Recent content by Lokite

First of all, what can you use to remove the old glue on the chipset?. Does JB weld conduct heat transfer well?

Hi, Is there any way to re-attached the heatsink on a Marvell chipset on Sata controller card? The thermal glue has dried out causing the heatsink to detached from the chipset. Is it necessary to have a heatsink for the Marvell 88SE9215 chipset? I noticed on my 5 port Sata controller card with...

The reason the latest version of Windows don't play nice is that it will have issues with the SSD drive that is the boot drive. This issue only happen when you are installing the 32bit version. I need the 32bit version to play old games and some software that has not been updated to 64bit...

Hi, I want to make a copy of an earlier version Windows 10 22H2. The copy one does not allow me to install the O/S. Is there special way to make an exact copy? I want to keep a backup of the Windows 10. The latest version of Windows does not play nice with my X370 chipset. I was able to locate...

Reply to Sata controller : was disabled in bios. Win 10 32 bit version 22H2 was downloaded from MS before I tried installation. Version 21H2 was also downloaded from MS. Tried the update 22H2 option from MS Windows 10 download page. Got a message of not able to continue. I know my m/b is...

Your suggestions about Sata did not work for me. However, your suggestion to install the older version of Win 10 21H works. However, Windows will not allow me to upgrade to the latest version 22. So, I guess I'm stuck with using this version. Thanks to everyone for the help, It never occurred to...

Yup, CSM is enabled because otherwise you cannot enable legacy settings connected with MBR partition instead of GPT partition for 64 bit . Sorry if I explained incoherent, what I meant was my regular hard drive has these installation of the 32 bit O/S. This drive was not connected when I tried...

I follow your instructions. Still getting the same error message. I also noticed on my regular hard drive Windows created six partitions. There one partition for the O/S. There was two reserve partition. Two regular partitions with some system files. I think this due to Windows creating two boot...

Hi, trying to build a Win 10 32 bit computer. This computer is going to be use to play old 32 bit games and the odd 32 bit softwares that cannot be installed in my 64 bit O/S computer. My motherboard is a Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K7. I can installed the 32 bit O/S on a regular hard drive but when...

Hi, got a problem with my computer. Latest Win 10 64 bit installed. If my computer is running for more than 4 days without rebooting, Win 10 will hang. It will not open any partition or folders. I just get a message "not responding" . The computer is an ASUS Dark X570S m/b with all the latest...

Hi, just to update. I got the accessory card to work after I received a replacement card from MSI. It was auto-recognized. Both SSD drives and m.2 Sata port card will work. This card also work on my Asus Dark Hero m/b and Asus Crosshair Vll m/b. Thanks for the help.

The Xpander card is installed on the second PCI-E slot as per MSI instructions. This slot runs off the cpu bandwith. No drivers is need. In the manual, MSI assume you will be installing two additional SSD drives, no mention of installing Sata ports card in a M.2 configuration. Vantec also does...

Hi, I have this accessory card that came with my m/b. I'm trying to increase my sata ports by installing two Vantec M.2 5 Sata port card on the MSI Expander card. When I boot into Win 10, none of my hard drives connected to the two M.2 Sata port card is showing up in Windows. Does anyone have...