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Hi, I'm Dave. I've upgraded, repaired and built many computers since the late 1990's. I very much enjoy technology and have learned many tips and tricks over the years.
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The only thing i know is Windows 11 is not an option. Microsoft's intrusions are worse than any hacker. I would have gone for Mint long ago but there is one peace of software that I have to use for work that will not run on an emulator.
why cd or dvd become unpopular 1. Internet become faster 2. their size are so small, only 4.4GB on each dvd, unconvenient 3. cheaper and smaller other storage media CD / DVD or disc need to be in reasonable volume to be usefull right now, maybe 100GB disc
I download a program to check my hdd after it started sounding like a helicopter but i found that it's in a good health then i found that it was the sata cable who's responsible for that sound, the hdd and the RGB adapter were sharing the same sata source, check it guys before discarding ur hdd
I'm going to buy a new disk, probably refurbished. Should I first test it like this when the new one is empty, or is it best to fill it all the way and then test it? Testing would take days because of the large capacity. What is a safer test, when the hdd is empty or full?
It would be good to test your new drive before you put your data on it. This way you will know if it's trustworthy for holding your data before you put it on. Other than that, the tests will work the same whether you have data on your new drive or not. Hope that helps.
@@EasyPcRepairs So it is much safer to test when the disk is completely empty? Is there a difference between a fast and a slow test? It takes about 4 hours for me to test a 500GB HDD, and for 12TB it will take days of testing. That's a lot.
I just bought an external DVD drive because it drives me crazy that my new PC doesn't have one. I don't use CD/DVD drives often, but when I need one I need one.
thanks for sharing the software and explaining it by the way there is also a cmd command powercfg /batteryreport that do the same but dont tell battery percent you have to divide the minimum wh by max wh and get the percent so i was confused about it but this app explains well
Here's a couple of things that you could try. If you have another port that you can use, then try that. For example, if your monitor uses an HDMI port, then try plugging it into another HDMI port (if your computer has another one). Also, if you have a spare monitor, try replacing it with a known working monitor.
@@EasyPcRepairs Hi, I fixed everything thanks for trying to help. The problem was that my CPU Cooler wasn't maunted properly, therefore my CPU was overheating extremly fast. Thank you allot for trying to help!
Sometimes that can happen. Windows will only create a restore point automatically before certain events (such as a Windows update). Also, if you have 'Windows System Restore' turned off, it will not make any restore points.
You can leave it assembled and clean it with a can of air. It's just that it won't get as clean. If you really want to clean it without taking it apart, you can. It's just that taking it apart will make it even cleaner.
@@EasyPcRepairs Since i'm doing the NZXT custom build, i'll get their 360mm AIO. I'm reading issues with the CAM they install for it. Any experience with the kraken or NZXT's cam software?
Tools that output SSD's life expectancy are wildly unreliable -- and in the user's favor. All SSDs are given a TBW (terabytes written) value, by the manufacturer. The manufacturer warranties your SSD to not fail, before you have written that amount of data to the SSD (or the X number of years, whichever comes first). The TBW value given to an SSD will vary from model to model. Tools, such as Samsung's Magician, and the Windows tool demonstrated by our host, read the TBW value that is stored on the SSD. The SSD also maintains a record of how many bytes have been written to it. So SSD tools simply compare the SSD TBW figure that was provided by the manufacturer to the number of bytes its own recording keeping has logged. So let's say that your SSD has a 1200 TBW value. When you have written 600 TB to the drive, SSD tools will show that you have 50% life expectancy remaining. But that is wildly inaccurate. Why? Your SSD will last far beyond the 1200 TBW figure. Your SSD will not die, freeze up, or act up, or slow down, etc, when you reach 1200 TBW. This was put to the test with Chia crypt-o mining. That process requires a huge partition, to create 100+ GB size files. The file creation process writes over 1 TB of data, for each file created. Unless you have 256+ GB of RAM, you will use an SSD for the creation process. The latter is what 90%+ of Chia miners did. If you check the Chia forums, you will see that no one has reported that they