Recent content by snowctrl

Thanks - no luck with this laptop, and I also just discovered liquid damage, which explains a lot.... gonna spend no further time on it

I wish there was a way of knowing how much flexing / bending would cause a death - it wouldn't have been a significant amount in either of the above cases... they have in common that I can find no other explanation

Thanks, that's very much what I thought

Question - can a motherboard getting bent cause its death ie cause it to completely not function? Two recent scenarios - first was a newly built custom computer a friend bought that arrived with motherboard standoffs missing such that the board flexed significantly under the weight of the GPU...

You'd think it would be simple.... I ordered a battery for a laptop, in this case an HP X360, got it wrong ie should have opened it up to check my research was correct before ordering.... and now I'm having trouble returning it as I can't find a UK parcel service that will take it since Lithium...

Thanks - can I ask where this chart came from?

I'm trying to decide what's the best GPU to put in my Optiplex 9020 SFF, which runs the i5 4590. It has two PCIe 2.0 slots, one x16 and one x4 (a 164 pin and a 64pin) The trouble is that a dual slot low profile cards such as the GTX 1650 will have to go in the x4 slot not the x16 in order to...

I was (professionally) using 3D Studio Max version 2 in 1999-2000, so that would be good version to look for if you really want software that old. But seriously, spend even a small amount of money to buy a computer second hadn that is more up-to-date. And then learn Blender. I don't know...

Hi all, value your help as I think this must be a setting, but I really can't find it...? One of our PCs (running Windows 10 Enterprise) has taken to only showing a subset of the its user accounts at login. Making a new user account doesn't help - the new account is also hidden. How can I...

I am trying to fix a friends laptop, a HP 15-ac020na She reports her dog sat on it and now it doesn't work. On connecting the power lead, the power/charge light next to the power socket on the laptop lights up, so it is getting power. I then press the power button, and the power light comes...

Hi All I am building a new PC: Ryzen 3 220G AsRock AB350M Pro 4 8GB (2x4GB) RAM Samsung PM961 system drive using the Ultra M2 slot on the mobo 2 1TB Seagate Barracudas - the intention is to set them up in RAID 1 The unforeseen problem I have encountered is that setting Sata on the mobo to...

Depending on which you do more of gaming, or photo editing, should guide your resolution choice - to play games on a higher res monitor, you will need more a more powerful GPU. So which is ore important? If it is the photo editing, make sure you choose a monitor with accurate colour...