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How and which part of PC decide which display output to use(vga,hdmi,dvi) ? by [email protected]
For now I will assume the graphics card decides which output to use. How it does this is unknown to me. Does anybody have some references/documentation ? I am particularly interested in nvidia's GT 520. I believe this device works as follows: 1. If an HDMI cable is connected it will try to use...
May 6th 19 04:48 PM
by Paul[_28_] Go to last post
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Protocol for combining partitions in a single HD into one big "C:"drive--when you buy a bigger drive--how? by RayLopez99
Problem: Just doubled my SSD hard drive from 500 GB to 1000 GB, but I have a problem. There is just one physical drive, but several logical drives and up to three or four primary drives (the maximum). I want to move the new, approximately 500 GB of unallocated space at the end of my "D" (data)...
May 2nd 19 05:16 PM
by Char Jackson Go to last post
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May 2nd 19 09:31 AM
by Hani Omar Go to last post
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My Intel SSD often gives the same performance as a mechanical HDD.Is this normal? Yes by RayLopez99
Title says it all. The Intel SSD is a European one and expensive, good quality, so it's not the fault of the SSD, and my modern Windows 10 machine is set to AHCI (which turns out to perhaps be not strictly speaking a requirement according to one guy he...
May 1st 19 10:53 PM
by Flasherly[_2_] Go to last post
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Major upgrade by Rene Lamontagne
I am contemplating upgrading my I7 950 system due to age, which I built in 2010. I would be looking at replacing 5 items. CPU Motherboard Memory Video card CPU cooler.
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May 1st 19 07:12 PM
by Ant[_3_] Go to last post
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CS8416 digital receiver chip [DAC] by Flasherly[_2_]
Took apart the DAC I like and looked for the chip nomenclatures. No wonder I kept telling myself the thing was special, either that or my ears were growing aesthetics. Tracked it to all over hifi forums and Ebay in kit form. This one is minor, apart from knowing what the end of a soldering...
April 29th 19 07:28 PM
by RayLopez99 Go to last post
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anybody remember "high-end desktops" in the 1990s? by [email protected]
When I was at uni, the department had some SPARCstations and AlphaStations with 512 MiB of RAM. I got a job with a geophysical company and they were running Red Hat Linux (the really old stuff before they added "Enterprise" to the name and started the version numbers all over). They had brand new...
April 29th 19 01:19 AM
by Flasherly[_2_] Go to last post
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Can I virtually restore a PC? by RayLopez99
Here's my dilemma: I want to recover some photos on my girl's now dead laptop (she spilled coffee in it, typical girl hehe). I have a backup. The laptop was a x63 Windows 10 system with an AMD chip that was 'soldered on', the modern trend where nothing is fixable, and the PC repair guy said it's...
April 28th 19 08:03 PM
by RayLopez99 Go to last post
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Failing HDDs by Charlie Hoffpauir
I have a couple of Seagate Hard Drives that Hard Disk Semtinel says are failing. One is model ST2000DM001 and the other ST3000DM008. I've removed both from my system and recovered the data, but I'm wondering if there's anything that can be done to "save" the drives, perhaps as backups, or is that a...
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April 28th 19 01:00 PM
by Dan Purgert Go to last post
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USB Type-C hubs (Power) by Jim[_38_]
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad A475 and want to buy a Type c usb hub, but i'm a little unsure how the power side of things come in. Of course if i want to run say 3 HDD off the hub i suspect (correct me if i'm wrong) I will need to provide it with more power than the laptops bus can provide on it's...
April 26th 19 06:38 AM
by Paul[_28_] Go to last post
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Danger Will Rogers: UDMA Drive Cheksum S.M.A.R.T. Talking by Flasherly[_2_]
Never heard a 6G/s SATA cable, stuck in between vanes in plugged run-away thermal CPU cooler fan, up and get smart before. But I did lose a mechanical HDD, not altogether so long ago, due to deteriorating sector-seek errors of an unrelated and unknown state of failure. Symptomatic of a grinding...
