Recent content by MikeA01730

Hi, I believe the article about impedance matching. Good to know that I can split the audio output with no problem. This is an HP EliteDesk 800 G3 tower model Y1B39AV, not low profile. Don't know if the connectors are standard or not. Re the Sound Blaster card, the second input is...

Hi, I have a tower PC with on-board audio. The on-board audio has failed so I need to install a new sound card. However I'm not sure how to do that and still use my mic, speakers, and headphones. I use speakers plugged into the 3.5mm audio out jack on the back, a mic plugged in to the...

Paperdoc, I tried most of that before. Unplugged/replugged, wiggled and bent everything, and nothing helped. I didn't open up the boxes. However since I also later tried headphones and they didn't work either I gave up on the idea that it was the speakers. I'm thinking maybe I should try...

Hi, It's back. Intermittent for a few minutes, then not working at all. I looked at Sound Settings & Output Device: there's only 1 choice available "Speakers (Synaptics HD Audio)". I looked in the Event Viewer/Custom Views/Device Manager for Synaptics HD Audio: no events shown. In...

Hi, Thanks for the suggestions. I just got time to try them out and started by trying to play something from YouTube, and it worked fine. Now I can't get it to fail. The only change was a Windows update "KB5039211 (OS Builds 19044.4529 and 19045.4529)" that was installed last night. So...

Hi, I have an HP EliteDesk 800 G3 tower model Y1B39AV I bought in 2017 running the current version of Windows 10. It has 2 audio jacks on the back: 1 for input (line in or mic, software selected) and one for output. There's no audio card, just the motherboard audio connectors. Today for no...

Thanks. I might give that a try if things get worse. I agree 6 yrs. is a good life and will also consider buying a new machine.

Hi Misgar, Re the Event Viewer I see nothing in red, and nothing that suggests to me an issue that might be related to my problems. My system has UEFI with no CSM capability that I'm aware of and it appears to me that I created the correct MemTest86 USB drive. Instead of trying to get...

Hi Misgar, I'm running Windows 10 Professional 64 bit 10.0.19045.3086. I boot from a SanDisk 256 GB SSD. I ran CrystalDiskInfo for the C: drive and copied the screenshot into the DropBox folder I linked to above for the other images. It looks fine but I'm not familiar with the screen so...

Hi, I have an HP EliteDesk 800 G3 tower model Y1B39AV I bought in 2017. Recently it started behaving strangely in several ways. Today I woke my sleeping PC and saw that the display was behaving bizarrely. It was continuously cycling a through a pattern where on the left and right sides of...

Hi, I have a HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Tower PC that I bought in 2017. It has a 256 GB SSD C: drive and a 2 TB HDD E: (i.e. data drive), both SATA. I need more space on my E: drive and was thinking I'd speed things up and solve my space problem by replacing the HDD with a larger SSD. The obvious...

Hi punkncat, Thanks for the help. I'll get a PSU with a model number matching the current one, verify as best i can that the plugs match, and also just to be sure try to verify the dimensions. Also I expect my next machine will be a custom build. Mike

Hi, I have an HP EliteDesk 800 G3 tower model Y1B39AV I bought in 2017. It turns out the PSU appears to be failing (see "Graphics Card Causing Black Screen Problem?" in Graphics Cards forum) and I need to replace it. I would have liked to increase the PSU power to install a more powerful...

That's what I'll do. Thanks for your help.

Interesting idea. I didn't know PSUs could degrade that way. I installed the original Radeon R7 450 FH card in the other PC and it ran fine. A couple of glitches initially (I expect from different drivers) occurred but after that no problems. I didn't try the HD6450 I'm running now in my...