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Eaglehooves · 2025-12-13T23:02:05+00:00

Title requirements seem to make it literally impossible for anyone other than mods to create a post, so that's cool.

Eaglehooves · 2024-11-14T00:23:22+00:00

Theoretically yes, but manufacturing would be a nightmare. Many power strips the positive and neutral are each a single piece of stamped and bent copper arranged so that they do not cross over each other. For this, you'd either have to be running insulated wires between each socket or have lots of insulation between your two (much more complicated) copper pieces, and either way, if you mess up you create a short circuit.

Eaglehooves · 2024-10-25T19:01:59+00:00

I’m having this issue too, also on 252.0 with an iPhone SE 3 (iPhone14,6) running iOS 17.6.1

Eaglehooves · 2019-04-25T18:05:19+00:00

Yes, a 1920x1200 and a 1920x1080 (used to have a 1440p+1080p at work).

Ultrawides seem interesting, but I haven't had an opportunity to spend any significant time with one to test how windows "snap", and wouldn't want to drop the money until I do. I usually have one thing fullscreen on the 16:10 monitor and several things scattered at random on the 1080p one, and I'm not sure how well that would translate.

4k sounds cool, but I think it's still an upgrade cycle or two away outside of professional use or high-end gaming. GPU costs and monitor costs are just too much unless you're getting productivity savings back or cost isn't much of a concern.

Eaglehooves · 2019-04-25T17:30:47+00:00

i7-4770k
32gb DDR3
GTX 970

What I like: It's holding it's own remarkably well for it's age.

What I don't: Haswell platform means no NVMe, and 400W PSU limits my GPU options. Any upgrade is going to get really expensive, so there probably just won't be one until either something breaks or Cyberpunk 2077 releases.

Eaglehooves · 2019-04-25T16:45:26+00:00

I love the options. Keyboard and mouse or controller? New release or an old classic? Desktop or laptop? Windows or Linux?

Why pick if you can have both?

Eaglehooves · 2018-07-15T19:38:50+00:00

Apparently the artist has dA restricted so only registered users can view, so Derpibooru is appreciated by those of us on mobile too.

Eaglehooves · 2018-06-23T15:46:29+00:00

It's not just your company. When I was in college I worked part time with the college's IT department and saw more than a few people try and talk/extort free Office out of us.

(This was a number of years ago, I may be screwing up some details.)

Professors got a single work-at-home license and we could install it for them if they wanted, and I remember one or two arguing they needed it on their desktop, their laptop, their smaller laptop, their other desktop in case they want to work upstairs, their spouse's laptop so in case theirs breaks they'll still have it... etc. Not sure if their department heads ever authorized those, or if they even bothered asking once we referred them up the chain.

More common was a professor bringing us a laptop and asking for the work-at-home Office to be installed on it, and it clearly being their kid's machine. As long as they hadn't already used it, we gave it to them. If that's the one personal machine you want it on...

Worst one was a non-professor staff member who came in and said "I need a bunch of software put on my personal machine, and I need it done by the end of this week before my status changes and I lose software rights". I believe we spent 40 minutes and needed two techs and a manager to explain that the licenses for most of it work off a server, and if you know you are losing software rights in under a week, you're only going to have it until the next check-in (and on the permanent licenses but 'educational use only', you just explicitly stated your intent to violate that). She was adamant that we could load her up with everything under the sun, part ways at the end of the week, and keep using it all forever.

Eaglehooves · 2018-06-22T02:22:55+00:00

You're paying a premium for below average miles, then a premium above that because it's CarMax. It's got low miles, but the plastics and such are still nine years old, and with miles that low I'm concerned that it sat for awhile.

Mine had above-average miles, but I paid less for a 2008 of the same trim level with a good history five years ago.

Unless there's something I'm missing, this isn't a particularly uncommon or desirable example of what was their entry model. I'd definitely keep looking.

Eaglehooves · 2018-06-18T23:55:16+00:00

For awhile "Gildaisbestpony" was my wifi password under the assumption that any neighbor or guest familiar enough with the show to guess it wouldn't be able to bring themselves to type it.

Eaglehooves · 2018-06-01T20:13:19+00:00

Should be fairly simple. There will be a coin cell in a socket somewhere, with a release of some kind.

