General PC Help Thread 2

[Drumstick]

I looked for something like that but everything I looked at said the splitter could only display one screen at a time, or could only duplicate and not extend the display.

[KingK]

I use this exact one

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0815YD7R ... VW5RTG3R5T

[That's not a growth]

I recently bought a hard drive caddy and wanted to change the fan to a noctua. Thought it would be easy enough, but I'm struggling with the connection

My new fan as 4 pin or 3 pin as an option, the connector is 2 pin. Ok, so I got an adaptor from eBay. Trouble is it's too big.

https://imgur.com/a/1xl3qyi

Bigger one is one I received, smaller one from old fan.

Anyone able to link to something i can use? As I last resort could I just cut the wires and use electrical tape to change my connector?

[ignition]

I use this exact one

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0815YD7R ... VW5RTG3R5T

Just stumbled across this post as I'm looking for a similar solution for my old Surface Pro 4 to connect to dual 1440p monitors. The SP4 only has a USB 3.0 slot and all the USB-3.0-dual hdmi adapters I've seen seem to max out at 1080p.

Do you know if this one would work on dual 1440p monitors with a USB-C to USB-3.0 adapter?

[KingK]

I use this exact one

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0815YD7R ... VW5RTG3R5T

Just stumbled across this post as I'm looking for a similar solution for my old Surface Pro 4 to connect to dual 1440p monitors. The SP4 only has a USB 3.0 slot and all the USB-3.0-dual hdmi adapters I've seen seem to max out at 1080p.

Do you know if this one would work on dual 1440p monitors with a USB-C to USB-3.0 adapter?

Sorry no idea but it does state 4k @60Hz so guess so?

Mine connects to dual 1080p monitors directly from my work laptop, or personal Surface laptop 3 from their respective USB-C ports. Absolutely no issue with mine. But I’m on lower resolution screens, only use for spreadsheet work not gaming, and doesn’t go through an adapter

[Frank]

Possibly a bit of a tangent to the USB C output but I recently attempted to connect my Surface Pro 4 to my new 1440p monitor, and discovered that it would only output in 1920 x 1080

There's a *lot* of threads out there of people trying to figure out what's up and why it's not working properly, and the only "answer" I've seen seems to just be "use the mini-dp to displayport rather than mini-dp to hdmi", as though regardless of the cables you're using, the Surface Pro just *can't* work in any higher resolutions over HDMI. If you do go for the USB C adapter I'd be interested to know if it *does* work I just ended up buying a displayport cable since I couldn't find any proper explanations

[mcjihge2]

Can anyone recommend some free, non trial DVD copying software for windows 10 - similar to nero and the like for windows XP? Thanks.

[Rubix]

Not sure if this is the right topic but I am after a new laptop by the end of the year. Nothing wrong with mine as a working laptop however, the graphics card isn't great and running lightroom and photoshop now becomes a painful struggle.

I don't really want it for gaming but photoshop will be the main usage. Preferably with 1TB of memory on an SSD too.

[Lex-Man]

Does any know about mesh WiFi. Do the extensions always have slightly different names?

[Kezzer]

I'd imagine it depends on the system / devices you are using.

Ideally you should have a single SSID name for your wireless though else it defeats the point of a mesh.

what devices are you using?

[andretmzt]

I use a TP-Link Deco M4 setup in my house. The system as a whole uses a different SSID to the WiFi from my Virgin Media Hub, but that SSID is shared for the mesh network so no fuss.

[<]:^D]

Can anyone recommend some free, non trial DVD copying software for windows 10 - similar to nero and the like for windows XP? Thanks.

i used to use imgburn - seemed fine but that was like 5 years ago

[Dowbocop]

Been getting some random shutdowns this evening. First two happened at 1744 and 1748 while my son and I were playing Lego Marvel. I left the computer idling while I had dinner, and since then I've had 4 shutdowns, most recently at 1956 (according to Reliability Monitor). On Sunday I installed HL: Source and an HD texture pack from ModDB, that's the only change I've made. I was using Krita for some artwork yesterday with no bother.

Haven't really got any idea what's happening or how to fix it

[Ironhide]

I use a TP-Link Deco M4 setup in my house. The system as a whole uses a different SSID to the WiFi from my Virgin Media Hub, but that SSID is shared for the mesh network so no fuss.

That's how it works with the eero routers, which in my case, as someone else set it up (and misunderstood the ssid name bit) means the Plusnet router has the same name as the eero on but in upper case.

