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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Sat Oct 09, 2021 2:15 pm

What would cause my RAM speed settings to reset to default multiple times over the lifetime of a motherboard?

I'm cursing and raging at the BF2042 demo because of poor performance, when I notice that my DDR 3000 RAM has reset to 2133 mHz for some reason. This is the second or third time this has happened with this motherboard, and I never get a hard crash or error that would make me think something is wrong. I updated the BIOS several months ago, but went and checked the RAM speed and it was fine. Weird and frustrating.

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Postby NTP66 » Sat Oct 09, 2021 3:50 pm

If you haven’t updated your bios, which usually changes those settings, then the only other thing I can think of would be an overclocking app like Ryzen Master that is busted.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Sat Oct 09, 2021 8:12 pm

I don't use anything but the Radeon Adrenalin software. But that would be very AMD to have their own software do something like that lol

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Postby faftorial » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:25 am

Expired SSL cert fun this morning. These people manage this server but don't keep track of their certs?

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:47 am

Precisely why I set my own reminders for stuff I have that has certs... just in case.

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Postby AuthorTony » Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:02 am

Any idea why the search function in file explorer would stop working? It tries to search, but only brings up a green status bar that never completes nor pulls up any files. It just sort of continues acting like it's searching for eternity.

I really need to get rid of this POS computer...

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Oct 24, 2021 6:31 am

Any idea why the search function in file explorer would stop working? It tries to search, but only brings up a green status bar that never completes nor pulls up any files. It just sort of continues acting like it's searching for eternity.

I really need to get rid of this POS computer...
First, make sure the Windows Search service is running. Right-click on Start and choose Computer Management. Select Services and make sure the service is Running.

Click on Start and type in Search Index - launch Indexing Options. Click on Advanced and select the Rebuild button. This will rebuild your search index.

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Postby AuthorTony » Sun Oct 24, 2021 10:51 am


First, make sure the Windows Search service is running. Right-click on Start and choose Computer Management. Select Services and make sure the service is Running.

Click on Start and type in Search Index - launch Indexing Options. Click on Advanced and select the Rebuild button. This will rebuild your search index.
Search is running. I tried to rebuild the search index. It says it might take a while and I clicked okay, then nothing happens. I don't know if it's running in the background or if it's just not doing anything, ha.

Once I finish a couple shoots in early Nov, I really think I'm ditching this desktop and solely working off my laptop. It's not worth the trouble it's been lately.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Oct 27, 2021 8:02 am

Apple must have a large number of clown designers - they put a notch in the new Macbook Pro M1:

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And I'm already seeing reports of issues with Citrix, since that notch **** with the resolution, and scales the desktop causing mouse clicks to actually click a little further away from the intended spot.

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Postby dodint » Wed Nov 03, 2021 4:17 pm

Dell has been bugging me about renewing the warranty on my law firm laptop, a mid-range anonymous drone laptop I bought from them a few years ago for a few hundred dollars. Not worth paying for an extended service plan. They sent me one final e-mail a few days ago.

So today it went full BSOD/Stop Code and now it's hung on boot. Amazing. :lol:

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 4:30 pm

:lol: I fully endorse one of the newer Acer Aspire models that run a Ryzen CPU. You can get them between $400-$600 on Amazon depending on the chip series.

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Postby dodint » Wed Nov 03, 2021 4:40 pm

Looks like it was just choking on an update. It's fine now after a few hard reboots. Just amused at the timing of it all.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 6:06 pm

Won a Newegg shuffle thing for a 3060ti and an AMD motherboard for $780 or so. I have 55 minutes to make my case to my wife to buy it. :lol:

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:16 pm

Won a Newegg shuffle thing for a 3060ti and an AMD motherboard for $780 or so. I have 55 minutes to make my case to my wife to buy it. :lol:
Buy it and immediately throw it on eBay.

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Postby faftorial » Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:27 pm

What's the regular price of that combo?

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:50 pm

The graphics card should be around $400, and the motherboard no more than $200 (if that)...but scarcity is driving up prices.

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Postby iamjs » Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:45 am

so we have two mailboxes for each user: one of the old company name and one of the new company name. Is there a way to turn off the alerts for one of the boxes, so I'm not getting double alerts for everything?

Everything that I found said it's basically an all-or-nothing deal that says either take all of the alerts or none of them.

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:53 am

so we have two mailboxes for each user: one of the old company name and one of the new company name. Is there a way to turn off the alerts for one of the boxes, so I'm not getting double alerts for everything?

Everything that I found said it's basically an all-or-nothing deal that says either take all of the alerts or none of them.
You could try creating a rule in Outlook to do that (mark as read, etc.), but it'd likely be a client-side rule, so I'm not sure if it would prevent the new mail alert. Should be easy to test.

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:56 am

Hmm, no option to disable alerts, so that may not do anything for you. So you could probably automatically move/delete that mail, but may still wind up with alerts on them.

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Postby iamjs » Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:19 am

so we have two mailboxes for each user: one of the old company name and one of the new company name. Is there a way to turn off the alerts for one of the boxes, so I'm not getting double alerts for everything?

Everything that I found said it's basically an all-or-nothing deal that says either take all of the alerts or none of them.
You could try creating a rule in Outlook to do that (mark as read, etc.), but it'd likely be a client-side rule, so I'm not sure if it would prevent the new mail alert. Should be easy to test.
Yeah, looks like that's what I had to do.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Sat Nov 06, 2021 3:54 pm

I've been looking for a GPU for my son forever. Like three generations of NVIDIA cards ago.

It didn't occur to me to empty my closet of my older cards. I had a Radeon 6950 that last sold on eBay for $60. OK, fine. It's just sitting in my closet, I'll never use it again. But then I listed the MSI Radeon 390 card...which I bought in 2015, and it's going for $250-300 used right now. :shock:

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:33 am

I'm encoding a video right now using ffmpeg, and my Ryzen 9 is just ripping through it. CPU utilization is through the roof, but you wouldn't know it, as my user experience has not changed one bit. Everything is still nice and zippy.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Thu Nov 11, 2021 6:00 pm

The GPU I bought for $329 in October 2015 is currently bidding for $410 with four days left on the auction. It's madness. :shock:

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Nov 11, 2021 7:00 pm

Hardware is absurd right now. Even at work, we can’t get monitors, thin clients, webcams (different reason there), etc.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue Nov 16, 2021 4:16 pm

The GPU I bought for $329 in October 2015 is currently bidding for $410 with four days left on the auction. It's madness. :shock:
...and it ended at that price with a bidder from Georgia (the country) with no feedback. I very much doubt I'll get paid for that.

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