The "Quick Questions That Don't Deserve A Thread"...Thread. v5 - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=NumberEight;48581855]im looking at the min/recommended specs for MGSV, and the processors are Processor: "Intel Core i5-4460 (3.40 GHz) or better" and "Intel Core i7-4790 (3.60GHz) or better". mine is a Intel Core i7-3820 (3.60GHz). obviously thats not as good as the recommended one, but is that better than the i5 one? im completely clueless when it comes to processors[/QUOTE] you'll be fine, pretty much every i5 that's come out in the past 3 years hasn't had much difference in performance and the recommended specs are inflated because Ground Zeroes ran perfectly fine on even midrange computers

[QUOTE=lavacano;48579936]Maybe the filesystem's wacky, reformat it?[/QUOTE] Formatted it twice. [QUOTE=Demache;48581297]Did you check for errors on both the source and destination disks?[/QUOTE] Yes, and again, I used multiple drives and got the same results. This only happens when I'm using the WD.

Sorry if this has been asked before. Is it true that Maxwell does not support async compute? Not having it seems to give AMD a pretty big advantage over Nvidia in regards to directx 12.

[QUOTE=ghost901;48582757]Sorry if this has been asked before. Is it true that Maxwell does not support async compute? Not having it seems to give AMD a pretty big advantage over Nvidia in regards to directx 12.[/QUOTE] Nobody here is going to be able to say for certain. It's not like any of us work at Nvidia. My advice: if you're just a user of technology and not a producer, don't worry about specific technologies. You don't care whether Maxwell supports async compute or not - all you care about is "can it run the games I want it to run, at the framerates and quality I want?". No DX12 games are even out yet. And if half the market doesn't support async compute, nobody's going to code games to require it. Worst-case, you run games in DX11 mode, and since Nvidia's performance is about equal under both (given the same workload - DX11 has no async compute, period), that's no real impact to you. Right now, both sides have problems. Nvidia's apparently not quite ready for DX12 at the hardware level, but AMD is, at least at the high end, capped on VRAM. Both of them will probably have those issues resolved with the next generation.

Some cases just have holes in the bottom of the hard drive trays that'll fit 2.5" drives.

otherwise just grab some $3 mounting tape / velcro from your local grocery or hardware store and just tape it to the hard drive racks it'll be fine

I have a neat little spot on the bottom of my case where there are screw holes for one however, my ssd is just kinda laying in the bottom not secured to anything because I didn't feel like getting the screws to secure it and tbh it really doesn't matter, there's no moving parts

I'm using Google Hangouts as my main SMS app on my phone now. Is there a way to set it up so phone calls are only made through Wi-Fi when connected and made through 'phone value' when not connected to Wi-Fi? Don't want to use up data making calls through the app

For the last few months I've been having a problem where sometimes my resolution will randomly be locked to a 1024x768 one. For some reason my computer will start to read my HDMI cable as a DVI cable and refuse to read it properly until the cable has been repeatedly removed and reinserted, with no determinable pattern or way to tell what's causing or fixing it. Initially I thought it was a driver problem since it only started happening after a Nvidia driver update but then it started happening even after I rolled back so it can't be that. Replacing the cable hasn't made any difference, if anybody could help me it'd be greatly appreciated.

[QUOTE=Badballer;48586932]I'm using Google Hangouts as my main SMS app on my phone now. Is there a way to set it up so phone calls are only made through Wi-Fi when connected and made through 'phone value' when not connected to Wi-Fi? Don't want to use up data making calls through the app[/QUOTE] they've changed how it works with 4.0 the call button in appbar will always use data, tapping contact picture and doing call will use regular dialer

[QUOTE=Wormy;48593679]I decided to try plugging in my old current PSU into my new PC (which is not built complete yet) but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get the PSU to fit in the bottom of the Carbide 200 case, it was impossible to align the screwholes right. Am I doing something horribly wrong?[/QUOTE] Did you try flipping it? :v: I do that everytime.

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;48595769]they've changed how it works with 4.0 the call button in appbar will always use data, tapping contact picture and doing call will use regular dialer[/QUOTE]Oh I see. Fantastic, thank you! Also incredibly basic question which I should know but... if someone calls me using data, do I also use up data? Or is it just on their end?

