• CIPWTTKT&GC V43 - WHERE IS MY THINKPAD?
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[QUOTE=pentium;52372477]I'm in Seattle right now raiding my favourite recycling center for goodies. RE-PC sold me some new wireless cards and a firewire hub. Then I saw this mound of fucc. Fucking mechanical keyboard fanatics. [Incoherent Nattering] [url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BVdNtxXAiik/?hl=en][img]https://instagram.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/19228298_1579272598811046_391135838353752064_n.jpg[/img][/url] It's like going on the Safari and finding a group of rhinos with their horns sawn off. They took all the keycaps off and junked the far more valuable keyboards. :disgust:[/QUOTE] We should make an advocacy group... Call it... N.A.P.P.A. Nerds Against the Poaching of Pc Accessories
So what happened to SATA Express? A bunch of motherboards from last year such as the one I am using right now had it, but ones from this year do not seem to. I am guessing other standards such as M.2 were more practical?
[QUOTE=daigennki;52374175]So what happened to SATA Express? A bunch of motherboards from last year such as the one I am using right now had it, but ones from this year do not seem to. I am guessing other standards such as M.2 were more practical?[/QUOTE] SATA Express is fucking huge and only offers 2 lanes of PCI-E 2.0 (10 GT/s). Meanwhile M.2 is tiny and provides 4 lanes of PCI-E 3.0 (32 GT/s).
[QUOTE=daigennki;52374175]So what happened to SATA Express? A bunch of motherboards from last year such as the one I am using right now had it, but ones from this year do not seem to. I am guessing other standards such as M.2 were more practical?[/QUOTE] As far as I can tell, no SATA Express drives were ever actually released. A couple prototypes were made, but every review of SATAe-supporting motherboards I can find used some kind of adapter, either a SATAe->PCIe board or a "two M.2 drives in RAID in a 2.5" drive chassis" thing, both made by Asus. With no drives around to use, there's not much point putting it on the boards, even though chipsets support them.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ofc1gnI.jpg[/t] So this WD Black is the hard drive that's in the family desktop, Health seems good. I think I bought it a year and a half ago when the WD Caviar Black from 6 years ago or so started to have issues. Anyways, a Snowball mic fell onto the top of the desktop earlier last week (about 1 foot up in the air). It wouldn't boot until I ran a System Restore, now Windows 10 runs really slowly. I've tried doing the "Reset this PC" function but it would always fail. I tried installing via a USB key and it still fails.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52375530][t]http://i.imgur.com/ofc1gnI.jpg[/t] So this WD Black is the hard drive that's in the family desktop, Health seems good. I think I bought it a year and a half ago when the WD Caviar Black from 6 years ago or so started to have issues. Anyways, a Snowball mic fell onto the top of the desktop earlier last week (about 1 foot up in the air). It wouldn't boot until I ran a System Restore, now Windows 10 runs really slowly. I've tried doing the "Reset this PC" function but it would always fail. I tried installing via a USB key and it still fails.[/QUOTE] Run a full check disk yet to check for any corruption?
[QUOTE=Demache;52375588]Run a full check disk yet to check for any corruption?[/QUOTE] Yes, it was ran on all partitions the drive had. When I mean disk check, I mean booting to Windows and right clicking each drive, going to the Properties and doing the disk checking from there.
So I took the hard drive out of the affected desktop and used my 3.5 inch external enclosure to look at it. Did disk checking again, it found nothing. Did full formatting on the affected partition, installed it back onto the family desktop and tried to install Windows 10 off a USB again. For whatever reason, it would reboot while it's installing. I don't know what is causing this, maybe the PSU? Maybe the hard drive just doesn't run for longer than x amount of time? I have no idea at this point. edit: I'm going to try installing Windows 10 on the previous WD Caviar Black that originally came with the family desktop. I also realized that there were only 2 SATA power cables that came out of the 420W PSU. edit 2: so that didn't work, the desktop would randomly reboot during install. I have no idea why or how but I'm thinking it's the PSU is dying. edit 3: I tried it again with a WD Caviar Blue and it had the same issue. I'd imagine using an SSD (gotta go get another) would "help" but not if the issue lies in the PSU dying.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52372583]Apparently this compact desktop (miniATX?) I am using has laptop DDR4 RAM. Is it any worse than desktop DDR4 RAM or is it basically the same in terms of overall performance? Since it's one of those compact desktops, I can see how using that kind or RAM type for a desktop would save space on the motherboard.[/QUOTE] Since my desktop (ASRock M8) is a mini-ITX it also has laptop RAM slots and it's perfectly fine. They are usually more expensive, though.
anybody know a method of keeping a VPN on windows 10 always connected? i'm stick of it disconnecting and only noticing it through these emails.. [img]http://i.imgur.com/Kna4cFU.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=nikomo;52372789]Because I don't pay for electricity[/QUOTE] Surgeon General's Warning: Mining cryptocurrency may cause permanent brain damage [img]http://i.imgur.com/ieNK0.png[/img]
Maybe this [t]https://vgy.me/zvadqS.png[/t]
[QUOTE=LennyPenny;52378111]Maybe this [t]https://vgy.me/zvadqS.png[/t][/QUOTE] i'll try that, hopefully it works.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52376436]So I took the hard drive out of the affected desktop and used my 3.5 inch external enclosure to look at it. Did disk checking again, it found nothing. Did full formatting on the affected partition, installed it back onto the family desktop and tried to install Windows 10 off a USB again. For whatever reason, it would reboot while it's installing. I don't know what is causing this, maybe the PSU? Maybe the hard drive just doesn't run for longer than x amount of time? I have no idea at this point. edit: I'm going to try installing Windows 10 on the previous WD Caviar Black that originally came with the family desktop. I also realized that there were only 2 SATA power cables that came out of the 420W PSU. edit 2: so that didn't work, the desktop would randomly reboot during install. I have no idea why or how but I'm thinking it's the PSU is dying. edit 3: I tried it again with a WD Caviar Blue and it had the same issue. I'd imagine using an SSD (gotta go get another) would "help" but not if the issue lies in the PSU dying.[/QUOTE] At this point, it could be the PSU, or another component in the desktop that's causing it to reboot. Could be GPU, the RAM, a loose connector...
