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Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 10th 21, 01:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 2,587
Posted By Larc[_3_]
PC occasionally freezing

On Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:02:09 -0400, Paul wrote:

| Once upon a time, in a land far far away, there were VRMs.
|
| This is the VCore voltage regulator. It started as a...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 8th 21, 01:17 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 2,587
Posted By Larc[_3_]
PC occasionally freezing

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 15:54:06 -0500, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

| Can't think of much offhand, but you might try unplugging and reseatting
| all connectors including memory modules, if...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 7th 21, 08:15 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 2,587
Posted By Larc[_3_]
PC occasionally freezing

I recently bought a new motherboard for my main PC and shunted others down the line
until I got rid of an old one causing problems. The motherboard originally in my
main machine (ASRock Fatal1ty...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 18th 21, 01:16 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 9
Views: 2,752
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Fry's Electronic Out of Business!!!

On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:21:08 -0400, Flasherly wrote:

| Egghead was another of those Facebook/Microsoft dormroom startups for
| extracurricular activities. Dropouts, rather if...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 18th 21, 12:41 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 794
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Dead motherboard?

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:27:40 -0400, I wrote:

| Symptoms: started rebooting occasionally, progressively increasing with prior mouse
| pointer fadeout or freeze (cordless and corded mouse) - stopped...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 16th 21, 04:03 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 5,931
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Monitor question

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:11:03 -0400, Bill wrote:

| Here is an attempt to clarify my question: Can I use DisplayPort and
| the output audio jacks on my GPU at the same time?
|
|...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 16th 21, 03:48 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 5,931
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Monitor question

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:05:55 -0400, Bill wrote:

| Larc, When you used the DisplayPort, did you have to switch to using the
| audio via the monitor (aux?) or were you able to still...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 21, 03:42 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 25
Views: 5,931
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Monitor question

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:25:57 -0400, Bill wrote:

| I have a Asus Strix 750ti GPU. It has 2GB of onboard video memory and
| uses 8GB of shared system memory. According to its...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 21, 03:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 794
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Dead motherboard?

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:53:59 -0400, Paul wrote:

| Rene Lamontagne wrote:
| On 2021-03-14 5:01 p.m., Bob F wrote:
| On 3/14/2021 1:27 PM, Larc wrote:
| Symptoms:...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 21, 02:55 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 794
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Dead motherboard?

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:25:35 -0500, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

| On 2021-03-14 5:01 p.m., Bob F wrote:
| On 3/14/2021 1:27 PM, Larc wrote:
| Symptoms: started rebooting...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 21, 02:52 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 794
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Dead motherboard?

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:01:17 -0700, Bob F wrote:

| On 3/14/2021 1:27 PM, Larc wrote:
| Symptoms: started rebooting occasionally, progressively increasing with prior mouse
| ...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 15th 21, 02:47 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 794
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Dead motherboard?

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:44:24 -0400, Flasherly wrote:

| On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:27:40 -0400, Larc
| wrote:
|
| Symptoms: started rebooting occasionally,...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 14th 21, 09:27 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 794
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Dead motherboard?

Symptoms: started rebooting occasionally, progressively increasing with prior mouse
pointer fadeout or freeze (cordless and corded mouse) - stopped seeing USB wifi
adapter, although USB drives would...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 10th 21, 09:25 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 8
Views: 780
Posted By Larc[_3_]
5400 RPM HDD vs 7200 RPM HDD vs SATA SSD

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:32:47 -0500, Paul wrote:

| That's dual channel. You can swap an 8GB in there and the
| BIOS will run the two sticks, at the slower of the...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 10th 21, 04:07 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 8
Views: 780
Posted By Larc[_3_]
5400 RPM HDD vs 7200 RPM HDD vs SATA SSD

On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:01:17 -0600, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

| If my memory serves me right the 5400 RPM drives run cooler than the
| 7200* RPM ones, So in a laptop I would stay...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 10th 21, 03:57 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 8
Views: 780
Posted By Larc[_3_]
5400 RPM HDD vs 7200 RPM HDD vs SATA SSD

On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:08:17 -0500, Paul wrote:

| Changing the RAM config, that depends on whether the CPU is
| single channel or dual channel. With dual channel, a pair of...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 9th 21, 08:48 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 8
Views: 780
Posted By Larc[_3_]
5400 RPM HDD vs 7200 RPM HDD vs SATA SSD

I recently replaced my antique Toshiba laptop with a new shiny new HP, which I freely
admit is at least partly a toy since I'm retired and do my real work on a PC. The
new laptop arrived with a 1TB...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 18th 20, 02:47 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 35
Views: 1,997
Posted By Larc[_3_]
New Build

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 07:22:10 -0500, "SC Tom" wrote:

| There's a new (to me) option in the latest version of Partition Wizard that
| looks like the option to go with. It's "How to...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 17th 20, 10:28 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 22
Views: 1,547
Posted By Larc[_3_]
What's a good new 24"+ monitor or even a TV (smart & 4K R OK)?

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:29:02 -0500, Flasherly wrote:

| On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:20:08 -0600, (Ant) wrote:
|
|
| What's a good new 24"+ monitor or even a TV...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 17th 20, 09:30 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 35
Views: 1,997
Posted By Larc[_3_]
New Build

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:26:25 -0500, "SC Tom" wrote:

| I decided to give an SSD a chance on my current PC (I haven't bought the
| components yet for my "wish" PC). I can't get an NVMe...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 17th 20, 03:21 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 35
Views: 1,997
Posted By Larc[_3_]
New Build

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:31:26 -0500, "SC Tom" wrote:

| I've put together this build as a possible upgrade of my current AMD
| Athlon(tm) X4 845 Quad Core Processor 3.50 GHz w/16GB of...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 6th 20, 06:20 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 3
Views: 706
Posted By Larc[_3_]
zoom meetings, webinars and my sound

On Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:20:12 -0500, Paul wrote:

| As an example, Audacity for me at least, is almost impossible
| to get working. Yes, it has promising names in the...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's October 10th 20, 05:23 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 12
Views: 1,181
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Why buying laptops is a bad deal long term (dead battery = unable to boot up)

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:52:57 -0400, Paul wrote:

| Some features of the OS will be relying on Hyper-V as
| an engine. Some sort of sandbox. They think that
| turning the OS...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's October 10th 20, 01:18 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 12
Views: 1,181
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Why buying laptops is a bad deal long term (dead battery = unable to boot up)

On Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:39:07 -0400, Flasherly wrote:

| Then you're running "experimentally" now, whereas w/Ver.5 possibly
| couldn't make the distinction or a decision branch....
Forum: Homebuilt PC's October 9th 20, 03:32 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 12
Views: 1,181
Posted By Larc[_3_]
Why buying laptops is a bad deal long term (dead battery = unable to boot up)

On Fri, 09 Oct 2020 07:18:00 -0400, Paul wrote:

| RayLopez99 wrote:
|
| I wonder why you decide to recharge the battery every few months,
| I guess to prevent it from...
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