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You mentioned G-Sync, but this is an AMD system? Is Free-Sync an option with the monitor or is it like doing both?
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You mentioned G-Sync, but this is an AMD system? Is Free-Sync an option with the monitor or is it like doing both?
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So my Motherboard blew up and took my main document Harddrive with it.
It no longer spins, BIOS does no recognize it.
It is a WD 60EZAZ with PCB board of
Is anyone here familiar with advanced data recovery?
Im going down the rabbit how of BIOS chip swapping.
It no longer spins, BIOS does no recognize it.
It is a WD 60EZAZ with PCB board of
PCB 2060-800077-003
Is anyone here familiar with advanced data recovery?
Im going down the rabbit how of BIOS chip swapping.
Lanx
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for best compatibility (not bios desolding, which is difficult) you also need the rev of the board like this
your board looks hard to find, here are the ebay listings w/o the revs
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if youre lucky, you can just buy a $20 board unscrew a few torx screws and slip it in.
i think for new wd boards you might need to get "unlocked" boards, idk, but they are sold
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Lendarios
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there is HDD zone that seems to have 2 versions locked an unlocked. Ill order the unlocked version. Im guessing im gonna have to send the boards to someone who can do the soldering off the chips.for best compatibility (not bios desolding, which is difficult) you also need the rev of the board like this
your board looks hard to find, here are the ebay listings w/o the revs
2060-800077-003 for sale | eBay
Get the best deals for 2060-800077-003 at eBay.com. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with Fast & Free shipping on many items!www.ebay.com
if youre lucky, you can just buy a $20 board unscrew a few torx screws and slip it in.
i think for new wd boards you might need to get "unlocked" boards, idk, but they are sold
Lanx
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if you don't know about hot air soldering watch this video
this is time stamped to a hot air reflow
he desolders a chip and puts on a new one, this is what you'd have to do
watch the beginning of the video for an explanation of the hot air station, and stuff, his is a combo, so you can just get a "decent" chinese hot air for 50ish bucks, and practice on an old board or something
i'm not saying do this instead, but it's an option, the barrier isn't all that expensive and if you do fuck up, your data is still save, since it's still on the platters and you just still get a real pcb from somewhere. (maybe don't fuck up the bios chip tho)
but yea, if youre not sure, send it away
Crone
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Where would I start troubleshooting if my gaming laptop that's about 6 years old, is slowly crashing itself after a while of playing a game? Trying to play Ori on Gamepass, and it'll work fine for a while and then the sound cuts out, then Bluetooth (controller loses connection), and then finally it'll hard freeze. I thought that sounded like temps, because HW Monitor was showing like 99 degrees C on the CPU. Thought it'd be memory, but just upgraded both sticks and went from 8 to 16Gb, and continues to do it. Updated drivers on the integrated, and since it's an 8970m mobile GPU, there are not really updated drivers for the discrete GPU. It'll go through a 2-hour zoom call just fine. I don't know where else to check.
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Denamian
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Can you get a temp on the GPU? Eventually crashing when the GPU is being heavily utilized points at something GPU related. It might be overheating and creating problems elsewhere. Could also be mobo related if it's always sound and bluetooth crapping out first.
Wouldn't hurt to tear it down and clean it out.
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Tell it about your diet/weight loss and it should kill itself and reduce the noise level.
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Hateyou
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The first thing I’d check on in this situation is the laptop selection at the local microcenter and Best Buy.
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I got temp on the GPU, and it was 80C , so not great but doing ok. I'm feeling like it already cooked the mobo, because it's doing it after about 15 minutes now, but I immediately check HW Monitor, and the temps are pretty normal. So it seems I cooked the mobo, and now it's just fucked even if it's not getting that hot again.
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Brahma
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So. When I try to boot into the bios (shift restart) I eventually get a VGA light on my MB. This can only be resolved via reseating the card in the PCI slot. I know this sounds silly, but can Windows 10 update have caused this issue? That's the only thing that has changed on my system since I got my new GPU. RX6800.
Or am I looking at a hardware issue?
Or am I looking at a hardware issue?