[QUOTE=Badballer;48597587]Oh I see. Fantastic, thank you! Also incredibly basic question which I should know but... if someone calls me using data, do I also use up data? Or is it just on their end?[/QUOTE] yes data is data, no matter who calls who

What screen capture tool do you guys recommend? I used gyazo ( didn't really like it but used it years ago ) and I used Puush but stopped using it after they pushed (heh) malware trough an update a while back

[QUOTE=Timezbrick;48600561]What screen capture tool do you guys recommend? I used gyazo ( didn't really like it but used it years ago ) and I used Puush but stopped using it after they pushed (heh) malware trough an update a while back[/QUOTE] ShareX

I recently just put in my new motherboard, cpu, and ram. When I booted up after the windows 10 loading screen I got a BSOD saying memory management error. Then it would restart and say page fault. After numerous attempts to fix it my computer eventually ceased to turn on. It would flicker on for a split second then shut off. I'm so frustrated and I had to give up for the night because I have classes. Anyone have some ideas I can try out tomorrow before I cave in and take it to a repair shop?

WebCam can't be recognized by Skype so I went and checked, no "Imaging Device" category was found in "Device Manager". Pressing Fn+WebCam does not light up the WebCam's light. There are also 2 in "Other Devices". One is "AAS" (Question mark) and one "Unknown Device" (Exclamation mark). Help?

