Re: [H] Dead or Alive?
Did you try swapping out the power supply? On 8/12/2020 9:00 PM, _ Winterlight wrote: My Asus P9 X79WS with I7 has been giving me headaches for months. It runs at default there is no overclock. It uses Crucial DDR3 Ballistic Sport Ram and a EVGA 1070 video card. It runs for a while and then with a reboot it hangs and won’t post. Eventually it started shutting down on it’s own and, after I replaced the CPU cooler it seemed to behave. It has been running good for the last couple of weeks until yesterday’s MS windows 10 update. It does the update, then reboots and stops at the ASUS logo and won’t go on and won’t go to BIOS. I have pulled everything but the 1070 video card out in an attempt to discover the problem. RAM that checks out with Memtest… I have even swapped the RAM out trying to see if was RAM but the RAM is good. I removed all drives but no change. I tried clearing the BIOS, and then a re-flash of the current BIOS. Nothing helped. Anybody go through anything like this or have any ideas or has this board just gone bad.
Re: [H] What interferes with hearing aids and how do you track them down?
There is a TV up there, but not sure it's smart, have to check. He does have an interface to connect to it via bluetooth so he can hear directly into his hearing aids. Are smart TVs know to interfere? On 5/25/2020 6:43 PM, Richard Quilhot wrote: Is there a smart TV near by? Rick Q quilh...@gmail.com On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 6:22 PM didymus7 wrote: The contractor that lives with us (best way to do things!) has hearing aids that connect via bluetooth. He periodically has problems with them. He showed me once how the volume was going up and down by itself and at times, he has to reset them. They work with his apple watch and Ipad. As far as I know, the only place he has problems is in the house here. Is there a good way to track down whatever is interfering with his hearing aids? The primary place where he has problems is the living room. Beneath that is my computer room, but I've turned off wireless and bluetooth on the two computers down here. So there is nothing using wireless or bluetooth directly beneath the living room. I only have a wireless printer running in the next room over and today I've shut off the 2.4 ghz on my router, also in the next room. Upstairs is another matter and I have to deal with my wife about that. I've tried bluetooth and wireless apps on the phone but that doesn't seem to give me any info. So, any ideas? Thanks...Steve
[H] What interferes with hearing aids and how do you track them down?
The contractor that lives with us (best way to do things!) has hearing aids that connect via bluetooth. He periodically has problems with them. He showed me once how the volume was going up and down by itself and at times, he has to reset them. They work with his apple watch and Ipad. As far as I know, the only place he has problems is in the house here. Is there a good way to track down whatever is interfering with his hearing aids? The primary place where he has problems is the living room. Beneath that is my computer room, but I've turned off wireless and bluetooth on the two computers down here. So there is nothing using wireless or bluetooth directly beneath the living room. I only have a wireless printer running in the next room over and today I've shut off the 2.4 ghz on my router, also in the next room. Upstairs is another matter and I have to deal with my wife about that. I've tried bluetooth and wireless apps on the phone but that doesn't seem to give me any info. So, any ideas? Thanks...Steve
Re: [H] Fast Boot Failure
Thanks for the info. I do have a USB device malfunctioning, well, Win10 is telling me it's not identifying itself. That will be fun to find. Eh. I did flash the BIOS, then noticed I didn't flash the recent one. So I'm going to go through the flashing one more time. Then see if I can find out which USB device is malfunctioning. On 5/9/2020 6:31 PM, Winterlight wrote: The BIOS has detected that something is setup wrong or is malfunctioning and it wants you make the correction. Sometimes just reshaving the BIOS will do the job and other times re-seating cards and cables will do it. At 01:21 PM 5/9/2020, you wrote: My present system, based on an Asus ROG Maximus X Hero, had been booting fine with 'fast boot' for almost two years. Last week, fast boot would boot me directly to the UEFI BIOS and unless I selected 'Save and Reset', it would continue to boot right to BIOS. Of course, the solution was to switch off Fast Boot, but I was wondering if anyone knew what changed to cause fast boot not to work. Anyone know anything about this? Thanks...Steve
