Posts by wearyheron71

Voltage is hitting every single port now. Before I reset the BIOS, there was zero power on the USBs, but now? Now I can’t even find the setting in the BIOS to shut this damn thing off.

Hey

I reset my BIOS, and now my mouse stays lit up even after I shut down the PC. I checked the motherboard for a jumper to toggle this setting, but there isn't one—and I've already poked around the BIOS settings trying to find an option to kill the power, but nothing works. It’s an ASROCK 880GMH/U3S3
If anyone actually knows how to fix this, I'd appreciate some guidance

Thanks

Now this message is popping up

HD Sentinel is throwing this error message at me regarding my hard drive—anyone know what the deal is?

The status of the solid state disk is PERFECT. Problematic or weak sectors were not found.
The TRIM feature of the SSD is supported and enabled for optimal performance.
The health is determined by SSD specific S.M.A.R.T. attribute(s): #231 SSD Life Left

No actions needed.

thanks

I ran an HD Regenerator scan on the drives, and HD Sentinel is giving me the green light—one is at 92% and the other is at 98%. I’ve gone ahead and disconnected the specific drive that was acting up (the one throwing that "Capable but command failed" error), so I'm going to monitor how things settle over the next few days. It’s possible that error was what was causing the system to shut down, though I still don't quite get why the first drive was tripping out when it technically shows as okay.

Sometimes when I boot up Windows, it throws an error saying one drive is Capable but the command failed—but then the other drive doesn't even show the error before it just shuts down entirely. I’ve already swapped out the cables and tried different SATA ports on the motherboard... so, is this a software glitch or am I looking at a hardware failure? I tried to run an Acronis backup today, but the BIOS wouldn't even recognize the second drive where the backup is stored; then, after a restart, it suddenly shows up again.

I set the power plan to Balanced—turned off the display timeout and sleep mode entirely—and set "Turn off hard disk" to Never in the settings

I've got an SSD running Windows 8 and two extra 500 GB SATA hard drives. While I'm working, the drives just randomly cut out—sometimes hard drive one drops, sometimes it's the other, or both—and they just vanish from My Computer

Hard Drive Sentinel reports health at 23%—performance is still at 100%.
HD Regenerator claims there are a ton of bad sectors.

Here’s the screenshot.

I just ran a scan with HDD Regenerator, and it’s flagging a ton of delay errors—though there aren't any actual bad sectors yet. Can these delay errors actually be fixed, or is this drive basically a paperweight at this point?

Which of these two processors would be the better pick? I realize they’re both getting pretty old, but they'd cost me no more than $167 used. Is it even worth pulling the trigger, or can I find something actually decent for under $167 on the secondhand market? I'll mostly be using this setup for gaming