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GTR
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
Oven GPU rant from Louis Rossmann  | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On February 10 2017 16:59 GTR wrote: So anybody else used the 'oven method' to fix their once-dead graphics card before? Since I can't claim warranty on my GTX 970 it seems like the last thing I can do to salvage it. I've done it on my PS3 and it lasted long enough to get my save files from it (success) Generally speaking don't expect it to last for too long. | ||
NovemberstOrm
Canada16217 Posts
On February 10 2017 16:59 GTR wrote: So anybody else used the 'oven method' to fix their once-dead graphics card before? Since I can't claim warranty on my GTX 970 it seems like the last thing I can do to salvage it. So basically you may get some extra life out of it if you're lucky.. Also you'd have to throw out the oven after you're done with it or never use it again for cooking food(toxic chemicals). | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
On December 21 2016 03:49 FFW_Rude wrote: Ok thx  Will do but on the weekend. I don't have much time in the week and the computer can live with a bad battery/bios for a week  FYI the battery is just up the second PCIE port.. should be located where "Formula" is written + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ASUS-ROG-Maximus-VI-Formula-Z87-gaming-motherboard-021.jpg) For reference and people wanting to change the CMOS battery on a Formula VI asus rog mobo. I FINALLY had the courage to change the CMOS battery. I cut the armor. i just had to.... it was so horrible to pull it out. So if you don't mind cutting it here is the shortcut. + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/VZHoq5U.jpg) Once you have cut those little edge you can pull up the side of the armor and change the battery. It's not pretty nor the GOOD WAY but hey it's a solution | ||
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
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Craton
United States17269 Posts
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flamewheel
FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
I’m having problems with my home monitors and was wondering if anybody has dealt with this. I’m using one monitor and a digital TV as a second monitor – first monitor is using VGA, and the digital TV is using HDMI. Everything was working fine yesterday but today it seems that my computer doesn’t recognize both external monitors at once. If I plug in only the HDMI cable with the digital TV and select HDMI input, that TV monitor is recognized. But then if I plug in the VGA cable to the first monitor, the TV monitor shuts off (checks for DVI and then gives no signal). Maybe I just need to get a second actual monitor or something instead of a digital TV since this TV is around 6 years old (though it functions just fine)? Not sure how that changes things. If it helps at all - Driver = Intel HD Graphics 4600 (version 10.18.14.4432) - looks like this is a "customized computer manufacturer driver" installed since this is a work laptop VGA monitor = DELL E2414H Digital TV = some old Zoran Coby tv | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
I have a laptop for when I'm not at my desktop PC, want to change the HDD in here to a new SSD since the HDD is giving me troubles but I only have 1 slot in there. So the plan was to make an image and just copy everything. And then I realized that I don't have any cables to add the SSD externally to make a direct copy. Quick google tells me that something like this: clonezilla.org should do the trick? So basicly, make an image of my HDD, put that image on network NAS, burn bootable clonezilla, swap out HDD with still empty SSD, boot on clonezilla CD, restore image from network NAS to empty SSD... Correct? Or am I missing something here? I don't want to order some 10€ cable on Amazon (that would arguably make it easier by just copying directly) if that means I have to wait 2-3 days for the cable to get here... I also don't want to take the drives to my desktop PC and plug them in for a sec if I can avoid it since that's a 2 hour drive right now. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18130 Posts
On February 23 2017 16:58 Toadesstern wrote: quick question just to see if I understand something correctly or if I'm missing out on something... I have a laptop for when I'm not at my desktop PC, want to change the HDD in here to a new SSD since the HDD is giving me troubles but I only have 1 slot in there. So the plan was to make an image and just copy everything. And then I realized that I don't have any cables to add the SSD externally to make a direct copy. Quick google tells me that something like this: clonezilla.org should do the trick? So basicly, make an image of my HDD, put that image on network NAS, burn bootable clonezilla, swap out HDD with still empty SSD, boot on clonezilla CD, restore image from network NAS to empty SSD... Correct? Or am I missing something here? I don't want to order some 10€ cable on Amazon (that would arguably make it easier by just copying directly) if that means I have to wait 2-3 days for the cable to get here... I also don't want to take the drives to my desktop PC and plug them in for a sec if I can avoid it since that's a 2 hour drive right now. Sounds sane. I don't know clonezilla, but you could do the same with a bootable linux cd/usb and dd (or any other imaging tool). | ||
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OsaX Nymloth
Poland3244 Posts
