IrPOWERranger

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• Loosing? Learn the English language, people!

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 13 hours

  

  Sorry (not sorry as this is the pedants' thread), but it's kg not KG.
  Kilo and grams are both designated by lowercase abbreviations.
  K is for Kelvin, and G is for Giga.

• Tool porn

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 week

  

  I have a 12v drill and impact driver that I'm no longer using since inheriting some Makita 18v kit.

  They are brilliant bits of kit, perfectly suited to the 'DIY every now and then' crowd. I'm still using the 12v router etc though I'm afraid, so I couldn't sell the batteries.

  Let me know if you're interested.

• PC Tech Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 2 days

  

  Thanks.
  Secure boot was on, RAID wasn't enabled.
  I can't recall legacy/UEFI boot mode, but I've done a fresh reinstall now anyway.

• PC Tech Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Don't I know it.
  It's Fn+X+L for 3 seconds on my Keychron. She apparently tried this and it didn't work. I have since done it successfully so I think she didn't hold the combination long enough. C'est la vie.

• PC Tech Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Perfectly valid question, I've been caught out not doing the simple stuff before!
  It does (the "Repair Windows" option which comes up as ones of the first things to try), but it makes no difference. I've checked the log and all checks completed successfully.

  I have now made it worse by messing around with the bcdboot command.
  So now I'm just going to reinstall via USB and hope I don't lose any files 🤞🏼

• PC Tech Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  I'm not sure of that, but even if I use boot manager to select the correct drive I run into the same issue immediately.
  Likewise, removing all drives except the boot drive changes nothing, I still go straight to "preparing automatic repair" from POST.

• PC Tech Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Via the command prompt in UEFI.

  Drive contents look ok, but going through the drives individually it appears windows is installed on E: (despite saying C: in all the explorer windows prior to this issue?). So now I'm rerunning chkdsk on the correct drive. Will report back.

• PC Tech Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Sorry, forgot to mention I have tried that.

• PC Tech Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Any assistance appreciated.

  My partner [with a masters in software development] has apparently never heard of Fn-lock on a keyboard, so last night was trying to find a way to disable it. She ended up in BIOS, apparently made no changes as there was nothing relevant, exited without saving, and now the PC won't boot. It goes straight from the POST page to saying "Starting automatic repair", then into the blue "Your computer failed to start correctly". I can't boot via "Start up Settings" in UEFI to try safe mode etc.
  I've reset BIOS to defaults with no luck.
  I've run SFC / scan now, which does say it's found and repaired corrupt files, but I run into the same problem on the next boot.
  I've run chkdsk, chkdsk /f, chkdsk /r, and chkdsk /r /scan, none of which return any results.
  I've used a USB recovery drive which fails to achieve anything.
  Unfortunately I have no recovery image or restore point to fall back on.

  It is an older SSD and I initially thought maybe it's just failed coincidentally, but since running chkdsk and it coming back unremarkable I'm not sure that's the problem.

  Running W11. Some hardware changes a couple months ago, happy to elaborate on request but I don't think it's relevant. Despite this I've tried removing everything removable, one at a time. No dice.
  Any ideas?

• Tool porn

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 weeks, 1 day

  

  Someone's had a visit from the Festool Fairy 🧚🏼