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by ryko
Thu Feb 18, 2016 2:26 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Need help: CPU, GPU fluctuation
Replies: 64
Views: 10761

Re: Need help: CPU, GPU fluctuation

hmm this is a tough one, but any chance of trying windows7 instead of 8.1 or 10? i was having a sort-of similar issue of fluctations on a cpu for a customer's build that i was trying to peg at max turbo speed but was seeing smaller fluctuations from 3.3ghz to 3.6ghz while sitting idle. load was more...
by ryko
Thu Feb 18, 2016 2:15 am
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: multiplier fluctuations
Replies: 15
Views: 7363

Re: multiplier fluctuations

Update: finally got over to the clients house for some more testing. i tried manually setting the multiplier exactly as suggested by biffzinker but it doesn't work. in the UEFI, it looks like 36 is accepted on all cores as the multiplier, but once in windows i get the same fluctuations still! arghhh...
by ryko
Tue Feb 09, 2016 11:34 pm
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: multiplier fluctuations
Replies: 15
Views: 7363

Re: multiplier fluctuations

yes i had speedstep enabled along with turboboost and multicore enhancement yet i still don't get to the max turbo of 3.6ghz...c-state is the only thing that would keep the multiplier from fluctuating. i have all other asus power saving features disabled also but no difference. i delivered the pc to...
by ryko
Tue Feb 09, 2016 5:13 pm
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: multiplier fluctuations
Replies: 15
Views: 7363

Re: multiplier fluctuations

some testing updates... disabling multicore enhancement makes the cpu operate normally at 3.2ghz idle and 3.3ghz under 4 core load. only able to get up to 3.5ghz under 1 core load though...not 3.6ghz like it should. i also re-tested on a per core basis with multicore enhancement enabled and i only g...
by ryko
Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:46 pm
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: multiplier fluctuations
Replies: 15
Views: 7363

Re: multiplier fluctuations

that is the strange thing...there is nowhere to manually set the multiplier. unless it is hidden behind some un-descriptive term in the UEFI that i can't find. doing some more testing now and will report back.
by ryko
Tue Feb 09, 2016 10:59 am
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: multiplier fluctuations
Replies: 15
Views: 7363

Re: multiplier fluctuations

it was late last night, so i forgot to mention that this is idle behavior. i have stress tested with prime 95 x64 and then it will sit at 3.3ghz which seems really odd to me. and yes i have seen that intel removed "free" overclocking on non-k cpus. but i thought that was just bclck which i...
by ryko
Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:01 am
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: multiplier fluctuations
Replies: 15
Views: 7363

multiplier fluctuations

asus z170-e with newest BIOS intel core i5 6500, 3.2ghz 16gb gskill ddr4 2400 crucial mx200 500gb ssd seasonic s12II-350w win10 x64 home so i want to run at max turbo speed of 3.6ghz all the time. asus has a UEFI setting called multicore enhancement which is suppose to accomplish this if you enable ...
by ryko
Sun Jun 07, 2015 12:11 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot
Replies: 17
Views: 7060

Re: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot

just in case anybody cares or was following, i finally gave up and reformatted and re-installed win8.1 with bing. had to track down a copy of it b/c i tried to install regular 8.1 but the keys for each netbook wouldn't validate. once i used the correct win8.1 version, the keys auto-installed themsel...
by ryko
Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:01 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot
Replies: 17
Views: 7060

Re: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot

ughh UEFI and GPT go away, bring back BIOS and MBR so i can play... won't someone think of the techs when they make these changes? Well, it was kind of inevitable that a scheme which was (as one of its many goals) designed to thwart boot-time viruses/rootkits would introduce additional complication...
by ryko
Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:34 pm
Forum: General Software
Topic: Anyone else getting Windows 10 upgrade prompts?
Replies: 144
Views: 22386

Re: Anyone else getting Windows 10 upgrade prompts?

i was under the impression that win10 is free for only the first year. so if everybody downloads and installs on july 29, 2015 are we going to have to pay on july 29, 2016 to keep the full version? or is it that the upgrade offer is only available for a year?
by ryko
Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:20 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot
Replies: 17
Views: 7060

Re: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot

update1: i tried creating a restore disk of the hidden partition using the built-in win8.1 tool "create a recovery disk" and it works fine but at the end i am given no option to delete the drive. it just has one button that says finish and then it is closed out if i click that. i ran it tw...
by ryko
Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:58 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot
Replies: 17
Views: 7060

Re: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot

ludi thanks for the link. that certainly is depressing i guess. so it doesn't look like i will be able to even find the correct key for a re-install since it is embedded in the UEFI firmware?? ughh UEFI and GPT go away, bring back BIOS and MBR so i can play... won't someone think of the techs when t...
by ryko
Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:49 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot
Replies: 17
Views: 7060

Re: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot

thanks ryu! going to try that now.

i did previously try to remove the recovery partition using acer recovery mangement which, in theory, allows you to delete the recovery partition but after i copied it to another drive there was no option to delete or remove the partition. so no luck there.
by ryko
Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:38 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot
Replies: 17
Views: 7060

Re: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot

here are the contents of my c: drive and the hidden partition: https://db.tt/goZdyYpI anything jump out at you? during examination of the drive contents under macrium's rescue environment, i did notice a 4th partition that is 128mb and 128mb of it is used but it says it is unformatted. if i try to v...
by ryko
Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:10 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot
Replies: 17
Views: 7060

Re: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot

ok so after some research about eMMC flash memory it seems that this could be causing the issue. the internal storage is not a regular ssd or hdd, it is a type of (cheap) flash memory more like what you would find in your cellphone or tablet. because of this, a separate windows bootloader is require...
by ryko
Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:50 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot
Replies: 17
Views: 7060

