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

[QUOTE=Demache;48091309]I have a CX430 in my server 24/7. Knock on wood. Then again, that PSU is from at least 2 years ago at this point and I'm probably only use 150 W tops, who knows what changes they've made since then.[/QUOTE] Yeah the first gen 430w was the one that was a seasonic, so who knows.

I installed Windows 10 Insider Preview on my sisters computer, and everything works properly except for the start menu. The start menu outright refuses to work, as well as the search button. The task view works fine, although. She had StartIsBack installed previously, could this have caused the issue? I've made a couple registry edits to try and remedy the issue but I have failed to resolve it.

[QUOTE=SteelSliver;48091662]I installed Windows 10 Insider Preview on my sisters computer, and everything works properly except for the start menu. The start menu outright refuses to work, as well as the search button. The task view works fine, although. She had StartIsBack installed previously, could this have caused the issue? I've made a couple registry edits to try and remedy the issue but I have failed to resolve it.[/QUOTE] I think startisback breaks something in windows if its installed during the upgrade. I remember someone distinctly saying to uninstall it before installing 10.

[QUOTE=Demache;48091697]I think startisback breaks something in windows if its installed during the upgrade. I remember someone distinctly saying to uninstall it before installing 10.[/QUOTE] Is it possible that uninstalling it the updating it to the latest build could fix it? (She is on build 10130) If it was distinctly said, I didn't hear about it. Nor did I think it would cause any issues.

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;48090821]you're still not getting it you posted a screenshot from resource monitor where chrome had hella network utilization, it's PID 4988 open chrome's process manager, look for PID 4988[/QUOTE] [url=http://i.imgur.com/hZSWZP2.png]The PID matched to the browser itself in the chrome's process manager. (different PID from before because a different session)[/url]

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;48092218]BenQ RL2455HM suddenly went completely white while playing Terraria. Buttons on the side don't do anything except the power button. Swapping ports does nothing, restarting computer did nothing, updating my GPU drivers did nothing.[/QUOTE] I'd really like it to not be hardware failure.

Alright, my 980 Ti arrived. Big problem, something is bottlenecking it hard or throttling it hard. i7 3770 and MSI 980 Ti Gaming 6GB On 3dmark's Fire Strike i'm getting 9000-10000 score, 14000 on graphics. I looked at the recent review of it, the guy had: i7 5960X and MSI 980 Ti Gaming 6GB. He is getting scores of 17000, with graphics of 19000. Is my i7 3770 really bottlenecking my card? My gpu usage chills around 60-70% during the benchmark. Just found out my CPU usage wont go over 30%, any idea? GPU Temp usually reaches 70c during it, CPU around 50~ During the last combined test, he got 41.24FPS average, and I get 16.35FPS average. Used DDU to completely remove drivers, installed the latest. IN SHORT Gpu usage is fine, but I would like it 90%, especially for the firestrike benchmark. And CPU usage wont go higher than 30%

I've ordered my new computer and as a result I'm backing up my current computer onto an external hard drive. However, using the WD backup tools has created a backup of just the C drive, seemingly excluding the Windows Files. How do I set up the backup for this portable hard drive so that, when the main computer arrives, I can put it onto the new hard drive and boot up from there? This also means I need to have the backup store Windows itself. (For reference, I'm currently using the WD Smartware to backup.)

Is there any plugin or some lightweight software (not too much memory consuming) which allows locking monitor applications? So for example I have a video playing in browser on 3rd monitor and when I press show desktop, it would hide all stuff on 1st and 2nd monitor but keep 3rd monitor video open?

Probably a dumb question: I'm selling off my old computer and realized when assembling it that one of my case fans is a 4-pin connector, but the only remaining slot on my Mobo is 3-pin Is this alright to plug in or will something explode?

It'll just run at full speed all the time

[QUOTE=Levelog;48097088]It'll just run at full speed all the time[/QUOTE] Not sure the guy buying my computer will expect a jet engine in the price, but good to know. I'll inform him of the potential loudness and need to upgrade fans. Dude seems to know his shit, luckily.

[QUOTE=FlandersNed;48093292]I've ordered my new computer and as a result I'm backing up my current computer onto an external hard drive. However, using the WD backup tools has created a backup of just the C drive, seemingly excluding the Windows Files. How do I set up the backup for this portable hard drive so that, when the main computer arrives, I can put it onto the new hard drive and boot up from there? This also means I need to have the backup store Windows itself. (For reference, I'm currently using the WD Smartware to backup.)[/QUOTE] Instead of backing things up, you might want to use an inbuilt Windows program called sysprep, which just deletes all drivers and essentially prepares Windows to be used in a different machine.

Alright, so I need to set up Windows Server 2012 r2 to point ports 2000-2002 to a different IP inside the net, this case 10.0.0.199. However, only internal clients (maybe external?) will be going to the server. I've tried using netsh and `Routing and Remote Access` along with opening the ports in Inbound on the firewall, but all do not achieve the desired result. The web browser acknowledges that the server is valid before timing out. The web browser acknowledges that there's a open port on the destination device and is given a connection reset (intended). [editline]2nd July 2015[/editline] Found my solution. Whatever mix of these managed to get the connection working: netsh portproxying the ports from any IP to destination `Routing and Remote Access` NAT forwarding the ports to the destination IP `Windows Firewall` set to allow connections both inbound and outbound on the ports directed to the destination IP

[QUOTE=SteelSliver;48097649]Instead of backing things up, you might want to use an inbuilt Windows program called sysprep, which just deletes all drivers and essentially prepares Windows to be used in a different machine.[/QUOTE] Interesting. Should I use it just before I transfer over?