April 24th 19 11:18 PM
by Flasherly[_2_] Go to last post
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WARNING! SCAM spam list - list of fake messages by Mayayana
"Filip454" wrote | Also, tell me, did you also get any e-mails of this kind? | I've had a few. I think there's also another lesson the It shouldn't be possible for the message to be true. If you have a webcam it shouldn't normally be plugged in. If you have a...
April 24th 19 01:02 PM
by Mayayana Go to last post
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Soft/Freeware CPU Temp Capture Event Processing by Flasherly[_2_]
Old standby, SpeedFan, on this octal. Along with Core Temp (author Libeman). Both in the system tray. SpeedFan, however and for whatever reason I'm sticking an older version, just monitors HDDs (one mechanical and some SSDs);- It may not handle a somewhat newer AMD. But what happened, with my...
April 20th 19 03:37 AM
by Flasherly[_2_] Go to last post
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How to unlock Bios? And a protocol for getting the BIOS screen in aDell Latitude by RayLopez99
I bought an ex-corporate Dell Latitude from 7 years ago and so far so good, but it has a locked BIOS. I wonder if it's worth unlocking? I don't think so, since I checked the settings and found nothing remiss, for example it is set to "AHCI" for the Sata drives, and Turbo for the chip, the memory...
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April 18th 19 05:46 AM
by Flasherly[_2_] Go to last post
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Getting rid of HP services and software on your PC by RayLopez99
In Windows 10 I no longer use HP printers or scanners, have not for years (last time I think I was running Windows 7 or 8 on this machine, so these HP settings may have migrated over from those OSes, since I did not do a clean install of Windows 10), but under the Task Manager, "Background...
April 17th 19 11:51 PM
by RayLopez99 Go to last post
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Make it Stop by Flasherly[_2_]
A connector, in the back of the computer, a little jiggling around things, and do I really deserve all this? The HDD transfer issues, I thought heat related, were not. Uh-oh. Danger Will Rogers: HDD failure. Tracked it down, in Windows' reports, to a "page issue", an incessant slew of worsening...
April 17th 19 09:56 PM
by Flasherly[_2_] Go to last post
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Congratulations! You are King of All Idiots' Day Fixes by Flasherly[_2_]
AMD FX-Series FX-4100 Zambezi FD4100WMW4KGU Socket AM3+ 95W CPU Burnt like hell when I touched the heatwick pipes. That connector TOSLINK problem, I had to reseat the soundboard, after first cutting a tin strip out between the backplane case PCI connection slots. TOSLINK connection was being...
April 16th 19 10:35 AM
by Filip454[_2_] Go to last post
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what hardware is needed for multiple-screen displays by Yes[_2_]
I just saw an ad for an ASUS monitor showing 9 monitors in a 3x3 matrix being used to show a picture. It got me curious. Other than the monitors themselves, what hardware would be needed to do that? For example, would something like that need 9 graphics cards, one for each display? Instead, is...
April 15th 19 10:53 PM
by Flasherly[_2_] Go to last post
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Split DACs by Flasherly[_2_]
Needed a TOSLINK laser splitter, which arrived from Hong Kong. Works good once I filed down some plastic surround the plug adaptor and figured a tip shorter than usual cables. Or bump it, when it falls out of the soundcard socket. It basically then gets the best I hear from both DAC units...
April 13th 19 09:11 AM
by Flasherly[_2_] Go to last post
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power used by just the fan in a power supply? by [email protected]
I heard at a HPC presentation that the fan in the power supply of a 1U server "pizza box" can draw 15-20 W! I looked up the specs of some 40 mm case fans used to cool CPU, DIMMs etc and they were in the range 4 W to 13 W. So I suppose 15 W is plausible. On the other hand, the larger case fans in a...
April 8th 19 09:16 PM
by Paul[_28_] Go to last post
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