[andretmzt]

Been getting some random shutdowns this evening. First two happened at 1744 and 1748 while my son and I were playing Lego Marvel. I left the computer idling while I had dinner, and since then I've had 4 shutdowns, most recently at 1956 (according to Reliability Monitor). On Sunday I installed HL: Source and an HD texture pack from ModDB, that's the only change I've made. I was using Krita for some artwork yesterday with no bother.

Haven't really got any idea what's happening or how to fix it

I recall a PC many years ago crashing on a fairly regular basis when gaming, sometimes even when it was sleeping. My current PC sometimes crashes randomly as well.

When my current PC crashes the first thing I check is if my GPU drivers are up to date as it is often AMDs power management utility that causes the problem. Updating to the latest drivers tends to fix the problem.

I never quite knew what caused my old PC to crash, but after watching a GamersNexus video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRyyCsuHFQ on PSUs a while back I now wonder if it was just an issue with the power supply, that spikes in the power draw were just too much for the supply to handle.

[Dowbocop]

Been getting some random shutdowns this evening. First two happened at 1744 and 1748 while my son and I were playing Lego Marvel. I left the computer idling while I had dinner, and since then I've had 4 shutdowns, most recently at 1956 (according to Reliability Monitor). On Sunday I installed HL: Source and an HD texture pack from ModDB, that's the only change I've made. I was using Krita for some artwork yesterday with no bother.

Haven't really got any idea what's happening or how to fix it

I recall a PC many years ago crashing on a fairly regular basis when gaming, sometimes even when it was sleeping. My current PC sometimes crashes randomly as well.

When my current PC crashes the first thing I check is if my GPU drivers are up to date as it is often AMDs power management utility that causes the problem. Updating to the latest drivers tends to fix the problem.

I never quite knew what caused my old PC to crash, but after watching a GamersNexus video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRyyCsuHFQ on PSUs a while back I now wonder if it was just an issue with the power supply, that spikes in the power draw were just too much for the supply to handle.

Thanks for the advice. It's been stable all evening. I ran a virus scan and had a trojan so that was probably it

[Dowbocop]

Been getting some random shutdowns this evening. First two happened at 1744 and 1748 while my son and I were playing Lego Marvel. I left the computer idling while I had dinner, and since then I've had 4 shutdowns, most recently at 1956 (according to Reliability Monitor). On Sunday I installed HL: Source and an HD texture pack from ModDB, that's the only change I've made. I was using Krita for some artwork yesterday with no bother.

Haven't really got any idea what's happening or how to fix it

I recall a PC many years ago crashing on a fairly regular basis when gaming, sometimes even when it was sleeping. My current PC sometimes crashes randomly as well.

When my current PC crashes the first thing I check is if my GPU drivers are up to date as it is often AMDs power management utility that causes the problem. Updating to the latest drivers tends to fix the problem.

I never quite knew what caused my old PC to crash, but after watching a GamersNexus video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRyyCsuHFQ on PSUs a while back I now wonder if it was just an issue with the power supply, that spikes in the power draw were just too much for the supply to handle.

Thanks for the advice. It's been stable all evening. I ran a virus scan and had a trojan so that was probably it

Had a fairly stable week (apparently it crashed on Saturday but that was news to me!) - it's now crashed twice in the sapce of five minutes. I can now see that they're all caused by a Kernel-Power 41 error - does this mean my PSU is knackered? It's a 7-8 year old Cooler Master G650M.

[Dowbocop]

Aaaaaand it won't switch on at all

I tried shorting the power switch pins to test the power button and I did the paperclip test (which goes against the logic of all humans who want to stay alive, my heart is still beating a bit fast ). No fan spinning so it seems it's nighty-night PSU.

[rinks]

Have you tried disconnecting something power hungry, like the graphics card, to see if it'll boot then? (I have no idea what I'm talking about, but it sounds logical, and is something I'd probably try next.)

[Dowbocop]

Have you tried disconnecting something power hungry, like the graphics card, to see if it'll boot then? (I have no idea what I'm talking about, but it sounds logical, and is something I'd probably try next.)

Mine's a 1050Ti so no separate power cable going to it. I got nothing from the paperclip test, so to my mind that would suggest there's no juice coming from the PSU at all. If the PSU was working then the PSU fan would've powered on.

https://www.avadirect.com/blog/how-to-t ... functional.