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Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 23rd 21, 05:52 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 1
Views: 630
Posted By RayLopez99
Google WebView glitch crashing apps today

Story below.

I had this happen on my phone, at first I thought it was the antivirus app I had installed. But I followed the steps below and have stabilized the situation. Imagine somebody who's...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's October 9th 20, 02:36 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 12
Views: 1,190
Posted By RayLopez99
Why buying laptops is a bad deal long term (dead battery = unableto boot up)

On Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 5:47:15 PM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
RayLopez99 wrote:
Against Paul's reservations a few years ago I bought a cheap i5 laptop (Dell Latitude) used on eBay and it's...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's October 8th 20, 08:14 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 12
Views: 1,190
Posted By RayLopez99
Why buying laptops is a bad deal long term (dead battery = unable toboot up)

Against Paul's reservations a few years ago I bought a cheap i5 laptop (Dell Latitude) used on eBay and it's worked OK, except it powers off (sleep) every so often, randomly.

I bought a new battery...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's October 6th 20, 05:24 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 3
Views: 801
Posted By RayLopez99
USB bad formatting error makes it unreadable...forever

https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/fix-usb-drive-not-formatted-error/

I've read the above and similar articles and it does not work to fix my USB (which I pulled out while it was writing data and/or...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's October 3rd 20, 07:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 687
Posted By RayLopez99
Macrium Reflect image restored to dissimilar x64 hardware doeswhat? Paging Paul, Flasherly, Mr. Chang

On Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 12:00:31 AM UTC-4, Bob F wrote:
On 10/2/2020 8:49 AM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 10/2/20 10:20 AM, RayLopez99 wrote:
The scenario: I have a x64 bit...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's October 2nd 20, 03:20 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 687
Posted By RayLopez99
Macrium Reflect image restored to dissimilar x64 hardware does what?Paging Paul, Flasherly, Mr. Chang

The scenario: I have a x64 bit Windows 10 machine that's a laptop with decent but 5+ year old hardware, e.g., an SSD but an Intel i5 chip with 4 GB RAM.

I wish copy the Macrium Reflect image disc...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 27th 19, 08:38 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 1,110
Posted By RayLopez99
Windows 10 version 1903, May 2019 Update is interesting...but hasa bizarre 'spy' feature in File Explorer

On Saturday, May 25, 2019 at 7:33:13 AM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
RayLopez99 wrote:
In the Version 1903 update of Windows 10 rolling out in May 2019 (32 bit, just got it, haven't gotten the 64 bit...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 27th 19, 03:31 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 1,110
Posted By RayLopez99
Windows 10 version 1903, May 2019 Update is interesting...but hasa bizarre 'spy' feature in File Explorer

On Friday, May 24, 2019 at 11:25:02 PM UTC-4, Larc wrote:
On Fri, 24 May 2019 19:40:03 -0700 (PDT), RayLopez99 wrote:

| In the Version 1903 update of Windows 10 rolling...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 25th 19, 04:04 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 2
Views: 613
Posted By RayLopez99
Mean ol' Logitech Marble Trackman

On Friday, May 24, 2019 at 12:58:23 PM UTC-4, Flasherly wrote:


Other, that is, than to qualifiedly temper this Trackball as the only
decent one made in the world that I care to use from a...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 25th 19, 03:40 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 1,110
Posted By RayLopez99
Windows 10 version 1903, May 2019 Update is interesting...but has abizarre 'spy' feature in File Explorer

In the Version 1903 update of Windows 10 rolling out in May 2019 (32 bit, just got it, haven't gotten the 64 bit yet) I don't like the new "File Explorer". For some reason--and I don't know...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 15th 19, 01:05 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 12
Views: 2,612
Posted By RayLopez99
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019"

On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 7:16:17 PM UTC-4, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Rene

Why is it, we always learn how evil hydrogen is, the hard way :-/

Â*Â* Paul

I Dunno! lots of...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 4th 19, 01:41 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 12
Views: 2,612
Posted By RayLopez99
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019"

On Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 6:18:47 PM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote:
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/
...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 2nd 19, 09:36 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 459
Posted By RayLopez99
Protocol for combining partitions in a single HD into one big

On Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 4:01:09 AM UTC-4, Paul wrote:

I think a steam roller with 1000HP motor will do the job.

