I punted on Saturday and decided to just reinstall Windows from scratch and migrate data from my backups. Kind of a hassle, but things are still working as they were before the failure.
If I had to guess, I'd blame Logitech's software for screwing up USB. G Hub is still somewhat flaky with...
My mschine is now in a strange grey area. After my last restore, I booted the machine up, but was slow in moving over the USB dongles from my work laptop to my personal desktop. I didn't get the mouse dongle plugged in until after POST, but before getting to the desktop. Now I have no mouse...
I didn't have an issue with USB during the restore, and that goes into WinRE. I initially had a bunch of problems with the restore and decided to reload Windows. No problems there either.
I might still load Windows fresh and see if I can get it to fail.
It's been a while since I've had my rig's specs in my signature...
Board is a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro, about 2 years old
PSU is a Corsair CX750M, about 7 years old.
I did not try a smartphone, though I suppose I could.
The machine did another restore last night and I booted it up to find it was okay, though wants to install a USB receiver. I went to uninstall G Hub and the process stopped running about 2/3 of the way through, so I rebooted. The compute...
A couple of days ago, I rebooted my desktop to clear out an issue with my keyboard (G915) not syncing properly with Logitech G Hub, and when I got back into Windows, I had no input peripherals (keyboard or mouse) at all. I reset and there was no change. I tried safe mode and even that had no...
My 2750 arrived last week. I like it so far - scans directly to my server and the LCD is a nice touch over the two line display. When the time comes, I will experiment with resetting the toner cartridge until it is truly empty:
I agree that the real McCoy may be worth investing in for my...
Well I'll be. I can do a free return by dropping off at a Kohls. That's odd, but I'll take it. Just ordered the 2750. Stings to spend an extra $80 for that convenience, but hopefully this is a buy once cry once purchase.
My 2710 arrived yesterday. A couple issues though:
No duplex scanning. This is kind of a drag. I did not really know it did not support duplex scanning. I had to scan in a doc today that several back sides. Scanned all the pages into PNG and then renamed them for the correct order, then...
Good tip on V4ink. I could expense my old brother high yield cartridge back in 2012, but this toner would come out of my own pocket, so I was considering a generic. Apparently most of the carts from Amazon are fakes anyway, and the real McCoy is north of $70.
Thanks, good feedback. How many pages do you get out of a cartridge? The high yield in my current printer has about 60% left after printing about 1000 pages. That's good enough for me since I print so little.
I've been using a Brother HL-2240 for the past 8 years. I only have 1443 pages on it, swapping to a high yield cartridge 7 years ago when I got close to 500 pages. Never an issue with the thing, but I'd like to have the ability to scan/copy and maybe fax (I have an Obi200). Other key...
I've gotten everything in my system very stable, so now I'm working on noise. I have 3 case fans to control and one on the CPU. I used Smart Fan 5 to calibrate the fans and establish the ramp, and then I tweaked the temperature interval to 5 to keep the fans from jumping up too quickly...
A little update: I've been cruising at 5 GHz since Feb 6th. I had one crash in the Division (probably a dozen hours played) so I bumped the voltage to 1.295v and it has been great since then. Since games do not really stress the CPU that much compared to encoding, temps are not bad, hovering...
I transcoded a 4K MKV last night at 4.9v without incident. Took about 3 hours. I'm trying LinX now and it seems pretty good (for all of 5 minutes).
I may leave the system as is for now and see if it's stable in daily use. I thought about delidding last night, and the lack of a warranty isn't...
That's interesting (and unfortunate) about the TR heatsink. They were one of the defacto standards back in the day.
My attempt to prove people wrong by simply running a real world app (handbrake) and testing stability failed. Temps were in the 90s and then BSOD'd at some point while I was...
Well, though it didn't crash, I am noticing very brief throttling with AIDA64. HWMonitor reports that a few cores have hit @ 100C and the others are not far behind. I tried small FFTs with the latest version of Prime95 and BSOD came right away. LinX 0.6.5 ran a bit longer before erroring (1m...
Well, I don't want to pat myself (or the chip) on the back too hard yet. AIDA64 is all I've been using so far, and it may have already crashed since I started it up this morning. My luck with LinX and the latest version of Prime95 (small FFTs) shows I am clearly not "stable." Still, it might...
I would definitely agree with you on that now that I've started to get some failures with AVX workloads. I was surprised to see the system pretty "stable" at such a low relative voltage. I started by running @ 1.37v and things were okay. Then I tried dropping voltage to reduce heat and...
