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

Can anyone help me here? I bought a new computer (Which is custom built) and I can't seem to access the control panel for my Nivdia Graphics card. everytime I click on the Nivdia logo and press the option to go to the control panel a message pops up saying: "you are not currently using a display attached to an nvidia gpu ". I installed and updated the drivers but the problem still persists. Can anyone help me here? My card is a GTX GeForce 970 4gb if you're curious.

[QUOTE=SoftHearted;47898922]Can anyone help me here? I bought a new computer (Which is custom built) and I can't seem to access the control panel for my Nivdia Graphics card. everytime I click on the Nivdia logo and press the option to go to the control panel a message pops up saying: "you are not currently using a display attached to an nvidia gpu ". I installed and updated the drivers but the problem still persists. Can anyone help me here? My card is a GTX GeForce 970 4gb if you're curious.[/QUOTE] Are you sure your display actually is connected to your Nvidia GPU, rather than your integrated GPU?

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;47899074]Are you sure your display actually is connected to your Nvidia GPU, rather than your integrated GPU?[/QUOTE] How do I connect the display to the Nvidia Gpu? It's kinda of a dumb question I know but I know little to nothing about computers.

[QUOTE=SoftHearted;47899263]How do I connect the display to the Nvidia Gpu? It's kinda of a dumb question I know but I know little to nothing about computers.[/QUOTE] The motherboard video out socket should be vertically aligned. You'll have another one below it that should be horizontal. Plug it in the horizontal one. I.e. the back of the actual GPU you installed. [editline]7th June 2015[/editline] I'm thinking of purchasing a laptop, and would like a decent resolution for the purposes of coding, and possibly some media use (Not for games). Was looking at a refurbished thinkpad t520. Apparently the touchpad isn't top notch, and there's no usb3. I don't care about this. Are there any glaring flaws i'm unaware of? This is the deal I'm looking at. [URL]http://microdream.co.uk/lenovo-thinkpad-t520-i5-2520m-2-40ghz-4gb-320gb-dvdrw-15-6-windows-7-professional-64bit.html#.VXSBkZpwZpU[/URL] I've looked at a bunch of other thinkpads, and others, but the pricing is very often dogshit in the uk compared to the US. I.e. the cheapest spec dell xps 13 is 400 dollerydoos more than in the US.

[QUOTE=SoftHearted;47899263]How do I connect the display to the Nvidia Gpu? It's kinda of a dumb question I know but I know little to nothing about computers.[/QUOTE] It'll be to bottom ports highlighted in red. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Yp3PyGy.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=gt118;47899352]The motherboard video out socket should be vertically aligned. You'll have another one below it that should be horizontal. Plug it in the horizontal one. I.e. the back of the actual GPU you installed.[/QUOTE] Thanks pally.

[QUOTE=Satane;47899772]I noticed my monitor - Samsung s27d590 burns in after a while. When it's on all day I can see the taskbar and various other outlines on a gray image. It's no longer there in the morning after it's been turned off all night. Can't find any info if this is normal for these cheap pls panels. [B]Another thing i noticed, certain colors have noise (film grain style). Is that ditheri[/B]ng ?[/QUOTE] I have a similar problem with my aging Asus monitor, it seems to be affected by barometric pressure and air moisture, so I'm suspecting it's capacitors that's starting to crap out.

It could definitely be because this is a ~business~ machine and not a photo scanner, but why are these scans so bad? [t]http://i.imgur.com/GBUkVo4.png[/t] That's a 100% crop from a 1600 DPI scan, sent via wi-fi from my DCP-1617NW. [t]http://i.imgur.com/iAOLj3W.png[/t] Compare with a 100% from my Benq SZW 4300U, standalone flatbed that doesn't support 64-bit windows 8.1 unless I use a roundabout hack and sign my own drivers, and even then it's a PITA to use. It looks much better than the other. Are the settings on the Brother's scanner wrong, is it optimized for text or something? I'm using the included software and default "photo" setting.