Hi guys, I don't know if this is the right place for this types of questions but I'm having problems with my PC beyond my comprehension. And believe me I've tried everything. So, I started with the following build: Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 CPU: AMD Phenom II (can't remember the details, they are out of my pc) RAM: 4GB (x2 Corsair) GPU: ATI Radeon 5700 HD PCIe HDD: Samsung 1TB (can't remember here) PSU: 630W OS: Windows 8.1 All the components listed above are about 5 years old. (bought in 2011) Anyway - my ordeal started the 1st of June when I had the first blue screen. I don't remember exactly what the blue screen message was but it was something related to memory corruption. After that, the blue screens prevailed for a long time, with different, memory related error messages all the times. PC would sometimes freeze mid blue screen, or even freeze during the windows RAM diagnostic utility. Safe mode was the same, and it sometimes didn't even boot. For example, I would reset the PC after a blue screen, it would turn on, I'd hear the main fans starting but none of the other components were starting. This situation was only fixable when I'd shut down the PC and would turn it back on. However it was just a matter of time till the next blue screen. [B]Things I tried to diagnose the issue:[/B] - Ran the windows memory diagnostic tool - detected no RAM errors - problems persisted. - Reinstalled Windows 8.1 on an old IDE 80GB HDD. It worked fine - even played some CS:GO on it and then after a couple of days or so I started having blue screens again (didn't format this disk). - Moved back to the old Samsung Sata disk. Tried Windows 7 to see if it was some issue with drivers (there are no windows 8.1 drivers for my ASUS motherboard) - Same problem after that. After discussing the issue with a friend of mine, concluding it could not be (just) a HDD problem, and given the booting issues after the blue screens we decided the problem would be either in the Motherboard or CPU. So we either thought about bringing the components to the store to diagnose them with proper tools or just buy a new set. We took the second path and I spent €200 on the followingwas on a budget): CPU: Intel Core I3 4170 3.7Ghz 3MB BOX MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte B85M-D3H Intel B85 SK1150 (much more economic in terms of energy than my previous one) Then I did the following: 1 - Formated my hard drive and installed Windows 8.1 again - Legit copy if you're wondering. 2 - Installed all the up to date drivers 3 - Even installed the integrated Graphics Drivers for the Intel processor 4 - Updated the BIOS 5 - Started installing all my stuff again. I installed CS GO and Borderlands 1 via Steam and after a while playing CS:GO I would start noticing my game would freeze occasionally for about 1 to 2 minutes and then would go back to normal. No blue screens, no nothing. I found it very strange because [B]I would also hear a clicking sound coming from my HDD[/B], and that clicking sound would also be followed by small breaks in performance or even freezes. Played Borderlands 1 to try to see if it was a game related issue or hardware related and I had a huge freeze during a boss fight. However, since today there haven't been any blue screens. I commented this with my friend. He said the clicking noise was because a HDD is mechanical, and since the new motherboard is way more silent I would start to feel it more often. However, I still didn't feel it was normal. He also argued with me because I used the windows memory diagnostic tool instead of the real memtest - and because of that I got really afraid I spent so much money for nothing since the possibility of faulty RAM was still on the table. So, I got memtest into a usb drive and booted it from the usb: 1) Tested both RAMs with 10 passes each (approximately 6 hours), running all tests - No errors. 2) Tested 1 RAM stick with same parameters - nothing 3) Same for the other Stick - Nothing RAM issues were excluded at this point. After that I brought my PC to my friend's house after being shut down for some days. We turned it on and did some stress tests on the GPU. I don't remember which tests exactly but they were the top ones everyone uses - One of them even had huge Eye animation. It froze a bit here and there, but nothing like before. We concluded it wasn't a GPU problem so we moved on to testing the PSU voltage sensors and everything looked pretty normal. We also left out the possibility of being using the integrated GPU by mistake. So me and my friend left with the conclusion it could be the PSU but none of us had a spare one we could try on my machine. So, I went on vacation for 2 weeks - PC was left home - shut down. I came back and tried the possibility of it being driver related issues again so I installed Windows 10 from scratch. So far so good. I made sure every driver was installed correctly. I played CS:GO, Company of Heroes 2, Dota2, Far Cry 3 and no freezes whatsoever. Until one day I was playing CS GO again and my monitor shuts down, sound completely loops, and the monitor just starts shutting down and turning on again in a loop and when it turned on it displayed graphical glitches - artifacts. Big square chunks displaying weird pinks and blacks and all that. I reseted the PC - thinking it could have been a blue screen but no crashdump files could be found. I even used "Who Crashed" - Started checking temperatures - everything was normal 30ºC on idle - 40 to 60 when playing. Later on I'm on the internet on my PC listening to music, I'm opening tabs again and it happens again. The only weird thing was that I could still listen to whatever I was listening to on Youtube and I could still hear people sending me messages on facebook, so I concluded this was a GPU problem, so I took it out and started using only the integrated intel GPU. No problems whatsoever - CS GO a little slow, but that was because the GPU didn't meet the minimum requirements of the game. But everything in top shape again. So, my conclusion after that was - It was the GPU all along. Until the clicking sound started again. And I would notice that every click from the HDD was consistent with a freeze on CS GO, or my screen getting gray squared all over whenever I was watching a movie (also consistent with the clicking). I googled HDD clicking for a while and found out that the clicking means the HDD is dying a slow death. Needless to say I think It might have died today because this morning I was clicking my desktop items and nothing happened - When I restarted the PC it said that Windows couldn't launch - diagnose wouldn't work so I tried reseting Windows 10. It clicked at 66% and got stuck there. Then it popped up a message saying it wasn't able to reset or fix any problems. I clicked reset my computer and astonishingly there's a boot message saying that there's no drive on with an operating system on my computer. So my HDD died today. So I have no clue what my PC has now: It makes me wonder if my previous motherboard+CPU were working fine all along or if it's actually a PSU problem that's slowly destroying all my components, or, by the most rare coincidence, everything decided to break down at the same time. I have no clue, my PC seems to be possessed by an evil spirit. [editline]3rd September 2015[/editline] Also I would try and bring it to a professional, but I'm very distrustful of them here. Most people who fix computers are guys with no education that just search for stuff on google. So my policy here is: If I'm spending money on my PC and I'm spending €50 for someone to tell me "you need a new X" or "you need a new PC" I'd rather squeeze those €50 into a new component's budget. Needless to say, the store where I buy my components is pretty cheap they do really thorough diagnostics on components there too, but they cost money - 25€ for motherboard and CPU diagnostic. But like I said, I'd rather spend my money on new stuff rather than diagnosing outdated hardware.

[QUOTE=Wormy;48606913]I just got my MSI GTX 750 Ti in the mail today and I have inserted it into the motherboard, but there are no power connectors on the GPU. Is this GPU supposed to be powered by the motherboard? The instructions manual that came with the GPU doesn't mention this at all.[/QUOTE] The 750 Ti can be run without supplemental cables from your PSU. It's designed to be a highly power-efficient card. Just plug it in, screw it into place, hook it up to your monitor and you're good to go.

