What power supply do you have?
What power supply do you have?
Corsair RM850
Huh. Why would this site be loading slower than Facebook? It's usually the fastest loading site I visit.
This camp Internet is weird. Think it's a Starlink thing or a weird restrictive firewall thing?
Crowdstrike issue?
There were some Azure issues last night as well.
OMG Crowdstrike is so done.
Bankruptcy + assets sold for pennies on the dollar
For an ultra-budget upgrade...
If you have access to Amazon Prime, I'd take advantage of the $115 Prime-only price for the Ryzen 5600X and do:
AMD Ryzen 5600X - $115
ASUS Prime B450M-A II - $70 (or Gigabyte B550M - $90)
16GB DDR4 - $28 (or any other 16GB DDR4 kit in the $30 neighborhood)The B450 board is older but should still support the 5600X out of the box, as long as the BIOS it ships with isn't super old. And the board supports BIOS flashback for CPU-less BIOS updating, so even if it did ship with the ancient BIOS, you would be able to flash an updated BIOS. The B550 board would be guaranteed to have a 5600X supporting BIOS out of the box, but if you're really pinching pennies, the B450 would let you save $20 at the potential expense of having to hassle with BIOS flashback before you can get a bootable system.
If you don't have Prime, the Intel 12100F is nice and cheap without any extra deal needed:
Intel Core i3-12100F - $88
MSI H610M - $80
16GB DDR4 - $28If you've got a little more money and you have a Microcenter nearby, they have a $279 bundle for a Ryzen 7600X, board, and RAM, or a $259 bundle for an i5-12600KF, board, and RAM.
Hit up the PC building thread for more.
Thanks for your recomendations
About to do it
What would be a good case for this?
Considering my new RTX 4060 TI WILL FIT?
Not sure if this qualifies as a tech question, but I figure it’s close enough…
I’m in the market for a lightweight bag that will hold a 12.9” iPad, an 8.5x11” clipboard, and not much else. Maybe a charger and cable and a pen or two. Anyone have any recommendations?
I have a simple shoulder bag that’s made of plain canvas that just about fits the bill, but it’s falling apart and isn’t quite thick enough to hold both items.
What would be a good case for this?
Considering my new RTX 4060 TI WILL FIT?
Cases are very personal choices. In general, I would recommend buying something from a good manufacturer (eg. Phanteks, Lian Li, Fractal, Corsair), and buy something with a mesh front.
Any standard ATX mid-tower case should have no problem fitting a 4060 TI. If you're looking at compact cases, then you're going to want to get the measurement of your specific 4060 TI card (should be able to find it on the manufacturer's page) and compare it to the maximum supported GPU sizes on cases you're looking at.
Not sure if this qualifies as a tech question, but I figure it’s close enough…
I’m in the market for a lightweight bag that will hold a 12.9” iPad, an 8.5x11” clipboard, and not much else. Maybe a charger and cable and a pen or two. Anyone have any recommendations?
I have a simple shoulder bag that’s made of plain canvas that just about fits the bill, but it’s falling apart and isn’t quite thick enough to hold both items.
I bought an Osprey Daylite Pack from REI a couple of months ago and carry a 13" laptop around in it frequently. Pretty light, good room, not ridiculously big, comfortable on my shoulders. It might be a little bigger than what you're looking for, since I manage to carry around a few hiking emergency items in it like a small flashlight, band-aids, etc. But worth a look and I think it's a great price for what you get.
I've had good luck with the Amazon Basics 14" laptop bag, which is great for tablets plus something of a similar size in the main compartment. Large secondary compartment for charges, pens, etc. Currently around $12USD on Amazon.
Any recommendations for a website to resell used tech? I'm specifically looking to offload a Meta Quest 3.
Swappa tends to work for me, although like everywhere far too many people want to haggle or outright ask what the lowest you'll take is, like the asking price isn't even there.
Any recommendations for a website to resell used tech? I'm specifically looking to offload a Meta Quest 3.
You might want to try selling it her on the trading thread.
Math wrote:Any recommendations for a website to resell used tech? I'm specifically looking to offload a Meta Quest 3.
You might want to try selling it her on the trading thread.
Facebook Market place has the widest audience right now. They take a 10% cut on the shipped items but nothing on local exchanges.
Touchpad on my daughter's laptop isn't working. In Device Manager, there's a 12C HID Device not working. Have tried updating the driver, deleting the driver and scanning for hardware changes, multiple reboots, nothing. She says it stopped working so she ran Windows Update, so per her it wasn't the update breaking things. There are no updates pending for Windows or via the LG app to look for updates, and not seeing any specific drivers for the touchpad out there on LG's site, and not sure if there's just a generic one. Burned like and hour and a half last night on this, and decided to stop before I set the laptop on fire. Anyone have experience with this?
