I got a GeForce 8500GT that suddenly malfunctioned. Both its DVI and HDMI ports are dead. And is it possible that it's damaged by malware? I have had a 7600GT and a Radeon 6850 that suddenly malfunctioned as well. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v...

Have been away from video for about 3 years. Was going to watch an old movie I'd ripped to the hd with a program called PlayOn. It sees the title, but no longer will play it. Will play .mp4 just fine. Their tech support tells me to remove all media and add back 1 title at a time to maybe...

OK You guys helped me decide what to do about streaming old movies so how about this annoyance. Having to physically reinsert the card into the slot to get it found is not working out. However there isn't a dust bunny to be found in the computer any longer. Windows XP SP3. 2 empty PCI slots....

D-Sub 15 pin DVI-D HDMI They're all on the MB backplane ports, and I've cycled thru all three within the past couple weeks, sans DVI-D Audio Carrier (particular old plug adaptor happened to have blocked off). Every case they all were unique, in each instance requiring a total monitor setup for...

Put it in last night, replacing the stock, relatively a petite AMD cooler for an eight-core. Pretty substantial, nonetheless, for their base EVO model: consisting of metal backplate, some offset posts for the backplate, and a cross-member to secure the cooler to four posts. Clip the fan on...

Out of curiosity ... -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 �借貸! ��騙! ��交! �打交! �打劫! �自殺!...

This is funny for me. I used to build when I was a lad in the 1980s many a PC from scratch. I even soldered ribbons together for the ATA/IDE interface for floppy drives when they went bad. But I've not touched PC hardware for decades. About 10 years ago, for a song, I bought on eBay a Dell...

saw this at PC Whirled 2 days ago: Both messages should resonate with gamers, who have struggled to find available graphics cards because cryptocurrency speculators have snapped up the available supply. Meanwhile, those same gamers have had to wait while developers rewrote their code to take...

I will update this post later. Right now as I type this I'm restoring an image to a AMD A8-5500 quad core machine where I had upgraded the hard drive.. I don't know how I screwed up disk cloning, but I did (and I've built several PCs from scratch, though not an expert by any means). Here's a...

Hello, I've recently got a new build, here are the specs: Motherboard: Asus strix Z270e Gaming CPU: i7-7700K CPU cooler: be quiet! Dark ROCK 3 RAM: Ballistix sport lt 16GB kit (2x 8GB) Graphic Card: MSI GTX 1080 gaming Z 8G SSD: 2x Samsung 950 EVO 500G M2 + Crucial MX100 256G SATA HDD: WD Green...

Fragile AMD Threadripper cooler bracket ? This CPU comes with some kind of bracket to mount existing coolers. This has me worried a bit. Their previous AMD X2 3800+ plastic design fractured because of metal screws into plastic causing micro fractures which eventually tore itself apart because of...

Maybe OT, but given the thread about future CPUs, is there consumer software now that actually uses the multi-core CPU technology? I mean, all the additional cores sounds nice, but has any consumer s/w caught up with the hardware? TIA, John Howland

I changed my CMOS battery today - on suspicion. It measured 3.1 volts after 9 years. The EverReady 2032 I put in measured 3.3v (it's a 3 volt battery). I'm wondering, does the motherboard keep the battery topped off while the machine is on, even though it's not a rechargable? This seems an...

Anyone know the meaning of the boot time beep code: beep beep pause beep? This occurs somewhere in the boot sequence and the machine stalls. Hul

Don't governments have laws regulating bank safes? :) -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 �借貸! ��騙! ��交! �打交!...

Got around to a decent video encode, something I'd have prior, with certain likelihood, run into issues, at the least with further audio processing I also run. Quadcores then, octals now. Distribution across eight cores can also be seen favorably, a token estimate at 20% processing demands, on...

MyDefrag-v4.3.1 And be sure it's not an earlier version. I've "differences" with this new MB. I'm not sure if it's a drive conflict issue from MB resource loads (provided for Windows by the MB manufacturer on CD). This is a Windows install from a same MB, different model at an earlier...

Hello, I am in the process of trying to design a Dream PC for 2017. AMD Threadripper is something I would want. ASRock x399 motherboards is something I would want for the motherboard overheat protection circuitry. NOCTUA cooler for TR4 socket is probably also something I would want. Asus...

Updated SpeedFan, but then decided to switch back to the older version, and disable CPU temp reporting;. . .the newer version, I find, has a nasty programming protocol for calling home -- nasty inasmuch in how calling home compounds one another, initially, for as well detecting the hardware ports...

Returned to find the monitor displaying "no input". Rebooted and, like an un-sync'd modem, it reestablished itself. DVI connector on it for the past month. Prior, just VGA, which this new MB apparently labels (under) D-Sub/DVI-D, although it has both a normal 15-pin VGA and the later, squarer...