[QUOTE=FlandersNed;48101228]Interesting. Should I use it just before I transfer over?[/QUOTE] Yes. Look up a tutorial on how to use it, it's very straight forward.

Any news on recent eGPU options? I keep seeing products being released for this but nothing seems to come out of it. I just want a laptop/ultrabook to play games sometimes :(

Does anyone know if it is possible to hook up the Samsung Galaxy S6 Gear VR to a computer?

[QUOTE=Phrozen99;48102809]Any news on recent eGPU options? I keep seeing products being released for this but nothing seems to come out of it. I just want a laptop/ultrabook to play games sometimes :([/QUOTE] Intel's gimping of thunderbolt by threatening to sue has pretty muck wrecked a potential market. They're gone full Apple retarded with their licensing requirements for Thunderbolt.

[QUOTE=Van-man;48103361]Intel's gimping of thunderbolt by threatening to sue has pretty muck wrecked a potential market. They're gone full Apple retarded with their licensing requirements for Thunderbolt.[/QUOTE] Pls stop reminding me. I'd love an i7 ultrabook and just have a dock+eGPU for when I want functionality/performance.

Hey folks, what's a decent upgrade from a GTX 560ti? Tired of this 1 gb of VRAM. [editline]2nd July 2015[/editline] Also, whats should I upgrade? [img_thumb]http://i.cubeupload.com/WtXaBe.jpg[/img_thumb]

[QUOTE=exhale77;48104970]Hey folks, what's a decent upgrade from a GTX 560ti? Tired of this 1 gb of VRAM. [editline]2nd July 2015[/editline] Also, whats should I upgrade? [img_thumb]http://i.cubeupload.com/WtXaBe.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Your CPU is pretty long in the tooth. Possibly a motherboard + CPU upgrade is in order.

Heya, can someone help me figure this out? Just a while ago I was having an issue where Windows Explorer crashed every time I did anything. If I clicked an icon it crashed, if I let a tooltip pop up it crashed. I did "sfc /scannow" but it found nothing. I rebooted in safe mode and the explorer worked, so I thought "well time to troubleshoot". Except I restarted it and now Explorer works fine. Weird. Now here's a new issue: Whenever I download anything from Chrome, it asks where to download. I select a location and click save. The downloads bar doesn't come up from the bottom, and if I check the location where I downloaded the file it's not there. I can't figure out what's going on. I'm still googling around to try and figure it out but the few fixes I've found so far don't seem to do anything. Anyone got any ideas? I feel like the explorer.exe issue and this issue are somehow related...but I don't know how. I guess I should say what I've done. I restarted chrome and that didn't help. I reinstalled chrome entirely too but the problem is still here. I also just disabled all my extensions but still nothing. [editline]poop[/editline] Well scratch all of that. It was just the one site. Weird. It works with other downloads.

Idk if this is the right place but I'm playing through Dragon Age Origins Awakening and I encounter a CTD every time I fight the Queen of the Blackmarsh. It seems this is a problem because I see a lot of forum posts but there's no real answer. I'm on Windows 8.1 with a i5-3570 and 7870.

My GPU has finally died, it has ben some nice 7 years but the time to upgrade form a GT9600 has arrived. This is my outdated rig: Gigabyte S-series EP43-DS3L LC 6550 GP2 (550W) 4GB of DDR2 RAM What GPU can I get for around 100 euros? I was thinking of getting a GTX750, but I barely know anything about computers and what I currently have might be a bit outdated for new graphic cards.

If you can get a R7 260X, R7 265 or GTX 750 [B]Ti[/B] for the same or a similar price, you should get that. Unless you wanna go a little higher for a R9 270, which is 25-50% faster depending on game (or a R7 370, which is slightly newer and better than the 270, but only marginally so, so only which is cheaper matters there really). Of course, if the GTX 750 (non-Ti) is the cheapest for you, then it's certainly the right choice for the price. They all shouldn't have any problem working with your system, but I imagine nearly all games would be brought down by your CPU or amount of RAM long before your new graphics card.

How come when you scan photos in scanner, they come out enourmous resolution and decent quality even though photo that was scanned was standard 4x6 size? I mean I am currently transfering my physical photo albums into PC, and they are all decent quality on PC.

[QUOTE=arleitiss;48116027]How come when you scan photos in scanner, they come out enourmous resolution and decent quality even though photo that was scanned was standard 4x6 size? I mean I am currently transfering my physical photo albums into PC, and they are all decent quality on PC.[/QUOTE] Because the scanner would be pretty shitty if the quality was bad.

My friend's building a new desktop, and we've run into a bit of confusion with CPUs. According to [url=http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600K+%40+3.40GHz&id=868]this[/url], the AMD FX-8350 performs better than the i7-2600k. However, on Newegg the i7 is $240, and the AMD FX is only $175. The intel processors that are only slightly better than the AMD are also more than $300 on newegg. He wanted to get an intel processor, but after comparing prices the AMD seems too good to pass up. Is there a valid reason for this drastic difference in price, or should he just get the AMD CPU?

Passmark is an awful metric for determining gaming performance, the 2600k is an older gen though, why are you looking to buy one?