General computer talk/advice

Discussion in 'Computer Hardware' started by BlueScreen, Jan 25, 2015.

  1. BombBoy4

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    Yep :)
    He thought it was broken, but it's because the quarters won't go down, making a string/quarter combo useless. Easy fix if you do that. What's amazing is it's an original CRT, which they don't make anymore, so they're are going to keep rising in price. It's perfectly fine though, nothing wrong at all. Perfect sound, display, and controls. The only thing is it's a bit dusty, but a little dust won't hurt anything :D
     
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  2. fufsgfen

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    I did run again to Localization issues with MS. I had to renew my Office, which you might think being simple thing.

    It's not, when your office was bough on country 1, you use your computer in country 2 and have MS account in country 3, had to contact to customer service that had to do thing to get sale go trough to easy and simple shopping experience, all thanks to localization.

    I'm all in for one country called internet and one people called internet people, this localization is always causing issues to me and how I see it, it is same about everywhere, people try to make out alive trough their days and to be more or less good persons at the end of the day.

    As an protest, I refused to speak anything but English to customer support.
     
  3. FS16

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    No, I mean into the slot where the paper goes. Seems like I got lucky tho, it printed without a problem.
     
  4. Samuel1995

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    No.

    Hopefully you tested both connected to an external amp, because if you hooked to headphones to your onboard sound and then to the USB card, you're not comparing them as just DAC. You're doing so as headphone driver, and it's 1000 times more likely that if you heard any difference it was because of that.
     
  5. SixSixSevenSeven

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    An amp makes less difference then a DAC can. Good amp is important (and the cloud 2 USB adapter is not a proper high impedance headphone driver, we are talking £75 gaming headset here). But feed it a signal from a noisy DAC and it's going to amp the noise. The amp can only work with what is input and if what is input is crap, what the amp outputs is crap.

    I'm not saying good amp is useless. But the DAC is more important.
     
  6. FluffyOreoCX

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    So I need help, please :)

    Problem 1
    : The sound on my Toshiba Satellite (laptop, windows 10) doesn't work, and the icon on the task bar has a red circle with an "x" in it. When I hover over it, it says that there's no output** device. My laptop is acting like there's no suck thing as speakers. I've tried to connect my blue tooth headphones but the laptop won't pick it up. Plugging in headphones does not work either (I knew it wasn't but it was worth a shot). I've tried restarting, and updating it to the Anniversary Edition of Windows 10, but it also never finishes updating. It'll just end up undoing changes.
    Problem 2: It doesn't update. I've tried it on automatic, and I've tried it manually but it'll just undo the changes made. I've tried trouble shooting but that damn online troubleshooter is too complicated.
    Problem 3: It doesn't realize there's something plugged into the USB. Like say if I had a computer mouse that uses USB, the mouse on screen won't move when the computer mouse is moved. (Yes I made sure the thing was on).
    Problem 4: (This is the last one, I hope) Certain keys on the keyboard don't work. When they're pressed, they don't type out. They're also letters I tend to use a lot. (EX: Q S D G J < > \).

    Help to fix this would be appreciated! That machine is pretty messed up so I wouldn't be surprised if I had to trash it. Though I'd rather not, I need that baby to last until I can pull hundred dollar bills out of my rear end.
     
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  7. SixSixSevenSeven

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    Speakers are an output device not an input device.

    And it really just sounds like you have no drivers
     
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  8. Michaelflat

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    backup files and reset your machine. sounds like a bit of a disaster!
    yeah you have no audio driver, look up your laptop model name on Toshiba's website (http://www.toshiba.co.uk/support/drivers/laptops/).
    speaking of audio i have an ADVENT Laptop that has no drivers (you can't get them) so i am sticking to "High Definition" audio device.
    It crackles like crazy and is unusable, in linux it is good sound, shame however that there are no Linux drivers for the graphics card (SiS 672). So yeah, i have windows 7 on that laptop, it only runs 3 operating systems correctly (XP, Vista, 7) later ones have glitchy displays and so it doesnt work.
     
  9. FluffyOreoCX

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    If I reset it, I'll loose windows 10 right? Will I be able to get that update back?
    You're telling me, haha.
     
  10. Michaelflat

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    No, it's a windows 10 function, it sort of resets to factory settings, or maybe without the blistered =).
    Or you can press Refresh and it will erase all traditional programs but keep your saved files in your account (Documents Downloads etc.) but re install Windows (sort of)
     
  11. Blijo

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    :)
    Going to double check everything tomorrow with my father to make sure i didn't screw up :)
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    And why is the RGB cable of the cooler so fucking long :/
     
  12. skodakenner

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    Looks really good and alot better than what i did when putting my new psu in where i just dumped the cables in so it would work
     
  13. Blijo

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    hello world
     
  14. fufsgfen

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    Now you have a problem of how to make all that to do something useful :D

    Even when playing BeamNG some threads normally are at rest, but renders with Sweet home 3D or Blender certainly run faster with many cores.

    You should try how many AI cars you can set to flee, things tend to get pretty crazy when you have bit more of them :p
     
  15. Feinstein

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    Recently I've gotten tired of my gpulessness (Hitfilm crashed one too many times while trying to render masks). I will probably be buying a graphics card in the next couple of months, and I was wondering if anyone could give suggestions.
    Budget: $100(ish). I know that's pretty low, but I have other things to upgrade as well.
    Uses: Mainly for video editing (1920p and 15, sometimes 24 fps video) - I don't usually do anything too visual effects intensive, but integrative graphics don't cut it.
    And if this helps, I'm currently running a i5 6500 with 8 gb ram.
     
  16. VeyronEB

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    An RX 460 would be a good fit for that, reasonably powerful and will even be able to run all games and whatever you need at decent settings. You can get the 2GB model for around $70-90 and the 4GB for around $90-$110, either one works and the only difference is VRAM.
     
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  17. Funky7Monkey

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    I've been working on server migration on a classroom network. The teacher is a bit useless, despite having the certifications to do it. He's the reason migration has been so tedious. Some dumb decisions complicated things, and I had to get DHCP, DNS, and AD services working. Finally did it today, and my next step is get a proper client backup set up. I'll be creating an image of a client HDD, and sending it to a separate file server, then cloning the image to the rest of the clients in the classroom. Normally, stuff like this would get me suspended, but someone has to do it, and it would take two years for the county to do it, and the old server doesn't have 2 years of life left, as it is suffering from frequent crashes and security issues.
     
  18. Feinstein

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    Thanks. I just took a quick glance over microcenter's selection and found a good selection of 460's in that range. Do you have any recommendation on, say, overclocked 2gb vs stock 4gb if they were were the same price? Also, is there a significant difference between the brands, or is the chip itself that really matters? Finally, I've noticed that interesting deals can be had from buying open box cards; are those generally a bad idea?
     
  19. Blijo

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    @fufsgfen
    45-62 with everything on max, and yes that is with all the dynamic reflections on max too
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  20. VeyronEB

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    I would probably say to just try and go with 4GB if possible as it may come in useful to have the extra VRAM. Brand wise they are all very similar, only difference between them is cooler design and clock speeds, I personally really like XFX, but pretty much all of them are fine, try and find a review of a specific one before buying it though to be sure.

    Open box cards are totally fine if they have a decent warranty, two years is what you should expect for a new card so if they have the same its definitely worth considering.
     
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