[QUOTE=latin_geek;47901165]It could definitely be because this is a ~business~ machine and not a photo scanner, but why are these scans so bad? [t]http://i.imgur.com/GBUkVo4.png[/t] That's a 100% crop from a 1600 DPI scan, sent via wi-fi from my DCP-1617NW. [t]http://i.imgur.com/iAOLj3W.png[/t] Compare with a 100% from my Benq SZW 4300U, standalone flatbed that doesn't support 64-bit windows 8.1 unless I use a roundabout hack and sign my own drivers, and even then it's a PITA to use. It looks much better than the other. Are the settings on the Brother's scanner wrong, is it optimized for text or something? I'm using the included software and default "photo" setting.[/QUOTE] You can't fiddle with "launch" settings of win8.1 to allow unsigned drivers without it throwing a hissyfit? Great, that means my TV tuner and AVR development HW is worth jackshit on win8.1

[QUOTE=Van-man;47901465]You can't fiddle with "launch" settings of win8.1 to allow unsigned drivers without it throwing a hissyfit? Great, that means my TV tuner and AVR development HW is worth jackshit on win8.1[/QUOTE] Pretty sure you can, since the drivers for my SDR are unsigned and work fine in 8.1. You just have to disable driver verification in the boot settings.

[QUOTE=Levelog;47899411]It'll be to bottom ports highlighted in red. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Yp3PyGy.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] My brother an I have almost matching hardware. Every time I move joint and we're setting up my computer, he always plugs my hdmi cable into the onboard

So I'm having a problem with installing Inventor, and I can't really figure out what is happening. When I try to launch the installer I got from Autodesks website nothing happens. No errors or anything. I tried making another account in my computer and it launched. I tried downloading one of those installers that pirates always povide and insert the codes I got from Autodesks website and it launched like the one on the other computer. When I try to install it it seems to start here [t]http://i.imgur.com/HwAtgNv.png[/t] And as soon as it finishes "installing" this happens [t]http://i.imgur.com/gVbTxjj.png[/t] I tried uninstalling the version of MVC++ it tried installing and launch it again, and nothing. Same with removing all the other Autodesk products I had installed. [editline]fun fact[/editline] Also, I can't uninstall Autodesk Application Manager Anyone knows whats up?

trying to change the splash screen for my thinkpad [img]http://i.imgur.com/7qAbrcl.png[/img] and i get this every time I try to extract the bios update with cabextract how do I extract *.IMG? I'm following [url=http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_change_the_BIOS_bootsplash_screen]this[/url] guide

With a brand new hard drive, will it be possible to use Linux for a while and then later on switch to Windows?

What's the best screen recorder for windows? I've tried a few but they're all ancient and don't work very well. Preferably it would be able to export webm or mp4 I want to record screen regions specifically as programs that I want to capture don't play well with automatic window selection. EDIT: ShareX + ffmpeg then "Run CLI after" with "-i %input -c:v libvpx -crf 12 -b:v 8192K %output" [URL="http://webm.host/0e8e1/vid.webm"]Works great![/URL]

I am having a hard time finding a place to buy a new video card for my laptop (got a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M, thinking of a 970M but I'm open to suggestions so long as it's from the 700M, 800M or 900M series), everywhere I look they only sell laptops with them installed already The only one I found is [url]http://www.eurocom.com/[/url] where they sell complete kits but I don't know if they're trustworthy and between shipping and taxes the price jumps from 632 to 943 dollars. That sounds pretty ridiculous.

[QUOTE=Ryo Ohki;47909580]I am having a hard time finding a place to buy a new video card for my laptop (got a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M, thinking of a 970M but I'm open to suggestions so long as it's from the 700M, 800M or 900M series), everywhere I look they only sell laptops with them installed already The only one I found is [url]http://www.eurocom.com/[/url] where they sell complete kits but I don't know if they're trustworthy and between shipping and taxes the price jumps from 632 to 943 dollars. That sounds pretty ridiculous.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_PCI_Express_Module"]Mxm laptop GFX cards?[/URL] With the advent of ultrabooks, laptops using that standard are limited to pretty much only thick [I]portable workstations[/I], and they're also a dying breed.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47909605]Yes but remember to be mindful of bootloaders. You really don't want to overwrite any of them.[/QUOTE] Not that big of a deal if you do, they can always be rewritten.

