Recent content by marlinman

Never have I been so grateful for a forum's "similar threads" feature (or grateful at all). Was about to post about this. The Inspiron 3493 I ordered during Dell's black friday sale arrived today, and I too was pleasantly surprised to see an empty m.2 slot. I, too, had been planning to replace...

Good to know - I'm in New Zealand so not sure how quickly the MAX boards will make it over here, but will keep an eye out. OTOH, the compromises made to the new BIOS don't seem too concerning; I guess greater compromises might however be required to support Zen 3 etc. My trigger finger is also...

Cheers - I shamefully never got around to OCing my current CPU, so might just get away with using the stock cooler. The MSI has a ps/2 port so as a proud tinfoil wearer I'm gonna try installing win7 on the new hardware, but if I can't (or if I can't get critical components working) I'm eyeing...

Haven't upgraded in 8 years, and am hoping someone less out-of-the-loop is able to confirm that I haven't made a stupid mistake. Am planning to swap the following for the corresponding parts in my sig: Ryzen 5 3600 MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC DDR4 3200MHz 2x8GB ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB SSD...

I have a UX305C ultrabook. Its single 3.5mm port has a label that resembles a pair of (mic-less) headphones. The product page is at https://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-UX305CA and appears to show a label resembling a headset (i.e. a pair of headphones with a mic). The page also...

Since posting, I've learned that I can simply upgrade my (single) win7 install to win10, immediately downgrade back to win7, and (all being well) earn a 'lifetime' win10 license for the PC in question. I only want to take advantage of the offer in case future DX12 games interest me, so this...

I used BootIt NG when I wanted way back to dual boot XP and 7 (or was it Vista?) and have the OSes hidden from one another. It's nagware tho' and will end up adding a minute to boot time unless you pay for it. My recent experiments with dual booting 7 and 10 without partition hiding seem to have...

The PC in my sig runs a licensed copy of win7 (as well as the BootIt NG boot/partition manager). Let's say I've cloned my small OS partition and added the clone win7 partition to the list of OSes BootIt presents on powering system on. If I upgrade the clone partition to win10, will I end up with...

With Ketchup's guidance above I've got win7 installed and (according to device manager at least) only TPM and MEI drivers still to sort. (I used Speccy but no driver auto-find software.) All in all a very pleasing result! The trackpad, alas, is non-functional (tho' you wouldn't know it from...

Thanks Ketchup. I ran the win7 setup prog earlier and was able to reach the 'select partition' stage, which is further than I was able to get earlier in the year. Of course, only then did I learn that no win7 drivers exist for my Zenbook - which pretty much renders all these efforts a complete...

Ahh the 386... my first PC was a DX40... Anyway, with all due respect I think the problem I face seems unlikely to involve input devices given (as mentioned above) that I have no trouble interacting with the win7 setup prog...

Unfortunately, the mythical 'ASUS support DVD' mentioned on that page you linked is not something that came with my lappie, nor something that I've been able to find an image of online. That ASUS page illustrates something that confuses me about this whole thing: I can - with unmodded win7...

I played through the tutorial many times earlier in the year and never encountered this. Is your game fully patched and 'enhanced editioned'?

(Preamble: ignore at will!) Win10Home was preloaded on the ASUS UX305CA Zenbook I bought earlier in the year. My older devices still ran Win7, and I was unimpressed with MS' approach to rolling out the new OS and its default telemetric behaviour, but thought I'd give 10 a chance at least. I...

My laptop's 300GB WD HDD sounds very unwell. To my ear, the arm sounds like it's slamming into something at regular intervals - at times, more than once each second. I ran the WD "Data LifeGuard Diagnostics" module and all appears well. The laptop has suffered a number of falls over the seasons...