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Hello everyone. I've got a tiny electroluminescent display that I pulled out of a car instrument cluster. Now I want to use it in other project but I cannot find a way to drive it in "standalone" mode, using some other programmable PCB like Arduino. Originally, it was connected to instrument...

So I am a college student and for a project, I am very interested in whether or not there is ANY way for me to apply port security settings to the ports of an unmanaged switch. I realized that unmanaged switches do not have any sort of interface in which to naturally do this, unlike managed...

Hello guys, couple days ago i bought the TL-WN722N V3 with the hope i can cast to my tv and play games. When i try to project to my TV it says Desktop was unable to connect please use mobile instead. Btw my TV is Samsung ue43tu7072

Okay I might not have posted this in the right section but I'm new here (lol). Okay so my first question is why does my PC automatically use my HDMI output (TV) instead of my DisplayPort when I first boot it up? My TV is always off and my monitor auto-wakes up when I turn on my PC but it still...

Hi, I want to build a pseudo laptop with a pi 4 and a display panel, but don't want to have to deal with powering them separately. If there is something that I can get to have an input from a battery and two 3 amp outputs to power both the Pi and Display, what would I be looking for? I couldn't...

Hello there! It's been a while for me. My current obstacle is I have a Thermaltake 200mm Pure 20 Series CL-F015-PL20BL-A case fan that I am using for a project. It has a higher CFM rating than the previous fan, but at its diameter and RPM the overall flow is pretty pathetic. Well, for the...

Hello, I would like your help with my issue. I have Multi licence office 2016 installed on computer (we do new computers from bit image with office installed already) and when I want to install MS Visio 2016 or Project 2016 it pop up a error message which says that I cannot install this program...

Hello everyone Few days ago I picked up a I7-2670qm for my old laptop [ Medion Akoya P6634 ]. The idea was to swap this CPU with my old I3-2350m. Since I've recently been using that laptop as my little project to revive it as much as possible... When I got the "new" CPU, I replaced it, and...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HP87R9J/?tag=pcpapi-20 I think this is the lowest price of a RAM with these specs on amazon I've ever seen, 16GB 3000Mhz CAS 16. It really seems like RAM prices are constantly dropping and I'm a little hesitant on buying it because: A) I don't know if we're gonna...

The motherboard im thinking of buying is the Gigabyte - B450 AORUS PRO WIFI (rev. 1.0) ATX AM4 Motherboard, and I would like to know if it comes with a built in wifi card and/or bluetooth receptor????

getting random BSOD after upgrading to w10, first time its happened in a couple years so i'm upset.nothing's changed apart from aforementioned upgrade and i can't seem to pinpoint it DUMPS: ================================================== Dump File : 022619-5562-01.dmp Crash Time...

Can anyone help me? I feel like my pc is not working properly when i play games. I see posts of people that will a less powerful system can run games at better graphics and stuff. For exaple i cannot run BF1 even on low graphics and settings because it becomes laggy in frames and...

It seems to me that the 1080 has no information available on Newegg. I've looked into a few pages for 1080s and I found that: A. Search terms for 1080 Graphics cards are being filtered. B. sales info on 1080 Graphics cards are either empty or nonexistent. Is this a glitch, or is Newegg trying...

I recently replaced my GPU as it died, I had a sapphire rx480 8gb oc nitro+. I've never had this issue with any cards I've owned, only this one. After installing it and getting my drivers straight I launched a game and within 5 minutes, my system restarted itself. This issue persisted through...

I recently just put Windows 10 on a OS-less computer, and just swapped out the old AMD GPU with a Nvidia 1050ti. So here's what happened; I have a computer that was old, but still has good specs, except for the GPU, which is old. The computer I still use but will not be using soon has a better...

I have dell optiplex 760 mt core 2 quad q6600 8gb ddr 2 rams 2/4 with motherboard 0m858n Using gt620 2gb ddr3 Question is can use ddr5type card in it? and i have aluminium heat sink can i upgrade the heat sink ? Also help if i can replace this mother of any dell or other companys...

Hello all, I have a really old video card in my pc currently and it recently died, so i'm looking to replace it with something newer that wont have any issue playing modern, demanding games. The person i took it to says It's an AMD Radeon HD8870 2gb video card wnmhj, but when i look up the...

I'm looking forward to buy a ryzen 5 2400g and i will get a gpu, rx 580 4gb, so do I need dual channel ram if I have dedicated gpu?

On Tue 1/15/2019 3:04:45 PM your computer crashed or a problem was reported crash dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\011519-7171-01.dmp This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x1B1B40) Bugcheck code: 0xA (0x0, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFF80327B3F486) Error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL...

its Asus with i3, just trying to find out,how to make it faster

I've gone out and bought a Galax GTX 1060 EXOC 3gb to replace my old EVGA GTX 460. I uninstalled the drivers for the old card, shut down, unplugged pc completely, and swapped out the cards. Now, upon attempting to boot the pc up, it gets to the windows splash screen and stops there. No crashing...

