Skeletonfish

Hey LTT forums, it's been a long while since I posted on here... But hello again! A little bit of backstory, I'm a Mac and Linux guy, and have been for a number of years. so I'm used to either things just "working" or being able to "sudo" things if it's being dumb, haha. I daily drove macOS for years up until I built my new machine the other week. A big part of me agreeing with myself that I could switch to daily driving Windows was that Thunderbolt was available on Windows more or less stably now. As being a mac guy thunderbolt had become part of my life and I own countless thunderbolt accessories as well as my setup has become based around a UAD Apollo DUO thunderbolt. I opted for the ASrock X50/TB3 with a Ryzen 7 3800X and 32gb of ram, and a Titan X. As I wanted an ITX build and wanted decent CPU headroom for virtualization for development reasons. and of course thunderbolt support. I got it all together and I'm very happy with the overall performance of the build. However I seem to have entered a never ending fight with thunderbolt... First day of having the machine up, thunderbolt wasn't working and I figured "that's fine I'll update some drivers when I have time and it'll start working"... fast-forward a week and after troubleshooting and reading almost every ASrock related Thunderbolt post I'm stumped. All drivers have been updated to the latest, Motherboard BIOS has been updated, thunderbolt firmware (NVM) has been updated to v50.0. and still no thunderbolt devices work. If I plug in a thunderbolt device windows seems to decide it's a USB device and gives me "A request for the USB device descriptor failed"... Which I guess makes sense that it throughs and error given its a TB device. But how then do I tell windows that this is a thunderbolt device and it is to treat it as such? Does anyone have any experience with ASrock's thunderbolt on AMD implementation? Is there something obvious I'm missing? TL;DR windows throughs error "A request for the USB device descriptor failed" when a thunderbolt device is plugged into a thunderbolt port. On ASrock X570/TB3 Cheers, all! and thanks in advance for the help!

Thanks for that guide! I've actually been following this to get a GTX560ti working on an old Apple Xserve. So far the furthest i've gotten is for windows to recognize the card and GPU Z to see as if its acting normal. my issue being that when I try to connect a display or trick windows into a dummy display, I get a blue screen on the VM with a "nvlddmkm.sys" error. I'd love someones suggestions on what to try? currently working on rolling the driver back to 388.13 if that doesn't work though, i'm out of ideas. working on windows 7 Pro SP1 Xserve specs: 2x Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHZ 12GB of ECC RAM GTX 560ti attached externally via a PCI-E Extender.

it was just zip tied to the shelf no disassembly. The idea of M3 tape, foam and stainless steel ties is one i've had and thought about.

Hey guys. It's been a while since I posted here but I'm a little stumped with this build for work i'm doing. The build is a set of 3 5U racks built to tour and run a program called QLab which is a speciality program to run theatre shows. The problem i'm having is two of the racks have trashcan Macs in them, they were mounted to a rack shelf via heavy duty zip ties. But the zip ties broke on the tour it was just on. So what I need you guys's help for, is I need Ideas on how to mount the Macs on a shelf without breaking on tour. I would like to avoid one of those rack mac systems, for two reasons. 1. weight, this needs to be able to fly. 2. I don't have a huge budget for this and more just have to make do with what I have. I know this is a PC based forum so id like to put it out there that I can't build a rack mountable PC for this, because 1. budget 2. I need it to be super reliable.

Thanks! I was wondering about that wd green drive ill buy another seagate NAS drive then

There isn't a very big chance of useing plex,if i did it would be one or two streams thats it. I might end up doing some ftp stuff but i don't think that'll be too intensive

at the moment it'll be for backup (BitTorrent sync seems to be the way I want to go). and for mass storage, pictures, movies, music, etc.

hey guys, im looking at building a freenas server, nothing fancy just something to get the job done. I have two 2tb drives one is a seagate NAS drive the other is a WD green that id like to use. This is what im planning right now: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/F7jNK8 what do you guys think? does it need anything else?

I want to get my family a reliable NAS since i'm moving out in a couple months and don't want to have to trouble shoot all the time. I also don't want may dad to freak out again like the last time a hard drive failed and he lost all the family pictures. http://www.amazon.ca/TS-231-Personal-Mobile-Airplay-Support/dp/B00O3Y7F02/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1449171845&sr=8-13&keywords=NAS

old ones put out alot of heat its normal

WD RED and seagate NAS drives, also seagates barracudas ive never had a problem with but your mileage my vary

Thanks for the help man!

thanks for the insight, ill probably go into an apple store someday soon. while im here what do you think of the force touch trackpad? (if yours has it)

what year macbook pro do you have? and do think its better for school and just general computing compared to something like a razer blade 14?

thats not a bad idea but if i go with a 2012 im not gaining much over my current laptop in performance. im just trading in for a more portable one not really, cheaper is better hmmm....