[QUOTE=gooldude;48604469]I recently just put in my new motherboard, cpu, and ram. When I booted up after the windows 10 loading screen I got a BSOD saying memory management error. Then it would restart and say page fault. After numerous attempts to fix it my computer eventually ceased to turn on. It would flicker on for a split second then shut off. I'm so frustrated and I had to give up for the night because I have classes. Anyone have some ideas I can try out tomorrow before I cave in and take it to a repair shop?[/QUOTE] So I got my comp to turn on again but I still get the same BSODs. My ram is detected by my bios so it shouldn't be a hardware issue? Help.

I can't get Wake on Lan to work properly with my MSI Z97 GAMING 7 Motherboard. I have enabled a lot of things in the "Advanced" tab of the device properties (Killer e2200): Shutdown Wake Up = Enabled Wake on magic packet = Enabled Wake on pattern match = Enabled "Power Management" tab (all of these are enabled): Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power Allow this device to wake the computer Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer In the BIOS I also enabled "Allow to wake from PCI-E", but nothing seems to help...

I disabled wake timers, but it seems that it turns itself back on. I had it switch back on twice within a month

so for the longest time i've had a problem with audio on my pc i've always had a work around but decided i want to know why it happens the sound in the rights side of my headphones or earbuds is always louder and more clear than the left one this problem is not me, when i switch the right and left it's the same this problem is not my headphones/earbuds, i have tried many different ones and always had the same issue, i've also tried them on other devices and never had the issue so without a doubt it's a computer problem i've had this problem in Windows and Linux i've tried re-installing drivers, installing older versions, etc. why does this happen

[QUOTE=JerryK;48610198]so for the longest time i've had a problem with audio on my pc i've always had a work around but decided i want to know why it happens the sound in the rights side of my headphones or earbuds is always louder and more clear than the left one this problem is not me, when i switch the right and left it's the same this problem is not my headphones/earbuds, i have tried many different ones and always had the same issue, i've also tried them on other devices and never had the issue so without a doubt it's a computer problem i've had this problem in Windows and Linux i've tried re-installing drivers, installing older versions, etc. why does this happen[/QUOTE] Hardware problem then. Probably no fixing. Are you using the front ports or the back ones?

[QUOTE=Levelog;48610294]Hardware problem then. Probably no fixing. Are you using the front ports or the back ones?[/QUOTE] happens on both

Sounds like it's time to buy a sound card [url=http://www.newegg.com/Sound-Cards/SubCategory/ID-57?Tpk=sound%20card]I don't know what brands are good and what aren't so here's a Newegg search to make my post not entirely useless[/url]

So today I started up my google chrome and the instant I open it, it crashes. i tried googling my issue but doesn't work. I've restarted my computer that doesn't work. Tried uninstalling it. even the uninstall window crashes, but it did remove chrome. Now im using Chromo canary which seems to work but i'd rather have normal chrome.

I ran out of space on my big hard drive, could someone recommend me one with at least 1tb? It's holding video games for the most part.

[QUOTE=lavacano;48612454]Sounds like it's time to buy a sound card [url=http://www.newegg.com/Sound-Cards/SubCategory/ID-57?Tpk=sound%20card]I don't know what brands are good and what aren't so here's a Newegg search to make my post not entirely useless[/url][/QUOTE] here's where shit gets even crazier my brother has the same problem, but he only recently noticed it because he got a new keyboard that doesn't have a headphone jack, previously he was using a headphone jack on his keyboard for his headphones so he got bought the Xonar DG and the problem persisted our builds are completely different, mobo and everything

Has anyone ever had this experience where you get MEMORY_MANAGEMENT BSODs, run memtest86, have no errors, then test it again 12 hours later, have about 100 errors in 2~3 passes in the same address, then reseat the RAM, and in a single pass get 600 errors and in different addresses? I seriously doubt I fucked up the slot and I doubt the problem I had before was due to it, the module is 5 years old and the motherboard is about 8 months old, everything worked perfectly until September 2nd.