Check your hardrive and RAM, one of those two could be faulty.

I recommend using Hiren's Boot CD and boot your computer from live cd. You'll find there plenty of tools to check the status of HDD.

For HDD I recommend Crystal Disc, HD Tune, Victoria
For memory check: Memtest, run at least few full passes. If there's even a single error, you found the culprit.

Incognoto

France10239 Posts

September 21 2015 10:50 GMT

#11182

On September 20 2015 05:09 Ty2 wrote:
hey, when I plug in my earbuds into my PC they start to get a scratchy, static sound. It's faint and sometimes it gets loud. Any ideas on how I can fix it? I just got this PC recently. Help?

sometimes electrical noise does that

you can try to plug it directly to the motherboard (back of the computer) instead, though I'm guessing that will reduce wire length

xxsaznpride

United States506 Posts

September 24 2015 12:41 GMT

#11183

I live in Japan now and want to save up for a new computer. Specifically, I live in Fukui City (福井市).

Question: Are Osaka and Tokyo the only real places I can go for computer parts?

Fluff: I went around to three different big electronics stores and none of them sold anything beyond prebuilts, but I want to price check and see what kind of selection I'm dealing with. There's a place called Marutsu near where I live, but its part variety is limited, to say the least.

Japanese computer parts sites will also be appreciated. Alternatively, keywords to toss at Google Maps so I can run on down and see things like cases first hand.

Tephus

Cascadia1753 Posts

September 24 2015 15:48 GMT

#11184

I'm not sure about Japan.. but in most countries you can order online somewhere, and it will in most cases be cheaper than in store.

ExChill

Germany179 Posts

September 26 2015 12:41 GMT

#11185

Is it possible to connect the front audio output to the back line input to use your pc sounds as an input?
For example you could play music in TeamSpeak like this.
Shitty paint for better understanding: + Show Spoiler +

Or would that result in some kind of audio short curcuit or feedback or something like that?

OsaX Nymloth

Poland3244 Posts

September 26 2015 13:42 GMT

#11186

To play music in TeamSpeak or in anything like that you just need to change your "recording" device. I don't remember exactly, but option called "mix" should be sending over all of the sounds you hear, including music if there's anything playing.

Example of how these options look in my audio card:
+ Show Spoiler +

ExChill

Germany179 Posts

September 26 2015 14:33 GMT

#11187

Unfortunately I don't have that option in my audio card settings.

OsaX Nymloth

Poland3244 Posts

September 26 2015 15:24 GMT

#11188

Then how about Windows settings?
In Windows 7 it's something like this: http://www.vietvodao.co.za/images/external/Bioshock1-Win7-SoundProblem-StereoMix.png
change your default recording device to stereo mix, you should have this option somewhere.

ExChill

Germany179 Posts

September 26 2015 16:09 GMT

#11189

I didn't tick the "Show disabled devices", thanks :D

Dingodile

4135 Posts

September 27 2015 21:17 GMT

#11190

no idea where I should report. Why is TL site damn slow on (my?) google? IE is fast like is used to be. Even writing this post now, every letter display with ~1sec delay. Mouseover on thread titles too.

Derez

Netherlands6068 Posts

September 27 2015 21:54 GMT

#11191

I don't know if this is a simple question, but here goes:

Ever since 1/9 google has blocked NPAPI plugins, and my pepper flash (PPAPI) doesn't work. This wasn't a problem, because I could always just run the adobe one, but that's no longer an option. I can't find anything on the net about why pepperflash would not work, and I've tried reinstalling chrome. Any suggestions?

scott31337

United States2979 Posts

September 27 2015 22:23 GMT

#11192

Not sure if this is related, but since I use Iron - I have to download flash manually -

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/
and then I select the PPAPI version under step 2.

MysteryMeat1

United States3292 Posts

September 28 2015 08:02 GMT

#11193

Any reccomendations for laptops? I'm getting a new one for school, and getting rid of my lenovo yoga cause the hinge cracked (Fuck that laptop).

Only requirement is that it can't be a mac, since I don't wanna run parrallels or vm to use the software for school. I'll be doing some dev work on it, don't know how intensive my cyber security classes are, and web dev. Also want it to be light since I have to carry it around for work/school.

