Recent content by JediKnight

Have to put this on the back burner for a bit.. priorities.. sigh. When I said I "unplugged everything" I meant externally.. I haven't gone and started pulling out components from inside the case.. yet. Ripping apart my machine and putting it back together isn't a project I'm looking forward to...

Is it sufficient to clear the CMOS? The battery is obstructed by my video card, so I'd have to remove it to do this.. My mobo manual has this: Would this do the job?

Same result, even when the only thing plugged in is literally only the power cord. Fans don't start spinning.. nothing happens when I press the power button. Isn't it? I was taught touching metal would ground you, and your case is an easy way to do that. Yes, there are the dedicated ESD...

I tried this, with no result. It's possible I didn't short the pins correctly.. I don't have a great workspace, and the case is a bit cluttered in that area (making it hard to see).

Opened up my PC to install a new hard drive (more precisely.. to connect a new hard drive.. I had previously installed the hard drive and connected power, but aborted at that point because I failed to realize I didn't have a SATA cable handy 🤦‍♂️). Closed it up, connected everything back up...

When I get to the recovery step, my installation of Windows doesn't show up and it says I need to load drivers for my hard drive??!

So what do I need to do to fix? Is it something like: 1) Disconnect HDD 2) Boot to Windows installation disc and choose repair. 3) Reconnect HDD 4) Delete (hopefully now unused) partition on HDD 5) Format HDD as single 4TB volume 6) ??? 7) Profit!!

Just installed Win7 on a new build. I have two storage drives in the system, a 480GB Intel 730 SSD and a 4TB WD Green HDD. On install, I created a 100GB partition on the SSD for the OS. I left the remainder of the drive and the HDD as unallocated space at that time. I clicked through...

Most of the sales seem to be starting tonight..

I'm leaning towards a R9 290 for $269. I don't see anything better right now..

I can't find one that isn't north of $600. I can't justify spending that kind of money on a video card..

Speaking of video cards.. where does AMD enter into the picture? At least of the cards I see that are on sale (which is probably not representative of the whole picture..), AMD cards are quite a bit cheaper than nVidia ones.. is that because nVidia cards (very general statement) perform better...

I don't own any recent games - yet - as my current rig is not really capable of playing them (it's 6+ years old now.. although the video card has been upgraded) I'll look around, I'm not dead set on the greens by any means. I just want a lot of storage that will be reliable (as reliable as...

Greens are significantly cheaper, as far as I can see (can't find any discounts on blacks). If there wasn't a significant price difference, I'd definitely go black.. (just to be clear, the $309.98 price is for both of them. We're not ripped off **that** badly in Canada!)

Note: I'm in Canada, so component prices are *likely* quite a bit higher (I don't even bother to look at US prices anymore.. it just makes me cry). A helpful link to some of the stuff available this black friday for Canadians is here...