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

its such a niche case that i can't seem to find anything regarding any similar problems on the internet

[QUOTE=Scratch.;47372431][t]https://dl.pushbulletusercontent.com/oXoBQiqJwgqUfQ12Zd3gtEvBeyx2WiXM/IMG_20150322_174600.jpg[/t] Peel or no Peel Ratings go[/QUOTE] The 'peel from the dragging on a mousepad' is getting worse each day Wide workspaces :l Official Supports is butts and won't give any suggestions

Hi. I spilled beer on my laptop a couple of days ago, like right on the keyboard. I dried it up as quickly as I could, but some keys stopped working after this. I turned it off and took out the battery. Started it today just to see if it was still alive and it was. The computer is an ASUS F550LN. Should I get someone to do a check and repair? I called a local repair shop and he said even if they replaced damaged parts it was a bit of a gamble since it might die in a month, half a year, or a year or so. Basically it will never be fully recovered. Is this pretty much true?

Why does my start menu + charms on Windows 8.1 sometimes stop working and I have to restart explorer.exe to fix it?

[QUOTE=Lexinator;47384163]Why does my start menu + charms on Windows 8.1 sometimes stop working and I have to restart explorer.exe to fix it?[/QUOTE] Open event viewer at some point and look for Errors in the Windows > Application SFC /Scannow is also a nice command to repair windows

Pretty much confirming what i believe to be so, I can't use first gen Corsair AX power supply cables with the second gen AX series non i varients can i? I have white braided cables i'd love to still use

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;47372700]What's a good 13 or 14 inch laptop that has a GPU and a screen that doesn't have uneven backlighting(bottom half of the LCD being bright than the top).[/QUOTE] What about this: [url]http://www.msy.com.au/qld/morningside/notebooks/14670-gigabyte-g3-850-4702s-i7-4710hq-16gb-1tb-133fhd-64bit-win81-4gb-ddr5-gtx850m.html[/url]

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47384870]LTT just did a review of the exact unit. His sample had uneven back lighting and bad build quality.[/QUOTE]Link me.

Whenever I boot my laptop my keyboard is unresponsive for a while, as well as explorer. This is both the keyboard on the laptop itself as any plugged in keyboard. Any clues on what might cause this?

[QUOTE=Scratch.;47384414]Open event viewer at some point and look for Errors in the Windows > Application SFC /Scannow is also a nice command to repair windows[/QUOTE] Scan now didn't find anything what am I looking for in the errors area in terms of name?

[QUOTE=Lexinator;47386074]Scan now didn't find anything what am I looking for in the errors area in terms of name?[/QUOTE] chuck in a general filter I guess [t]https://a.pomf.se/wwgpib.png[/t] Should clear out a lot of junk Could be anything, from explorer to TwinUI

Is it possible to put standard stock Android on any device capable of running android?

Not [b]any[/b] device, but if you have a phone with an unlocked bootloader (or can unlock it yourself) it's definitely possible

is there any way I can get old drivers to work on win8.1? when I go to device manager to install the drivers for a wifi adapter it says it found the correct drivers but it can't use it due to something wrong with the hash.

[QUOTE=Al Bundy;47389139]is there any way I can get old drivers to work on win8.1? when I go to device manager to install the drivers for a wifi adapter it says it found the correct drivers but it can't use it due to something wrong with the hash.[/QUOTE] Disable driver signature enforcement. [url]http://www.howtogeek.com/167723/how-to-disable-driver-signature-verification-on-64-bit-windows-8.1-so-that-you-can-install-unsigned-drivers/[/url]

[QUOTE=Roll_Program;47386576]Is it possible to put standard stock Android on any device capable of running android?[/QUOTE] define stock android though for a samsung note edge touch, stock android isn't "nexus android"

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;47389268]define stock android though for a samsung note edge touch, stock android isn't "nexus android"[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure he means AOSP based ROMs, what most people mean when it comes to "stock Android".

[QUOTE=Demache;47389286]I'm pretty sure he means AOSP based ROMs, what most people mean when it comes to "stock Android".[/QUOTE] well yes but tbf they're not technically "stock" android in terms of anything other than a nexus

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;47389474]well yes but tbf they're not technically "stock" android in terms of anything other than a nexus[/QUOTE] I'd honestly consider Google Play Editions more stock than Nexus. Though it's been a bit since I've seen a Nexus device personally. [editline]24th March 2015[/editline] If my S4 wasn't broken I'd flash the google play ROM on that.

[QUOTE=Levelog;47389507]I'd honestly consider Google Play Editions more stock than Nexus. Though it's been a bit since I've seen a Nexus device personally. [editline]24th March 2015[/editline] If my S4 wasn't broken I'd flash the google play ROM on that.[/QUOTE] GPE has the same software modifications as nexus iirc

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;47389569]GPE has the same software modifications as nexus iirc[/QUOTE] Ah. Been a bit.

