Category: Questions

Question: I have been trying to repair a laptop that simply beeps instead of booting. After taking it apart I have now realised that it is the hard disk beeping.…

Question: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1194880300829986816 Answer:The second 8-pin chip is a FETky. There is no need to swap it. I would say that your drive may have a preamp failure. This chip is…

Question: I have a PC with two internal SATA 7,200 RPM harddisks: one is a 1 TB Western Digital, and the other is 750 GB. I’m copying data between them,…

Question: I have a Western Digital 14 TB Drive, (model WD140EMFZ-11A0WA0) hard drive that I have managed to break off one of the pins on the data connector on the…

Question: I have a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200rpm hard drive with unbearable seek noise! See Quiet Hard Drive suggestions. I have replaced the drive now, but don’t want…

Question: The sata connectors on one of my hard drives has got bent so I swapped the PCB from an identical board without knowing there was more to do than…

Question: How do I tell if my motherboard & disk drive support native command queueing? Is it in the device manager, or somewhere else? Windows has a checkbox for “Enable…

Question: I got this ssd today. Isn’t a little bit to small? http://imgur.com/zEnVAhF Answer:The NW912 chip is a Micron MT29F512G08EEHAFJ4-3R:A. That’s a 512Gbit NAND flash memory, ie 64GiB. If there…

Question: When partitioning with fdisk the last few sectors cannot be included in a partition, as far as I have experienced. I always thought this is due to MiB- or…

Question: I recently bought a 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 NVMe to pair with my ASUS ROG Strix B550-F, and after installing the heatsink onto the M.2, I noticed it is…