Well LinX and Prime95 both smoked the CPU (not literally). LinX fails after just 7 seconds and Prime95 brought a BSOD in a similar timeframe. I'll see what I can do with an AVX offset.
RealTemp also shows temps in the 90s. These things shoot up quickly! Strange that Gigabyte's own tool is...
Well LinX and Prime95 both smoked the CPU (not literally). LinX fails after just 7 seconds and Prime95 brought a BSOD in a similar timeframe. I'll see what I can do with an AVX offset.
RealTemp also shows temps in the 90s. These things shoot up quickly! Strange that Gigabyte's own tool is...
I finally upgraded last night from my 3 year old 6600K @ 4.5GHz to an 8700K. The new chip is running well @ 5.0GHz with 1.27v on a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro. I'm still rocking my Thermalright Ultra-120 from October of 2007! Trying to figure out what the real temperatures are though.
Under load...
I also tried updating my BIOS as it was over two years out of date. No joy there. Then I did another driver clean from safe mode with the DP monitor connected. It seemed to work and I rebooted into windows. It was working with the single monitor for a bit at 1024x768, so I bumped the...
That was sort of my thought as well, but even with the HDMI monitor unplugged from the card, Windows still refuses to detect it. It will only display on my DP monitor in safe mode.
Earlier this year I had a bear of a time getting my MSI GTX1060 to detect my AOC AG271QG properly. I fiddled with multiple driver revisions and settings, but eventually it came out okay and I've been using it ever since. Yesterday, however, I decided to pull my CPU cooler and reapply my...
That's a nice option. Saves me $1/month (I pay $3.95/mo now) and I get extra storage (50GB vs 30GB with Google).
In other news, I was poking around the DNS settings for my domain to see how easy it would be to transfer and saw there were a few records already in place, including webmail. I...
Since I'm really just looking for email, I'm considering going with a host for email only.
Tucows sells email addresses with your firstname@lastname.com (well, they have hundreds or thousands of last names) but try as I might, I cannot check out using their system. I opened a ticket with them...
Specific port use before was just for my domain's control panel. I used to be able to browse to www.mydomain.com/roundcube for my RoundCube webmail, but it's now locked down to specific port use. Here's a quote from my support ticket:
cPanel goes by the TCP port instead of using the URL to...
I've had my own domain for about 15 years now. I started it after I graduated college, mostly as a place to put images and host email. It's nothing special (1GB/10GB) and only costs $3.95/mo. I no longer host images or files since there are better free services and I tend to use most of my...
Did some more digging. Found that somehow the center channel output for the HDMI output got checked (I have no center channel) and cell phone audio apparently comes out of that channel. Pretty unique situation, but it's sorted now.
Not sure what happened here, but I suddenly lost all audio on phone calls in game, even the beeps and boops of the phone itself are gone. Googling found that some people on PS4 have the audio coming out of their controller, but I have an Xbox360 controller which has no such option.
I run the...
I did not. I played around a bit more and installed even newer drivers from 1/29 - previous drivers were from MSI from earlier in January. Still nothing, but then I swapped DP outputs (again) on the card and the monitor lit up and it seems fine now. Hopefully this was just some weird fluke.
Just picked up an MSI GTX 1060. Coming from an R9 390 that I uninstalled a while back along with its drivers. I've been using the onboard Intel 530 graphics of my Asus Z170-AR since. I have two monitors, an HP Envy 32 over DP and a cheap Asus over HDMI. Both were working fine on the onboard...
Backup desktop and HTPC images to NAS with Acronis. NAS is an R510 with a mix of drives pooled together with Drivepool and protected with SnapRAID. I also run a backup of the whole NAS to an external drive maybe once a month that stays in a fire safe when not in use.
I know I kinda left this one hanging. I thought I'd actually sort of fixed the issue, but then it came back and got worse. The problem didn't seem to manifest itself on my secondary monitor, an old NEC 20WMGX2 connected via DVI, so I thought the problem might be Freesync on my main monitor. I...
Picked up a Denon X1200 on ebay and it arrived today. I've been struggling to get it set up.
Instead of running a DVI->DVI cable to my monitor, I now have an HDMI->HDMI going one of my my receiver's inputs and the secondary monitor is now plugged into the output using an HDMI to DVI cable. My...
Enterprise. I still get the "Good news! The Windows 10 Creators Update is on its way. Want to be one of the first to get it?" prompt in windows update, so I don't think I have it installed.
I've tried a few versions of these drivers but all seem to be behaving the same. Tried updating my...
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