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>go to ga-
FUCKING GAMESTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OO OO AA AA!

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>cd tray won't open
>not even with emergency lock
>you have to kind of pop it few times with your fingernail to the side
>it opens
ah they don't make em like this anymore, had to do it for years before I got new pc

>computer suddenly freezes
>hard drive spins up
>unfreezes two seconds later and pretends nothing happened
>this happens about once or twice a day
Should I just throw my computer in the trash and buy a new one?

>turn on PC
>youtube.com/watch?v=C07_lVxvva0

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I can't even connect my dvd-rom because there's no ide port anymore

your hdd might be dying

Usb dvd drives cost like a tenner bro.
But yeah optical media is irrelevant for PCs nowadays.

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get a SATA one then?

Also it seems to me that cooling the HDD makes a difference- I had trouble with my 2TB seagate, but then i installed a fan on it and it runs fine at 37C(used to go to 60+ before)

i just plugged in an older hard drive for the sole purpose of downloading a 60gb game, and that is all that i hear, kill me.

>let's pop this badboy in
>TRTR
>silence
>click on file
>TRTRTRTRRRRRTRTRRRRTRTRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTRTRTRTRTRTTRTR

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TK-TK-TK-TK-TK
...
TK-TK
...
BZZ-RRT BZZ-RRT
...
tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tBZZ-RRT

abort retry fail?

Why would anyone use HDD today? At least for gaming. SSDs are super cheap.

Is that what was in those VHS things?

Or you could just go into power options and prevent HDD power down/sleep

Set time to 0.

Good feel, I miss this as well.

Most older games still play decently on HDDs, the only games that an SSD is really necessary are those with multiple loading screens or those bloated 60gb+ games.

Is this bad for HDD? Will it shorten the lifespan?

OO WAH AH AH AH

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why does my dreamcast make scary noises?

DAAAAAH DUP!
BRRRRRRUP
CH CH CH
BRRRRRRUP
CH CH
BRRRRUP
CH
"Disc cannot be read."

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When the FUCK will multiple 6+TB SSDs be cheap?

>formatting an old ass hdd that was on it's way out for use in PS2
>forgot it's encrypted
>dies during decryption process
At least I saved my old Yea Forums files that prove I'm a newfag before it died.

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I'll try that, but why would it help? Just looking at the task manager, there seems to be some near constant hard drive activity even when the computer's idle. Why is it going to sleep?

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honest answer user
i dont know

It's probably full of bees.

constant power downs and ups are worse.
Letting it spin isn't bad, since the head is in park mode when not seeking or writing.

>but why would it help?
Because Windows randomly defrag, or if it wants a file from one of your HDD when powered down will have to wait until drives are spinning again to seek after the file it wanted.

Set the power setting to Ultimate Performance and it should be set to 0 by default.
Or use High Performance if that doesn't exist.

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I had something like that before I think. It's been a while since I had this sound, but it used to go away when I slapped the side of the case.

so I get this "click" "clack" noises from the hdd
and I did a test and found out I have 1 pending sector count what ever the fuck that means
im going to backup my shit anyway but is my hdd done for?

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*ahem*
FUCK HDDS
AND FUCK SPINNING DISKS

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cringe
soulless

It means it's scheduled for black listing that sector.

Imagine if a monitor got a stuck pixel and it then schedules it to turn off instead of being lit in a random color.
That's what's going to happen to your HDD.
You'll lose a sector from your HDD, so you'll lose 4KiB worth of data for every sector that it deemed bad.

oh
gonna backup anyway

This is as good a thread as any to ask this. I pretty much exclusively play modded Skyrim VR and have hundreds of mods installed. This has caused my fps to drop significantly. I have a GeForce RTX 1070. Would upgrading to the RTX 2080 TI make enough of a difference to make my modded Skyrim VR run smoothly? My CPU is i7-8700, if that matters.

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If you're willing to pay the $1100+ for a 2080 Ti, I guess so. The high end NVidia cards have become "money is no object" items these days.

>soulless state drive

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Skyrim engine is simply not optimized for this.
Fast ram, SSD, Overclocking cpu, and heavy ini tweaking might help. Default HIDDEN INI settings are not suitable for large amount of mods.
I think your videocard is already fine, unless you play in 4k VR.

>posts a GIF file
>it doesn't move

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No. An RTX 2070 is overkill, even for VR. Blame it on the shit engine and the hundreds of mods you have loaded.

That's a gf, not a gif.

