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Teker
Profile Joined November 2013
United States15 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-26 21:04:59
December 26 2013 20:58 GMT
#8461
What is that thing called that splits a dvi port? I want to run three monitors put my card only has 2 dvi ports, I'm having trouble finding a name for the device.


Edit: lol nvm i found it, it's called a DVI splitter surprisingly.
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
December 26 2013 21:18 GMT
#8462
On December 27 2013 05:58 Teker wrote:
What is that thing called that splits a dvi port? I want to run three monitors put my card only has 2 dvi ports, I'm having trouble finding a name for the device.


Edit: lol nvm i found it, it's called a DVI splitter surprisingly.

That won't do what you (probably) want. It can only show the same output on two monitors, not run three monitors showing three different things.
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
Teker
Profile Joined November 2013
United States15 Posts
December 26 2013 21:50 GMT
#8463
Yea I was thinking that, then what will run three monitors showing three different things?
Danglars
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States12133 Posts
December 27 2013 00:02 GMT
#8464
Any of you tech-sophisticated types have a favorite book/website for understanding routers, internet architecture, and related troubleshooting for beginners? It's the holidays and I already repair everybody's software problems, hardware problems, and build people rigs on the cheap. Yet, I'm plagued with requests to come over and fix their internet ... and hardly know anything past first base for investigating router problems, adapter problems, software interaction (including malware), or how to differentiate beyond basic swap-and-check/drivers/restarts.

I've gotten lucky with wireshark logs before, but that's it ... not that I really "know" the significance of half of it. I'm looking for something short of signing up for a class at local community college.
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skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
December 27 2013 00:40 GMT
#8465
On December 27 2013 06:50 Teker wrote:
Yea I was thinking that, then what will run three monitors showing three different things?


If you want to run three monitors but do not have IGP capabilities then you would need to buy a second video card (if you have an PCI-E x16 slot free). If you do not have a free PCI-E x16 slot then you will need an external adapter.
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
December 27 2013 00:41 GMT
#8466
On December 27 2013 09:02 Danglars wrote:
Any of you tech-sophisticated types have a favorite book/website for understanding routers, internet architecture, and related troubleshooting for beginners? It's the holidays and I already repair everybody's software problems, hardware problems, and build people rigs on the cheap. Yet, I'm plagued with requests to come over and fix their internet ... and hardly know anything past first base for investigating router problems, adapter problems, software interaction (including malware), or how to differentiate beyond basic swap-and-check/drivers/restarts.

I've gotten lucky with wireshark logs before, but that's it ... not that I really "know" the significance of half of it. I'm looking for something short of signing up for a class at local community college.


Try dslreports or smallnetbuilder
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17303 Posts
December 27 2013 02:50 GMT
#8467
Understanding routing and internet architecture and fixing computer problems are pretty widely separated. I'm very well versed in networking at an architectural and design level (i.e. I could reasonably well design and implement a commercial network), but when it comes to fixing grandma's toolbar infested machine, it's a whole other beast. You're really looking into the wrong area with that if your goal is PC repair.
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Danglars
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States12133 Posts
December 27 2013 03:32 GMT
#8468
On December 27 2013 09:41 skyR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 27 2013 09:02 Danglars wrote:
Any of you tech-sophisticated types have a favorite book/website for understanding routers, internet architecture, and related troubleshooting for beginners? It's the holidays and I already repair everybody's software problems, hardware problems, and build people rigs on the cheap. Yet, I'm plagued with requests to come over and fix their internet ... and hardly know anything past first base for investigating router problems, adapter problems, software interaction (including malware), or how to differentiate beyond basic swap-and-check/drivers/restarts.

I've gotten lucky with wireshark logs before, but that's it ... not that I really "know" the significance of half of it. I'm looking for something short of signing up for a class at local community college.


Try dslreports or smallnetbuilder

Thanks!

On December 27 2013 11:50 Craton wrote:
Understanding routing and internet architecture and fixing computer problems are pretty widely separated. I'm very well versed in networking at an architectural and design level (i.e. I could reasonably well design and implement a commercial network), but when it comes to fixing grandma's toolbar infested machine, it's a whole other beast. You're really looking into the wrong area with that if your goal is PC repair.

