Using tools like YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator it's also possible to put a lot of stuff on a single USB stick. Very practical.

Now the caps key is stuck as well. Corsair should stick to making memory sticks? ;) Have you gone through all the USB settings in the BIOS? There's usually a bunch of them, legacy this and that etc. You probably also have tried all possible ports? Sometimes USB3 can be non-native and such, only waki...

You just write how the LEDs that you love whine, and then you go on to say that you need more evidence of whining. I mean, how much more can you be in denial? You want me to tell you the stuff you are already seeing but you deny? And what if those others are also seeing but they deny? Because the t...

Only LEDs at my place. :) The new LED filament ones are really nice. At the place I work there are two very warm pear bulbs in two lamps with open tops. The plants nearby get burnt by the heat, 25W bulbs get hot. A few days ago I replaced them with 2.1K LED filament bulbs. The same warm light, 1.2W ...

The form can introduce negative emotions in what would otherwise have been a factual or clean message. I'm sure you notice how your mind rewrites the messages that you want to say, before you utter them. I never noticed this in the past so much because it was more fluid and I was not aware of the d...

Not saying you were doing so here. And you were the one that winked ;-) in your first post ;-). So I am not blaming you of any sense of closedmindedness here compared to the rest ;-). But if "people get hooked by themselves" then I wonder how you would explain that most people get defensive when I ...

If you now accuse me of being judgemental about SSD using people; it is consistently the SSD lovers that push people around and say stuff like I have quoted earlier. "Just use an SSD". "Why not buy an SSHD instead?" "Why not do as I do?" "Why are you trying to do your own thing when all the world h...

No I never said that the SSD shouldn't exist. I am saying that you shouldn't be using it as your OS drive. You should be using it as a cache drive. That is what it is really meant for. There is a history of caches everywhere. Your CPU has caches that would function in exactly the same way as an SSD...

If you value big space over responsiveness, get a HDD. But I don't think that HDD would be that much greater if the SSD never existed. Zero RPM is my sweetspot. ;) A sweet stable zero RPM. Opera has been my browser of choice for a long time, it's always been quick for me both on Linux and Windows. I...

Sure you can. I was saying now you have to. It is a sacrifice you make for getting something else. I would not much like that (I have done it myself on a 50GB VPS, that "saving space thing" but it is not the most convenient or fun thing in the world. It is a sacrifice). You are sacrificing one thin...

You can boot from USB and get a live system. This will not touch your Windows installation. You are simply booting Linux from the USB stick. This can give you a chance to see if the problem is hardware related. Also, installing it could be an alternative to a system restore. Just saying..

If we forget about SSDs and HDDs for a moment and instead look at the tech behind them. Surely you can agree that solid state has some appeal over the mechanical movements of parts? No matter how much you develop the latter it could never beat the responsiveness of the former. Starting firefox takes...

Well you know that is very odd because I thought my systems were always very responsive and I never had anything faster than a Samsung SpinPoint F1 at 7200. But in recent years that feeling has gone down. I mean, I guess you did was in the deep minority doing that thing? System slowness is still ab...

I think they are great. I was an early adopter and got a very expensive 16GB Mobi SSD early on. I never regretted that purchase. Before that I was very much hunting for the optimal OS HDD. Short stroking, the 10K RPM Raptor, trying to shave down the microseconds in seek time that made such a huge di...

What's with the rage against SSDs xen? ;) I thought mine made a sound, but it turned out it was the motherboard, while reading/writhing to the SSD. No ultrasound though as far as I know, just "normal" noise that electronics make. A sound we all can enjoy now when or systems can be made solid state. :)

You could try another OS, like Linux Mint and see if the problem persists. That will give you an indication if the problem is software or hardware related.

Fractal Design Core 1100 is the best cheap case I've used. But it is a cheap one. The Antec NSK 3480 is much more solid. That said, if it's a simple system it will do the job.

Come on, can't you see the man/woman/script is working. You create a profile at your forum of choice, then you find a topic, google a few chosen word from that topic and you get a page like this http://www.solarpowernrg.com/index.php/faq/101-what-does-on-grid-and-off-grid-mean.html Then you just cop...

Connecting a resistor in series with the LED will make it less bright.

I don't like light pollution in my single room apartment, so I usually don't connect any of the LEDs in my systems.

Very nice! Thanks for the update.

Interesting, but I would like this but with water. The special fluid makes it something else. Maybe something for the future but my conservative mind would prefer regular non-leaky heatpipes.

The bigger PSU would be less efficient than the smaller one and generate even more heat.

If it's not bad power, then maybe overheating? Or the motherboard don't get a RPM reading on the CPU fan and shuts down? Grasping at straws here..

Hypothetical how? Would it work? Sure. But why?

What's the point of a 1.5kW PSU for a sub 300W system? Future proofing? If you want guaranteed fanless operation, why not a passive PSU with a capacity closer to the actual power consumption? It should be both cheaper and more power efficient.

They are the same I think. The early drives are more quiet than the more recent ones according to reports, and also according to the data sheets, but that is due to louder seeks not any differences in idle noise as far as I know. The number of platters makes a difference and there are some individua...

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Some HDDs vibrate more than others. Try to decouple it from the case. There are many ways to do that. Check this thread for ideas
- viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19147

Nothing wrong there. +12V looks good.

Try measure the +12V rail in various places. You can do that from a molex (between yellow and one of the black wires). Or on the 4pin cable connected to the motherboard. You can also try measuring on the brick, without it connected to anything. Of the points you have measured, what sticks out is -10...

Not crap then. Hard to imagine the brick being responsible for damaging the system. Are the voltage levels ok? No damaged caps on the motherboard?