I bought an SSD from Taobao months ago. It was on sale at that time. I thought it is a good deal. I paid RMB399. Convert it to CAD $75. Compared the price on Amazon.ca, $102.94. I did get a great deal.
I installed it on my desktop yesterday.
Look at what I got.
Samsung 970 EVO Plus Box Front
Samsung 970 EVO Plus Box Back
Samsung 970 EVO Plus inside the box
Quite easy. there is the place on the motherboard.
Memory: 4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB, Dual channel, Support for DDR4 3200(O.C.)/2933/2667/2400/2133 MHz, Support ECC/Non-ECC, XMP.
Onboard Graphics: 1 x DVI-D port, 1X HDMI port.
Expansion Slots: 1 x PCI express x 16 slot, running at x16; 1 x PCI express x 16 slot, running at x4; 1 x PCI express x 1 slot.
Storage Interface: 1 x M.2 connector(Socket 3, M key); 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors; Support for RAID 0, 1, 10.
USB: Chipset supports 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports through internal USB header; 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports(4ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB headers)
CPU supports 4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports on the back panel
The PC I am using right now is more than six years. I checked my blog and found the post of flash the bios in Feb 2013. I did a search in my Gmail. Wow, I found the receipt which I made the order on NCIX. NCIX has closed for years already.
There are three items. All are running on my desktop now.
Kingston Hyper X KHX 1600C9D3K2/8GB (RAM)
Western Digitial Caviar Blue 1TB (HDD)
AMD A8-3870K Black APU Quad Core Processor and MSI A55M-P33 mATX FM! Motherboard (MoBo CPU bundle)
I have an old WZR-HP-G300NH2 router. The one I used before as a client bridge to expend Wifi coverage.
Recently, I tried to flash a new firmware to it through DD-WRT web flash interface. It failed after I started 10 minutes.
Then I tried to restart, 30-30-30 reset. Nothing happened. It always goes to that continuously blinking on Diag LED (RED). No matter how many minutes I wait.
So I thought it is bricked. Then I googled the situation. Finally, I got the answer that it is just Half-Bricked. It means I still have a chance to save it.
Let me recorded what I did. Actually, I did two times all good. The first time I flash the OpenWRT firmware. The second, I use DD-WRT.
TFTP recovery
There are a lot of steps, please read carefully.
All the following working on my Windows 10 Pro.
1) Install a TFTP client.
I just enabled it from Windows 10 Features.
2) Disable all network cards of my Windows. Only enable ethernet card. Disabled the Windows system firewall.
Change IPv4 properties the IP to 192.168.11.2 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0, default gateway 192.168.11.1
3) One Lan cable, one end to the ethernet port of my computer, the other end to the LAN port next to the WAN port of the router.
4) Type route print to get a list of my NICs. Write down the interface number of the LAN card, in my case, it is 7.
5) Now type the following command to get the ARP bindings.
6) Run the following command. (before hitting the enter key, read the step 7)
tftp -i 192.168.11.1 put firmware-name.bin
firmware-name.bin is a fake name. Please see the last portion of the post about the firmware I used.
7) Look at the back panel of the router and hold the power plug and router.
Plug the power, watch the lights of the panel, they are all on, then all dark. The LAN port with cable is on, then off. ( Hit the enter Key now). There are only about 4 seconds for me to run the command. So I prepare the command before the step.
8) It is very fast, the firmware will be transferred successfully in a few seconds.
9) Wait at least 10 minutes for flashing the firmware.
Last weekend, I went to the Fido store at the Brentwood town center. My old cellphone is Jianguo YQ601. I used almost two years.
Now I feel the old one is too slow and its battery can only run 4 to 6 hours. Just one week before, I received the txt message from Fido. It gave me an exclusive promos. Two years plan, free LG Q6 smartphone. Small plan is enough. So I bought this LG Q6 at the store.