[H] Fast Boot Failure
My present system, based on an Asus ROG Maximus X Hero, had been booting fine with 'fast boot' for almost two years. Last week, fast boot would boot me directly to the UEFI BIOS and unless I selected 'Save and Reset', it would continue to boot right to BIOS. Of course, the solution was to switch off Fast Boot, but I was wondering if anyone knew what changed to cause fast boot not to work. Anyone know anything about this? Thanks...Steve
Re: [H] what the hell happened to gmail
I usually have Thunderbird pick up my gmail, so I notice very little about the web interface unless I go there. I checked my other two gmail accounts and noticed nothing different. I'll just have to keep an eye out. On 10/9/2019 3:03 PM, Winterlight wrote: yeah I have one like that as well ...but in time Google will "update" those as well that is how they work. They did this with Google voice as well. At 12:33 PM 10/9/2019, you wrote: Just went there and signed in on two of my accounts. Both had the gear icon and no other problems. I was using Firefox to access them. On 10/9/2019 2:11 PM, Winterlight wrote: I have never been a big fan of Gmail but with its recent update it has become unusable. they did an update and now the gear icon is missing, it won't let me scroll down to the bottom of the page, it jumps in and does things for me I don't want to do, pretty soon it won't need me anymore.
Re: [H] what the hell happened to gmail
Just went there and signed in on two of my accounts. Both had the gear icon and no other problems. I was using Firefox to access them. On 10/9/2019 2:11 PM, Winterlight wrote: I have never been a big fan of Gmail but with its recent update it has become unusable. they did an update and now the gear icon is missing, it won't let me scroll down to the bottom of the page, it jumps in and does things for me I don't want to do, pretty soon it won't need me anymore.
Re: [H] List seems dead these days?
When did the list begin? I've only been here since '95. Not sure what month. On 8/8/2019 4:53 PM, Scott Sipe wrote: I'm embarrassed to say my last serious build was an i7-4970 and a Geforce970 (and also embarrassed I had to look up in my email to see when that was -- 2014!). I do have an itch to try out AMD again. I put together a small AMD system a year or so ago with my son--who is now 9. I think I first joined the HWG when I was around 13 or 14 (does anybody remember when the list started?). Now THAT'S scary. Great to see so many people still around. Scott On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 9:01 PM Thane K. Sherrington < th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: Anyone else getting double posts? On 07/08/2019 9:58 p.m., Thane K. Sherrington wrote: Yeah, those were the days. :) T On 07/08/2019 3:16 p.m., Christopher Fisk wrote: Gone are the days of getting a 50% overclock out of a slocket'ed Celeron 300a malaysia. On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 1:37 PM Joshua MacCraw wrote: Is there an issue at my end or is the list faded?
Re: [H] List seems dead these days?
Most seem to be still here. How about some controversy? What do you think about going AMD for the build? Yeah, I've been watching Linus on Youtube and they are all over Ryzen 5. On 8/7/2019 5:35 PM, lopaka polena wrote: I'm here too :) lopaka On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 1:55 PM didymus7 wrote: I was wondering myself. I did post a couple of questions over the past couple of weeks and there was nothing. On 8/7/2019 1:37 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: Is there an issue at my end or is the list faded?
Re: [H] List seems dead these days?
I was wondering myself. I did post a couple of questions over the past couple of weeks and there was nothing. On 8/7/2019 1:37 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: Is there an issue at my end or is the list faded?
