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

Chkdsk works fine regardless of what Windows OS you use, the only difference is that newer the Windows OS have a marginally optimized (AKA not really changing anything) chkdsk, so it runs a bit faster on newer Windows versions. Chkdsk checks for hard drive errors, which are caused by the hard drive itself and completely unrelated to the OS being used. In terms of how long it'll take, how much space is being used on the drive? More space means longer time to scan. In my situation it took about 2 hours over USB 3 and an i7-4790 (not a 4790k) for a ~700GB drive, so I hope that gives you any indication of the time it'll take. On another note, my laptop keyboard just stopped working, so I opened it up and saw that the connector on the keyboard was broken. I managed to mostly fix it by putting electrical tape on the non-pinned side and clipping it back into place, but now some keys work incorrectly, IE pressing "t" instead types out 6, pressing 1 and 2 both register as 1. Is there anything I can do to bypass this?

So I took apart an old Eee PC from 2010 for the HDD the only good parts were the screen and the HDD, but now I have the tiny LCD screen and wonder if there's any way for me to hook it up to a desktop to use as a regular monitor :v:

[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;49455895]I just rebuilt my computer. Kept the old drives but changes motherboard, GPU, CPU, ram. After reinstalling windows and downloading all the games all over again I'm having all kinds of issues. Vermintide seems sometimes gets locked at 30 FPS seemingly for no reason. Killing Floor 2 won't start at all. Mount and Blade Warband has a green glowing skybox. These are all installed on my secondary drive at the moment. I New specs were MSI Z97 i7-4790K GTX 980 EDIT: BF4 on the secondary drive also wouldn't boot. I backed up my shit and tried reformatting it. I'm going to re install a game and try again. EDIT AGAIN: KF2 still won't boot.[/QUOTE] I guess one of my new parts is fucked. I tried the windows memory diagnostic to test the RAM. I downloaded an Intel utility to test the CPU and it says it passed. I tried to run 3DMark to test my GPU but it crashed every time. I assumed it was GPU so tried swapping it out for my old, working one but still got the same issue. Anyone else know of another way I can test to see if my CPU or RAM is faulty? EDIT: Upgrading from 7 to 10 fixed it. What the fuck?

So my keyboard issue has worsened, it became apparent that the pins on the keyboard were bent and it refuses to work properly. The bigger issue is that the power button is connected to the keyboard, so I can't even turn it on. Would it be cheaper to take to somewhere like Microcenter (which is the only close-by and reliable place I know near me) or would it be better to order a new keyboard entirely for what comes out to be $57 USD? I should also mention that I need it fixed before January 18th since I go back to college the next day, and I don't know how long Microcenter takes to repair broken pins.

Does the Samsung 850 EVO still suffer the slowdown issue which people report left and right? I'm considering replacing the SSD in my desktop and putting that one in my laptop, since its hard drive is god awful slow.

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[QUOTE=huntingrifle;49457073]Chkdsk works fine regardless of what Windows OS you use, the only difference is that newer the Windows OS have a marginally optimized (AKA not really changing anything) chkdsk, so it runs a bit faster on newer Windows versions. Chkdsk checks for hard drive errors, which are caused by the hard drive itself and completely unrelated to the OS being used. In terms of how long it'll take, how much space is being used on the drive? More space means longer time to scan. In my situation it took about 2 hours over USB 3 and an i7-4790 (not a 4790k) for a ~700GB drive, so I hope that gives you any indication of the time it'll take.[/QUOTE] I currently have 835 / 881 (theoretically 1024, I'm guessing the remainder was set up to be used by the Recovery E: drive) GB used up right now, hence why I wanted to get a larger capacity when the time has come. Left it overnight, woke up to my computer having returned to the startup screen. Logged in, checked Crystal Disk, still thinks the drive is cautious. Caused by "C5 - Current Pending Sector Count" which is the only thing showing up as yellow while the rest are blue. I googled how to find chkdsk reports and I went into Event Viewer and found the log. The bottom line was Windows had found no problems, though I apparently have 128kb in bad sectors and I have a handful of "disk read errors" and the disk not having enough space to replace bad clusters. Guess I'm gonna have to plow through some unfinished games and uninstall them. What's the best way to run chkdsk without anything else running? With as little use from the OS as possible. Later on I'll hook it up to the desktop and go from there.