Oh, you already did that.

Carry on.


Yeah, right you are Paul. I...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 2nd 19, 08:16 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 459
Posted By RayLopez99
Protocol for combining partitions in a single HD into one big

On Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 2:27:09 AM UTC-4, RayLopez99 wrote:

Well I did it, and it worked. That was the simplest solution, simply progressively merge adjacent 'volumes' into one. I did not...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 2nd 19, 07:27 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 459
Posted By RayLopez99
Protocol for combining partitions in a single HD into one big "C:"drive--when you buy a bigger drive--how?

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...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 1st 19, 08:55 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 9
Views: 485
Posted By RayLopez99
My Intel SSD often gives the same performance as a mechanicalHDD. Is this normal? Yes

On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 3:04:24 PM UTC-4, Flasherly wrote:

Looked at a "pro-series" 512G SSD today, a $50 unit, but may after all
wait for a 1T SDD if prices keep dropping.



...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 1st 19, 07:16 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 9
Views: 485
Posted By RayLopez99
My Intel SSD often gives the same performance as a mechanicalHDD. Is this normal? Yes

On Monday, April 29, 2019 at 4:58:40 PM UTC-4, Flasherly wrote:

Consider it this way -- would you be surprised if you can find a
brand new motherboard model, with a 1.44 floppy drive port,...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 29th 19, 07:28 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 417
Posted By RayLopez99
CS8416 digital receiver chip [DAC]

On Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 5:20:04 PM UTC-4, Paul wrote:


I somehow doubt in 2019, you have to design something like
that from scratch.

...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 29th 19, 07:19 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 9
Views: 485
Posted By RayLopez99
My Intel SSD often gives the same performance as a mechanicalHDD. Is this normal? Yes

On Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 5:53:24 PM UTC-4, Paul wrote:


https://www.anandtech.com/show/13759/comparing-adata-sx8200-pro-vs-hp-ex950/2

The market has a number of options, with prices to...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 28th 19, 08:49 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 9
Views: 485
Posted By RayLopez99
My Intel SSD often gives the same performance as a mechanical HDD.Is this normal? Yes

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...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 28th 19, 08:24 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 7
Views: 471
Posted By RayLopez99
anybody remember "high-end desktops" in the 1990s?

On Friday, April 19, 2019 at 9:24:06 AM UTC-4, Flasherly wrote:


All I remember is non-stop upgrades from 4.77Mhz 8088's and onwards,
which was what I first started to build computers,...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 28th 19, 08:19 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 417
Posted By RayLopez99
CS8416 digital receiver chip [DAC]

On Monday, April 22, 2019 at 5:18:06 PM UTC-4, Flasherly wrote:
Took apart the DAC I like and looked for the chip nomenclatures.

No wonder I kept telling myself the thing was special, either...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 28th 19, 08:03 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 9
Views: 461
Posted By RayLopez99
Can I virtually restore a PC?

On Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 4:08:08 AM UTC-4, tumppiw wrote:

No you don't need the MacriumReflect Pro, the free version can do that..



Thank you tumppiw, and to Paul and Flasherly.

RL
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 18th 19, 12:37 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 3
Views: 575
Posted By RayLopez99
How do you recycle solar panels?

On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 11:49:52 AM UTC-4, Paul wrote:


If they can grind bottles up and mix the glass with pavement,
the solar panel materials can be used up that way.

The...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 18th 19, 12:12 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 9
Views: 461
Posted By RayLopez99
Can I virtually restore a PC?

On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 5:16:55 AM UTC-4, tumppiw wrote:
Paul kirjoitti 16.4.2019 klo 8.59:
Paul wrote:
RayLopez99 wrote:
Here's my dilemma:Â* I want to recover some photos on...
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