Rip desktop and my 9+ year old mobo and proc My brother turned it on and the smoke escaped. It had been acting weird on startup for a while, posting and then sitting on a blank screen until I restart it so I figured it was only a matter of time. [editline]19th June 2017[/editline] After a brief autopsy, the vrms burned out. [T]http://i.imgur.com/4t9G8q7.jpg[/T] [T]http://i.imgur.com/zYOIVLz.jpg[/t] [T]http://i.imgur.com/VN4lYlD.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=nikomo;52372632]I just realized that the mining algo for Ethereum just hit the limit where you can no longer use 2GB cards for mining. So even when I get my PCIE riser, I won't be able to use my 270X. Maybe I can find an alt coin that's still doable with it...[/QUOTE] I had to fit a beefy delta fan to my desktop to feed cold air in. Without it the graphics cards get stupidly hot after just a couple of minutes. Now they sit at about 75ish celcius. I have an r9 280x and HD7870 mining.
[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;52378079]anybody know a method of keeping a VPN on windows 10 always connected? i'm stick of it disconnecting and only noticing it through these emails.. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Kna4cFU.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Does your ISP even care? If you've got that many and they haven't said anything other than the automated email, I think you should be fine... Most ISPs I've talked to here just do the bare minimum required by law, which is to forward the emails to the customer who had the IP at the time of the infringement (Not providing the copyright holder with anything). You can basically delete it at that point. [I]Most[/I] ISPs want their customers to be satisfied and not picking up the phone to complain.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;52379434]Does your ISP even care? If you've got that many and they haven't said anything other than the automated email, I think you should be fine... Most ISPs I've talked to here just do the bare minimum required by law, which is to forward the emails to the customer who had the IP at the time of the infringement (Not providing the copyright holder with anything). You can basically delete it at that point. [I]Most[/I] ISPs want their customers to be satisfied and not picking up the phone to complain.[/QUOTE] What you said only applies to Canada. In the states, the laws relating to ISP and copyright infringement is a lot more bullshit. They can cut your internet after receiving a number of complains.
So my homelab has expanded to: 1x R320 (6c/12t 2.2GHz, 16GB) 2x R320 (6c/12t 1.9GHz, 16GB) 1x R710 (2x 4c/8t 2.80GHz, 72GB) I have no idea what to do with all this power :science101:
"(2x 4c/12t..." ???
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52379608]"(2x 4c/12t..." ???[/QUOTE] Gonna guess it's a typo, R710 comes with quad cores and six core CPUs
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52379608]"(2x 4c/12t..." ???[/QUOTE] My bad, it's 2x Intel X5560 @ 2.80GHz (4c/8t)
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52379559]What you said only applies to Canada. In the states, the laws relating to ISP and copyright infringement is a lot more bullshit. They can cut your internet after receiving a number of complains.[/QUOTE] It really all depends on the ISP here for whether they do anything besides forward or not
Our ISPs are not allowed to take their word for granted, and not allowed to share our private info without a police warrant. Its fucked in germany where you torrent a single movie without an VPN, and some private company will send you a letter where you either pay a ~200 euro fine, or they'll take you to court. [editline]20th June 2017[/editline] And there are a lot of sane companies out there, who will send you 3 warnings, before even pushing charges, some are exclusively informative. But you also have the cuntbags who explicitly focus on (embarrassing) X rated content, and push the arbitrary fine even higher.
I think you still need a court order in germany to get address information from our isps, the problem is that there are law firms that pretty much automate the scraping of german ip addresses in public torrents and and then doing the paperwork
[QUOTE=Levelog;52367154]Datto seriously has some of the best support of the industry. If anyone's looking for a good (read expensive) backup solution, I highly suggest them.[/QUOTE] Absolutely love Datto! Think we were a gold partner or elite partner at some point with them, their backup solutions are on the fucking ball. The cute altos though (Y).
Is it possible to block all non-friend group invites on steam? Suddenly getting lots of scam group invites and it's flooding me.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52380365]Is it possible to block all non-friend group invites on steam? Suddenly getting lots of scam group invites and it's flooding me.[/QUOTE] Actually thought about this yesterday I don't know why there isn't an option for this on profile privacy
In other news, the family desktop is weird. I try to install Windows 10 with 2GB of RAM instead of 4GB RAM. I take one of the two DDR3 RAM sticks out and the desktop won't POST. I put it back in and and the desktop won't POST. I take the other RAM stick out and the desktop won't POST. I rearrange the RAM sticks in all of the possible setups and the desktop won't POST. I borrow the 2GB DDR2 RAM stick from the other desktop (the motherboard has DDR2 and DDR3 slots) and the desktop won't POST. Finally after several reinstallations, it finally POSTS and installing Windows 10 with 2GB of RAM still causes the same issue, the desktop just randomly reboots during the installation process and doesn't actually finish. Time to buy an SSD to see if that fixes ANYTHING. If it doesn't, then I may have to try swapping out the GPU or the PSU..
Are you sure its booting from the HD at all? I had the issue of chkdsk running in between install phases stopping me from installing/updating windows 10, unless i pressed a button to skip. Somewhere around the 70% mark with 2gb of memory, it just seemingly crashed.
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