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
For some reason the ssh connection just didn't work. It let me log in, password was accepted and all but it showed up as only 500MB free for whatever reason no matter what I tried to do. And when I tried saving the image there anyways because I know it has ~5TB free it'd stop after 5 minutes because disc space full. No idea why, connections were allowed and all, and when I (after an hour of trying to fix this) tried the "Samba Server" option for the heck of it (no idea what that even is) rather than "SSH Server" it worked just fine and showed up with the expected 5TB free space~ | ||
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mantequilla
Turkey779 Posts
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tofucake
Hyrule19159 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain18130 Posts
On February 24 2017 04:36 Toadesstern wrote: Oh yeah as an update. It did work and I'm on new SSD now :3 For some reason the ssh connection just didn't work. It let me log in, password was accepted and all but it showed up as only 500MB free for whatever reason no matter what I tried to do. And when I tried saving the image there anyways because I know it has ~5TB free it'd stop after 5 minutes because disc space full. No idea why, connections were allowed and all, and when I (after an hour of trying to fix this) tried the "Samba Server" option for the heck of it (no idea what that even is) rather than "SSH Server" it worked just fine and showed up with the expected 5TB free space~ Probably user quota: just because there's 5tb free doesn't mean there's 5tb available in your userspace. Depending on configuration, smb can use a different user (although if the aim is to stop ppl from filling the disk with trash, this seems like a remarkably bad way). Alternatively, you were simply trying to copy to the wrong mount point (and thus disk) when you ssh'd in. | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
On February 24 2017 18:13 Acrofales wrote: Probably user quota: just because there's 5tb free doesn't mean there's 5tb available in your userspace. Depending on configuration, smb can use a different user (although if the aim is to stop ppl from filling the disk with trash, this seems like a remarkably bad way). Alternatively, you were simply trying to copy to the wrong mount point (and thus disk) when you ssh'd in. idk really. For some reason I couldn't even get it to work out directories/paths to anything under ssh while being logged in as admin. Always told me that the folder I'm looking for doesn't exist (except for /home) no matter what folder or path I tried... oh well, it did work out in the end | ||
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Craton
United States17269 Posts
http://lunatic.no/2014/08/missing-diskspace-in-linux/ http://serverfault.com/questions/275206/disk-full-du-tells-different-how-to-further-investigate Samba, by the way, facilitates connecting directly to a Linux server via a Windows machine (e.g. through file explorer). It basically obviates the SSH client if you just want to access the file system. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11640 Posts
After a bit of narrowing the problem down, i am pretty sure that it has something to do with my graphics card. I ran Memtest86, and it returned no problems with my ram. Turning down graphics settings in specific games seems to solve the problem partially. It never happens on non-graphics intensive programs. My CPU does not overheat. A similar (though not totally the same) problem appeared when running FurMark to stress-test my graphics card. In this case, my Screen just goes black, but the fans still run at maximum. Nothing except pressing the off-button on my case seems to solve this. (I also just had this happen when playing Total War:Warhammer) I turned of any overclocking, and even underclocked my graphics card (reduced power usage by 20%) in the AMD Wattman settings. So my question is, how do i proceed from here? Is there any way to verify if the graphics card is the problem, and not, for example, the PSU? Should i just claim the warranty on the graphics card, since it is 1.5 years old? Is there anything else i should do before sending it back? PC setup: Windows 10 i7-2600k 2x4Gb Ram Motherboard Asus P8P67 SLI Deluxe Rev 3.0 750W PSU (Don't know the model exactly) MSI Radeon R9 390 | ||
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OsaX Nymloth
Poland3244 Posts
- FurMark, as you already did - some benchmark - reinstall drivers, cleanly You could try putting the GPU into different PC if you have such possibility. If the crashes continue during further testing, write to support of your manufacturer or AMD, provide as much details to make sure it isn't some known issue. Proceed with warranty claim. Edit: ah yes, the PSU. If you could swap PSU with different unit that would be cool as well. Don't know your model/brand, but unless it's some black list tier I doubt that it's PSU issue. But to test this you could try running few tests without GPU in PC, just using your integrated graphic card if you have one. | ||
Poopi
France12905 Posts
SC2 is capped at 144fps in spite of VSync being off both ingame and in nvidia control panel, I play on bordeless windowed so after a bit of research I read something about DWM forcing vsync when playing windowed. How can I avoid that? (I read that playing the game in full screen disables this feature but isn't a way to do it while windowed? edit: even in fullscreen it's capped at 144) | ||
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