>tfw my linux distro sends me mail if i get a SMART error
pretty useful

>SSD
Well, I have Samsung 970 EVO 2TB SSD. I have Steam and all of my games installed on it. It is not the SSD that I have my OS installed on though. My OS is on a separate, 250gb SSD, if that matters at all.

>if that matters at all.
The less space taken on SSD the faster read rate is.

youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

boomers get in here

I've used about 400gb of the samsung SSD and have about 1400gb of free space.

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>CLICK CLICK CLICK
>BEEP
>CLICK CLICK CLICK
>BEEP

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I hated my early CS classes because of diskettes.

I'm nothing, if not an idiot with too much money.

>when people talk about the 90's like it was something fun to live in

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>windows decided to lock your fucking keyboard
>BEEEEP
>BEEEP
>BEBEPBEPBEPBEPBEPBEPBEEP

i remember shark tits

So, my pc sometimes doesn't give video feed to my monitor.
It seems to boot fine since my wireless adapter lights up.
What gives? Will post cuties as a reward

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I love how some games made my CD drive sound like it was chewing the disk. Jesus. There has never been a happier day then when full installs become the norm because HDDs got large enough to enable them. Fuck playing old FMV adventures and having to swap multiple CDs on the regular.

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Easy.

>connecting to the internet at night to watch some porn while my parents are asleep
>56k modem dial-up at maximum blast because it doesn't know any other way

Congratulations, you just woke up the entire household.
youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

>latex: the game
so? is it gud?

That picture makes me so fucking depressed
I can't even imagine myself having that point of view without getting anxious and sperging out
I jsut imagine myself leaning over to kiss her but then she pushed me away, calls me a creep and walks over to Chad and they start laughing at me

I will probably never touch a woman prettier than average if even that

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Trolly 'round the corner, then he gave it a ding!

aaahahaha just like my dreamcast! I see what you did there...

>insert disc
>click
>turn own
>FSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
>FSHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......
>whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrr....
>...
>whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrr....
>...
>fshhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHhhhh
>Please insert a PlayStation or PlayStation 2 format disc.

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works on my console

>click
>whooosh
>BEEEEEEP
>WHIIIRRRRRRRRRRRR
>GRRRARRGGGGNNNGGGG GRRRRRRRGNNNGG

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEE EEEE E E EEEEEEEEEE

>slim version

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mine doesn't make sound

>*scratches it slightly*
good luck loading shithead.

I envy you anons that are able to type out onomatopoeias

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Started happening to my old 200gb HD from 2010 or so. Playing vidya, whirr *click*, everything frozen. I was about to give up on it when I took it out, shook it up and down, an voila it fucking quit that shit.

>buy hdd
>it's actually a ssd

It's beautiful.

look closely
this is flight simulation

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CRASHING THIS GPU

WITH NO SURVIVORS

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you have 12 months

That softwares EULA is so autistic you can't really buy it for personal use, only educational or military

it's literally "no fun allowed"
just make sure you're not being entertained user

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Dear Sony
PLEASE
GIVE
ME
THE FUCKING ARROW RIGHT NOW. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SNOY, PLEASE YOU HAVE TO DO IT IM BEGGING YOU. REMEMBER ALL THOSE GOOD TIMES WE HAD WHERE I LET YOUR SHITTY DISC READERS RUIN ALL OF MY CD'S? ALL OF YOUR SHITTY EXCULSIVE GAMES WOULD HAVE NEVER SOLD IF IT WASNT FOR ME.
PHIL SPENCER WOULD HAVE GIVEN ME THE ARROW, BECAUSE HE HAS AN IQ OF 152. BE MORE LIKE PHIL, SNOY, AND STOP FUCKING DESTROYING MY FUCKING DISCS

how did you get a "ultimate performance"?
all I have is balanced and high performance

>launch game
>system32/cmd/ window opens up for a split second and closes itself

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ok I had to edit registry to make it show up
fuck does it actually do?
all the google articles are generic and misleading

>chik
>chik
>chik
>slam my fist on the tower
>...
>WWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRR
>NNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>chik
>chik
>chik
>SSSSSSSSSSSKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEE
>game loads
it broke like a month later but fuck i wanted to play some game

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It keeps your HDD powered on. Some disks have additional power saving options like APM which you can disable with smartctl or sometimes the software that comes with higher end ones.

>SNOY
vocaroo.com/i/s0EkDdSP8xuN

sometimes Yea Forums is genuinely funny, lol.

This thing was so fucking loud I was able to tell if a game was loading properly or not by simply listening to it and recognizing the patterns

that was cringe and BASED at the same time

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