Thinking about the asus zenbook, and maybe the dell xps.

OsaX Nymloth

Poland3244 Posts

September 28 2015 14:26 GMT

#11194

On September 28 2015 06:17 Dingodile wrote:
no idea where I should report. Why is TL site damn slow on (my?) google? IE is fast like is used to be. Even writing this post now, every letter display with ~1sec delay. Mouseover on thread titles too.

Is it only on TL? Try disabling adblock if you have one, refreshing browser could work too. Obviously something is wrong with your browser, could be some viruses even. Running Malwarebytes Antimalware is worth doing as well. But it could be something totally different as well, hard to judge over few words on the internet.

Craton

United States17250 Posts

September 28 2015 18:37 GMT

#11195

On September 28 2015 17:02 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
Any reccomendations for laptops? I'm getting a new one for school, and getting rid of my lenovo yoga cause the hinge cracked (Fuck that laptop).

Only requirement is that it can't be a mac, since I don't wanna run parrallels or vm to use the software for school. I'll be doing some dev work on it, don't know how intensive my cyber security classes are, and web dev. Also want it to be light since I have to carry it around for work/school.

Thinking about the asus zenbook, and maybe the dell xps.

There are a lot of Dell XPS models, each quite different from the others. I have the XPS 12 (2-in-1). With Windows 8 I occasionally had issues where after waking from sleep the wireless was slow (some kind of driver issue?) and the touchpad didn't have multitouch. With Windows 10 both of those problems seem to have been resolved.

Battery life is 8-10 hours on light use (reading / writing) and 4-5 on heavier use (videos/streams). It's expensive full price ~$1700, but you can get it for half that if you get it used or refurbished on Amazon.

I've also used an hp revolve 810, but I wouldn't recommend it primarily because the resolution is ~1366x768 and it's battery life is only 5 hours on light use.

Can't say much else about other laptops.

I wouldn't expect much of anything you do in school to be overly computer-resource intensive. They'd likely have virtualized servers to use if things were going to need significant amount of resources.

riotjune

United States3393 Posts

September 28 2015 20:17 GMT

#11196

Need some help.

Got stationary scanlines suddenly appearing on the right side of my monitor and giving off a reddish tint (happened when I was browsing in chrome). Everything on the left half of the screen looks normal. I thought it might be a video driver problem since I recently updated a few days back, but the horizontal lines and red tint are still there after rolling back.

Tried reconnecting the DVI cables but that didn't fix it. Is my monitor (Asus VS229H-P) broken? Or could it be my video card (gtx 650 ti)?

Craton

United States17250 Posts

September 28 2015 20:25 GMT

#11197

Check if you have any bent pins on the cable.

riotjune

United States3393 Posts

September 28 2015 20:50 GMT

#11198

Just tried it with a HDMI cable and the problem persists.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/259335-ips-monitor-suddenly-has-red-tint-on-one-side/

I think it might be a problem with the monitor since mine looks exactly like that, and the guy ended up RMAing it. Well this sucks, barely had it for 2 years. Asus RMA it is, this is going to take forever.

Or maybe I should just buy another one for $134

Chrisboy

Australia118 Posts

September 29 2015 09:32 GMT

#11199

So I bought a second hand Asus Geforce 660ti off ebay to replace my old Radeon HD4870 graphics card. I've tried it in 2 computers and both fail to POST and beep out the 'pre-video graphics card error'. Both computers work fine with the older HD4870. Could there be any possible explanation except that it's a broken card? I would like to make sure before I go through the paypal/ebay buyer protection hassle.

All I can think of is PSU. Both computers I have are older HP's with 475W PSU. Before I chose the 660Ti I checked it had a max power of 150W and required 2x6pin (same as HD4870). But then I bought an ASUS one which the website says 225W not 150W like the reference NVIDIA card. Would this prevent it from POSTing?

Cyro

United Kingdom20295 Posts

September 29 2015 16:13 GMT

#11200

A 660ti won't use 225w especially at stock, you can ignore that. You have two native 6-pin power connectors on your PSU though? Does the PSU have a label saying how much 12v power it delivers? (usually in amps)