Computer Issues

3301 · Feb 8, 2020

Ao- said:
anyone see future issues with this?

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Specs don’t look good, probably out of stock cause they need more from China. I dunno, make sure it comes with anticoronavirus?

Kharzette · Feb 19, 2020

I think I posted about this previously, but I screwed up swapping a power supply and roasted 2 SSDs and a hard drive.

I did a little digging and sometimes hard drives are fixable if you get a replacement board for them. I ordered one but there's a tiny chip that needs to be transplanted from the old board to the new. I have a soldering iron but this thing is TINY and my hands are shaky and I don't really know what I'm doing.

Are any of you good with that sort of thing? I watched some videos on youtube and they have desoldering guns and wicks and stuff and my iron didn't come with any of that.

I mainly want the data to get at some art I was working on. I want to create some new Everquest models using the old models as a kind of concept art. I have a base human mesh on the dead drive that I spent a few weeks on, and I really don't want to do all that again if I can help it.

Noodleface · Feb 19, 2020

You could probablt do it with a solder sucker but that's small. Usually a heat gun is used for this but I've done small chips with an iron before. You'll just want to melt and suck each pin on the other side

Folanlron · Feb 19, 2020

I would ask around and see if there is a "maker" building near were you live, most of the time people are willing too help for a modest fee, and sense you already have the new board + donor board...

TecKnoe · Feb 28, 2020

Not really a PC issue, but i was wondering why im unable to uninstall the MW remastered beta i never bought the full game so im not able to do it from the bnet launcher so i tried to manually do it in add/remove programs, but that just tells me it cant be uninstalled this way and to open up the launcher.

Folanlron · Feb 28, 2020

TecKnoe said:
Not really a PC issue, but i was wondering why im unable to uninstall the MW remastered beta i never bought the full game so im not able to do it from the bnet launcher so i tried to manually do it in add/remove programs, but that just tells me it cant be uninstalled this way and to open up the launcher.

Close bnet app down, go to folder were it's supposedly "Installed" and nuke the whole folder(this might get rid of it, not too sure)

Kharzette · Mar 5, 2020

I gave it a go and totally ruined it. I got one side loose via dropping solder on it (saw that in a youtube vid), the other side the pins tore loose and I took a giant chunk out of the silicon. I didn't think that stuff would melt but it does.

Folanlron · Mar 7, 2020

Kharzette said:
I gave it a go and totally ruined it. I got one side loose via dropping solder on it (saw that in a youtube vid), the other side the pins tore loose and I took a giant chunk out of the silicon. I didn't think that stuff would melt but it does.

Ya smaller IC's are designed too be heated once, then never again... It takes a lot of patience too do, and it's even a bigger headache prepping the chip for the new board.

Intrinsic · Mar 12, 2020

My primary monitor is an ASUS ROG PG279 and secondary is a ASUS VH242H. Whenever the computer goes to sleep over night and I wake it up, it is like the 2nd monitor loses connection. So when the computer turns back on it detects the 2nd display but everything that was organized on it has shifted to the primary display, so I've gotta drag everything back over.

Primary is Display Port > Display Port, Secondary is HDMI > Display Port.... wondering if the issue is with HDMI > DP, because I just disconnect the cable and can't even get the damn thing to come back up now.

Lemme see if I can scrounge up one of the random HDMI cables laying around the house.

slippery · Mar 12, 2020

Intrinsic said:
My primary monitor is an ASUS ROG PG279 and secondary is a ASUS VH242H. Whenever the computer goes to sleep over night and I wake it up, it is like the 2nd monitor loses connection. So when the computer turns back on it detects the 2nd display but everything that was organized on it has shifted to the primary display, so I've gotta drag everything back over.

Primary is Display Port > Display Port, Secondary is HDMI > Display Port.... wondering if the issue is with HDMI > DP, because I just disconnect the cable and can't even get the damn thing to come back up now.

Lemme see if I can scrounge up one of the random HDMI cables laying around the house.

