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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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