Recent content by doolittle

I have done this for my elderly parents TV, so one can use headphones at higher volume due to hearing loss and the other at a normal volume via AVR. I used plain-old RCA patch cables from their TV's RCA line-out to a AV distribution box and one stereo RCA cable to the AVR, and one to a...

curious what brand wifi adapter & driver version you have and what brand router & firmware version you have? Have seen similar issues where the wifi adapter brand / driver has issues with specific brands of routers...

Have to recommend a gaming mouse when not gaming because of their rock-solid construction and durability, currently a good deal on the Roccat Kone Pro for $25, or the Burst Pro for $27 - either one has a very durable scroll wheel and optical switches for the buttons that can go for ~100k clicks...

let me guess - windows on the desktop? Double-check your "network and sharing center" in your settings and make sure it's set to private network, which *should* allow the normal CIFS filesharing to work. If not login to one of the NAS on the laptop and check out the logs in the admin interface...

I do something very similar on my basement workbench, have several PCs under the bench and have a few 6' extension cables - 2x usb2, 1x usb3, 1x 3.5mm audio extension with an HDMI extension as my poor-mans KVM switch while a 1' HDMI cable with a F<=>F HDMI adapter completes the setup on the...

IMO that single HDD is going to be a pain especially if you are going to serve out to more than one device at a time - I have an old celeron running debian with a 6x1Tb ZFS and it does well, on a budget just get a cheap sata 1Tb SSD and use the old spinner for backups. Have to admit used SSD...

Apologies if my answer was over-complicated - let me explain in more detail Let's say you get the Astro A20 wireless Gen2 for xbox x/s and PC it will come with a USB dongle that you connect to either the xbox console, or the PC, depending on which device you want to use. Alternatively you can...

Get whatever wireless headset that is compatible with both Xbox and PC (will probably use USB C dongle) Then get a USB C switch box similar to this one if you don't want to constantly keep hot-plugging the dongle physically.

Very odd, most optical converters use high-level / amped for rca line-out, it is possible you got one that is pre-amp. Have used similar ones like this one to get optical to AVR & stereo amps and even car audio amps (combined with an old PC power supply to get +12v) and no problems, if possible...

10 year old tv, age mostly likely and could just be a coincidence - if you have an old hdmi monitor to test that would confirm, if the monitor dies then I would suspect the firestick but I am highly doubtful...

sounds like KVM over IP? you can get a device however they are a bit pricey as they are intended for datacenter use... check out PiKVM for an inexpensive DIY solution...

I have not heard the A5's, know someone who has a pair of Mackie's - might work for you? Mackie CR5-X Active 5" Creative Reference Monitors - 80 W £179.99 (10% off), not a bad deal... edit - would you consider disassembling the A5s since they are out of warranty, and see if they have an active...

Unfortunately those speakers only have a headphone out, the aux jack is an analog input so connecting a sub would be pretty difficult since they act as their own sound card. Those are quite nice speakers BTW and look great for online meetings and chat... Maybe pick up a cheap set like the Z313...

I would disassemble and find the ribbon cable that connects to the motherboard, disconnect it then reconnect it. Majority of the time it will clear it up - if not its possible it is failing and might need a replacement (at that point it might be time to replace the entire laptop...)

hmm, perhaps you previously had a frame-limiter enabled via your gpu driver or RTSS and did not enable on the new install yet?