General computer talk/advice

except I don't own any device with m.2. No this is an adapter to put a mSATA ssd in a sata bay/on sata cables.
I already have the mSATA ssd in a drawer and want to use it in a device that doesn't have mSATA.

 

Ah, okay. Basically an adapter. Well, I think if you ordered it like two or three weeks ago, I'd get my money back if I were you. No idea if you will ever see that thing... Seems like you have to pay 8-12 pounds or so.

 

Nope. £2.04 on a slow boat from china. Its still within expected delivery time, I just want it now is all.


I have a 2007 macbook pro which is equipped with 2 hard drives. One of which failed, then decided to come back, and then died, and then decided to come back so I would rather not trust. The other one is my OSX boot drive.
I have a 32gb mSATA SSD. Going to remove the 2 drives from this macbook. Replace the boot drive into the bay the failing drive is from (the boot drive is currently running on a PATA-SATA adapter which causes major issues with OSX sleep modes and no amount of reconfiguring OSX seems to give a workaround). Then whack the SSD into the mSATA adapter into the PATA adapter (eh bandwidth will suck I know, but at last seek times will still be better than a native PATA drive and I am not doing the SSD to be quick, its just the only drive I have spare) and bootcamp windows on it.

 

That's quite slow...

Well, I'm astonished that laptop even has enough space for two adapters plus SSD. Couldn't do that with a modern one...

 

im pretty sure he just replaced the optical drive with an adapter that allows another hard drive.

 

Easy. Its from the era of laptops with an optical drive. Yet this one has no optical drive.

The second hard drive runs on a PATA-SATA adapter caddy that slots in where the optical drive should be.

 

Oh, makes sense then.

 

got this thing second hand with the adapter kit installed already. Theres plenty of room for the mSATA adapter and mSATA drive to fit in that kit too.

Although my windows laptop does have genuine mSATA socket plus a 2.5" bay. Factory config was 32gb SSD in raid cache mode with a 1tb HDD. HDD failed, I replaced it and figured while I was at it I would put a 128gb mSATA SSD in there as a boot drive (disabled raid controller)

 

Well, okay then.

By the way, what should I do when most of the icons on the task bar are functional but invisible, aside from the start-, search- and notification button? I can't open the start menu either, and the classic shell only after I started it from its home directory.

 

Beg the computer gods for forgiveness.

 

so yesterday i was playing beamng on my lenovo y50 and suddenly i heard a weird rattling sound
when it stopped the computer started getting EXTREMELY HOT so i quickly turned it off.
I opened it up to see what was wrong and i found a large screw that jammed up the bigger fan
this was the first time i opened it so it definitely wasnt my fold, the only explanation i could think of
was that it must have fallen into it at the factory

 

Fired up my old super computer. It can run HL2 on 1400x1050 reolution and medium settings at 30fps

 

Actually, I found it out. I just had to reinstall Classic Shell. And beg the computer gods for forgiveness.

 

Does it match any of the other screws?

 

Given that there is no trace of thread locking compound on that screw I think your presumption is actually quite viable, anyways I'd rather that screw fall into the fan rather than anywhere else and get the chance to short something out.

 

Any ideas why a Samsung Galaxy core prime would start doing this?

 

You broke your LCD screen.

 

It's been in my pocket. The glass isn't broken and it hasn't been dropped.

 

Looks like the screen got damaged in some way. Normally it's the digitizer that breaks leading to a "cracked screen" but sometimes the LED panel underneath the digitizer can crack not to uncommon but certainly not common.

 

Depending on what pocket, it could be caused by pressure...