Re: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot

yes, i forgot to mention that i did use macrium rescue environment (win pe 5.0) for EUFI on a usb stick to restore the good img after the failed merge/deletion of partitions. before restoring i had also tried macrium's "fix boot problems" in this recovery mode and it does not work. the err...
by ryko
Wed Jun 03, 2015 10:49 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot
Replies: 17
Views: 7060

Re: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot

yes i absolutely need to remove it since storage space is so limited. like i said, i have a full img backup on an external hdd if anything ever goes wrong so i don't need the recovery partition.
by ryko
Wed Jun 03, 2015 10:32 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot
Replies: 17
Views: 7060

remove hidden recovery partition without messing up boot

i have 2 of these little acer netbooks for customers, model aspire e11 es1-11m-c40s, and they have only 32gb of internal storage. so after removing all of the acer bloatware and other useless stuff i am left with about 8GB of free space. start doing the math and realize i am missing about 10GB+ of s...
by ryko
Sat Apr 11, 2015 7:52 pm
Forum: Apple Sanctuary
Topic: Apple Watch
Replies: 26
Views: 7591

Re: Apple Watch

is it just me or do the $700 42mm stainless and the $1000 42mm stainless versions look better than any of the 10k and up ones? also many of the sport versions look like the regular versions but with a $300+ difference. they should have kept it simple and had the sport version with rubber or leather ...
by ryko
Mon Mar 16, 2015 2:20 am
Forum: Mobile Tech
Topic: Laptop Power Connectors
Replies: 33
Views: 5049

Re: Laptop Power Connectors

i suggest that you mod the laptop's power cable with a breakaway connector so that it wont damage the power port on the laptop. there are many out there. some designed specifically for laptops like these...(2nd one has a better rating) http://www.amazon.com/ProtectivePlug-Laptop-Breakaway-connector-...
by ryko
Fri Feb 20, 2015 11:32 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Everything keeps breaking
Replies: 5
Views: 1573

Re: Everything keep breaking

January: Washing machine breaks (bearing on the drum, not repairable) just wanted to say that i had my washing machine break recently, and it was a bearing on the drum and i got it repaired for like $75. the part itself was $5, the rest labor. not sure what type of machine you have but it has got t...
by ryko
Mon Sep 08, 2014 9:56 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: What's this type of cable fastener called?
Replies: 14
Views: 3347

Re: What's this type of cable fastener called?

it's highly unlikely that the cable you showed is the cause of your monitor power cycling unless you can see physical damage like burn marks or broken wires/connectors. much more likely that the cause is bad or buldging caps. maybe on the small power board that cable connects to? check all of the ca...
by ryko
Thu Aug 28, 2014 11:48 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Here's an interesting one..
Replies: 12
Views: 2423

Re: Here's an interesting one..

http://techreport.com/news/26932/window ... ets-pulled

maybe??

also try bumping RAM voltage a little.
by ryko
Thu Aug 28, 2014 11:42 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: printing issue with computer?
Replies: 8
Views: 1512

Re: printing issue with computer?

all i can think of is bad usb cable? did you re-use the same cable from your other printer? try a different usb port too.
by ryko
Sat Aug 02, 2014 12:11 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: New i3 -4150 system won't post
Replies: 18
Views: 8862

Re: New i3 -4150 system won't post

i remember reading here on TR about an asus motherboard that allows one to update their BIOS without a cpu... found it here (4th paragraph from the bottom): http://techreport.com/review/25310/asus-x79-deluxe-motherboard-reviewed "See that little BIOS button in the cluster? That's for USB BIOS F...
by ryko
Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:34 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: Your motherboard that had the most CPU upgrades
Replies: 77
Views: 16780

Re: Your motherboard that had the most CPU upgrades

For me, most motherboards had maybe 1 new cpu, but the coolest I thought was an old gateway intel 440bx slot1 mobo that started with a pII 400mhz. I got a slotkit which allowed a s370 cpu to be used in a slot1 mobo and a 1.2ghz celeron tualatin to go with it. Both had a 100mhz fsb so it actually wor...
by ryko
Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:05 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: strange system files taking up lots of space after a clone??
Replies: 6
Views: 3224

Re: strange system files taking up lots of space after a clo

here's an update... using my bkup hdd as primary now, and i successfully ran another clone operation using xxclone again to a 3rd hdd. it worked fine and no mystery files this time around. did a test boot and everything normal on both drives. really strange. also, i was able to get full control over...
by ryko
Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:51 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: strange system files taking up lots of space after a clone??
Replies: 6
Views: 3224

Re: strange system files taking up lots of space after a clo

they could be leftover files, but why are they there now? and why can't i delete them? i have never seen them before after a clone operation.
by ryko
Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:59 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: strange system files taking up lots of space after a clone??
Replies: 6
Views: 3224

strange system files taking up lots of space after a clone??

not sure if this is the correct sub-forum but it does have to do with space being swallowed up on my harddrive, so maybe? or it could be a software thing? anyway, here's what happened. i just ran a clone operation of my windows7 main hdd to my backup hdd using xxclone. all went well and there were n...
by ryko
Wed May 28, 2014 10:50 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: Assign the same drive letter to multiple drives?
Replies: 4
Views: 7921

Re: Assign the same drive letter to multiple drives?

Well this is possible because i had to do it for a client a few years ago. The same exact scenario, 2 external hdds that were rotated out of the office for a measure of off-site security. Each drive had to have the same drive letter every time it was connected to a certain pc in order for the backup...
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