hellyt6

Took it to a friends house, left it in the floor and woke up to his dog chewing on it.

Maybe I'm super late to the party but these mice seem to have just fallen off the face of the planet! I loved my M90 and it sadly got eaten by a dog, and then my M95 took a tumble off the desk and the scroll wheel itself broke. I can't even find one on ebay for parts, there's like one on there and the guy wants $300 bucks for it, which is crazy. So I guess this post is for thus: anybody know where I could find a scroll wheel for a M90/M95/M60/M65? Or where can I buy a new M90/M95?

So I took my laptop out in the rain yesterday on accident, no big deal, didn't have it out but maybe 5 minutes, but of course, a little bit of water seeps in I guess and I get it back home and it won't turn on. So, I left it over an HVAC vent over night, work up this morning, took it apart and tamped it dry with a coffee filter and it works! It works! CMOS battery is entirely drained though, so I think that's what got wet. But yeah! If you need the laptop within a day or two, and it's not feasible to let it dry for a week straight, use a coffee filter and dry it off by gently tamping on the motherboard. Make sure you're grounded though.

I'm going to mount the laptop or a tablet to the dash and run it off the tape adapter and have a full entertainment system inside of the car without swapping out the radio. Now Kyuubixchidori there has a point in saying that the laptop will be hard on the battery. It will, so I'm going to come up with a back-up battery system using some old UPS's and convert them to charge off of the alternator when the engine is running. That way the laptop's battery can charge and discharge normally so it doesn't kill the battery it has, and the car's battery will be hardly affected. Now, the alternator on this car isn't the highest quality one, but it's a GM part, so if the one in my truck is all original and has lasted 38 years, I don't see why this one can't handle this job.

So I've recently acquired a 2004 Suzuki Forenza. Now, the vehicle I've been driving is a 1978 GMC pick up, so as you can imagine, I'm in heaven with all of the modern amenities this car has but it's missing one crucial thing... Aux input. I got away without it in my truck because it has an opening above the heater/radio where I can set my phone and it echoes out and gets rather loud (Moto G), but the Suzuki has no such thing. BUT, it has a tape deck! And I've already bought one of those adapter things! But the headphone jack on my Moto G is already acting up.. But I have an old laptop that can accept a touch screen. I think you may already see where I'm going with this... I'll explain more after a few replies.

I narrowed it down to the mouse and keyboard drivers being gone and the Chipset driver being a dude from MSI. So I rolled back and it worked fine but other registry errors got int he way and I reinstalled anyways. Either way, I'm probably pawning it and getting a used Macbook or something. I do enough troubleshooting for other people, doing it on my own stuff is getting old.

... Which installing Linux might be a bit counter productive to that. Uh... Anyone wanna buy this system off me?

Well, it started giving other problems like not actually booting and stuff like that, so the Windows install is broke. I think I'm just going to go Linux. This is like the 300th problem I've had with this build and I'm sick of messing with it.

MSI H81M-P33 motherboard, PNY XLR8 120 GB SSD, Pentium G3258, 8GBs of G.Skill RAM all in a Cooler Master N200 case. So far, I've tried two different keyboards and mice and I've narrowed it down to a Windows issue. I was able to get in with the "Allow non-digitally signed" drivers option and although that works, my dad likes to turn my PC off and I'd rather not play ballerina every time to get into Windows. Should I find out which driver is causing the issue and uninstall in safe mode and reinstall? Or is there a better way to go about this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-White-MacBook-2-26Ghz-4GB-250GB-13-3-Unibody-MC207LL-A-Late-2009-/281554362121?pt=Apple_Laptops&hash=item418df29f09 I found this beauty.

That's a lot of the reason as to why I was looking at 2009 models and the like. I borrowed a 2009 model from a friend for a short time for a paper and it was fantastic for what it was. She even managed WoW, Final Fantasy Online and the like on it with minimal issues. I think she burned her leg on the bottom of it once lol. So buying new isn't exactly a choice here unless I can find something refurbished? Or maybe a rich kid is getting rid of it for cheap? I dunno.

Oh yeah, didn't Yosemite take out a lot of the accessibility to what's under the hood?

It's not so much wanting one, it's the whole.. My knowledge of OS X is only skin deep. I know how the UI works from my time working in a call center that used only Macs, and I wasn't allowed to fiddle with them. All I could do is load up Safari and our logging software lol.

I do actually have an old Macbook but, well, it's old. 2006 model, won't go to anything past 10.7.5, and I had to fiddle with the firmware to get it to load that. So far, my main issue with doing the hackintosh is that the two i5 systems in my house right now are running MSI motherboards, and the audio drivers that are available won't work with the sound card (at least through my testing) and causes kernel panicks and everything else. (Generic Realtek, y u complicated).

Do those have HDMI out? I should really actually dig into this a little bit more lol. I only think they're not worth it because I watched my $350 Dell Inspiron go head to head with a 2013 Macbook Pro 13-inch and nearly beat it in every test (same exact hard drives, 4GBs of RAM at 1600MHz, only difference was the Macbook had an i5-whatevertheyputinthem and the OS, my Dell has an i3-3227U) long story short, I shouldn't have been able to load WoW faster and pull better fps.