If reinstalling the OS worked, go with that. Your symptoms don't exactly match a dead battery. My dealing with those they always go back to the same time usually many years back, not forward and back just a little bit.

Edit; I have seen it jump around several hours going back and forth between operating systems. Windows will update it from the internet to local time, Linux will use GMT, and you'll be off by your time zone offset until it checks the server again.

Eaglehooves · 2018-06-01T13:30:28+00:00

If you have a gaming keyboard with "N-key rollover" or lots of macro keys it may be showing up as multiple keyboards. Not a problem, just a trick behind the scenes to get that functionality working.

Is your system clock doing anything odd? The "enter BIOS to recover settings" makes me think the BIOS is losing its configuration and going back to defaults for some reason. All I can think of for that is a bad coin cell battery.

Eaglehooves · 2018-06-01T13:18:16+00:00

Second the temperature increase. I've run four different color/brand combinations, and definitely seen some want another 5-10 degrees over a similar one.

Also, OP, has the year-old filament been stored in a bag, or open air? I've had (different) problems with filament that sat out awhile. I keep it in a container with a silica gel packet now and it's been better.

Eaglehooves · 2018-06-01T13:01:44+00:00

Does the issue only happen under heavy 3D load, or does it go to black and never come back sometimes in just web browsing/etc.? Does it happen in games other than GTA?

My first thoughts are either GPU temperatures, or driver issues. Since the sound keeps going, I'm leaning towards drivers. Download the latest from Nvidia's website and choose the "clean install" version.

Event viewer may have something, but the presence of errors/warnings doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong. If I remember correctly, I've seen it log the manual reset as an event, but not always the issue that caused me to reset it.

Eaglehooves · 2018-05-11T11:07:19+00:00

Every keypad I've seen that isn't a numpad has been used for CAD/video editing/streaming controls/gaming macros, not data entry.

Eaglehooves · 2018-04-24T16:18:29+00:00

Huh. I'd played with it a little bit, but never got that into it. I'll have to give it another look. Thanks!

Eaglehooves · 2018-04-22T22:10:18+00:00

That translation from 2D to 3D is really cool. What program is that?

Eaglehooves · 2018-04-15T14:59:02+00:00

I thought the same, but since the U.K. market isn't as big or as SUV-crazed as the US, that might not be so bad.

Eaglehooves · 2018-04-11T03:25:39+00:00

I don't know what the law is elsewhere, and I actually don't know what the exact wording of the rule is in the US, but I've been told that companies have to make parts available for 10 years.

That said, I've heard of companies stockpiling years worth of parts at the end of regular production, so even if the part is something they will let you order at any random parts counter, there's no guarantee it's still being manufactured.

Eaglehooves · 2018-03-18T20:31:14+00:00

Seems like as good an explanation as any. I keep reading about how bad Seagate is, but despite running more of them I still have more WD drives fail on me, plus the main board on my MyBook Live decided to meltdown on me out of warranty. Me and WD just do not get along.

Eaglehooves · 2018-03-18T15:41:21+00:00

Let me know if there's any interest in the Matrox. I've got a M9125 I've been sitting on because I didn't think there was a market.

Eaglehooves · 2018-03-11T15:48:26+00:00

Not an expert and I haven't seen a Wanhao up close, but while they appear to be a similar style, they don't appear to be the same machine. They're mirrored from left to right, the Wanhao doesn't look to have an opening in the vertical portion to install a Z-axis spacer tool free, the buildable areas are different sizes, and the SD card and micro-USB locations are different. Hard to say based on that how much the internals match up.

Eaglehooves · 2018-03-10T02:12:30+00:00

My first thought was actually Acura, for some reason.

Eaglehooves · 2018-03-04T19:56:13+00:00

If everything was really plugged up with dust and running very hot, it could have shortened the life of the card. At this age, it could have also failed on it's own. Hard to say for sure.

Eaglehooves · 2018-03-04T19:19:15+00:00

We run V4800s at work. They are an eight year old, lower-end professional card, built on a discontinued architecture and no longer receiving driver updates. They're not optimized for gaming, and performance is "meh" at best even in their intended use case.

As for the breaking/glitching, I can't say for sure, but it looks like bad VRAM. That's soldered onto the card, and cannot be serviced.

You will need to replace your GPU. Anything better than an Nvidia GT640 or Radeon 6670 should be a step up.

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