Recent content by JLArranz

You mean you did connect everything again plus the case speaker and leds, and now it's working fine? Thumbs up! :) The accumulation of apparent sw errors plus the sudden shutdown and black screen did me think about a hw failure. It's possible something got loose and you fixed it replugging...

It doesn't sound to sw problem to me. Does it do the POST? (it should do a short beep from the case speaker to indicate that) Can you enter the BIOS? If not, detach everything including disks and GPU (if the processor or the mobo has one, and attach the monitor to the corresponding video...

With a 65W processor (Athlon x2 5000+ Brisbane 65nm) and a good case (Cooler Master Centurion 5 w/ Scythe SlipStream 1600rpm) and stock CPU cooler, the processor would never go over 55ºC or so, even with the room at 35ºC. From all the things you don't have my first suspect would be the...

(Idk anything about replacing parts for different ones in prebuilt computers...) That's what an imaging program does. "Cloning" is producing another disk that has the same data and can be used as replacement. Cloning can be done by partitioning programs, not only imaging programs, but it has...

Supposing you haven't got one of those very small sized pendrives connected, or a disc left in a DVD... I've read several times from MS that the Windows Recovery disk can reinstall what you had in Windows or something along those lines. Doing one here in my semi-powerful W10 (FX8350) or basic...

If you want to consider alternative strategies: - An internal secondary disk as the main storage. Internal buses are better for massive data. - Copy the images to external disks. I use 2 high quality 256 GB pendrives alternately. My technical (installers, documents,...) and personal data is...

Encrypting has physical advantages, it randomizes the data and allows higher density. This allows the manufacturer to save costs, in HDDs higher density implies smaller plates for the same capacity (your drive does also have another trick to increase density, it's an SMR drive, but this is...

I don't have any experience or practice with this. As for theoreticals I can only guess, but I think it would be relatively few "principles" instead of zillons of tricks and "small rules" for every concrete situation. I have my files w/o any ownership out of C: (I know your problem isn't like...

I appreciate this and I suppose you may know the inners of PSUs and VRMs detailedly enough. I have never had problems that I could identify as this kind of... respectfully... PSU issues? Or VRM issues? I think this could be an interesting or to-consider workaround for some hw flaws, but in the...

Have you tried with fewer modules as suggested above? Older processors were hard as hell, but I wouldn't discard it. Do you have a spare discrete GPU (ideally little powerful)? If it were PSU I'd expect shutdowns instead of reboots. A main suspect is RAM b/c I had that exact problem after...

PS: I have written this w/o seeing the post #1913... I must go out for some hours at least. I did all my changes with Secure Boot off. This computer started as Windows 10 in 2021 H4 but I installed Win11 from Windows Update in some few months. I was very busy in that age (I had purchased it...

Not exact. I used a now very old version of the script (2026-01-18 if it matters). My knowledge wasn't "perfect" and I did erroneous actions, but I believe I only lost time in them. I got a plan, maybe I asked questions, maybe it was covered in the directions. I read this thread carefully for...

post #1808 garlin's PowerShell scripts for updating Secure Boot CA 2023 I'll expose how did I proceed initially. My miniPC should have an Asus design, it's more modern than hottroc's system, although with an older BIOS (2021) that won't be updated. My update from 23H2 to 24H2 had been painful...

An alternative or "complement" could be reinstalling Windows Defender (maybe there's a tutorial), or running DISM Restorehealth and SFC scannow.

Please right click in the Start button in the bottom left corner, click on "Device Manager", and click in the small white triangle at the left of "Disk drives". Please post what appears just below "Disk drives". It's the disks models you have. My Windows 11 is a miniPC with 8 GB RAM and a 256...