[QUOTE=Demache;47389228]Disable driver signature enforcement. [url]http://www.howtogeek.com/167723/how-to-disable-driver-signature-verification-on-64-bit-windows-8.1-so-that-you-can-install-unsigned-drivers/[/url][/QUOTE] Okay now i've encountered a new problem, when I go to restart the screen goes black for 5 minutes then flashes a "Windows has encountered a problem" screen before restarting. Therefore I cannot disable driver signature enforcement.

[QUOTE=Al Bundy;47389598]Okay now i've encountered a new problem, when I go to restart the screen goes black for 5 minutes then flashes a "Windows has encountered a problem" screen before restarting. Therefore I cannot disable driver signature enforcement.[/QUOTE] I guess go get BlueScreenView, look at the dump, and see where it had issues.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47385029][url]https://www.vessel.com/videos/DkWN4qqW1[/url] but first you'll need a vessel account cause the videos here are early access go read this quote[/QUOTE] So far I'm not impressed with Vessel What is with all these fancy pants HTML5 websites that don't allow middle clicking or control clicking to open a new tab of that link? That is so frustrating. Maybe I like the spot I'm at and I see another interesting video? I'd prefer to middle click the video and watch it later in another tab Also I'd like to know the stats of the video (for nerds). The biggest feature it needs for me to even consider subbing would be video history. There's no information on what I have watched. Maybe I saw a cool video and wanted to share it with a friend but I can't remember which one it was. with youtube I can go through my history and find said video. Hell, the best feature of youtube history is if you stop watching a video, you can pick it back up on any device and start off where you left off! (some times it doesn't work..) Youtube doesn't have a great version of this but I'd like to have more search options in a youtube channel. With youtube you just have a basic search, i'd prefer to have more filters. With Vessel you don't have any filter or search options within a channel.

Hey guys, another question; I currently use an Asus gaming laptop to play games, and knowing that it isn't too powerful, I try to stay on lower-end settings (around the settings that Ge-Force recommends). Lately however, I wanted to test the limits of my laptop using Evolve and CoD: Advanced Warfare as tests. Using Nvidia Inspector, I messed with the settings, and somehow I get around 50-70 fps on Advanced Warfare with pretty much maxed settings such as: 8x AA, 8x Supersampling, 16x AF, High qulaty Ambient Occlusion and High Quality Texture Filtering. The game looks great, but I feel like the settings aren't exactly true, because my system shouldn't really be able to run this well. Here are the specs: [code] Summary Operating System Windows 8.1 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 3320M @ 2.60GHz 49 °C Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology RAM 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28) Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. G46VW (SOCKET 0) 51 °C Graphics Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@60Hz) Intel HD Graphics 4000 (ASUStek Computer Inc) 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M (ASUStek Computer Inc) 56 °C Storage 698GB Seagate ST750LM022 HN-M750MBB (SATA) 41 °C Optical Drives No optical disk drives detected Audio Realtek High Definition Audio [/code] Thank you.

those specs are actually pretty good for a laptop honestly, i'm kinda surprised beat it's hot as hell when you run games on it though

Yeah, it does kind of hot after long periods of time, but I make sure to keep it cool and such. AFAIK, all the other settings take effect no matter what game I'm running, although super sampling may be buggy going from Nvidia Inspector to Advanced Warfare. Aside from super sampling, this is to be expected of my laptop? GeForce typically recommends next-gen games to have way lower settings, but I typically always force 16x AF and limit AA to 2x or none. I'm now getting micro-stuttering in Advanced Warfare, but that may just be bad connections I'm having.

[QUOTE=huntingrifle;47390430]Hey guys, another question; I currently use an Asus gaming laptop to play games, and knowing that it isn't too powerful, I try to stay on lower-end settings (around the settings that Ge-Force recommends). Lately however, I wanted to test the limits of my laptop using Evolve and CoD: Advanced Warfare as tests. Using Nvidia Inspector, I messed with the settings, and somehow I get around 50-70 fps on Advanced Warfare with pretty much maxed settings such as: 8x AA, 8x Supersampling, 16x AF, High qulaty Ambient Occlusion and High Quality Texture Filtering. The game looks great, but I feel like the settings aren't exactly true, because my system shouldn't really be able to run this well. Here are the specs: [code] Summary Operating System Windows 8.1 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 3320M @ 2.60GHz 49 °C Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology RAM 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28) Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. G46VW (SOCKET 0) 51 °C Graphics Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@60Hz) Intel HD Graphics 4000 (ASUStek Computer Inc) 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M (ASUStek Computer Inc) 56 °C Storage 698GB Seagate ST750LM022 HN-M750MBB (SATA) 41 °C Optical Drives No optical disk drives detected Audio Realtek High Definition Audio [/code] Thank you.[/QUOTE] I have a similar laptop (same GPU, slightly better CPU), but with a 1920x1080 screen. Running games at 1366x768 is not a challenge for a 660M. I can completely see you getting settings like that working on such a low-res screen.

[QUOTE=Scratch.;47386215]chuck in a general filter I guess [t]https://a.pomf.se/wwgpib.png[/t] Should clear out a lot of junk Could be anything, from explorer to TwinUI[/QUOTE] The only error for explorer.exe I'm seeing is application hang but can't tell if that's due to me restarting it.

Does normal Windows 8 key work for N version?