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How are PCI lanes used for graphics and peripherals (eg PCI-e SSD) respectively?
The Skylake architecture supports 16 PCI-E lanes from the CPU and 20 from the PCH.
Are the 20 from the Z170 chipset separate from the 16 that allow the CPU to communicate with the GPU(s)? Or is the ...
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Do SSDs have to have AHCI to maximize performance?
After my last post concerning my motherboard's RAID, I'm considering purchasing an additional dedicated RAID controller, but I have a few concerns about what to buy, because I'm facing yet another ...
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Acer no longer recognizes the SSD it came with
I have an Acer Aspire XC-1660G desktop PC. I took its Western Digital PC SN530 NVMe SSD and installed it in a separate computer. On that computer I formatted the drive and installed Windows 10 onto it....
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BIOS don't start on two motherboard after blue screen
I've got a computer with a Esonic H61 motherboard, intel i5, 2x4GB RAM and a ASUS NVIDIA GEFORCE GT710 with a SSD with Ubuntu 22.04 in single boot. A week ago I tried changing SSD with one with dual ...
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SATA errors for SSD with new mainboard, works fine with old one
My $old system works perfectly fine. Then I upgraded the mainboard+CPU to $new and suddenly I can no longer boot from my SSD. The GRUB bootloader stops sometimes at "GRUB", "GRUB ...
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Which drive does the storage light refer to?
I'm referring to the "HDD light" that comes on most computers, which blinks or turns on during periods of storage activity.
However, despite being called the HDD light, it still works with ...
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Can someone please identify this SSD slot
(Please look at the image) : I want to upgrade my laptop with an SSD but I can't identify the type of slot it has, It looks like it is an m.2 NVMe slot but most of the SSDs I have seen online have 5 ...
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Can an nvme/m.2 card be adding as an additional drive to any motherboard?
I'm trying to expand my storage for a gaming pc, and have the option to get a Sandisk 3d ultra ssd or an nvme card for roughly the same price. I would have to buy an nvme to PCIE adapter, of course.
I ...
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How to diagnose/distinguish motherboard/CPU issues?
For the last few months my PC is acting weird. Random App crashes, Chrome tab crashes, memory errors, apps simply disappearing, BSOD with errors not helping at all, random restarts (Event-log shows ...
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Laptop Crash - Event 41
I have just upgraded my laptop. Before, I had two same ram each 2GB DDR3. Everything was working fine. For 5 years without any issue!
So, decided to upgrade laptop. Bought a 4GB DDR3 ram, Alternate it ...
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PC on and off loop , the longest it can stay is 30 minutes then automatically turn off and on again
Went to three repair shops - 2 said its motherboard & 1 said power supply when I request to repair the motherboard, but they don't have tools to confirm it if its really PSU issue.
Asking one more ...
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BIOS doesn't recognize my M.2 SSD
I've decided to upgrade my PC by adding a second M.2 SSD, but my BIOS doesn't recognize it
new SSD
Motherboard
BIOS: American Megatrends
The motherboard contains two M.2 NVME slots and as I understood ...
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Hard or Solid state disk for a 10-years-old motherboard
I have M4N68T-M LE V2 ASUS motherboard with 4x Serial ATA 3Gb/s. The MB is ten years old. Its old 300GB SATA disk just died and I would like to buy a new 1TB SATA HD or even a 480 GB SSD. Any way to ...
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The IO operation at logical block address for Disk 1 was retried warning after Windows freezes
I have a Dell XPS 8930 desktop computer that has been freezing intermittently since I got it new. I've tried quite a few remedies, including several fresh installs of Windows, but nothing has worked. ...
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Can my motherboard use this SSD?
I'm very new to the whole upgrade your PC thing, and I wanted to know if a particular SSD can fit my Motherboard, and if so/not, why.
SSD I want to upgrade to:
Intel 900P Optane NVMe PCIe 280GB
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