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Thanks all, phone with a new battery started working OK. New battery is rated 3.7V with same part number as the old one, for like $17, I have measured voltage 3.87V of the newly incoming not yet charged battery (phone says 52% battery). Old 3.8V problematic 7 years old battery had voltage 3.59V...

Hello, please what does it mean when a very old Samsung Galaxy S smartphone with old battery (7 years old Made in China) says it is charging, yet the battery charging level stays at same low percentage value of 8-9% for 5+ hours? Phone started today randomly shutting down (power cycling) from...

Hello, i have mentioned some ways that failed and one that worked here: https://hardforum.com/threads/migrate-veracrypt-system-boot-partition-to-a-different-smaller-drive.2010090/post-1045254513 Now I am in similar situation 500GB HDD Windows 8 to 128GB SSD asking You if you know any...

Hello, after several recent boots of Linux Debian one of the two SSD Samsung QVO drives is not detected correctly. Sometimes help to turn off/on USB dock. This time it not helped - "lsblk" command not shown one of the drives for a few minutes. "sudo journalctl -rg sdb" shown: $ sudo partprobe...

Hello, some person possibly found bad blocks on a SD card using "badblocks -n -v /dev/mmcblk0" command https://help.endian.com/hc/en-us/articles/218146758-Verify-if-the-micro-SD-card-is-corrupt ( -n Use non-destructive read-write mode.) I do not know yet if that non-destructive write means...

Hello, there was Windows 10 on a HDD and in BIOS (Lenovo Flex 2) i have set HDD password which was asked before boot. Now after i have used dd command to restore different operating system to drive, and reboot to check if it worked (it did), i have found that there is HDD password prompt and...

If you have issue with a video card not displaying anything or computer starting and stopping continuously in couple of seconds succession here are ideas and what helped: I may have confused it, but i hope i remember right what i did What i have tried and FAILED: It happened to me that i have...

I needed similar thing, except that the Windows 7 was not encrypted. 1) FAILED: Windows computer manager / Disk manager / right click source disk main partition to shrink it - it somehow not allowed to shrink enough even the disk space used was low. 2) FAILED: Linux dd - booting started, but...

Hello, on my desktop computer (detail) i turn it on sometimes to play for an hour or two game, but in maybe 40% cases (every other day or so) happen that computer freeze during gameplay (seen no freeze during game not running, though it is minimum time computer running without game): - screen...

HP 405 G6 is OK (CPU great AMD Renoir 16 threads 4750GE), except u have to replace memory by 1.2V 2x32GB non-ECC modules and sell small default ones, this computer works with linux (EFI & GPT necessary!), use distro with more recent kernel like 5.12 , 5.13.

Hello, i am having 120GB Windows 7 system partition on a 1TB drive. This partition is encrypted using Veracrypt system encryption. I need to put this 120GB partition on a different smaller (160GB) drive. According to this tutorial, i have booted live system and ran Linux disk cloning for a few...

HP DeskPro 405 G6 DM ( https://support.hp.com/hr-en/document/c06955645 ). In this case 23H62EA with 872E board AM4 socket. Here are images how to disassemble the computer, it may help someone. First, Regarding RAM upgrades, check this thread. Regarding BIOS update: BIOS (F1 key), BIOS main...

Thank you all. There is a progress and i have highlighted questions in green color ------------- BIOS & chipset update, CMOS reset (no need to read if you do not plan to do it on HP computer) You have also suggested to update BIOS and RAM manufacturer also suggested updating chipset and then...

Hello, i was testing computer HP 405 G6 https://support.hp.com/hr-en/document/c06955645 with Crucial Ballistix 2x32GB RAM (PN BL32G32C16S4B.M16FB1) The issue with this Crucial Ballistix is that this PC does not fully support it and downclock it to 2667MHz (reported in BIOS and in OS). Also i had...

A few months later, still out of stock in my country and ASRock 4x4 not even appeared in shops. Neither NUC 11 (Tiger Lake CPU with AV1 decoding support?). I guess i will have to wait some more month/s.