Recent content by Cellie

Does it count monitors presenting catastrophic defects right after warranty expires now in 2024? If yes, I've got a monitor here that wants to tell you a story, and that's that LG turned to shit. To add insult to the injury they're doing the written word equivalent of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and...

An AIO radiator doesn't need to be installed on the side. The biggest obstacle for an AIO is be the distance from the block to the nearest fan. It's possible to use an AIO heathsink fan as exhaust but obviously CPU temps are going to climb higher, faster. Anecdote: I got a miniITX in a 222mm x...

If it has a speaker/buzzer you can also try to remove everything, RAM included, leave just the CPU and its cooler and the power to the mobo and CPU and see if it turns on and beeps a complaint. Failing to turn on then I'd also take the CPU out and try again.

Hibernation is similar to sleep, but it saves a copy of the RAM (where the current session lives) to the disk. It enables to put the computer to "sleep" and not lose the state if power is out for some reason, unlike sleep which only saves data to the RAM. There's also hybrid sleep which...

As someone who has been running a 100GB partition for the OS for years and is diligent about where to download things, where set scratch disks and tmp when allowed to, besides installing large work software packages and some utils in another partition, I can tell you: Yeaaah, it's a little too...

👀 It's nice to see Galax still taking us who need smaller-sized cards into consideration.

Do you happen to have another computer or another CPU at hand to test? Last time I had issues with PCIe lanes it was either the mobo or CPU. Unfortunately it was 10 years ago. I had to RMA both around the same time and can no longer recall who was at fault for what, just that one of them caused...

If the only thing you're only going to do in that OS is run games I don't see the security risks, specially since you're going to do it in a virtual machine — isolated from your main system. As long you don't browse the internet or install games from suspicious sources you should be fine.

Do you have the iGPU Multi-Monitor option? Did you try to enable it when setting the Primary Display to IGFX?

Yeah, it's weird. It could be an iGPU setting. First you need to be able to to get into BIOS and configure it at will.

Well, the next step seems to be to borrow or buy a keyboard, ideally a ps/2, and try it. I've had computers with BIOS which didn't support USB keyboards well, but that was a very long time ago, like 20+ years. I'd be surprised if such a recent mobo acted like this.

@Paperdoc Out of curiosity, is audibly rattling only at certain speeds a characteristic of a specific type of bearing or is it common? Usually I don't stick with fans long enough they start to wear this way, but I had a 120mm fan acting similarly to the OPs, except the rattle when trigged was...

Is your OS set to auto-update drivers? You should try to rollback GPU the driver to the version released around the time you got the card, disable auto-updates if possible, and remove that Nvidia App for good measure.

Pretty much everything I'd recommend already was, so I'll just recommend you take a look at gog.com, short for "Good Old Games". Stuff is going on sale all the time. Games are DRM-free, no online activtation or internet required to play, so you won't find some from publishers who really really...

Is the keyboard plugged directly into a mobo port? If you have it connected to a peripheral like the monitor and the monitor usb isn't setup properly yet or isn't receiving power it won't be detected.