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I have Windows 10 Pro (just shy of licensed) installed on a 970 Plus M.2 drive (see all specs in signature). The PC is not running at the speed I would have expected (for instance my Random Read/Write values are pitiful (see attachment). I either have my BIOS incorrectly set up, too much junk...

I just installed 20H2 with an in-place upgrade plus the latest updates on 2 HP laptops (different models). I have had no problems with the 15bs234wm, but I have several on the 15da0053wm. It has a 1 TB WD PCIe/NVMe which I installed just after completing the upgrade/updates, which I cloned from...

I did an update on my Windows 10 laptop and tried to logon and it wouldn't take my PIN. Tried to do a reset and got the Verify your cell phone number screen Tried to enter it and neither numeric keys nor the regular number keys work. The only other option I have is the use another PC and browser...

I'm running Windows 10 Home with all updates on my Dell XPS 13 9380 I'm trying to upgrade my SSD to accommodate large astrophotography files, from 512GB to 1TB. I have tried both AOMEI Backupper and EaseUS to clone the NVMe drive, with the same result. I cannot get the new SSD to boot, and...

Windows 10 was acting uggiah, so i hit reatart, during restart, it said something went wrong and we are collecting data, now i get missing opperating system. This was an esucational version i downloaded from my university so it has no repair dvd. What do i need to do? Bios still sees the ssd...

Hello everyone, my specs: Asus ROG Strix G, i5-9300H, 8 GB RAM, GTX 1650 4 GB, 512GB SSD, Windows 10 Home I'm having problems with the network adapter in my laptop - Intel® Wireless-AC 9560. After a few minutes (2-3 min.) of gaming, the adapter just stops working. Therefore, the airplane...

On my laptop Asus HDD is Disk0. I have installed Windows on SSD but Recovery Partition is on HDD (Disk0), also EFI System Partition. My laptop has only one SATA port so I cannot change to other port SATA. In BIOS settings in SATA configuration I have only two options, AHCI and Intel RST Premium...

I have been searching for a solution to allow boot up only if a third party hardware is connected. For the new tech people. A similar solution was possible during the days of Windows 95 up to Win Me by using Dos. The idea is to disable all the HDD from booting and enabling USB and once the boot...

Adding a second HDD to my PC is causing a blue screen on boot. I hope someone can help me with this. I have a spare HDD from a recently upgraded laptop lying around and want to install it in my desktop in addition to the 1 SSD I have in there currently. The problem is once I connect the drive...

Hi I have installed Windows server 2016 essentials on a system using Silicon Sil3114 Raid5 with 3 4TB Drives the install went find as normal but the system will not boot. When the system is starting up I hit <F11> and the Raid5 system is there as an option to boot on, but when I select it, it...

Hi All, I migrated my OS/image from a stock HDD to a new SSD. I can boot from the SSD completely fine when the HDD is not connected but when it is connected I get a boot error. I can boot from the SSD using the boot options in the BIOS (Dell) but the boot priority is still set to Windows Boot...

I got myself a Silicon Image 3114 SATA Controller which is capable of RAIDing two discs. I have two SSD sporting approx. 230 GB each. I wanted to enable RAID 0 (striping) to have one "virtual" drive of 450 GB. I followed the steps below: Installed the 3114 PCI card on my board. Connected the...

Hi. Its my new topic in short time. My mobo is Asus Z370 Pro Gaming. And rams: Gskill 2x8GB 2133mhz ( XMP 3000mhz ). Cpu 8700K. When i choose in UEFI first time XMP profile i saved and booted fine to UEFI. I turn off pc,turn on again after 2 hours, and then, i met screen: THE SYSTEM HAS POSTED...

I'm new to the forum and am not an IT guru.... just a senior that needs to have a working PC for my consulting work and hobbies. I built this PC back in 2014 with quality components that hopefully would last for many years. It has an SSD drive for windows 10 Home OS and program files along with...

My W8.1 64 bit Acer XC605 worked OK for some time and still when SSD installed as boot DD. Suddenly it decided to always enter Setup on boot, despite BIOS being set to boot from SSD. Nothing seems to alter this and I have to use f12 every time to boot to Win. Any ideas? PS: I tried to...

I've been reading around alot about folks having massive issues with trying to install Ubuntu period. Whether dualboot or clean install doesn't seem to matter. I'm so stubborn, I look into stuff until I get an answer So this evening, I ran into instructions meant for either dualboot installs or...

UEFI legacy disabled - Operating system not found Hi , well I'm trying to install remix os It says I should disable secure boot then I go to advance startup option to get into boot menu shift+restart then i change something called uefi to lagacy to disable secure boot Then I save n restart boom...

I installed windows on an USB flash drive. When I boot a computer with this USB flash drive inserted I press F8 to get into the boot device selection. I selected the USB flash drive as boot device and hit RETURN. But then I am always asked again: "Press any key to boot from USB" in white...

Hello, I don't unerstand something. I want to have Windows 10 on 2 different SSD. So I hooked up another SSD to my PC and installed Windows 10 on that other SSD too. I booted to the other SSD by changing the boot sequence in the the BIOS, which worked fine. But then when I switched my boot...

Hi fast question. My mobo Asus Z170-P and psu Corsair 750RM. 3 months ago there was power outage ( for short time ) in my house,and my pc restart with message: "“Power supply surges detected during the previous power on ASUS anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable supply unit.”...