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What is this metal part that came with the MSI z790 Carbon Wifi?
It's a USB stick.
Free gift with every Mobo, helps you run the setup - the drivers are on it.
Its listed on their webpage with several other potential packins
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My computer doesn't POST with all 8 ram slots filled
Some motherboards require RAM in matching slots, so that might explain
why removing slot 6 disables also slot 5.
From your tests, it seems clear that the 8th RAM is bad and needs to be
replaced. The ...
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HP P160 Sata Power to PCIe Power
According to the
manual,
the power supply is rated as able to run with the
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card with a power consumption
of 120W.
It seems like there is enough power to run ...
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Can ASUS Prime B450M II work without dedicated graphics card or integrated graphics card?
If you don't have integrated graphics then you need at least some kind of dedicated graphics, otherwise you have nothing that can output to a display in the first place.
There are plenty of relatively ...
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How to change a Threadripper CPU in a workstation with a same-family, more cores one. Easy?
After the additional clarification in the comments upgrading the CPU should be reasonably straightforward. But if you don't have any experience with this it is a good idea to have someone with ...
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How to change the size of shared system memory In Windows 10?
According to the
Intel FAQ,
the Intel HD Graphics 4400 can have up to 2048 MB of graphics memory.
Your image shows indeed :
Total Available Graphics Memory: 2624 MB
Dedicated Video Memory: 576 MB
...
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RAM Is dead or Is just a software error?
Your tests are quite conclusive - if the computer boots fine when only
on the new stick, but not at all when it's only on the old stick,
then this stick is dead. The fact that CPU-Z can still see it ...
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What does it mean for a CPU to have native USB ports?
That the CPU has "native" USB ports is the same as the CPU hosting PCIe ports.
In other words there are USB ports connectors on your motherboard that rather than going through one of the ...
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4 sticks of ram wont boot?
The
B550 Pro4
has this table for your CPU (which is from the Matisse family):
However, your RAM is the
"VENGEANCE RGB PRO SL 32 GO (2 x 16 GO) DDR4 DRAM 3 600 MHz C18".
As you can see from ...
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