[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;49456215]I need some help, Firefox suddenly sees FP as an untrusted connection (sec_error_cert_signature_algorithm_disabled), and no amount of furious mashing of the "add security exception" button will convince the lazy bastard that this site is alright. It just dumps me back into the "this connection is not trusted and blah blah blah" page. I've tried googling similar problems, to no avail. Does anyone else have this issue, and hopefully a way to fix it? Thanks in advance.[/QUOTE] It's spreading to other websites, deleting the whole thing and reinstalling didn't help. My browser is trying its best to restrict me and itself into uselessness, while claiming it's for the good of both. Like an extremely fucked up interpretation of the Three Laws of Robotics. Someone please help me.

[QUOTE=crazymonkay;49454610]So a few days ago we got a ASUS RT-AC3100 router, and it seems to be limiting our internet speeds to around 5 Mbps down 1 up (both wired and wireless connections). We should be getting [I]15[/I] down and 1 up, and when I plug directly into our modem that's what I get. I've looked through all of the settings for the router and I can't find anything real obvious that would be limiting it that much. The router does have the ability to limit bandwidth, but it says it's turned off.[/QUOTE] Apparently it was my modem had some built in crap that was limiting the router. Turned all that shit off and everything seems to be fixed now.

I'm having a hard time here - No browser video playback is working on this device AT ALL. I've tried Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and even Facebook and nothing is working. Tried disabling Flash, uninstalling Flash, Reinstalling it, running every browser in private mode and whatever safe mode is available and nothing. I just don't understand it, what the HELL is the problem?

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[QUOTE=Cyberuben;49441724]I backed up my dad's old PC to a VHD. His old system had an AMD Phenom II X2 230. Now, I can open his VHD on my own PC (which has an i7 4790k, so totally different architecture) using Virtual Box and run his PC as if it is his old PC. When attempting to run it on his old PC, which now has a new Windows installation, it keeps giving me errors like "A required device isn't connected or not accessible Error: 0xc000000e" On the bottom, it provides me with two options, "Press Enter to try again", or "PRess F8 for boot settings". If I press either of those buttons, I get the following error: "The executable or operatingsystem can't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors. File: \WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe Error: 0xc000000e" Why does the exact same VHD work on one PC and not on another? Both share the same version of VirtualBox, the only significant difference is that one PC is now using an FX-8150 (not working) and the other is using an i7 4790k (working)[/QUOTE] Does the VHD have a 64-bit system? If yes, does your dads PC support virtualization? Since if it doesn't, that kinda explains it. It's the same when you try to install a 64-bit OS on a virtual machine running on a computer without virtualization support.

my 144hz monitor just came today and i decided to use it, however when i actually set it to use 144hz im getting artifacts (black lines flickering across one half of the screen), 60hz fixes this problem though did i get a lemon or is it something else? [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] i tried 100 and 120hz, 100 doesnt have the problem but 120 does so idk [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] i also noticed theres descending lines of white coming down from the top of the screen help

[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;49459351]Does the Samsung 850 EVO still suffer the slowdown issue which people report left and right? I'm considering replacing the SSD in my desktop and putting that one in my laptop, since its hard drive is god awful slow.[/QUOTE] Currently have the 850 EVO, had no such problems whatsoever, I hear usually the recommendation, Crucial, Samsung, are usually good to go, ignore kingston for SSDs

[QUOTE=The Dovahneer;49461927]my 144hz monitor just came today and i decided to use it, however when i actually set it to use 144hz im getting artifacts (black lines flickering across one half of the screen), 60hz fixes this problem though did i get a lemon or is it something else? [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] i tried 100 and 120hz, 100 doesnt have the problem but 120 does so idk [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] i also noticed theres descending lines of white coming down from the top of the screen help[/QUOTE] How are you connecting your computer to the monitor, through the motherboard or the GPU? Previous resolutions I've seen said to connect through the gpu. You could also uninstall all previous GPU drivers you have using something called DDU, then reinstall the newest ones.