Re: [H] Godaddy
I have a free Wordpress site currently, but I'm going to look at Bink Internet. They are in OZ, but that shouldn't make much of a difference. The prices are pretty good. On 5/30/2019 3:46 PM, Winterlight wrote: Ever since Godaddy went public they have gone down terribly.Their support is awful and it is off shore now. Support is so bad that they don't even ask for "how did we do" surveys anymore. Support incompetence has actually cost me quite a bit of money and now I am looking to move my domains and hosting somewhere else. I am asking the collective for recomendations? Thanks
[H] Recommendation for a Triple Monitor Support
I have a 27" and two 24" monitors that are currently sitting on the desk and an adjacent table and if I can get a good support, I can ditch the extra table and have more desk space. Amazon has a bunch of them but I'd like to ask the collective if anybody has any experience with any brand, either good or bad. Don't want to have to do this more than once. Thanks...Steve
Re: [H] Win 10 won't shut down
Jamie, Didn't notice your email because Gmail stuck it in spam. But thanks for the response. It turns out that I had a device attached to the USB that was causing a long delay in shutdown, probably about 10-15 minutes. I had just bought one of those USB cassette players to transfer songs to digital. While it does that great (hint: it attaches as a USB sound device so you can select it in Audacity), it has some problem with being connected at shutdown. So I removed it and all is fine. Steve On 2/18/2019 11:34 PM, Jamie Furtner wrote: There shouldn't be a problem with changing your live.com account password. Have you tried a forced shutdown by the command line? Open a command prompt, type in shutdown /s /t 1 and see what happens? If it works, try a normal shut down again and see if that works. On 2019-02-18 2:24 p.m., Steve Tomporowski wrote: Well, over the weekend, I found out that the password for my hotmail account had been pwned, so I changed it on Live.com. Since that time, Win 10 won't shut down. Was it a problem that I changed my password to my linked account that way? When I click the shutdown button, nothing happens until I do Cntrl-Alt-Del, then there's a quick flash of an error message and the spinning dots show up and that's where it sits. I haven't let it run that way more than 10 minutes, though. Any ideas? ThanksSteve
Re: [H] Thunderbird ?
Sorry to say, although I've used Tbird for years, I never dug into that. Recently when I had to reload Win10, I just set the mailboxes up like I wanted them, after years of just dealing with the order. Eh. On 11/26/2018 8:03 PM, FORC5 wrote: Have always used Eudora but that is not possible anymore, have tbird setup and running and somethings I like and others, maybe just not completely used to it yet. trying to rearrange the mailboxes, is there a way without deleting them all and starting from scratch ? want to move the last one created up . will not drag as far as I can tell. fp
Re: [H] Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports | TechCrunch
For once, being late has benefits. On 10/6/2018 4:52 PM, Z Vaper wrote: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/06/microsoft-suspends-windows-10-update-citing-data-loss-reports/ -- Zulfiqar Naushad Sent with Airmail
Re: [H] Moving boot disk to new motherboard
Going from an Asus Maximus 7 Hero to a Maximus 10 Hero; Z97 to Z370 chipset. I had to go through a reinstall a couple of months ago. It took much to long to get back to functionality. On 10/8/2018 8:01 PM, Al A wrote: Never tried with W10. If you're processing audio files, is there a concern for latency issues? Nothing like a fresh install. How big a change between the two MB? Good luck, Al On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 5:10 PM didymus7 wrote: I've heard that most of the time that trying to move Win10 to a new motherboard will result in a blue screen and it has to do with the disk drivers. Has anybody been able to do this? There are way too many audio samples to reload to start from scratch (Native Instruments are idiots when it comes to PCs and installs and their Complete 9 Ultimate takes almost 8 hours to install). Right now I've got Standard AHCI drivers in Device Manager (never changed the drivers) so I should be good to do this? Thanks...Steve
[H] Moving boot disk to new motherboard
