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Question GPU caught fire, what happened? (pictures)

That actually sounds like a pretty sensible explanation to me, then again I'm no expert. I do have an iGPU yeah, tried and enabled as I was occasionally using it to drive an additional screen. Testing what's left using the iGPU was my plan already, I just wanted to check if hopes of everything...
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- Post #12
- Dec 4, 2020
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Question GPU caught fire, what happened? (pictures)

Well I removed the heatsink now, but I didn't even bother taking a picture because the top side looks like new, much to my surprise given the noticeable damage of the PCB on the bottom side. There's really no trace of any damage whatsoever there. If you look at this picture, the fire was not...
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- Post #10
- Dec 4, 2020
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Question GPU caught fire, what happened? (pictures)

Can't do that now (not near the card), so I did the next best thing and found some nice pictures (both sides, with and without the heatsink) of this same card when it's not burned. Here they are. Hopefully it's of some help, if not I should be able to post the pictures of my card without the...
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- Post #5
- Dec 3, 2020
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Question GPU caught fire, what happened? (pictures)

Hello, as you can see from the pictures below, the GPU failed catastrophically and I was wondering what might have caused it. The build is obviously a few years old (Nvidia GTX760), but not ancient. It has worked without any issues so far and this happened completely out of the blue. The...
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- Thread
- Dec 3, 2020
- asus fail fire gtx760 nvidia
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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HDD (IDE to SATA) is very slow in Windows 7, but fine in XP (Resolved)

Excuse the long delay but I had to finish a project and didn't have a moment to spare for tinkering with this drive/ide to sata converter. Finally got round to it today and that driver you suggested Mike did the trick, so thanks again :)
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- Post #14
- Feb 15, 2018
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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HDD (IDE to SATA) is very slow in Windows 7, but fine in XP (Resolved)

Apologies for not having specified earlier since I didn't see it as relevant to the problem I'm having, but I dual boot with two separate drives. I have XP installed on the other native SATA drive I mentioned above and Win 7 on an SSD. I select the boot drive at system power up/reset to decide...
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- Post #10
- Feb 8, 2018
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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HDD (IDE to SATA) is very slow in Windows 7, but fine in XP (Resolved)

Indeed Larry, that's what I was suspecting. I could actually make use of several such converters (only reverse of what you used - ide drive to sata mobo) but I bought just the one at first to see if it's usable in practice as I presumed I might run into these kind of problems with it. However it...
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- Post #7
- Feb 7, 2018
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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HDD (IDE to SATA) is very slow in Windows 7, but fine in XP (Resolved)

First off thanks for the help Mike, much appreciated. Interesting. What were we installing back in the day to enable installation of XP on a SATA drive? I do remember needing a "SATA floppy" or alternatively slipstreaming the SATA driver into the installation ISO. https://imgur.com/a/l0mHI...
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- Post #5
- Feb 7, 2018
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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HDD (IDE to SATA) is very slow in Windows 7, but fine in XP (Resolved)

The ones that come with Windows presumably as I haven't installed them manually in either OS. I have seen in Win 7 the pop up in the systray telling me the device is ready to use, so it has installed the drivers it deemed appropriate. The same happened in XP as well I expect, but I don't...
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- Post #3
- Feb 7, 2018
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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HDD (IDE to SATA) is very slow in Windows 7, but fine in XP (Resolved)

Having a bunch of working IDE drives, I got an IDE to SATA converter so that I can use them as a sort of scratch disk on my computer with no IDE ports. The problem is that in Windows 7 the HDD is very slow. Since I happen to have a working XP installation on this computer as well (dual boot), I...
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- Thread
- Feb 7, 2018
- hdd ide sata slow windows 7 windows xp
- Replies: 13
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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How to access semi frozen Windows 7

Firefox got greedy and gobbled up resources. I already know that and was waiting for it to crash (I was observing its behavior), but unfortunately before it crashed itself, it caused Windows to partially freeze as described. That's the usual way yeah. But this time I got to thinking there...
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- Post #4
- Jul 10, 2017
- Forum: Operating Systems
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How to access semi frozen Windows 7

Hi, I'm trying to access/unfreeze my Windows 7 desktop that's in a semi frozen state. What happened: My browser was eating up most of my memory, at a certain point so much of it that when I tried to run another app, Win 7 went into this semi frozen state. What's semi frozen: The screen went...
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- Thread
- Jul 10, 2017
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Toshiba 4tb HDD problem?

Thanks for the help Elixer, I'll do that.
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- Post #7
- Jun 15, 2015
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Toshiba 4tb HDD problem?

It's a Fractal Design Mini, so a pretty decent case I'd say and the drive bays have rubber grommets, although much stiffer than my other Antec case. However there's been no hdd I ever came across that didn't rattle at least a tiny bit when reading/writing. Exceedingly faint if suspended in a...
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- Post #5
- Jun 15, 2015
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Toshiba 4tb HDD problem?

Thanks for replying. Maybe we understand rattling differently, because as far as I'm concerned every hdd rattles somewhat when reading/writing, except if it's strictly a sequential, or very short read/write where the heads don't have to move a lot and there's no back and forth movement. By...
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- Post #3
- Jun 15, 2015
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Toshiba 4tb HDD problem?

Hello everyone, last week I bought a Toshiba MD04ACA400 4tb HDD and I'm noticing an issue with its SMART readings that worries me. The G-Sense Error Rate keeps increasing on it, apparently while it's being written to. After first completing a full surface scan the raw value came up to 4, now...
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- Thread
- Jun 14, 2015
- Replies: 16
- Forum: Memory and Storage

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