[QUOTE=Van-man;47909629][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_PCI_Express_Module"]Mxm laptop GFX cards?[/URL] With the advent of ultrabooks, laptops using that standard are limited to pretty much only thick [I]portable workstations[/I], and they're also a dying breed.[/QUOTE] That a fancy way of saying I'm screwed and I should just buy a new PC instead, right?

[QUOTE=Ryo Ohki;47909946]That a fancy way of saying I'm screwed and I should just buy a new PC instead, right?[/QUOTE] Pretty much.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47909605]Yes but remember to be mindful of bootloaders. You really don't want to overwrite any of them.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DrTaxi;47909783]Not that big of a deal if you do, they can always be rewritten.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47909798]They can... but from my experiences when ever I break a boot loader. It's gone for good. I still have nightmares. :c[/QUOTE] Hmm, is it difficult to screw that up? Basically what I want to do is use Linux until I can switch to Windows but I'm afraid of screwing up the hard drive like you're saying. Are there any guides out there that would help me not mess things up?

[QUOTE=kariko;47910832]Hmm, is it difficult to screw that up? Basically what I want to do is use Linux until I can switch to Windows but I'm afraid of screwing up the hard drive like you're saying. Are there any guides out there that would help me not mess things up?[/QUOTE] Let me give you the worst case scenario. You have to just wipe the drive completely and install Windows fresh. There is no way to physically mess up the drive.

[QUOTE=kariko;47910832]Hmm, is it difficult to screw that up? Basically what I want to do is use Linux until I can switch to Windows but I'm afraid of screwing up the hard drive like you're saying. Are there any guides out there that would help me not mess things up?[/QUOTE] Are you planning a dual boot? If not, they're accounting for a situation that isn't even intended. If you don't plan to use Linux ever again after installing Windows, you can just copy your important files to another computer and/or some cloud storage service like GDrive and install over the top of it (this will obliterate any files on the drive though, which is why I say back up your important ones)

[QUOTE=lavacano;47911395]Are you planning a dual boot? If not, they're accounting for a situation that isn't even intended. If you don't plan to use Linux ever again after installing Windows, you can just copy your important files to another computer and/or some cloud storage service like GDrive and install over the top of it (this will obliterate any files on the drive though, which is why I say back up your important ones)[/QUOTE] Yeah no dual booting, just gonna completely wipe Linux and use Windows afterwards. So good! It sounds like I'm good.

Yo, does anyone know if there's a way to get Nvidia's shadowplay to record borderless windowed games? Also, is there a way to make it only pick up your game's audio, maybe with some virtual audio cable fuckery? Sucks that a lot of my footage is garbage because of my friend in skype

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;47912230]Yo, does anyone know if there's a way to get Nvidia's shadowplay to record borderless windowed games? [/QUOTE] set shadowplay to allow desktop capture.

So I've been having a strange issue with this computer pretty much since I got it. It's a semi crappy prebuild from newegg (don't kill me), running Windows 8.1, etc. etc. Specs are here: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883258020[/url] Anyway it seems like every so often, say every two months, a program I use often will crash and become corrupted. Almost every single time this just means the program won't launch if I try to open it again or will crash immediately after being launched, so it needs a reinstall. However, within the last few hours I had Waterfox crash and apparently corrupt in a way that when ran, after x amount of minutes it'd cause an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD. I fixed it by reinstalling Waterfox, but my question is this. Is this normal with Windows 8/8.1, or do I have something potentially faulty?

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;47912230]Also, is there a way to make it only pick up your game's audio, maybe with some virtual audio cable fuckery? Sucks that a lot of my footage is garbage because of my friend in skype[/QUOTE] Probably once it leaves beta [editline]9th June 2015[/editline] Noticed this never seen it [t]http://7proxies.pw/i/2015/06/15-06-09_18-11-21.png[/t] I'm not really familiar with the render so

Guys do you have any recommendations about what software should my friend use to record footage from webcam? Nvm, used free programm called "Kamerah", found on google.

is this a decent chair or can i get better at the same price point [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-RACING-SPORT-GAMING-DESIGNER-PU-LEATHER-SWIVEL-OFFICE-DESK-PC-SEAT-CHAIR-/291302041379?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item43d2f46723[/url]