I've heard that most of the time that trying to move Win10 to a new motherboard will result in a blue screen and it has to do with the disk drivers. Has anybody been able to do this? There are way too many audio samples to reload to start from scratch (Native Instruments are idiots when it comes to PCs and installs and their Complete 9 Ultimate takes almost 8 hours to install). Right now I've got Standard AHCI drivers in Device Manager (never changed the drivers) so I should be good to do this? Thanks...Steve
Re: [H] Newegg Screws Its Connecticut Customers
Yeah, CT was really volunteer until the latest budget problems, so now they are flexing their muscles in enforcement. I would love to say to them that the items were bought by me but are used in another state. I doubt that would matter, however, this is tax money we're talking about. On 3/4/2018 1:05 PM, Paxia wrote: AZ has a line on the State tax form to *volunteer* to pay tax on anything bought on line :-) I actually know ppl that do that, I ignore it. Maybe I should not have said that, NSA is listening fp On 3/4/2018 9:50 AM, didymus7 wrote: The state of Connecticut is very innovative in one area: Taxes. Our state legislators (blue state) are adept at screaming about budget deficits, then seeking ways to get more money out of the populace. CT has had for a few years, what amounts to an unconstitutional tax law, called the Use Tax. The Use Tax proscribes that anything bought out of state has to be charged CT sales tax, even if the selling entity does not have a CT office. This is essentially a tax on interstate commerce, forbidden to states by the US constitution. However, by hand waving and calling it a 'Use' tax, the courts, so far, have given it a pass. That's the background. Since the use tax has been initiated, Newegg has adamantly refused to collect CT state sales tax. Since the state of CT can't force them to, that's their right. However, when the state of CT recently requested that Newegg hand over information on CT buyers for the years 2014, 2015, 2016, they cheerfully gave up that info despite the fact that they really didn't have to. Luckily, I bought little from Newegg the last three years and will not from now on. I don't mind paying the tax, but I object to Newegg just doing the easy stuff, then ratting me out. Bottom line: I'm hit up for an extra $100 in taxes. Just letting everyone know in case your state becomes as innovative as CT with a 'Use' tax. Steve
Re: [H] Newegg Screws Its Connecticut Customers
Well, they'd probably come out with a yearly use tax collection form that you have to file each year. They have the example of the state of CT to follow, unfortunately. Obviously now I'm going to cut all ties to Newegg. As far as I'm concerned you either do or don't. You just don't do it and then rat someone out. On 3/4/2018 1:01 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: Wow, how enforceable is that? We have no state income tax in Washington so no state filing. Do know I've heard (g)rumblings about them trying to enforce it, just not the how. I dumped the Egg when they quietly dumped the rebranded PayPal credit leaving me with paying PayPal 2x since PP wouldn't combine my NE & PP Credit debits. On Mar 4, 2018 9:52 AM, "didymus7" wrote: They enforce it in a variety of ways. If you buy a car out of state, they'll hit you up upon registration. For internet orders, you are supposed to pay the use tax in your income tax return. Most people don't, and technically, if the company has a location in that state, like Amazon, they have to collect CT state sales tax. The use tax is difficult to enforce unless companies, like Newegg, just cave in and give them lists. On 3/4/2018 12:40 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: "Hit up" how, it's the sellers job to collect? That stupid law us making it's rounds in WA also but thought it more a nuisance than enforceable, On Mar 4, 2018 8:50 AM, "didymus7" wrote: The state of Connecticut is very innovative in one area: Taxes. Our state legislators (blue state) are adept at screaming about budget deficits, then seeking ways to get more money out of the populace. CT has had for a few years, what amounts to an unconstitutional tax law, called the Use Tax. The Use Tax proscribes that anything bought out of state has to be charged CT sales tax, even if the selling entity does not have a CT office. This is essentially a tax on interstate commerce, forbidden to states by the US constitution. However, by hand waving and calling it a 'Use' tax, the courts, so far, have given it a pass. That's the background. Since the use tax has been initiated, Newegg has adamantly refused to collect CT state sales tax. Since the state of CT can't force them to, that's their right. However, when the state of CT recently requested that Newegg hand over information on CT buyers for the years 2014, 2015, 2016, they cheerfully gave up that info despite the fact that they really didn't have to. Luckily, I bought little from Newegg the last three years and will not from now on. I don't mind paying the tax, but I object to Newegg just doing the easy stuff, then ratting me out. Bottom line: I'm hit up for an extra $100 in taxes. Just letting everyone know in case your state becomes as innovative as CT with a 'Use' tax. Steve
