Re: DELL XPS L501X will not boot up
have you tried different ram?
blasterboomer
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Re: Wd1001fals
I don't think thats the issue as i left one error scanning with HDTune Pro for about half an hour and it didnt even do 10MBLeave a comment:
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Wd1001fals
Hello everyone
I have 4 WD1001FALS drives and one WD5000AAKS all of which have a very strange problem.
all of the drives are detected etc, i cleaned them using diskpart, however all 5 of these disks make the occasional tick sound and are extremely slow (im talking like 1800ms to access a sector.
the SMART data looks good on them all with no errors, they are all also from iMac systems I believe.
are these drives completely useless now or is there some sort of fix?
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Re: Possible to run Win7 on a Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15IKB, i3 gen8 & UHD 620
have you tried Snappy Driver Installer
[url]https://sdi-tool.org/download/[/url]
This has worked for me on both new and old hardwareRe: Possible to run Win7 on a Lenovo...d old hardwareRe: Possible to run Win7 on a Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15IKB, i3 gen8 & UHD 620
haveLeave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
Scored a ThinkPad x250 i7-5600u, 16gb DDR3, 500GB 7200RPM HDD for free because the screen is cracked, it came with 2 spare batteries. Also scored 3 extra 500gb 7200 rpm Seagate laptop drives, a Hitachi 7200 rpm 320gb laptop drive and 3 16gb ddr3 laptop ram sticksLeave a comment:
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Samsung ps50c680g5kxxu clicking and not turning on
I have a Samsung ps50c680g5kxxu which i got dirt cheap due to it clicking and not turning on, I opened the TV up, no components are blown and all the caps look fine. Sometimes it will turn on, not sure if its just a coincidence but its always seemed to come on after i hit the power supply board gently before plugging it in, once on it will stay on and can be power cycled without failure.
What could be the cause of the clicking and not powering up? can provide pictures of the boards if needed
Another thing to note is that when i was messing with the various pots on... -
Re: Need to change thermal compound? How not to do it!
holy fuck... That reminds me of my friends laptop that he used to bring to college, It would overheat and get really hot so that it would shut itself down. He told me he put a few new tubes paste in it. immediately i was like "a few tubes?!?!", so i took it home and opened it up and there was literally thermal paste spread over the entire motherboard and all over the casing, i dont know how it even managed to boot still, cleaned it with water and let it dry for a day infront of a fan, reapplied paste the correct way....Leave a comment:
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Re: Need to change thermal compound? How not to do it!
Image is dead, shows the missing image icon for me.Leave a comment:
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Re: Failed RAID :l
put the wd firmware on the seagate hdd, plugged it into the wdmycloud. drive doesnt spin up.. so its not related to the motherboard
UPDATE: i used hdparm to disable PUIS. The command i did was "sudo hdparm -s 0 dev/sda". The hdd now spins up, after looking at the following link i think this is what may have caused it in the first place but wasnt noticed because the drive stayed in the same pc which the bios supported PUISLast edited by blasterboomer; 04-08-2016, 12:06 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: Failed RAID :l
I just tried the 2tb seagate in another PC and it worked fine, spins up, had all files, no errors in the SMART data at all. put it back in the other pc and it didnt spin up, didnt show smart data, showed as uninitialised.... any fix for this? the motherboard it works on is an asrock fm2a88x itx+, the one it does not work on is an msi 760gm-p23(fx) with latest bios. Im now going to put the 2tb seagate into a broken WD mycloud i have. lets hope it worksLeave a comment:
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Re: Failed RAID :l
in my server i had a ST2000DM001 and it worked fine 24/7 for about 1 and a half years, when moving it to another server the drive is detected with correct model and serial, model and capacity but it shows as not initialized... when running an error scan in hdtune every block red (bad) and there is no data in the health tab, the pcb also gets warm in about 5 secs around the ram/cache chip but not too hot that i cant keep my hand on it the drive also does not spin up. any hope of reviving it? i really need the data from it, could i swap the pcb from another drive...Leave a comment:
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Re: Failed RAID :l
are ST100DM001 any good?...Leave a comment:
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Re: Failed RAID :l
The drives are caviar SE, not WD blue. Wonder what causes the very low write speed thoughLeave a comment:
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Re: Failed RAID :l
on my first post the 2nd image is "HDD 1" and 3rd image is "HDD 2" heres the error scan results from HDD 2 (HDD 1 is still scanning due to bad sectors). I will post the images from the HDD 1 error scan when it completes, assuming the drive doesnt fail by then
EDIT: HDD 1's error scan stopped at 106GB (hdtune bug?), added image 1.. and 2.. and read/write benchmarks...Last edited by blasterboomer; 04-04-2016, 06:20 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: Wifi Passwords
I sucessfully installed a non official cyanogenmod rom, it works perfectly so far. I just obtained all the networks again by asking the owners of them. Thanks for the help thoughLeave a comment:
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Failed RAID :l
Well, after 3 and a half years of 24/7 operation, my RAID 5 array has failed due to 2 drives crapping out in a similar way. Ran a 25 pass zero fill and it writes at 6.30MB/s. its done 5 passes and the reallocated sectors havnt increased, these drives have been reliable. They have run 2 virtual machines, a minecraft server and a website for 3 years 24/7 and didnt fail until now, planning on upgrading to 4x 2tb seagates. 3 and a half years is good for 24/7 use of a consumer HDD i think so 10/10 for WD reliability....Last edited by blasterboomer; 04-04-2016, 05:28 PM. -
Wifi Passwords
Hi, not sure if this is the right section or not.. but basically, i tried rooting my tablet (terrible idea) and it decided to no longer boot up, but thats fixed now and its restored and working. The only issue is that ive lost my wifi network passwords. I have a "WIFI.swi" from the kies backup i did but i cant restore this to the tablet, when opening it on notepad its just garbage (encrypted?) so i was hoping that maybe someone here would know how to decrypt it for me?
p.s Kies no longer detects my tablet as its running a custom rom
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HDD Hall of Fail
This is a new thread im creating for people to post their HDD failures or drives that are starting to fail..
Il start..
Just today my WD blue 500GB drive has started to fail
, it has served me well for around 2 years of constant usage.
ps. It would be nice if you could post pictures of SMART data or tell a little description of how it died...Leave a comment:
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Corsair VS350 likes killing HDDS
Just a warning... I have a Corsair VS350 PSU which killed atleast 5 HDDS due to the CrapXon caps it contained, If you have one of these PSUs I highy recommend you either return it for a new better PSU or replace the caps. Especially if it used to power HDDS that contain important data. This PSU was just over a year old and has killed drives that had important data on them. now that i replaced the crapxons the PSU is fine and hasnt had a problem since. -
Re: PC Killing HDDS?
that happened before replacing the caps. thats the reason i replaced them and i checked voltages and they were correct and stable (old caps 5v was jumping from 4 - 6, 12 was 10 - 14!!) corsair and their low quality crapacitorsLeave a comment:
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