[QUOTE=huntingrifle;49462448]How are you connecting your computer to the monitor, through the motherboard or the GPU? Previous resolutions I've seen said to connect through the gpu. You could also uninstall all previous GPU drivers you have using something called DDU, then reinstall the newest ones.[/QUOTE] my current pc doesnt have a dedicated gpu, so im using the ports on the motherboard

I have a laptop that's been freezing a lot. I suspected hard drive issues so I ran chkdsk and the eta is 999:00:00, why is it so long? It fails DST but SMART test doesn't find any problems. It boots too, but freezes a few seconds after logging in but safe mode works fine.

[QUOTE=The Dovahneer;49462716]my current pc doesnt have a dedicated gpu, so im using the ports on the motherboard[/QUOTE] What connector are you using? What motherboard do you have?

[QUOTE=The Dovahneer;49461927]my 144hz monitor just came today and i decided to use it, however when i actually set it to use 144hz im getting artifacts (black lines flickering across one half of the screen), 60hz fixes this problem though did i get a lemon or is it something else? [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] i tried 100 and 120hz, 100 doesnt have the problem but 120 does so idk [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] i also noticed theres descending lines of white coming down from the top of the screen help[/QUOTE] it's best to use a DVI dual link or a display port with them most likely case is the cable is bad and needs to be replaced it's also very important to run it off the GPU, since a CPU won't really handle it too well

[QUOTE=Levelog;49463218]What connector are you using? What motherboard do you have?[/QUOTE] im using displayport, motherboard is something out of a hp prebuild office pc it seems to want to say thats its a compaq 6000 pro but the specs page doesnt match up with what i have in it monitor is an AOC G2460PF if that helps

[QUOTE=Pelf;49463196]I have a laptop that's been freezing a lot. I suspected hard drive issues so I ran chkdsk and the eta is 999:00:00, why is it so long? It fails DST but SMART test doesn't find any problems. It boots too, but freezes a few seconds after logging in but safe mode works fine.[/QUOTE] What're you using to to find out the SMART results? If it's most definitely not a hard drive issue, then look into getting a program called ProcessLasso, it helps out a lot of unresponsiveness. Also try disabling SuperFetch and Windows Search, they both tend to slow down computers horribly by indexing your files for faster searches, but it's more annoying than helpful

Alright so I'm having a really weird mouse issue. My mouse will randomly cut out for a few seconds (the light will die for a split second and inputs will stop being registered for a few seconds). This seems to happen most often when I do quick, jerky movements, almost like things that would induce negative acceleration or other sensor jankery on most mice (but don't seem to on mine). Also, whatever input was active when the mouse cuts out will continue (i.e. if I was holding mouse1 when it cut out, it's treated as if I'm still holding it until the mouse comes back and I press it again). Then things get weird. First of all, this almost [I]exclusively[/I] happens while I'm playing CS Source or other Source games, but also Quake Live and some other FPSs. Second, this is a brand new mouse -- a fresh Zowie EC1a -- but the issue was happening on my [I]old[/I] mouse as well, a Zowie EC2 (these mice have different sensors, btw -- although the EC1a's is basically just an upgraded version of the one in the EC2). Third, the issue is persisting on a fresh install of not only CSS and Windows (following a format of my SSD), but also a new motherboard and processor (and consequently a RAM reseating, etc). So it couldn't, to my knowledge, have anything to do with the USB ports on the PC (and yes I've tried many things to that end, incl. USB3 and USB2 ports on the mobo, the USB ports to the case, and USB ports on a dedicated PCI USB port.. thing). So I'm really at a loss here. I've seen other people with this issue but they all seem to have resolved it through a bunch of methods that didn't work for me (see above, but also changing my power settings in device manager for USB root hub devices or smth). Could it somehow be my RAM or graphics card? Is this a known thing with Zowie mice that I've just not heard about? Power supply? I really need help here because it's driving me absolutely insane. Been happening for probably about a year now but gotten worse the last few months. Windows 7 64bit Intel i5 4690k (old proc was an AMD phenom ii x4 965 be i think?) Mobo is ASRock H97M Anniversary (old one was a Gigabyte GA-770T-USB3 socket am3) Some kinda nVidia GTX 650 Ti 8 gigs of I think Ripjaws ram or whatever that popular one on Newegg is Running Windows on a Kingston SSD with a WD HDD for storage and running some games off of (problem happens on games installed on both drives though) Main monitor is a BenQ XL2420TE 144hz, secondary is a BenQ GW2255

