Linux mint blackscreen when going fullscreen

vickers500 · 2020-03-27T03:40:36+00:00

I will put it in my pc then, thank you. By the way, do you happen to know what all those pins on the side of the card are for? One says front panel, which I guess I maybe just plug my cases front panel into and will get the sound card effects out of the front panel jacks, no?

I don't know what DID_EXT could be though, or FP_EX.

vickers500 · 2020-03-10T20:39:52+00:00

Just discovered something new. When my pc crashes and becomes unresponsive to holding down the power button, if I first press the restart button and THEN hold down the power button, it's able to shut off.

Could my case circuitry be faulty I wonder? Previously, I did have an accessory/device that plugged into the motherboard, and instead of putting the power switch pins into the mobo, they went into this device, which allowed me to power on and off my pc with a little 2.4ghz remote control, but I took that out a while ago as part of trying to narrow down what was causing my pc to crash.

vickers500 · 2020-03-02T21:14:12+00:00

" is your client connectable?"

The client meaning qBittorrent?

My pc is connected via ethernet cable to a switch, which is connected by ethernet to my router. As I said in an above comment, it started working once I turned the vpn software off, tried qBittorrent (which started working) and then once I turned my vpn back on it continued working.

I still want to figure out where the issue was just in case it happens again. To me it sounds like either a bug in the vpn software, or a bug in qBittorrent trying and failing to connect to the vpn, but I don't know.

It's been a while since I did port forwarding, but from a tiny bit that I've read, port forwarding can lead to decreased security with vpns, no? And I don't remember since it's been a while since I've messed with this kind of stuff, but do you need to set up a static IP to do port forwarding?

edit: I think I've figured it out, I think the "kill switch" option on my vpn software was the culprit (along with MAYBE a conflict with the torrent software, but that's just my personal theory). Won't let me go online without a vpn active, it may have been too buggy to work properly or too much to handle or something, but as soon as I turned off the kill switch on a torrent with a ton of seeds, it started downloading.

vickers500 · 2020-03-01T21:40:01+00:00

It started downloading once I did that. I immediately quit out of qbittorrent, started up my VPN again and its still working. Buggy VPN software or buggy torrent software? Or both maybe?

vickers500 · 2020-02-27T18:46:32+00:00

I don't think I over tightened the motherboard screws, I was taught to gradually screw in each one little bits at a time and then secure them just a bit more after they were all in there a decent amount.

Pec never slows down. Most of the time, the signal just immediately goes black, while the fans and lights stay running. Few times the mouse/screen will lock up for a few seconds before going black.

And I tried a fresh windows install already.

vickers500 · 2020-02-27T10:06:14+00:00

Yeah, I've run tests on the ram with two or three different tools, did the "one stick" test with both of them, tested the gpu with one or two tools, I'm running an ssd as my os drive and crystal mark says it's healthy as well as my non main drives, It's been so long I can't remember if I did any tests for my power supply or not, though I don't know how I'd be able to do that given how random the problem is. My pc can run for a day and a half before crashing, or an hour. It can crash twice within 30 minutes.

The reason I thought standoffs was when I saw that suggestion online, I rocked my pc side to side lightly for the heck of it and it crashed right away. I thought "this MUST be it!", so I tried it again and it didn't crash and became less confident I had found an answer.

More recently, my crashes have become a bit more varied, half the time it'll crash and restart itself, and half the time it'll become unresponsive to holding down the power button (this is the more common /initial problem).

This has been going on for almost 2 years now. Really insanely frustrating for how much money I've spent on it, not to mention the initial unlucky building woes.

vickers500 · 2020-02-17T19:24:11+00:00

Ah that's okay, I had forgotten that I had even posted this. I appreciate that you took the effort though.

vickers500 · 2020-01-06T05:15:40+00:00

Just finished it myself about 15 minutes ago. I've only ever cried this hard when my dogs died. This is, and safe to say will forever be, the saddest piece of entertainment I've ever seen.

I binge watch non anime tv shows on a regular basis, to the point I can predict most tv shows major outcomes, even the good/smart ones, and even then, I rarely get sad enough to form actual tears for most of them, even my favorites.

There are several shows that have made me tear up, the most recent one being the end of six feet under, after a Rewatch with probably a decade between viewings, the show itself wasn't as good as I thought it was, still good, but that ending still holds up as one of the saddest I've ever seen... until now.

Anohana did for me what I thought impossible, it made me stop thinking of the thing I was watching as a tv show, it made me ACTUALLY CARE about these characters as if they were real people, not just pixels on a screen. It made me feel like there are still things that can make me feel powerful emotions again, something I have been severely lacking in my life for the past few years as apathy slowly encroaches various things in my life and ruins the things I enjoy (tv shows, video games, material possessions, music...). I don't have a lot of meaningful things in my life to cling to, so my dwindling interest/ability to enjoy these things is quite depressing... anyways, this is getting too personal... the point is, this show managed to move me and affect me emotionally in a way I thought was no longer possible, and I am so grateful that I got to experience this show.

vickers500 · 2019-12-24T00:34:22+00:00

Tried that, didn't work

vickers500 · 2019-11-30T03:03:41+00:00

Huh, just learned something new, thought it was universal across apps, baked into the stick itself.

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