Check that there isn't a crumb or piece of dirt or other bit stuck in the seam around the trackpad were it meets the case.
Can you remove the lid to see if anything is stuck in there or loose connection?
Look for the last windows certified driver and use that one instead of the latest one from the manufacturer.
Is this win 11? If not, it might make sense to upgrade to win 11 to see if there is better support. HID = human interface device so most likely that is the correct driver.
Any chance it might have accidently been turned off? Might be worth toggling it just to see what happens. On my laptop each of the F keys does something different when combining it with CTRL. One turns off the mouse pad.
Any chance it might have accidently been turned off? Might be worth toggling it just to see what happens. On my laptop each of the F keys does something different when combining it with CTRL. One turns off the mouse pad.
This. Especially if the touchpad is completely non-responsive, as opposed to occasionally making some input. Accidentally triggering a touchpad-disabling hotkey sequence is a common user issue.
It's not off, that's one of the first things I checked, and toggled on and off just to check. Is Windows 11. Annoyingly, LG's website forces you to search for your laptop model before showing drivers, and the only three that come up during that are a general update tool that looks for missing drivers (which is already installed), along with a couple network drivers, nothing specific to a touchpad.
BIOS/Firmware update available perhaps?
Just throwing stuff out. Is it under warranty?
Shot in the dark: create a new local user and see if it works when logged in with that account. Then you can nuke and recreate your daughter’s user account. (After you back up any data.)
Hey I need a new Chromebook. Nothing flash it’s for a 9 year olds homework and needs to go back and forth to school so just browsing and office functions. Has anyone got anything they would recommend?
I have a lenovo chromebook I got at costco for $600 that has been solid. It is on the procoer side but it has been worth it. The thing is more durable then most chromebooks i have used.
In Device Manager, there's a 12C HID Device not working.
To me, this says that the driver itself was not able to get a response from the touchpad. Likely hardware failure?
MilkmanDanimal wrote:In Device Manager, there's a 12C HID Device not working.
To me, this says that the driver itself was not able to get a response from the touchpad. Likely hardware failure?
Nope, I got around to just re-installing Windows today, and now it works. I'm now annoyed with LG, and will not buy one of their laptops again, as they apparently don't bother to do BIOS updates, or, really, have much in the way of updates, and none tied to the touchpad at all, so I could not see any way to re-install a specific driver outside of just deleting it in Device Manager and scanning for hardware changes or rebooting. It was insanely frustrating.
It works now, and it just means my daughter has to re-install some of her lab programs when she gets back to college on Wednesday, but it's better than buying a new laptop.
My daughter told me a couple of weeks ago that her laptop suddenly was unable to turn on. It’s a Lenovo Yoga 9i that I bought for her in mid-2021. Things I’ve tried:
* unplug all peripherals
* unplug USBC charger
* hold power button for 30+ seconds
* hold the pinhole reset button for 30+ seconds
* crack the machine open and unplug the battery
* plug in the charger again without the battery connected
* remove the m.2 drive
* try a new 65W USBC charger
* do combinations of all of the above
Symptoms: The screen doesn’t turn on. The light on the power button sometimes doesn’t turn on. The charging light next to the USBC ports does light up, until I’ve left it plugged in long enough for the battery to presumably charge. The fans spin very briefly, then stop, then spin again briefly about 5 seconds later, repeat.
She said it was working fine until it became a paperweight, and it had just been sitting on her desk.
At this point I suspect the motherboard is faulty, but alas it’s out of warranty. Anything else I should try?
Maybe try connecting it to a monitor. If the laptop display is dead it should default over to the connected monitor. All the other stuff makes me think that isn't the problem though.
The fan bit - spinning, then stopping, then spinning again a few seconds later - implies to me that the BIOS has failed. It fires up, tries to check that the BIOS is good, can't do it, and shuts down. Whether that is due to a virus or to heat damage (very likely and squirrelly in laptops) or power problems I can't say. (And yeah, with a laptop this is likely to be "motherboard failure" rather than "get a new BIOS chipset"...)
I always go with a laptop holder that blows air into the vents underneath, and check for dust periodically, although it sounds like hers was pretty clean.
The fan bit - spinning, then stopping, then spinning again a few seconds later - implies to me that the BIOS has failed.
Yeah, this is where I'm landing. I appreciate the consideration, both of you.
Quick googling suggests that the cost to replace the motherboard is basically the price of just getting a new laptop. Any reason for me to believe otherwise?
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