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

[QUOTE=woolio1;49155541]Bad fan bearing?[/QUOTE] I individually stopped each fan with my finger in game and there was no change to the noise.

my pc is saying my C drive is corrupt, stuff like this is showing up [img]http://i.imgur.com/GNh6AIm.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/Z23Jt1n.png[/img] i can use the files fine though i just cant move it or anything what do I do? [editline]21st November 2015[/editline] [img]http://i.imgur.com/UfvqUKw.png[/img] foobar giving me this

Run check disk with bad sector scanning enabled and hope for the best. If your lucky, it may just be some file system errors causing weird inconsistencies.

So, my GPU hits this temperature after playing Mirror's Edge on High for 7 minutes: [t]http://i.imgur.com/ZDAxcia.jpg[/t] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150501&cm_re=XFX_5770-_-14-150-501-_-Product"]Card is an XFX AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB[/URL]. Overdrive is set to 800MHz on the gpu clock, 1200MHz on the memory clock, and 100% fan speed. 800MHz should be lower than what the card came with I believe? Fans are working fine, everything recently dusted. AMD's software says it was only at 65% load at most. Idles at 73C. I'm going to assume 100C is not supposed to be a temperature you should get with a GPU. Temperatures were perfectly fine two weeks ago. Didn't move the computer and all the fans are working as they should. Any ideas?

when I had a 5870 it was really hot without any overclock at all, so I manually set fan speed to like 75% so that it wouldn't get so hot, but that is ridiculous. it was also loud as fuck. I was astonished at how quiet gpus are these days. At least the cooler on the msi 970

Nothing is blocking airflow, and I haven't done anything that could have dislodged it since I dusted it just under 2 months ago. Temps have been perfect until right now. I'll check to see if everything is all together in the morning, but I don't see why it would change now.

so what's the best version of VLC

This is an odd problem I'm having. My sister has a new laptop, an HP Pavilion X2 (it's around two months old now, I think), but the time on her PC is running slow. Watching a minute go by takes about 80 seconds. More specifically, the clock seems to 'freeze' for half a second every three seconds or so. The timezone is correct, and NTP is turned on and working correctly. I am aware that a bad CMOS battery would be a possibility, however, the laptop is new. When I booted into the BIOS, the time seemed to be running, well, on time. When I then booted into Windows (8.1 but otherwise up to date), time still ran fine. She's said she usually keeps her laptop in standby rather than shutting it down, but the first time she noticed this happen, she restarted it but that didn't fix it at that time. After restarting and checking the time in the BIOS, it seemed to be fixed, but I'm not convinced. Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening? Could it be a bad CMOS battery despite it being a new laptop and seemingly running fine in the BIOS?

Decided to just borrow a 750Ti from someone who doesn't need it anymore. New PC in under a month anyhow, so I'll just keep the super hot 5770 until then.

What is a cheap FCLGA1366 motherboard? Looking to build a cheap media server. EDIT: Nevermind

Dunno where else to ask this; Whenever I try to go to YouTube it shit's itself and gives me a 500 internal server error. But only when I am logged in. Otherwise it's fine. How do I fix this?

OK so my wife and my friend have almost the same computer, besides different motherboard and ram. The 750ti in her computer worked amazing, his computer not so much. He formatted using reset my pc on Win10 so that could be it. Is there a way to track down what causes a game to not perform as well?

[QUOTE=mark6789;49159819]OK so my wife and my friend have almost the same computer, besides different motherboard and ram. The 750ti in her computer worked amazing, his computer not so much. He formatted using reset my pc on Win10 so that could be it. Is there a way to track down what causes a game to not perform as well?[/QUOTE] What kind of performance drop are we talking? Also you say they "almost" have the same computer. What are the differences?

So uh, just upgraded to Win 10 after like 5 months of waiting and aside from updating my drivers, is there anything else I need to do after upgrading OSes?

[QUOTE=Derp123213;49161486]So uh, just upgraded to Win 10 after like 5 months of waiting and aside from updating my drivers, is there anything else I need to do after upgrading OSes?[/QUOTE] Not really. Maybe just the usual, defrag (if on a hard drive :P ), see if anything unusual got onto your computer.

Can anyone recommend some decent dvd burning software which can Burn mp4/avi to dvd?

