Computer Issues

jeydax · Dec 6, 2024

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.

Malakriss · Dec 12, 2024

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 · Dec 12, 2024

Does any one know if I can use riser cables on older hardware? I'm talking about Windows XP era board / cards.

SirFapsAlot · Dec 12, 2024

Malakriss said:
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?

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 · Dec 18, 2024

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.

Palum · Dec 18, 2024

Tolwen said:
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

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 · Dec 18, 2024

Palum said:
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.

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.

Brahma · Dec 20, 2024

Recommendation? I'm looking to swap between my work laptop and gaming setup, and use my mouse and keyboard also? AND keep my 240Hz? They sent me a pair of 24" monitors that I despise.

Palum · Dec 20, 2024

Brahma said:
ND keep my 240Hz? They sent me a pair of 24" monitors that I de

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.

Deathwing · Dec 20, 2024

I've just settled on a switch for keyboard and mouse(and usb dac). It's rare for my work laptop and home desktop to be on at the same time, so the monitor's auto detection of inputs will switch for you.

Brahma · Dec 26, 2024

I can't find a KVM setup that doesn't compromise my 240Hz. The following came in, so will hook up when the cables arrive.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D69L9SJV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

Daidraco · Dec 26, 2024

Brahma said:
I can't find a KVM setup that doesn't compromise my 240Hz. The following came in, so will hook up when the cables arrive.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D69L9SJV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

I started using the following program when I was dual boxing in EverQuest half a year or so ago. Since then, it's became my defacto software to help me .. well.. cheat in online classes. (Class average is an A - Right. Of course no one is cheating. They scan your computer and use your video/audio in an AI recognition program.) But it also works for my work computer. I dont know what you're trying to achieve with your KVM switch - but maybe...? this is an answer you're not aware of.

Try it for free and if it does what you want, buy the $50 version. They said you can upgrade at anytime, but the discount for having the previous version is so small that you'll feel like you wasted your money on the lower end one. Software KVM allows you to control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse with Multiplicity. Seamlessly move between multiple computers with monitors. No Cables or Extra Hardware Required.

(As a side note - the share audio option is fucking horrible. But everything else is so fucking crisp!)

Dr.Retarded · Jan 3, 2025

So picked up the cyberpunk expansion this Christmas and decided to start a fresh game yesterday evening. Figured I'd update my video drivers.

Fire up the game during character creation I suddenly get these massive lag spikes, and running the in-game benchmark after screwing with settings, it'll randomly drop to 7 fps.

Didn't know if it was anything with the game, so I went and fired up starfield just to see how it was running, and the same thing.

I've never had any issues whatsoever with either game before. I'm guessing it's the newest NVIDIA drivers. Stayed up late last night trying to sort it out I'm just went to bed and shelved it for today.

I'm assuming my best option is just a try to uninstall those drivers and roll back to a prior version? I'm just not had to do much with Windows 10 because my computer's been humming along without any issues other than just having a new one occasional reboot from something having a conflict.

Has anybody else had a similar issue, and if so what did you do to fix it?

Any advice to make this easier would be appreciated.

Fucker · Jan 3, 2025

Dr.Retarded said:
So picked up the cyberpunk expansion this Christmas and decided to start a fresh game yesterday evening. Figured I'd update my video drivers.

Fire up the game during character creation I suddenly get these massive lag spikes, and running the in-game benchmark after screwing with settings, it'll randomly drop to 7 fps.

Didn't know if it was anything with the game, so I went and fired up starfield just to see how it was running, and the same thing.

I've never had any issues whatsoever with either game before. I'm guessing it's the newest NVIDIA drivers. Stayed up late last night trying to sort it out I'm just went to bed and shelved it for today.

I'm assuming my best option is just a try to uninstall those drivers and roll back to a prior version? I'm just not had to do much with Windows 10 because my computer's been humming along without any issues other than just having a new one occasional reboot from something having a conflict.

Has anybody else had a similar issue, and if so what did you do to fix it?

Any advice to make this easier would be appreciated.

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Tmac · Jan 6, 2025

Why would Chrome work very poorly, while Safari works normally on a MacBook? When I use Chrome on my MacBook websites take 20-30 seconds to load. If I use Safari it works as intended.

Anyone else run into this issue on a MacBook?

Control · Jan 7, 2025

Tmac said:
Why would Chrome work very poorly, while Safari works normally on a MacBook? When I use Chrome on my MacBook websites take 20-30 seconds to load. If I use Safari it works as intended.

Anyone else run into this issue on a MacBook?

a. Apple wants you to use Safari, so it makes everything else worse.
b. Chrome does stuff that doesn't play nice with Mac hardware and doesn't care that Mac users get hosed (and probably thinks they deserve it since they don't have androids).
c. Safari is better.

Dr.Retarded · Jan 9, 2025

Fucker said:
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So tried doing the clean install with the second program and have tried a few different drivers at this point. Still no dice.

And screwing with it for a little bit during the evenings, and I still get these random frame rate drops that I've never had on either of those two games before.

Is there possibly some other weird cache file or something that I need to screw around with?

I guess the current driver I'm running is the one I remember downloading or updating to when the phantom Liberty came out, and I'm pretty sure that was the last automatic driver I downloaded and I didn't have any problems.

Been trying to scour the internet and just watching videos about it and it's just kind of all over the place on what a possible solution might be.

Everything runs completely smooth on good settings and then suddenly I get a giant frame rate drop that runs for maybe 10-15 seconds, and then suddenly everything is back to normal. Been monitoring temps, and I'm not seeing any giant spikes, but the one thing is the task manager is telling me my GPU isn't pulling a major increase. I just wonder if there's some goofy setting that I'm not aware of that got flipped.

Edaw · Jan 9, 2025

Dr.Retarded said:
So tried doing the clean install with the second program and have tried a few different drivers at this point. Still no dice.

And screwing with it for a little bit during the evenings, and I still get these random frame rate drops that I've never had on either of those two games before.

Is there possibly some other weird cache file or something that I need to screw around with?

I guess the current driver I'm running is the one I remember downloading or updating to when the phantom Liberty came out, and I'm pretty sure that was the last automatic driver I downloaded and I didn't have any problems.

Been trying to scour the internet and just watching videos about it and it's just kind of all over the place on what a possible solution might be.

Everything runs completely smooth on good settings and then suddenly I get a giant frame rate drop that runs for maybe 10-15 seconds, and then suddenly everything is back to normal. Been monitoring temps, and I'm not seeing any giant spikes, but the one thing is the task manager is telling me my GPU isn't pulling a major increase. I just wonder if there's some goofy setting that I'm not aware of that got flipped.

Janx · Jan 9, 2025

Edaw said:

Think it was already researched awhile back and its not the app but the recording/overlay portion that is causing the loss if memory serves. Unless somethings changed since then.

Update: just saw the 3rd link mentioned that.

Dr.Retarded · Jan 9, 2025

Edaw said:

I honestly haven't upgraded to the app, I still just have the g-force experience or whatever the hell it's called. I did read about a bunch of issues happening with that, and I thought maybe I'll update to the newest application and I'm glad I didn't.

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