Computer Issues
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jeydax
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Update: I'm the definition of lazy and haven't swapped the display port/usb-c cord yet. But I am starting to think it might be the weird static electrical ghost I have at my house. Long story short, my computer setup has been in multiple rooms in this house now and in every instance I have noticed that sometimes, if I touch a beer/soda/whatever can near my computer it will cause some of my monitors to flicker. It's been multiple monitors over the years, 6-7~ computer setups, so def is static electricity causing some funky shit to happen.
I can be damn near clear across my room, touch a pop can, and I can see my monitors flicker. Doesn't happen everything time. But I've tested it enough to know that's what has caused it.
TLDR: I just sat down, touched a pop can and monitor go poof. Maybe the mobo doesn't like whatever static ghost guy is doing.
I can be damn near clear across my room, touch a pop can, and I can see my monitors flicker. Doesn't happen everything time. But I've tested it enough to know that's what has caused it.
TLDR: I just sat down, touched a pop can and monitor go poof. Maybe the mobo doesn't like whatever static ghost guy is doing.
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Malakriss
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Minor nitpick about current motherboards so I'm not sure if there is a workaround for this. I power off my screens at night, including monitors and the one TV I have hooked up, but any Windows updates will reboot the systems and that triggers the bright white VGA LED because the screen was not on. Any way to make that not a thing or am i simply forced to do a reboot with the screen on each time to shut the damn LED off?
SirFapsAlot
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Does any one know if I can use riser cables on older hardware? I'm talking about Windows XP era board / cards.
SirFapsAlot
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I guess the ghetto solution would be to just put some electrical tape over the LED. I don't use Windows and I don't know what hardware you're using, so I can't help much other than that. Is there any setting in the BIOS that allows you to shut the LED light off?
Tolwen
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Hey guys I had an issue and I'm not sure what happened. PC has been fine for a long time. It's always on and sometimes windows restarts with an update. That's normal and it's at the login screen. But today I wake up to a black screen saying something like enable boot drive etc (I forget what else it said). I was assuming the boot drive is dead. But I was looking online and it was mentioning TPM or secure boot which I've never enabled. I ended up removing the cmos battery and the PC restarted into windows. So it seems ok for the moment. Crystaldisk looks fine. Samsung magician look normal. Anyone have an idea? I could be leaving info out. I have backups but this stuff is still too stressful. Thanks
Edit: I have Windows 10 with the latest update : I was able to go into bios at first. The boot drive was not the ssd so I changed it. But after that restarting was just a pure black screen and I was not able to get into bios.
Edit: I have Windows 10 with the latest update : I was able to go into bios at first. The boot drive was not the ssd so I changed it. But after that restarting was just a pure black screen and I was not able to get into bios.
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Palum
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Cmos batteries do die. If you lose power you bios will reset. Depending how you have your drives configured that might cause an issue on the first boot. If you didn't lose bios settings but the cmos battery removal did something that's likely a more serious issue with the board or PSU, possibly a minor short or something.
Tolwen
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Ok I do remember that the time had been starting to be off on the system clock. Also right now the clock is entirely off for my region. So it looks like replace the cmos battery? Thanks for the reply. The PC has been constantly on for a while and it's been 7 years? Never really thought about the cmos battery before.
:I replaced the battery. It could still be the psu if a dying cmos battery wouldn't cause a pc shutdown.
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Palum
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So I tried a USB hub/KV switch, mostly because I couldn't find any KVM switch that actually handles high bitrate display output. I also want to keep all my stuff isolated, and can't install software on my work computers.
What I ended up doing was getting rid of all the switches since they just didn't work without compromising my computer setup. I have a Keychron so I just swap modes to connect it to my laptop, and then I use my travel mouse for the work machine. I have a USB-C portable monitor I can plug into it if I need to work on something big. However, since my main monitor is now an OLED TV, I can just swap inputs and put it on my big screen if needed. It keeps all the network and graphics separate.
If you find an affordable ultra-KVM, I'd be interested in taking a look too, but from what I can tell all of them had performance and latency impacts I wasn't willing to put up with to have it plugged into all my primary gear at home.
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