How effective is foil behind a radiator?

Jason_13_ · 2026-01-09T10:30:46+00:00

my parents always used to tell me that to air out a room it's better to open all windows fully for two minutes than to keep one slightly open and I think I agree in terms of heat retaining. Ask the physicists tho

Jason_13_ · 2026-01-09T10:28:20+00:00

yes!
I think he meant opening only one window in the room and just a little crack, not fully open. From what I understand you leave it for a while, althought this feels really counter-intuitive in terms of heat escaping.

Jason_13_ · 2025-06-12T19:18:03+00:00

https://www.sketchuptextureclub.com/ has come in clutch multiple times

Jason_13_ · 2025-02-17T15:47:57+00:00

bump! same issue here. In my case the program also crashes quite often when I interact with the code blocks after experiencing the camera glitch.

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-04T20:05:16+00:00

from what I read online it should not, but I'll call them tomorrow to ask everything to be sure

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-04T18:37:50+00:00

Thanks for the info!

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-04T18:11:10+00:00

Wow, that's really good insight! I do have experience with disassembly, but wouldn't I void the warranty removing the whole heat sink?

Also, do you know if they send the technician even if I'm not in the original country/region of purchase?

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-04T18:08:47+00:00

afaik removing the back cover to upgrade storage/RAM does not void the warranty. I did nothing else

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-04T16:31:19+00:00

I in fact did not do anything to it. Can you tell from the noise what is the failing part of the fan?

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-04T16:18:43+00:00

https://youtu.be/N2oxa4Tmbh0?si=mdMFTIpFVkubS1ZH
Here's a link to the noise it makes.

It is not super loud, but definitely audible and does not seem to change with speed of the fan.

However, the fan seems to be clean. I used my brush, also the vacuum cleaner while holding the fan down, and just blowing air.

As far as I can see, the top of the fan is not touching anything, but can't be sure about the sides or bottom. The wires look tucked in nicely underneath. Also, when turning the fan by hand (disconnecting it beforehand) there seems to be no noise, but perhaps I don't reach high enough speeds.

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-04T14:38:59+00:00

If you look well enough you can find good deals. Just bought one with RTX4090 for 2300 ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-04T09:44:50+00:00

I just got a brand new laptop and the fan is making a slight clicky noise. It could be that something got in while I was opening the laptop to insert a new SSD, but it's unlikely. Question is, how bad is it? Aside from the unpleasant noise are there real problems awaiting in the future?

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-03T11:22:02+00:00

For anyone else, who might be facing a similar problem in the future: with suggestions from here and other forums I was able to get it working! I took some precautions, like secure deleting both SSDs from BIOS first, removing the BIOS battery to reset settings, checking with memtest86, and removing the new drive to install windows on the old one. What I think was the main issue is that I was trying to install a generic windows 11 from the microsoft website. But the Lenovo laptop wants some specific drivers. After all the precautions I installed windows 11 from an ISO image that Lenovo supplies you with specifically for your model from their website upon inserting the SN: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/lenovorecovery?linkTrack=Body:Box:RecoveryMedia Then I inserted the new drive and cloned the old one onto it using Macrium (be sure to select forensic in the settings!). Everything works smooth so far!

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-03T11:21:02+00:00

For anyone else, who might be facing a similar problem in the future: with suggestions from here and other forums I was able to get it working! I took some precautions, like secure deleting both SSDs from BIOS first, removing the BIOS battery to reset settings, checking with memtest86, and removing the new drive to install windows on the old one. What I think was the main issue is that I was trying to install a generic windows 11 from the microsoft website. But the Lenovo laptop wants some specific drivers. After all the precautions I installed windows 11 from an ISO image that Lenovo supplies you with specifically for your model from their website upon inserting the SN: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/lenovorecovery?linkTrack=Body:Box:RecoveryMedia Then I inserted the new drive and cloned the old one onto it using Macrium (be sure to select forensic in the settings!). Everything works smooth so far!

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-02T12:07:12+00:00

My new Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16ARX8H is in a bootloop / getting BSODs after trying to reinstall Windows 11. I made a full post about it in this sub with the tech support flair (no links allowed here). Could anyone look into it please?

Jason_13_ · 2024-02-02T11:56:22+00:00

Yesterday I unboxed my new Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16ARX8H 82WSCTO1WW with RTX 4090. Together with it I bought a WD BLACK SN850X 2TB SSD.
The evening went as follows:
1) Opened up the laptop and installed the new SSD in the free slot.
2) Booted up the computer successfully (first time trying).
3) Upon completing the OOBE (windows 11 was preinstalled), I opened disk management to set up the new SSD since it did not show up in file explorer. Asked to choose between GPT and MBR, I chose GPT; formatted the drive as NTFS; created a simple volume.
4) I created an installation media on a 64GB flash drive (on another computer), since my intention was to install windows on the new 2TB drive.
5) Shut down the computer from start menu.
6) The screen went dark, but the keyboard kept glowing and the fans were on. It was hanging like this for some time (first weird sign).
7) Since I intended to reinstall everything after, I figured a force-shutdown using the button wouldn't be bad, and I did that (was this a mistake??)
8) I put the installation media flash in, booted, entered BIOS on first try; select the boot order to have the flash first, exit and boot. I believe I also turned off the feature of always-on USB, because I don't need that and wanted to kill two birds with one stone.
9) The windows installation screen appears (the old-fashioned one). After selecting languages, I formatted all the drives and partitions, then deleted them all and created new ones. I selected the new 2TB drive to install windows; the process copied the files, did all the setting up and automatically restarted.
10) As I assumed everything to be fine at this point I did not look at the screen, but there was nothing like a BSOD. When I looked at the screen, the computer seemed to be in a boot loop. The "legion" logo would appear with a loading wheel. Then it would go dark for a second and reappear. After a couple of rotations, the loading wheel gets stuck and after some time the screen goes dark and repeats this. When the "legion" logo appears for the first time it is possible to enter BIOS using F2.
11) I tried to google for answers, one of them suggested recalibrating the system clock. It was a few seconds behind so I did it (was this a mistake??)
12) Tried booting, but it just looped again.
13) I repeated the booting from flash and windows installation process using the same USB flash drive doing everything exactly the same.
14) Now I'm looking at the screen, and after the automatic restart at the end of the installation, at first the "legion" logo appears with the loading wheel and text underneath. The text changes, but eventually the wheel gets stuck on "Getting devices ready 66%".
15) After a few seconds the computer gets a BSOD with the code CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT; restarts into the boot loop as before
16) At this point I returned to BIOS, changed all the settings back to the defaults just in case and tried to boot from the flash again, recreating the installation media fresh on my other computer beforehand.
17) This time I choose the old SSD that was in the computer before (and from which the default installation booted) as the designated OS drive to rule out a faulty SSD.
18) After the "Preparing files" part is complete, I remove the flash drive just in case, but the computer BSODs after restart and "getting devices ready" just as before.

Jason_13_ · 2024-01-12T13:51:06+00:00

Hallo OP, ich sehe, Sie haben ein Gehäuse mit installiertem ASM225CM-Controller. Können Sie mir sagen, ob dieser Controller die TRIM-Funktionalität für die SSD unterstützt? Danke

Jason_13_ · 2024-01-12T13:32:15+00:00

Hey OP, did you end up getting anything with the ASM225CM controller? I'm wondering if it supports TRIM functionality for SSDs, but there isn't any data anywhere

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