The Computer Thread

Hardware damage to either your screen, ribbon cable or GPU.

If you still have any kind of warranty then send it in.

Otherwise it will be almost impossible to get this fixed without spending money, if you are bold enough you might try to re-fixate the screens ribbon cable, but that might not work either or even make things worse.

edited 20th Jun '17 1:23:39 AM by Kiefen

I am already using my nty now. I cannot afford to fix it at the moment.

What exactly is the "breakpoint" that your computer sometimes reaches when you're shutting it down? Mine has been reaching it a lot for some reason.

My computer's fan seems to have no setting between "everything's fine, very low idle" and "OH MY GOD THE CHIP IS SOUP".

You may be needing to get rid of the dust in your computer, especially from the case and CPU fans.

Meanwhile, I finally bit the bullet and bought a bigger SSD drive. 525Gb should be enough to put my Windows 10 install on, and as many games as I like, and actually want to play at any reasonable point - leaving my smaller one which I'm going to format and try using as a cache boosty type thing. And I'm going to have to format my HDD to remove all traces of Windows 7 from the thing, so I'm not constantly seeing my computer trying to boot up a non-existent OS from the Windows 7 OS choice menu.

When I was working on my weekly check on my World of Warcraft character's auctions, one of my Microsoft Word documents that was open kept flashing in and out when I went back to the desktop a couple of times. Has that ever happened to any of you?

edited 16th Jul '17 4:25:34 PM by Demetrios

I have had word processing documents do that kind of thing, though not Microsoft Word as such. I don't have Office 365 so...

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Halfway (ish) to finishing my latest PC build. One more bit of kit to get, a few hours more work and it'll be done.

edited 18th Jul '17 6:00:53 AM by TamH70

Anybody here figured out how to increase the font size of the words on the address bar and browser menus, particularly Google Chrome? Because right now it's so small that it's straining my eyes, and merely going into Settings - Appearance - Medium or larger isn't having the desired effect.

Also seems like the option to individually tinker with the fonts in the Windows 10 Display menu was removed too. What the heck is encouraging these guys to do this? Do they realize that not all of their users have eagle-eye vision or something and would like bigger-sized fonts while NOT increasing the size of anything else?!

https://windows.gadgethacks.com/how-to/change-font-size-windows-10-0166687/

Okay so there was a problem I ran right into recently, coming from the new Windows 10 update to Bluetooth. So I use my Windows Tablet to play fighting games on, and to do that, I have my PS 4 Controllers to connect via Bluetooth. Previously, I connected the controller to the Add Device menu, it connected, and it was all fine.

However, now because of the new update, when I link up my controller, it treats the controller as a Mouse/Keyboard. Not only does it not work with any game now, but pressing either home or the middle button slathers a keyboard overlay onto my screen that has horrible lag, cannot be force quit, and overlays ontop of everything, so I have to restart the computer to make it go away.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there something i'm not aware of to connect the controller normally with this new system? I've tried using DS 4 Windows as well, but it's not connecting it via Bluetooth. It only works when wired, and it means I have to give up my mouse, and I can't play multiplayer if I wanted to. Can anyone help with this?

Right, my primary monitor has occasionally started flickering magenta and I'm trying to troubleshoot. Because this issue hasn't presented itself on my second screen, I figure that the issue isn't with my GPU or elsewhere in my system tower, but is instead with my monitor or the VGA cable.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Update: Found the problem. I'd only screwed the VGA plug into the graphics card on one side, so it may have been shifting around and futzing with the signal.

My android tablet is stuck at the boot and despite having to factory reset the tablet over several times, it still will not boot pass the android screen. I am going to call the manufacture for an exchange as I cannot really take this anymore.

Fun times

C-Cleaner has been compromised by malware, more specifically if your running a 32bit OS.

Okay, so I'm clear on Win 10 x64, at least this time.

I think my profile is admin though. I ought to do like my father does and keep an admin profile separate from the profile I do regular work on.

Eugh. So I have encountered an issue regarding a Linux Mint Virtual Machine. It is unable to read the contents of my USB drive. Whenever I try, it gives me the message "usb device is busy with a previous request". I have tried virtually everything. I've installed the latest version of Oracle. I've installed an extension pack. I've properly installed the OS on this virtual machine. I've gone to the settings to create a USB filter. When I hover over the USB drive in 'devices', it says it's state is 'captured'. So I do not understand what's going on. Is something wrong with the USB drive? I can open it fine on my host computer.

Right, so since one of my case fans has started rattling I'm debating a full case upgrade since it was where I was a moron and skimped during my build and went with some retailer brand one.

With that in mind, how good would people say the Aerocool VS-1 is?

RED ALERT: Serious flaw in WPA2 protocol lets attackers intercept passwords and much more

Edit: I am gonna post in another thread.

edited 18th Oct '17 6:25:22 AM by GAP

For some reason, the plugin container in my computer keeps reaching the breaking point almost every time (~99%) I shut my computer down. I'm starting to think it's doing that just to annoy me. >.>

My computer's hard drive is running out of room thanks to an... exploding media collection.

I have an external hard drive or two, but I'm out of power outlets around the computer, which was already on an extension cord and power strip.

I have a CHIP computer on a chip I haven't really done anything with yet and I'm tempted to set it up to run as an NAS server, but on the other hand, pretty much the only way I'm going to be using it if I go that way will be mounting it to my desktop computer so that Videostream can see it, so my phone can select it, so it can send it to my Chromecast. Involving four devices to do one thing seems really kludgey.

Could possibly just migrate all the applications of my workflow to the CHIP and cut my desktop entirely. Which may end up being less work than the kludge, but doesn't feel like it.

Or I could get back on setting it up as a frontend for Mythtv or Kodi like I bought it for in the first place.

Last night, Firefox on my computer... seemed to restart itself over. It was like I just installed it instead of having already been established, and I had to restore all my bookmarks and addons. Has that happened to any of you?

And now Malwarebytes has stopped working correctly. x_x It did a very good job for such a long time too.

edited 19th Oct '17 4:41:49 PM by Demetrios

Sorry about the double post, but I'm in need of some important advice. Apparently, when my computer's memory gets too low, it makes my ad blocker stop working. Has this happened to any of you?

I've known my phone to drop background applications when memory runs out, but when I've had a Windows computer max out its memory, it usually just struggles by at molasses speeds.