Just trying to fill in the gaps, not call myself an expert on how the internet works. I've been guilty of fiddling with routers when its a bad network card. Even clueless on high signal strength, low speed issues as well as frequent disconnect issues. So it's half usefulness, and half I just want to know more than I do now. RL Engineer problems.
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evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8923 Posts
December 27 2013 07:29 GMT
#8469
my mouse is noticeably faster on my computer than when used on my laptop. is this supposed to happen to everyone?
makes playing games significantly harder as i cant adjust the mouse to my preferred sensitivity on my computer.
wptlzkwjd
Profile Joined January 2012
Canada1240 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-27 08:21:39
December 27 2013 08:17 GMT
#8470
On December 27 2013 16:29 evilfatsh1t wrote:
my mouse is noticeably faster on my computer than when used on my laptop. is this supposed to happen to everyone?
makes playing games significantly harder as i cant adjust the mouse to my preferred sensitivity on my computer.


Are they the same resolution? If not, then you can try matching the resolution.

When you say you can't adjust the mouse to your preferred sensitivity, do you mean in the control panel or in-game?
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evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8923 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-27 10:15:03
December 27 2013 10:14 GMT
#8471
no they are not the same resolution. dont really want to match them though, since my computer has a 16: 9 monitor and my laptop is something else. and im playing dota so i cant change the sensitivity. the control panel doesnt give me a nice feel either, and ive heard fiddling with the sensitivity on the control panel can make your mouse movement inaccurate?
wptlzkwjd
Profile Joined January 2012
Canada1240 Posts
December 27 2013 10:29 GMT
#8472
On December 27 2013 19:14 evilfatsh1t wrote:
no they are not the same resolution. dont really want to match them though, since my computer has a 16: 9 monitor and my laptop is something else. and im playing dota so i cant change the sensitivity. the control panel doesnt give me a nice feel either, and ive heard fiddling with the sensitivity on the control panel can make your mouse movement inaccurate?


Which mouse are you using? Maybe there is a program for it that you can use to adjust the DPI.
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evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8923 Posts
December 27 2013 10:53 GMT
#8473
my mouse has a button which adjusts dpi but theyre in intervals of 600. atm im using 1200 and it felt ok on my laptop, but on the computer i feel something like 1000 would be much better. its not from a famous brand or anything as far as i know. got it in korea
Rollin
Profile Joined March 2011
Australia1552 Posts
December 27 2013 14:17 GMT
#8474
You can set your mouse to 1800 dpi and then use 4/11 on the control panel slider to get 900dpi. 2/11, 4/11 and 6/11 are the only settings you should use on the control panel, which give you 25%, 50% and 100% of mouse speed respectively, with no effective loss in accuracy.
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evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8923 Posts
December 27 2013 16:52 GMT
#8475
hmm. tried it just now but it doesnt feel right. like when i swipe horizontally it doesnt go as far as i expect it to? not sure
Eufouria
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom4425 Posts
December 27 2013 16:59 GMT
#8476
I just want to check, if I have the windows 7 install disk I used for my desktop can I reinstall windows on my Dad's Dell laptop using the product key for the Dell?

I'm back at home, which means I have to try and fix all the tech problems my Dad has built up over the last 6 months.
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-27 17:06:18
December 27 2013 17:03 GMT
#8477
On December 28 2013 01:52 evilfatsh1t wrote:
hmm. tried it just now but it doesnt feel right. like when i swipe horizontally it doesnt go as far as i expect it to? not sure

What resolution do your two screens have? Someone can maybe suggest settings based on calculations using that. Also, describe exactly what the mouse can do for DPI. It can do 600, 1200, 1800 DPI?

On December 28 2013 01:59 Eufouria wrote:
I just want to check, if I have the windows 7 install disk I used for my desktop can I reinstall windows on my Dad's Dell laptop using the product key for the Dell?

I'm back at home, which means I have to try and fix all the tech problems my Dad has built up over the last 6 months.

If you mean you have some random Windows 7 installation disc and have the key that originally came with that laptop, that works exactly like you think it should. The specific disc does not know anything about which key it belongs to, they are all the same copy.
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
December 27 2013 17:40 GMT
#8478
The Abyssus has crazy native settings like 450/1800/3500, your choices are really 4/11 trick like said or using on-the-fly sensitivity to lower non-natively in small steps (10/15/20/25/30% etc of 1800dpi)
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
IMKR
Profile Joined August 2012
United States378 Posts
December 27 2013 18:02 GMT
#8479
Can someone explain what the bolded part means?

I took it back to where i purchased it - the dude was finally straight up with me, apparently pretty much across the board although its hit/miss in some cases... if you do not disable C state 3 and 6 in the bios, a haswell chip will pop ur PSU...


should anyone be worried about this part if using a haswell chip?
if so, what kind of people? only people that OC cpu?
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20344 Posts
December 27 2013 18:28 GMT
#8480
One of the low power idle states on haswell CPU's uses far less power than "normal" and causes issues with some PSU's (just restarting i think as they can't handle load too low) but it's fine on most good units
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