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How should I know if a motherboard support SEDs?
SED (Self Encrypting Drive) are more and more owned due to the rise of SSD.
Most of the time this functionality is not used because most of the motherboards in the market don't have built-in support ...
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Can the youyeetooX1 bios, support any M.2 to SATA3.0 conversion card?
Obviously, using a M.2 to SATA3.0 conversion card (JMB585 or ASM1166 based) would allow to build a NAS from a youyeetoo X1 motherboard.
Did any one manage to do that and would you know if it might be ...
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ASUS Z690 motherboard hangs on boot. Could this be a bad hard drive and SSD combination?
We are using ASUS ProArt Z690-Creator WiFi motherboard and Operating system is ubuntu 22.04. Previously we used AZEK 256GB SSD and 1TB hard drive. It worked okay. Laterly we changed SSD and started ...
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NVMe performance lag and strange activity LED blinking
Installed NVMe (WDSN750 1TB) in the M2 slot on Asus Z170 Deluxe.
It rocks PCIe3 (x4) so it reaches correct speeds (up to 3GB/s).
However, I've noticed that sometimes the system (W10) waits for the ...
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Is hardware encryption portable to a new machine
I used hardware encryption on my Samsung EVO 850 on a laptop that recently died. The laptop used to ask for a password from the UEFI, before I was able to boot. I still have the password in a password ...
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Computer slow on booting from SSD or USB
I have got an Asus P10S-M WS motherboard, a Intel i7-6700 CPU, a SSD with Ubuntu 18.04 installed and a 8GB DDR4 ram stick.
When i try to boot it from the SSD it takes a long time to load the login ...
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Add-on cards disabled M.2 SSD slot of Asus Prime B350M-A motherboard
Need help from experienced rig builders. I am using KingSpec 512Gb NVMe SSD on M.2 onboard slot, it ran fine for one month. Yesterday I tried to plug another SSD of the same model through expansion ...
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Computer fails to boot
My computer starting freezing (showing 100% disk usage for the boot drive) so I tried restarting. Now it won't get past the motherboard flash screen. If I wait there, it eventually goes to a screen ...
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Spark from ASUS ROG STRIX B350 Motherboard
Last night after switching on my PC after installing an aged SSD, I saw a white spark to the bottom right hand side of my CPU (in between the CPU and the RAM, to be exact).
I suspect that my SSD ...
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Motherboard makes a beeping sound when hard drives are accessed
I have a total of 5 drives, 4 internal, 1 external. My system drive (C) is a solid state drive, the rest are HDDs. The external drive and the internal SSD are both fine. However, when I access (read, ...
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BIOS doesn't recognize XMP profile
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Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Z87 LGA 1150
RAM: G.SKILL Sniper Series 32GB 40-Pin DDR3 Model F3-2400C11Q-32GSR
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell LGA 1150 84W BX80646I74770K
SSD: Samsung 850 PRO ...
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OS not booting off of SSD
I recently built a pc using the Maximus VIII Ranger motherboard and the Vector 180 SSD. For some reason, I cannot boot the OS off of the SSD. I have a hard drive as well, and that boots fine. My csm ...
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Can I mix PCIe cards version 2.0 and version 3.0 in motherboard adjacent slots?
Motherboard specification for expansion slot is :
Slot5 : PCI-E GEN3 x8 Slot(EE : x8/x4 with Slot6)
Slot6 : PCI-E GEN3 x8 Slot(EE : x0/x4 with Slot5)
CPU is E5-1620v2, PCIe lanes are coming from the ...
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Samsung 950 Pro on PCIe or SATA waiting for better motherboard
Recently Samsung has released the 950 Pro series SSDs.
If I understand well they are only available with M.2/PCIe connectors which are supported only by new motherboards.
Is it possible to use the ...
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M.2 on Gigabyte LGA1151 Intel Z170 Mini-ITX DDR4
Through a lack of knowledge I purchased a Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB M.2 SSD for the above board thinking I would see an increase in speed. The resultant speed is similar to any other SATA ssd and not ...
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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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