@plutomaniac @Fernando
As closing this forum is really sad, I asked NIM on WinCert what he think about Win-Raid content. And I got very positive answer

https://i.ibb.co/19cqV3Y/WinCert.png

If anybody want to keep Win-Raid forum content alive, please see https://www.wincert.net/forum WinCert forum as is open for our content :)

https://www.win-raid.com/t9792f45-Lets-continue-on-WinCert.html#msg153956

I just want to add my thoughts to this.
Firstly, I want to thank Dieter, plutomaniac, westlake, Marvin and all the contributors to this forum (too many to mention all by name).
Your work and leadership has been excellent. It is hugely valued and respected! Thank you!
Secondly, this forum and it's content cannot be allowed to die. it must be allowed to continue and evolve as before perhaps with new members/contributors on another similar platform etc.

A few comments on forums and social media. Social media is not a replacement for a board like win-raid it is too unstructured and opinionated.
There is and will continue to still be a huge need for competent fact and knowledge based forum style platform covering what Win-raid does. Right now there is no alternative that can take over what win-raid does.

For me personally, win-raid is where I go to get latest UBU, uCodes, bios modules and read up on the latest about hot topics (used to be raid...), ME etc. I do not see any other forum/board who can cover this competently. Most other places are shallow and superficial = useless.

I sincerely hope a way forward can be found continuing the great work of win-raid.
Once again, huge thank you!

[quote="plutomaniac"|p153952]Also, some people find it "offensive" to tell them that they need to follow a guide and not expect things on a silver platter.[/quote]This! Its unfortunately happening everywhere, even on my old trusted local sites here in Serbia, let alone Global ones like this one... [weinen]
Sometimes i get irritated (even mad if they insist on it), but I also came to understand that the technology I love came to an crushing Consumers majority; and that only a small number of passionate tech-savvy dinosaurs like us remained around.
So like you guys, I am slowly starting to get less and less involved, and discouraged, even tho I hate it being so. Have seen to many good sites I loved pass into history and legend, but such is life! I recon there will be not much true experts in the close future (cca max 5-10 years), and no one will care; but when they finally do it will be too late.

Same thing happened to almost all fo the technologies that came.
Take a car for example; today most people brag only by repeating marketing induced stuff (horsepower, displacement, lights type, accessories, consumption etc), but they can not change oil for the life of them. Heck I know a few that do not even know how to check and add some, and more so a friend of mine managed to add oil in to the cooler and water in the engine!! [rolling_eyes]

So as sad as it makes me, I fully understand and support your decision! Good luck, and Godspeed!! [engel]

feeling so sad. i truly understand the situation of forums now.
will there be a whole backup of this forum so that we can search something when it shutdown?
where will you post things future? very appreciate for your sharing about intel things. and for Fernando hosting this forum too.

So sad to here this news but I also understand the reasons why.

A big thank you to all the Dieter and all of the Admins for their precious time (and money) spent here, this community will be missed greatly.

I wonder how much of the forums is potentially stored on Wayback Machine?

Very sad news.
For years, the forum has been collecting important information bit by bit, which is in one place and its loss is simply unacceptable.
I believe that it is very important not to lose the accumulated knowledge and to imitate, for everyone who is interested, the efficiency of the forum.

Then you'd better upload all the threads (with pictures and files) on Wayback Machine. These guides are very helpful to us.

that's very sad news :/
but I understand that the people who know all this will eventually move on to other projects .d

even so, this forum contains a lot of useful tutorials
won't it be a shame to throw them away ??


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.,.good luck and thanks for this forum :)

from what i see you use xobor and not so "famous" software ,is it free ? can we install it on another server backup your database and restore it on the new server ?
or does xobor have any utility to transfer the content to another forum software ?

I am very sad but i understand the reasons.

I want to thank some other legends that passed from here :
@Modfreakz @daniel_k @ket @SoniX @Pacman @Lost_N_BIOS and the @lordkag

I know that few of them are not here anymore but but i wish them the best.

Is there anyways to take over the site and keep it running ?

I dwell only in two PC related forums Win-Raid and Guru3d.

Can Win-Raid migrate (merge) to some old forum like Guru3d?

I am disarmed after this news. I am very sorry that an important point of reference is closed and that all the history that has been made in these pages is lost.

Communication via social media is a communication without memory and not very constructive, the forum is the only way to keep the news over time. Do you plan to keep the site's history?

I take this opportunity to thank those who helped me a few years ago in solving an update bug of the cpu microcodes.

Daniele