Recent content by Grandpa Jim

The key thing I am looking for Is "Bright" backlit keys. I play FFXIV in a dark room. Never having learned to type, I need to see the keyboard to find the key I am looking for. I have a G915 that has programmable color schemes, but they are not very bright, and sometimes it loses its...

I have a Logitek G910 keyboard, and it seems that only the "I" key works. I guess its time to replace it. My problem is they are no longer available. I want a Keyboard that is constantly back-lit in one solid color. I tried a G915, and it keeps going dark, and then has a rainbow 0f colors all...

The Coax is for cable TV. All the wiring terminates in a junction box, where the Century link ZYXEL C3000 router lives. I would like to get 2 adapters that will run 1G ethernet. The Coax is already there.

Two problems with that, SWMBO will not allow string cables across the room, and there is a problem with the ethernet drop, it only runs at 10 Mb, I think one of the wires lost their crimp.

Probably asked and answered, but... My sad tale of woe. Good news, my house is wired for ethernet and coax in each room. Now the bad news, Converted a large living room into an office area, but there is only one ethernet connection in the room. SWMBO gets the ethernet and I am relegated to...

Tried to boot from usb install disk, repair failed. The disk may be, in technical terms, Poo-Poo.

Started disk management, got a window and the message Connecting to virtual disk service along the bottom, for about 4 hours. I think something is broke.

My wife has a newish, less than a year old, ASUS POS laptop. I believe the SSD came from the factory with 2 partitions. A C and a D. When we try to access the D partition the system gets a black screen and stays that way. Power off will sometimes clear it. System will boot to PIN number screen...

I am looking for a device that will take a SSD and a sata disk and connect to a laptop and a desktop, I have a plethora of disabled laptops, and would like to pull the SSD and sata drives out of them and use them for a backup solution. The backups would be primarily C:/ drive, to recover the...

Thanks, I wll probably be back soon, with more "Quirks and Foibles".

Next problem! System is on SSD, all is OK. I also have a SATA disk, that does not show up in file manager. The SATA disk also has Win 11 installed on it. I just want the space, but format does not see it either. It does appear in the device manager. How can I access this disk????

Did the clean install, and all is right with the world, or at least as right as it can be in the MS windows world. Thanks for the reply.

Followed the advice given to me on another thread, I can no longer find. All parts arrived, and now assembled. A few problems. The new system stalls a lot. It takes a long time for any application to start. Even on boot up it takes a while for the task bar to show up. Getting a lot of events...

The primary requirement is to run Final Fantasy 14 at max. Must also have WiFi and onboard graphics. Been a while since I did overclocking, Celeron and that era. Thinking of connecting a 65" Plasma, so need GPU with 16M. This will be a replacement system for when my ASUS laptop fails. I can fix...

The following is my latest guess for a configuration, please review it, so if I put it togather, and turn it on, I will not see Oily black Smoke billowing, from my desk. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: *Intel Core i5-12600K 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor ($189.99 @ Newegg) CPU Cooler: Deepcool AG620...