[QUOTE=Fussy!;49159214]Dunno where else to ask this; Whenever I try to go to YouTube it shit's itself and gives me a 500 internal server error. But only when I am logged in. Otherwise it's fine. How do I fix this?[/QUOTE] Since when has this been happening? Does the error occur only when on a video page or the entire YouTube site? Are you using any deprecated AdBlockers or YouTube plugins for Firefox?

So my laptop all the sudden full screen netflix and youtube in Chrome have started to send my system into a crawl. Non fullscreen is working fine, and firefox for youtube fullscreen works. Pipelight for Fedora 22 seems to be broken at the moment. Any ideas? Pertinent specs: Fedora 22 i7-3687U 8gb RAM

[QUOTE=huntingrifle;49162175]Since when has this been happening? Does the error occur only when on a video page or the entire YouTube site? Are you using any deprecated AdBlockers or YouTube plugins for Firefox?[/QUOTE] Been happening for two days now. It only occurs when searching for videos on youtube and sometimes on the main site. Going to videos through google is fine but I can't enter channels. I use AdBlock and nothing more that I know of.

What did you change in the past two days on your computer? I mean anything like changing your OS, updating Firefox, changing ISP's, getting a different router/access point, or using a VPN.

So I just cleaned my pc for the 2nd time with compressed air and a dry piece of cloth and now it wont boot up just like the first time. I checked all the connections etc and everything seems fine. When i boot it up the fans spin up, motherboard, video card and ssd lights up but right before it should start displaying bios info it powers down and enters a boot loop. The first time I cleaned my pc the same happened and I just gave up and after a day I tried to boot it up and it just worked with no problems. Any idea of what this could be? If it helps it is a watercooled system with an msi x99S gaming 7 motherboard. Thanks in advance. Forgot to add- the post code i get is bF and if i flip the switch to the other bios it stopps shutting down but it shows b7 post and never gets to the bios anyway. EDIT: I fixed the problem by resetting CMOS and reseating the RAM.

[QUOTE=huntingrifle;49163623]What did you change in the past two days on your computer? I mean anything like changing your OS, updating Firefox, changing ISP's, getting a different router/access point, or using a VPN.[/QUOTE] I used a VPN over a week ago and nothing happened then. Other than that; I've changed nothing.

[QUOTE=ghostofme;49160093]What kind of performance drop are we talking? Also you say they "almost" have the same computer. What are the differences?[/QUOTE] Full 1080p at 60fps on hers. On his 1440x900 getting 45-55. Difference is the motherboard and ram are differemt. My wife has nice Gskill and he has generic no name ram.

[QUOTE=Derp123213;49161486]So uh, just upgraded to Win 10 after like 5 months of waiting and aside from updating my drivers, is there anything else I need to do after upgrading OSes?[/QUOTE] DISABLE THIS [t]http://puu.sh/lvorN/ba263aea81.png[/t] It's basically one big memory leak.

i don't even have that switch, am i immune

Eh, i've had that on since i upgraded and haven't noticed anything. I guess i'll turn it off though.

Hey. Work flying me to San Fran on Monday for the week. Thinking of picking up a gaming laptop. I saw Fry's has this [url]http://www.frys.com/product/8602220[/url] Which seems good for the price. It also has this which looks to be a bit worse but for same price? [url]http://www.frys.com/product/8479648[/url] Is there any improvements in the 2nd compared to the first? Would you guys say the first is a good buy?

Since they're the same price, the first one is better. The difference between the i7's is minimal, but the second laptop would only be better if you got it a decently lower price. Everything else is the same, so it comes down to what CPU performs better, which is the i7-5700HQ.

[QUOTE=Derp123213;49161486]So uh, just upgraded to Win 10 after like 5 months of waiting and aside from updating my drivers, is there anything else I need to do after upgrading OSes?[/QUOTE] Check your BIOS. My computer was BSOD'ing a lot and it ended up being because my BIOS had an update specifically for Win10

[QUOTE=huntingrifle;49185772]Since they're the same price, the first one is better. The difference between the i7's is minimal, but the second laptop would only be better if you got it a decently lower price. Everything else is the same, so it comes down to what CPU performs better, which is the i7-5700HQ.[/QUOTE] Great. The first one would be a good gaming machine right?