I'm a video editor and interested in making the switch to m.2 storage to take advantage of it's speeds. I'm aware I will need a new motherboard, I'm curious to see what kind of Motherboard you guys think would be appropriate? I'd be coming from a bit of an older model Asustek that I bought when...

New build: Ryzen 1700x, MSI B450M PRO-VDH, 16gb Corsair Vengance LPX RAM, Aerocool 750watt semi modular PSU, 240gb SSD and 2TB HDD with data and OS from my previous build. My issue is I’ve just finished building the PC tried booting it up fans come on hard drive comes to life but on the EZ...

Hey guys, I'm building a HTPC and I got a 19v 200w picoPSU to power it up. However, I will use an Asrock ab350 ac/itx board and I've just found out on it's specification list that it has: - 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector - 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector) Does that...

Hello guys, i hope this is the right place and you can help me out: I want to connect my ps4 and my sky receiver (for tv, movies, ...) to a home LG 5.1 home theater sytstem. I tried almost everything with hdmi or/and toslink cables but i couldnt figure it out how to set it up. These are the...

I am coming from a steelseries siberia 650, and im upgrading because the mic is getting worse and worse. My friends nearly cant hear what im saying, so im returning them and im goin to buy a new headset ive been looking at the steelseries arctis pro+dac and the pro wireless, but i keep reading...

Can my dell m821j 525w run my gtx 660? Gtx 660 uses 1 6pin conector. My psu have a 6pin that i Can use for it.

Hello to each other, I am new here (from Germany) and hope that you can support me well. It is about the following: I am thinking about buying the Asus Strix ROG 1070TI Advanced (530€) or the new Asus Strix ROG RTX 2070 Advanced (680€). Important criteria: a.) I play on Full HD b.) I won't...

Lately, my mouse has an issue. So whenever I put my USB chip it and turn my mouse on the light turns on, and so I assume that my mouse works, but when I move my mouse the cursor on my screen doesn't move. I am really frustrated and I don't have any other mouses that I can use. If anyone knows a...

I have a 1500$ (AUD). First time going to buy/build this PC. I be using it for gaming/ editing/ streaming and school work. https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/DMP9XP RATE MY PC AND TIPS THANKYOU

I would like to get more power out of my msi ge73, its running a GTX 1060 and i was wondering if i can put a GTX 1080 in, or is that just not possible.

hey peeps, i'm gonna buy a pc soon and i wanted you guys opinion on my pc specs is there anything you guys would change/remove/add? my budget is around the $2000 mark in AUD also btw the 1070 is actually a 1070ti, pcpartpicker doesnt have the 1070ti option in their lists ty the pcpartpicker...

Hello, I have the Intel Core i7-7700K processor. I work as a software developer, and I can put the CPU under quite a bit of load when working with it. Speccy shows that I idle around ~43°C and under load, can get upwards of ~75°C. This obviously isn't the greatest nor completely horrible but...

I'll try to test it out on other games but this is really annoying. I suspect it's some sort of ram issue but I don't have the faintest clue onto how to fix it. It usually happens after 20 minutes of the computer being on without fortnite open. As soon as it freezes sound stops playing. This is...

OC newbie here - seems that from a performance perspective (gaming and some photo editing) both the i7-8700k and R7-2700x are very close. I plan on some mild overclocking on the CPU, RAM and GPU, and as I haven't done this before, are there any differences in the procedure for Intel and AMD...

Just bought a cheap asus notebook from internet for me to be able to do my homework on it. It came with endless OS and I wanted to switch it to another OS. Then I realized that when I plug a usb flash driver, it doesn't even appear anywhere. I plugged a mouse, a keyboard and my phone and they...

Hello, I recently purchased(2 weeks ago) an XPS 15 9570 i7-8750H 1080p laptop and it has been nearly perfectly except one thing. While charging, and you put your ear near the laptop, it makes a clicking(or tick-tock) sound that occurs at a constant rhythm around 85% of the time when you plug it...

Hey. I tend to keep program short cuts on my Windows 10 desktop and am tired of putting them in corners or grouped together on the desktop. I'm looking for a program when i hover my mouse over it would extend/preview what file/shortcuts i put in it, i am then able to open or drag out...

I've been having a lot of misc. problems with my computer. My PC BSOD's randomly some times, but not often enough that I am alarmed. Do these random problems happen often with your PCs, and should i be concerned? Sfc /scannow says it found problems and couldn't repair them, and I've tried...

I have a hard drive from a laptop that is failing. It would no longer boot so I removed it and plugged it into an external housing. When I fit turn on the housing it spins up and I can see it pop up as F Drive, but as it continues, it locks up and a minute or so later I get "F: is not...