Re: [H] Newegg Screws Its Connecticut Customers
They enforce it in a variety of ways. If you buy a car out of state, they'll hit you up upon registration. For internet orders, you are supposed to pay the use tax in your income tax return. Most people don't, and technically, if the company has a location in that state, like Amazon, they have to collect CT state sales tax. The use tax is difficult to enforce unless companies, like Newegg, just cave in and give them lists. On 3/4/2018 12:40 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: "Hit up" how, it's the sellers job to collect? That stupid law us making it's rounds in WA also but thought it more a nuisance than enforceable, On Mar 4, 2018 8:50 AM, "didymus7" wrote: The state of Connecticut is very innovative in one area: Taxes. Our state legislators (blue state) are adept at screaming about budget deficits, then seeking ways to get more money out of the populace. CT has had for a few years, what amounts to an unconstitutional tax law, called the Use Tax. The Use Tax proscribes that anything bought out of state has to be charged CT sales tax, even if the selling entity does not have a CT office. This is essentially a tax on interstate commerce, forbidden to states by the US constitution. However, by hand waving and calling it a 'Use' tax, the courts, so far, have given it a pass. That's the background. Since the use tax has been initiated, Newegg has adamantly refused to collect CT state sales tax. Since the state of CT can't force them to, that's their right. However, when the state of CT recently requested that Newegg hand over information on CT buyers for the years 2014, 2015, 2016, they cheerfully gave up that info despite the fact that they really didn't have to. Luckily, I bought little from Newegg the last three years and will not from now on. I don't mind paying the tax, but I object to Newegg just doing the easy stuff, then ratting me out. Bottom line: I'm hit up for an extra $100 in taxes. Just letting everyone know in case your state becomes as innovative as CT with a 'Use' tax. Steve
[H] Newegg Screws Its Connecticut Customers
The state of Connecticut is very innovative in one area: Taxes. Our state legislators (blue state) are adept at screaming about budget deficits, then seeking ways to get more money out of the populace. CT has had for a few years, what amounts to an unconstitutional tax law, called the Use Tax. The Use Tax proscribes that anything bought out of state has to be charged CT sales tax, even if the selling entity does not have a CT office. This is essentially a tax on interstate commerce, forbidden to states by the US constitution. However, by hand waving and calling it a 'Use' tax, the courts, so far, have given it a pass. That's the background. Since the use tax has been initiated, Newegg has adamantly refused to collect CT state sales tax. Since the state of CT can't force them to, that's their right. However, when the state of CT recently requested that Newegg hand over information on CT buyers for the years 2014, 2015, 2016, they cheerfully gave up that info despite the fact that they really didn't have to. Luckily, I bought little from Newegg the last three years and will not from now on. I don't mind paying the tax, but I object to Newegg just doing the easy stuff, then ratting me out. Bottom line: I'm hit up for an extra $100 in taxes. Just letting everyone know in case your state becomes as innovative as CT with a 'Use' tax. Steve
[H] USB Compatibility
I just recently attached an Anker USB 3.0 Hub and while it does work, I did see an uh-oh in the manual (single piece of paper). It stated that 'All' hubs had problems with Logitech devices. Now I've noticed a trend the last few years of USB incompatibilities suddenly springing up. In my case, the APC UPS. As an engineer, incompatibility means somebody screwed up. My thought is that many vendors are using cheap Chinese chips and trying to blame their problems on somebody else. Any thoughts? Any experience with 'all' hubs having problems with Logitech?