[QUOTE=The Dovahneer;49463681]im using displayport, motherboard is something out of a hp prebuild office pc it seems to want to say thats its a compaq 6000 pro but the specs page doesnt match up with what i have in it monitor is an AOC G2460PF if that helps[/QUOTE] If its an HP Compaq 6000 Pro it probably has a Core 2 Duo right? IIRC from work, those models have Intel GMA 4500's. Going by the GMA 4500 specifications, it supports 1920x1080@100 Hz. Which checks out, since you said 100 works okay, but anything higher doesn't. So you've actually hit the max capabilities of the integrated GPU. You have two options in that case. Either buy a newer dedicated GPU so you can fully support the monitor, or buy a new PC. Luckily, almost any modern GPU will support those higher resolutions, even the budget models.

Pretty sure one of my DVI cables just kicked out Pretty sure 10 years old (not sure DVI cables existed back then but it was bundled with a Dell Dimension 8200 [which doesn't even support it :v:]) I was using it for my second monitor. It worked fine at first but then after turning it off the first time, upon rebooting there was no signal. I took it out of the monitor and plugged it back in, and it worked fine. The next time I turned it off, it did the same thing. So today I turned it on, and as per usual, no picture. Only this time the cable trick didn't work. It [i]is[/i] plugged into my 970 via an HDMI converter but I tried it with my other DVI cable for my main monitor and it worked fine. Before I get another one, anyone know something I don't and can fix this?

[QUOTE=Demache;49465342]If its an HP Compaq 6000 Pro it probably has a Core 2 Duo right? IIRC from work, those models have Intel GMA 4500's. Going by the GMA 4500 specifications, it supports 1920x1080@100 Hz. Which checks out, since you said 100 works okay, but anything higher doesn't. So you've actually hit the max capabilities of the integrated GPU. You have two options in that case. Either buy a newer dedicated GPU so you can fully support the monitor, or buy a new PC. Luckily, almost any modern GPU will support those higher resolutions, even the budget models.[/QUOTE] its strange, the bios says its the 6000 pro but it has an amd sempron 145 (not even the same socket :v:) in it and uses an ati HD 4200 gpu good thing is i have most of the parts sitting here for a new rig, so if it really is something on my pcs end and i didnt just get a bad monitor then thank god, i didnt want to deal with returning something

[QUOTE=The Dovahneer;49465447]its strange, the bios says its the 6000 pro but it has an amd sempron 145 (not even the same socket :v:) in it and uses an ati HD 4200 gpu good thing is i have most of the parts sitting here for a new rig, so if it really is something on my pcs end and i didnt just get a bad monitor then thank god, i didnt want to deal with returning something[/QUOTE] 4200 HD is of similar vintage so I assume its not much better in resolution support. But yeah, odds are, I'm willing to bet its just a PC limitation.

so i bought a torx t8 screwdriver for my 360 controller (which i also need for my One), which is great, but the center of the controllers screw is just a fucking circle so how the fuck do i take this thing out [editline]6th January 2016[/editline] nevermind all the online guides said to look somewhere different,

So I got a new pair of headphones for christmas (AKG y50 if it's relevant), however I'm having a unique issue with not quite the headphones but with the computer itself. The headphones work fine with my phone, but when plugged into my computer - it's as though I have 2 pairs of headphones plugged in simulating speakers, with one pair being the left speaker and the other pair being the right speaker. I appear to have the left headphones. Is there any way I can fix this? I have also tested them with an external DAC, and using a 4pin to 3pin headphone splitter - I get the same issue. Never mind it seems! Dodgy headphones.

Looking for a 1080p monitor with 120Hz refresh rate that has a VESA mounting Any suggestions? Many thanks in advance

[QUOTE=Trumple;49472901]Looking for a 1080p monitor with 120Hz refresh rate that has a VESA mounting Any suggestions? Many thanks in advance[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HZF2JWA/?tag=pcp0f-21[/url]