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Last night I played for a few hours without issue. Today I can barely play for 20 min and my PC switches off, to which I can't switch on right after. This leads me to believe it could be overheating.

As pretty much idle, does this look okay?

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My PSU makes a slight buzzing sound for a few seconds and stops for a half an hour and goes away. The sound comes from where the plug connects to the PSU. Is the PSU dying. Ever since I cleaned the dust out so I'm a bit worried. Its a cosier tx550m
 
My PSU makes a slight buzzing sound for a few seconds and stops for a half an hour and goes away. The sound comes from where the plug connects to the PSU. Is the PSU dying. Ever since I cleaned the dust out so I'm a bit worried. Its a cosier tx550m

Whew sorry Tsar but I'm not too clued up about these things. I know PSUs can have coil whine but if it didn't used to do it then I wonder if it's maybe a capacitor. But like I said I really don't know and hopefully someone knowledgeable will have a reply.
 
Whew sorry Tsar but I'm not too clued up about these things. I know PSUs can have coil whine but if it didn't used to do it then I wonder if it's maybe a capacitor. But like I said I really don't know and hopefully someone knowledgeable will have a reply.
Thanks soli. :D


Exactly like that. It goes away after a 30 minutes +- Is it dying or nothing to worry about? I don't want it to take my pc out as My dad and I are moving to the uk and I don't want to waste more money.
 
My PSU makes a slight buzzing sound for a few seconds and stops for a half an hour and goes away. The sound comes from where the plug connects to the PSU. Is the PSU dying. Ever since I cleaned the dust out so I'm a bit worried. Its a cosier tx550m

Try replacing the IEC 60320 C13 cable
 
Hi guys,
I've got a problem with an external WD 2TB 2.5" drive.
Symptoms:
When plugged in it slows my pc down alot, it gets assigned drive letter G: but it is not accessible.
It also makes a faint ticking/ scratching sound which from what I understand isn't a definite sign of failure. (although its bad).
Now, the weird part. When trying to access it through Disk management, it doesn't allow disk manager to open, I cant get access to DISKPART, it opens, but then I can't type any commands.
Any third party apps like testdisk or diskwizard just freeze or don't open at all.
When I unplug, everything works fine.
I wouldn't say I'm an expert but I've done troubleshooting on quite a few HDD's :)
I've tried booting into safe mode but same symptoms.

Any idea's on how to get the data off this badboy before it's properly dead? Any ideas on how to fully restore? - long shot :P

Would appreciate feedback
Cheers
 
dd if=/dev/<id of badish drive> of=/path/to/drive_image_file.img bs=64K conv=noerror,sync

then when you get a new drive :

dd if=/path/to/drive_image_file.img of=/dev/<id of new drive> bs=64K
 
[MENTION=6600]PsychoFish[/MENTION], I'm assuming I'll need to save the image of the disk to a hard drive of equal size?

Also, is there any fixes I could try and run on the image before putting it on the new drive?
Thanks for the help.
 
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[MENTION=6600]PsychoFish[/MENTION], I'm assuming I'll need to save the image of the disk to a hard drive of equal size?

Also, is there any fixes I could try and run on the image before putting it on the new drive?
Thanks for the help.

Correct, you'll need a drive of similar or greater size for that to work. Sadly not much you can do to fix. That is also why you add "noerror" as this will tell the DD command to continue after read errors. You can also add "fdatasync" to physically write output file data before finishing. However "sync" already uses synchronized I/O for data and metadata.

"bs=64k" just sets the read and write up to 64K at a time, which makes it go a tad quicker else it defaults to 512bytes. If you know your exact blocksize you can set it to that the default, unless you set it to any other value, would be 4096 or 4K

Honestly, this is the safest way and the cheapest way to get as much data off that drive as possible.
 
Hi [MENTION=6600]PsychoFish[/MENTION] , I'm busy with it now. I would like some help as I've never used DD before. What ever I type in the command just gets printed to the screen and nothing happens

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I've downloaded dd for Windows by John Newbigin. I've pasted the dd.exe into my C: drive and the drive I want to copy is E:

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Hi [MENTION=6600]PsychoFish[/MENTION] , I'm busy with it now. I would like some help as I've never used DD before. What ever I type in the command just gets printed to the screen and nothing happens

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Is there a direct copy command to copy E:/ directly to F:/ ?

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