I have a TL866 ll Plus and ordered a SOIC8 clamp. I want to flash the Bios on circuit.
I don't know which of the two chips are the bios.
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by SatdudeHi, I have a Yamaha RX-497 receiver, and one day I came home to a burnt smell and the breaker was tripped. Upon opening the receiver, I saw extreme damage to the main power board. C254 was exploded, R261 was burnt, D255 was shorted, Q254 is open circuit, D261 (bridge rectifier) is also open, traces to IC252 (TC4013BP) are vaporized right off the board. Not sure about any other damage, I'll have to desolder the flip flop to test it. Also the transformer T251 is getting hot when plugged in. What could have caused such extreme damage just sitting plugged in? Only repair that was done in the past...4 Photos
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by Super360Hi as you can see from title, I have a samsung tv here that will show the smart tv logo and then no picture after that even hitting input or menu on remote and shows nothing but the backlight still appears to be on. The tv will turn itself off after a minute or so automatically. I'm somewhat confused if this is either a eeprom problem or a bad led strip problem. The power supply makes a pretty noticeable humming sound when it's turned on leading me to believe one of the leds are shorted but idk honestly. Any of you guys have any help for me? I have a good multi meter and can take pictures of whatever...4 Photos04-13-2024, 10:05 PM
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by notrespondthe problem only stuck windows logo, i was change NVME and RAM can't solve the problem, maybe bios problem, need rebuild to solved the problem.
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by abajorI have the above mentioned MBP, quick scan with thermal camera revealed that only U3200 was heating up. I found that C3208, C3219 and C3205 were all reading ~6.8ohms to ground.
so I swapped U3200.
I connected the PSU again for a quick check on thermal it's drawing about the same amount of current but now I'm seeing only heat radiating from U7800 and the T2 chip from under the black shielding fabric, and the bottom of the board.
It's hard to judge the actual temperature without removing the shielding.
Does anybody have any insights?
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by eccerr0rFor those in 220V locales, anyone power their SMPS with DC, and how high of a voltage is okay?
What kind of PSU?
I suspect that 240V * sqrt(2) = 340V DC is probably fine because that would be about how much the the primary rectifier ends up with peak voltage. Just wondering, other than input capacitor voltages, can one go up above this 340V without damage? Will that input capacitor be the upper bound?
Wondering if exactly that, can I feed near 400VDC into bona fide specced at 220V SMPS without damage?
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by wwbielskoHi,
I got corrupted bios bin file, which way is correct to repair.
File puts errors on Me Analyzer and cannot open in FIT.
To open in FIT I made:
1. Extract MFS and EFS using MEAnalyzer from other bios file with the same parameters
2. put it in HxD to my file
3. MEAnalyzer shows 1 error after that
4. file opens in FIT
and:
A:
1. extract current dell bios on website
2. put System BIOS with BiosGuard v1.30.0.bin using FIT
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the TV starts, LG logo, then nothing (rear backlight)
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the usb procedure that I tried on the LG site is a procedure with the screen and the remote control so I can't.
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by abajorI have the above mentioned MBP, quick scan with thermal camera revealed that only U3200 was heating up. I found that C3208, C3219 and C3205 were all reading ~6.8ohms to ground.
so I swapped U3200.
I connected the PSU again for a quick check on thermal it's drawing about the same amount of current but now I'm seeing only heat radiating from U7800 and the T2 chip from under the black shielding fabric, and the bottom of the board.
It's hard to judge the actual temperature without removing the shielding.
Does anybody have any insights?
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by FaroksHello guys,
i got this laptop from a friend to solve a problem.
The Laptop got a black screen. After turning it on, the keyboardlight is on and the fan working sometimes but nothing to see. The LCD is fine.
I did the LCD selfttest.
I think my friend tryed to update the Bios and failed.
I have a TL866 ll Plus and ordered a SOIC8 clamp. I want to flash the Bios on circuit.
I don't know which of the two chips are the bios.
Near the CMOS Battery: MXIC MX25L8006E
Near the CPU: AH1721 259(8)128CSIG E7A026 the 9 can be a 8.
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by elsomerHi people, i have an acer nitro 5 with motherboard model gh51m la-k861p , it came with the resistor pr103 blow up, i repaced that resistor, i check the coils plb2, pl301, pl501 and has no short to ground, i conect the charger and it doesnt power at all, i check pqb3 on pin 5 to 8 and its 19v, pin 1 to 4 its 0
so i repaced, pqb3, pqb4, and makes no change, still no acdrv, i replaced bq24781 and makes no change, still no acdrv, if someone can help pls, thanks, this are the schematic and boardview
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by TheOtherGuySo I'm having difficulty finding line drawings for this motherboard NM-C53. My charging port was broken. So I replaced it with a terrible solder job. Problem is pin 3 on the drawing I saw on here has it listed as adapter-id. Now I checked my other pins and I have continuity (resistance check from power to ground). Pin 3 shows nothing. Now I boot the computer and it says to use a power adapter with the proper wattage and won't charge. I have read that pin 3 is usually tied to a resistor that identifies the charging power thus disabled the ability to charge if it fails the check. I look at my board...Yesterday, 07:27 AM
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by wwbielskoHi,
I got corrupted bios bin file, which way is correct to repair.
File puts errors on Me Analyzer and cannot open in FIT.
To open in FIT I made:
1. Extract MFS and EFS using MEAnalyzer from other bios file with the same parameters
2. put it in HxD to my file
3. MEAnalyzer shows 1 error after that
4. file opens in FIT
and:
A:
1. extract current dell bios on website
2. put System BIOS with BiosGuard v1.30.0.bin using FIT
3. MEAnalyzer OK no errors
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by tommy97Hi,
I've got a problem with laptop Asus ROG GA503R, laptop power on (it does take a while) show asus logo and then it stuck on the black screen noticed that laptop goes to windows. I've tried new LCD, no difference, I can go to BIOS, laptop would stay on can change options etc., tired boot it externally with disconnected LCD and it only display on BIOS, attempt to boot to Linux, same problem.
I would provide with board model tommorow....Today, 04:15 PM