General computer talk/advice

can be bad in some applications which rely on air flowing through a set path though

 

Okay, okay. Won't say anything.

 

Free stuff I got in the last few days, mostly RM education stuff from my old high school and an older 80's TV. The older crt on the far left doesn't power on at all sadly but the others all work pretty well.

One thing that is confusing me though, one of the monitors is stuck flashing on and off constantly, it does it all the time every 1 second exactly from when you turn it on. It seems to cycle through test sheets when its got nothing plugged into it, when you do plug it in it still blinks once every second but displays the input image. These are the 3 patterns it flashes one, two, three. Almost looks like some sort of test mode.

So yeah if anyone who knows something about crt's could help that would be great.

 

One thing I'll tell you about CRT's is to never mess around inside them, a CRT monitor/ TV has a device called flyback transformer, usually a black looking box with a thick gauge wire (most of the time it's red) that leads to the side of the CRT picture tube, with a rubber cap on it. This flyback transformer produces thousands of volts and trust me, if it doesn't give you one hell of a kick from touching it or the wire, it'll kill you. I never mess with dead or faulty CRT's unless they're actually worth something like a vintage valve (tube) TV, and not to mention the flyback can hold a charge for days after being disconnected from power. Oh and what brand is that old TV? Looks similar to one I had when I was a kid.

 

Yeah I agree totally, I'm way too cautious to even try messing around inside them. As for the TV its a Panasonic TX-1786, assuming its from 1986 but I could be wrong. Looks about that age though judging by the huge rear bulge and boxy look with a chrome strip on the bottom.

 

Oops. I Do that. Not dead yet

also,
I made a video

 

I'm now slightly less excited for Vulkan than I was before. DOOM was demo'ed max settings 1080p as just touching on 200fps in vulkan on a GTX1080. It pulled 176 in OpenGL in the release version (there is no DX11 or DX12 renderer in DOOM to my knowledge). A significant improvement gladly welcomed none the less.

 

This old case led decided to fail spectacularly, a pop some sizzling, a lot of smoke annnd some flames...

 

Flames? Sounds like a short circuit or too much current. Either way not good.

 

Well at least it went in style.
Kinda reminds me of this children's movie:
Amiright?

 

Not sure what the heck happened, all I know is my workshop still stinks like burned electrics... On another topic I finally bought a Msata SSD for my ThinkPad, I just couldn't take the 70mbps read speed anymore.

 

Sounds like the motherboard may have caused it. LEDs last (almost) forever

 

I would measure the voltage at the motherboards power led pin's but I'm lazy...

 

You really should, the whole motherboard could be going bad.

 

It's a old socket 478 Pentium 4 motherboard, not really worth anything. If it where something of proper vintage or modern, I'd be more concerned. But I think it was the led at fault anyways, I had it hooked up in another case and it was fine.

 

Let me tell you a story about my weird computer.
Yesterday, I swapped my VGA cable for an HDMI cable. After that happened, the WiFi card started playing up. I unplugged the HDMI, and plugged the VGA back in, and the internet started working again. So I thought hmm, what happens if I have the HDMI and the VGA cable in at the same time, and the WiFi worked after that. Now my single monitor thinks it is two monitors, with one HDMI input (Main) and one VGA input (secondary). I can now move my mouse right out of the screen, for no use whatsoever. Ah, the fun world of computing.

 

I know it makes no sense, but it works, so I am not touching it at all.

 

today i sold my computer to a friend for a thousand bucks and now im back to my old e6600 because his one stopped working and i made alot of money of of it so i know saving a bit and also i will wait for the polaris gen of graphics cards also im thinking of getting a really nice pc with nearly the same specs as the one ybr has with a x99 series processor

 

Don't get that thing. It's a $1000-CPU with less STP than a 6600K. Take a 6700K instead, the most X99-CPUs have many cores but less STP (if the newest versions aren't THAT much better, that is).