Forum: Homebuilt PC's
April 10th 21, 01:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 5
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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.
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| This is the VCore voltage regulator. It started as a...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
April 8th 21, 01:17 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,962
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
April 7th 21, 08:15 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,962
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 18th 21, 12:16 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 9
Views: 3,059
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 17th 21, 11:41 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 11
Views: 876
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 16th 21, 03:03 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 25
Views: 6,421
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?
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 16th 21, 02:48 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 25
Views: 6,421
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 15th 21, 02:42 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 25
Views: 6,421
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 15th 21, 02:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 11
Views: 876
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:...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 15th 21, 01:55 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 11
Views: 876
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 15th 21, 01:52 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 11
Views: 876
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
| ...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 15th 21, 01:47 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 11
Views: 876
Dead motherboard?
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:44:24 -0400, Flasherly wrote:
| On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:27:40 -0400, Larc
| wrote:
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| Symptoms: started rebooting occasionally,...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
March 14th 21, 08:27 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 11
Views: 876
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 10th 21, 08:25 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 8
Views: 840
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 10th 21, 03:07 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 8
Views: 840
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 10th 21, 02:57 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 8
Views: 840
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 9th 21, 07:48 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 8
Views: 840
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 18th 20, 01:47 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 35
Views: 2,096
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 17th 20, 09:28 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,682
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 17th 20, 08:30 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 35
Views: 2,096
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 17th 20, 02:21 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 35
Views: 2,096
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 6th 20, 05:20 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 3
Views: 734
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...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
October 10th 20, 05:23 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,243
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
October 10th 20, 01:18 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,243
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
October 9th 20, 03:32 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,243
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