wore out their SSD, and countless people have been writing to their SSD 24/7/365 for 3+ years. You will likely get 10x the TBW value, or more, before your SSD will have problems. For typical day-to-day use, your SSD will out live you, your child, your grandchild, and so on. Even if you do lots of video rendering, your SSD will still outlive you. The only way to kill your SSD is to either write to it, non-stop, for many years (at least 3), or to burn it out from heat (in case you write to it heavily with no cooling (and your SSD keeps a log of its temperature, so the manufacturer has an excuse to not honor the warranty)). So why do manufacturers use a TBW value that is clearly low? 1) When they started manufacturing SSDs, they could not know for sure how much data could be written to it. They probably had a rough idea. But the only way to know for sure would be for them to write to it for years. Well, they are not going to hold off on selling their product for years. So they had to come up with a TBW number, without really knowing what that number should be. But #2, and especially #3, below, is nefarious. 2) By rating, for example, an SSD's TBW value at 1200, the manufacturer can deny you a warranty claim if you exceeded 1200 TBW. Even though that SSD could handle 12,000 TBW, the manufacturer will simply deny your warranty claim. Your SSD could die, having nothing to do with you exceeding 1200 TBW, and they will simply not honor your claim. 3) People use a tool and see that their SSD is down to 20% (or whatever). They get worried, or feel uncomfortable, and so they go out an purchase another SSD that they did not need. If they had not seen 20% remaining, they would not have wasted money on a new SSD. So a low TBW value boosts sales. If your SSD fails, it is not going to be due to writing too much data to it. If it fails, it will be due to heat, or a power surge, or a manufacturing defect. Tools that show you your SSD's statistics should be used out of curiosity, and to know if you are about to end your warranty. Do no use such tools to determine the health of your SSD.
i'll be using W10 as long as I havr this Gaming PC I have now, it's pretty good so hopes I can use it until 2027-2028+ Cuz I don't wanna reinstall a fresh windows 11, cuz I using the free version windows 10.
It sucked having to put your DVD or cd rom into your computer every time you wanted to play a specific game. I always worried about scuffing up the disks of my favorite games.
I only needed one reason. My 16-year-old Windows 10 system (wasn't always a Win10, but that's another story) died violently, which multiple events in the system event log. Things like controller errors, apparent head touches, and my main system fan died. The stores aren't selling Win10 unless you have some clout. But beware of the automatic enablement of Bitlocker. THAT is a potential nightmare - DON'T lose your key because you won't be able to have someone recover a dying disk.
You probably should have mentioned that Windows 10 doesn’t even include DVD-Video capabilities out of the box! Say hello to a $15 addon on instead! Or just use something like VLC…
HDDs are still meaningful. I had one machine with two HDDs that lasted 13 years. My next machine with an HDD lasted 16 years. By comparison, the SSD died within about 5 years. The speed factor is impressive, sure, but reliability is not a trivial requirement. Silent hard drives? My game is banging away, game sprites are screaming, and game bombs are going off in my headphones. What disk noise was that? Your point about laptops and fragility is valid.
I was planning to continue on Win10 - until my Win10 box started throwing disk controller and disk surface fault errors. Since it was over 15 years old at the time, though it performed pretty well for a long time, it was time to face facts. So my workaround was "buy a new computer" and therefore I'm on Win11 anyway. Wasn't my plan, but what's that old saying about "best laid plans"?
Yes, I'm sure there are others that have faced the same situation as you... Windows 10 PC stops working after perhaps many years of service, then it's time to make a choice between getting it fixed or buying a new computer.
After trying Windows 11 on my laptop and really not liking it I threw Mint on it, that was about a year ago. Finally ripped the band aid off and moved my main desktop over to Pop OS and while not painless I've gotten most of my games to work with proton (I don't play many that use anti cheat) and have found replacement apps for most of the things I need that I wasn't already using something cross platform/open source for. I've been using Windows since 95a and work with any number of OS's, there is good and bad to all of them but I'm much happier now that I only have to deal with Windows 11 in small doses when I need to do something on the mini PC I got to run Windows 11 on.