I have the same issue, and I feel like I've tried display port on both and hdmi on the secondary and it didn't make an issue.

To be clear for mine, I don't have my computer go to sleep. If the monitors go to sleep everything comes back fine. If I turn off the monitors when I turn them back on things are usually all on the primary monitor.

Intrinsic · Mar 12, 2020

slippery said:
I have the same issue, and I feel like I've tried display port on both and hdmi on the secondary and it didn't make an issue.

To be clear for mine, I don't have my computer go to sleep. If the monitors go to sleep everything comes back fine. If I turn off the monitors when I turn them back on things are usually all on the primary monitor.

I've got it back to HDMI > HDMI so we'll see. Guessing it'll work just fine now. Was just mildly annoying and don't remember it being an issue previously. Think it started when switching computer desks and my 3rd monitor died and went to DP > HDMI for this one.

Denamian · Mar 12, 2020

My understanding is that is intentional windows behavior. My primary display is on the left, while my older monitor on the right is where I want stuff to be as the primary for gaming. I drag taskbar on to the right monitor because it's pointless to have it on the left when it's behind a game. When the monitors go to sleep, the taskbar is reset to the left display.

My left monitor is on displayport and the right is DVI. THis would be fixed if I set my right monitor as the primary, but then some older games would only run on that monitor.

Ao- · Mar 13, 2020

Wow I thought this was just a me problem with the display port stuff... let me know if you figure out how to fix it. I turn off my monitors at night, and all of the windows revert to the primary display.

a_skeleton_05 · Mar 14, 2020

You can use something like DisplayFusion to save window position layouts

TJT · Mar 21, 2020

I have some occasional crashes. Since I can reboot in like 5 seconds I don't particularly care and have been ignoring it.

But its really killing the vibe for my Doom time. What is a way to reliably investigate this?

TJT · Mar 21, 2020

To clarify what I mean by crashing.

It will occasionally just seize up, other times it will give me a dull green colored screen and the sound will spit out some static. A single monotone sound.

Other times it will hit the Win 10 Blue screen blah blah we are sending data to Microsoft.

jooka · Mar 21, 2020

I'd start by making sure nothing is overheating and focus in on what you are doing when it is happens.

Argarth · Mar 22, 2020

TJT said:
To clarify what I mean by crashing.

It will occasionally just seize up, other times it will give me a dull green colored screen and the sound will spit out some static. A single monotone sound.

Other times it will hit the Win 10 Blue screen blah blah we are sending data to Microsoft.

Had a similar experience about a year ago, got the dull screen occasionally (but not green), and in particular the "monotone sound".

Drove me fucking nuts with the randomness, and I tried everything for weeks (drivers, disconnect hardware, load old images etc. etc.) until the power supply finally went "pop" and died.

Not saying that's your issue of course, but thought it was worth a mention. Good luck!

Folanlron · Mar 24, 2020

TJT said:
To clarify what I mean by crashing.

It will occasionally just seize up, other times it will give me a dull green colored screen and the sound will spit out some static. A single monotone sound.

Other times it will hit the Win 10 Blue screen blah blah we are sending data to Microsoft.

Diffnetly either something overheating(could also be a RAM module not seated properly/or something is on the connectors blocking certain channels, check everything!), power supply not providing enough to the 12v rail, power supply dieing or the power rectifier on the motherboard is dieing(Do you have lots of power outages were you live? that can cause that.)

TJT · Mar 24, 2020

Folanlron said:
Diffnetly either something overheating(could also be a RAM module not seated properly check everything!), power supply not providing enough to the 12v rail would also be a reason for this, or power supply dieing or the power rectifier on the motherboard is dieing(Do you have lots of power outages were you live, this could cause that.)

Hmmm no power outages. But the Power Supply was the one thing I did not upgrade when I upgraded everything else. This was because the wattage on the PSU was quite a bit over the requirements for everything I bought in the documentation. I'll consider picking up a better one though.

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