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Recent content by talex490

  1. talex490

    Solved Painful NVME upgrade

    I must have typo'd the first post where it says z490. I have an MSI z590. Sorry about that.
  2. talex490

    Solved Painful NVME upgrade

    Hey Hacker! If you have the same CPU and motherboard that I have, you don't actually need the TPM chip to slot into the motherboard. You can activate everything with the BIOS and firmware. Here's a screenshot of the settings in the BIOS to enable TPM 2.0. If you mirror the settings like I have...
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    Solved Painful NVME upgrade

    Update: 12/01/2021 - The Drama Continues.... Now that my PC is fixed and working fine, I have ordered 2 NVME drives to install. Wanted to splurge a little in the black Friday sales that were going on. Ended up ordering these two drives: WD Blue 1TB Gen 3...
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    Solved Painful NVME upgrade

    I am writing this post from my now repaired computer, detailed above. I tried one more time to flash the BIOS today, and it worked. What I did differently is I flashed it to the same version of the BIOS it was already on, and then flashed it to the most recent build from MSI. After that I was...
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    Solved Painful NVME upgrade

    I am hesitant to accuse the drive of causing this issue, but I don't know how my mobo could get fried from just installing an NVME drive. I have returned the Intel drive back to Amazon, and I am shopping around for a different NVME drive from a more well known brand of disk manufacturers...
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    Solved Painful NVME upgrade

    Thanks for validating my diagnosis. Appreciate you reading through my book.
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    Solved Painful NVME upgrade

    Hello PCHF! I could really use some help on what to do with the situation I find myself in. Here's my rig: OS Windows 10 Pro CPU Intel Core i9-10900K MOBO MSI Z490 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 FE RAM 64g Team T-FORCE Delta RGB 3000MHz Primary Storage WD Black SN750 1TB SSD...