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    zanthros got a reaction from vertigo220 in Troubleshooting Forum - How To Use The "mark Solved" Feature   
    It is a shame that posters are able to mark their own answers as the best answer and "SOLVED" therefore gaming the system and upping their Rep.... Sad......
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    zanthros got a reaction from Danial Haziq in [Solved] Motherboard Won't Power ON - No POST   
    Remove the power cable, remove the CMOS battery and push and hold the CMOS button for 10 seconds.... (Cmos button is by the power button on your board and labeled CMOS)
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    zanthros got a reaction from PCgamer324 in Old School Mac G3 Modded   
    Project: OLD SCHOOL
    I built this MOD back in November 2012 as a result of my desire to utilize an iconic case and my desire to run OSX. It took some serious thought, a lot of hard work and a lot of time consuming elbow grease, as there were several factors that came into play with the formulation and completion of this MOD. (No true MOD is ever really completed. It is, and always will be an ongoing project)
    I started out with an PowerMac G3 case (Yes, I know it has been done perhaps a thousand times before, BUT not in this fashion) as I liked the design and it has attained the reputation as almost a work of art. My feelings were that Apple may have missed the mark slightly by not offering any “Bling” or customization on this case. All of the cases that I have come across browsing the web that were painted had the paint applied to the outside of the case. Nice, but it took away from the depth of the appearance of the case. I fixed this. All it took was countless hours (over 65) of wet sanding and polishing of the original polycarbonate case. (No… you cannot use paint strippers or lacquer thinner or other such chemicals as it would fog the plastic almost instantly) I took the 4 corner pieces and cleaned them masked off the “inset stripe” areas and shot them with high gloss white and then covered it with high gloss black IMRON. (All of the painting was done to the inside of the components.) I applied 1/8th pin striping tape to the area around the relief for the apple appliqué and masked it off. I shot the rest of the inside with the same gloss black paint as before and removed the masking and the pin stripe tape and shot it with a “frost” paint to give the area a frosted look. (This is the area around the apple and leaf appliqué) so that I could give it some indirect backlighting. That was the hard part. Now I was ready for the easy stuff. I removed all of the interior components, trimmed off a corner of the CD/DVD carrier (that would interfere with the placement of the new motherboard), removed the original motherboard stand offs in lieu of new ones placed to meet the requirements of the new motherboard. I shot all of the interior and exterior metal components with flat black paint as well as the rear plastic panel. The front plastic panel was painted in both high gloss and satin black paints to give a slight contrast. Green LED’s were placed behind the front apple logo as well as on the original power button. (Both the power button and the reset button are functional with the modding to the circuit I did) Holes were drilled and cut outs made to accommodate a front panel audio out / line in ports as well as 2 USB ports. (Got this nifty little setup from an old HP that was laying around) After placement of the new motherboard standoffs and cutting out for the back plate I modded the white plastic closures slide for the new standoffs. After determining the location of the fans I made the cut outs for them and airbrushed them gloss black) (Yeah, Noctua fans are normally a hideous tan and bone color) The plastic back cover was trimmed by the power plug to allow the use of my power supply and holes were made in the plastic cover to accommodate the wireless antennas. Perform touch up paint on the case, sleeve the wiring, mod the Hard drive mount on the bottom to accommodate the SSD, Protect the wires and cables inside the box with rubber and plastic edge guard moldings, Detail cable and zip tie the whole works after installing 2 green 4”CCF lights on the exterior metal sides ONLY after installing reflective foil tape on the sides. (To reflect the green lighting to the outside)
     
    That was the looks … as for the hardware; I used what I had as I am on a budget until I find employment, so it is truly Old School Retro with the components as listed below.
    Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2L
    Processor: Intel E8600 (Overclocked @ 4GHz.)
    Memory: 4GB GSKILL DDR2 PC2-8500
    Video: NIVIDIA 8800GTS 512
    Drives: HDD1=Kingston V100 96GB SATA SSD (OSX install)
                    HDD2= WD1.5TB SATA HD (Windows 7 install)
                    Optical= Toshiba SATA CD/DVD
    Power supply: Thermaltake Purepower RX-550
    Processor cooling: Scythe Big Shrunken 2 Rev. B
    Case Cooling: Noctua NF-P12-1300 120mm Fans
    Wireless: Mini PCI-E to PCI-E adaptor with Atheros AR8131 chipset
    USB: 10 ports (2 Front, 4 Rear + 4 via PCI interface card)
    Audio: Front: Lline out and Mic in, Rear Line out and Mic in.
     
    I run it a 4GHz (1.33125Volts Vcore1.3160) all the time and idle temp is 33C and at 100% load (Orthos 6 hours) it goes to 54C. (@26C ambient temp) It pulls an 11.809 1M calculation in superpi-mod v1.5. It is pretty snappy with 10.6.8 and Windows 7 x64 Pro.
    Install method for OSX was found here on Insanely Mac : http://www.insanelym...e-ga-ep45-ds3l/         with the necessary changes to work on my specific motherboard as well as a custom modded DSDT.
     
    This is not the fastest or the most powerful system here, BUT it is affordable and it meets the criteria of a MODDED BOX. IMHO a mod is not just spending tons of money bolting together a bunch of hardware of the latest and greatest to get a supercomputer that will more than likely be underutilized but rather the customization of a system that has your own signature on it and it works well when you need it to and does what you want it to.
     
    There are systems here that would make Apple itself drool as they are very impressive and they cost substantially less than an Apple equivalent and they are exquisite in their own way. My goal was to make an affordable system that will work well with what 90% of all Mac users utilize their systems for.
     
    I had 10.7 installed as well as a problematic 10.8 on this originally but neither performs as well as the 10.6; and as the almighty Apple goes, the newer software is almost forcing you to buy (Their) newer hardware. It is Apple’s way of perpetuating sales of their hardware.
    Coming next will be a new build from a G4  case but there will be a few unique features found nowhere else on a rebuild/conversion of the G4 case. Can you say anodized non-ghetto brushed aluminum?
     I will now get off my soapbox….. and ask What’s your MOD?
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    zanthros reacted to pwn_intended in Cant install windows on any disk   
    Delete all the partitions on drive 0 and then try.
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    zanthros got a reaction from Falconevo in Cant install windows on any disk   
    Can't help em if they don't listen.............
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    zanthros got a reaction from potato_curry in KERNEL POWER WHY !?!?!?!?!   
    You may want to use the corsair PSU power calculator to verify that you actually have enough power  with all of the hardware you have in the system. Remember that you should have at least 15% more power available than what is needed. Example: the minimum that you NEED is 400 watts, then your PSU should be at least 460 Watts.
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    zanthros got a reaction from ThatSoundGuy in Sudden in game restarting   
    I remember your post previously and suggested that you use a Watt-O-Meter. Did you ever do that? Did you ever install the chipset drivers? Did you ever use any thermal monitoring software to watch your temps? All of these suggestions WILL help you track down the problem if it is a hardware problem. It is up to you to follow through. If you don't then you will never find it and just waste people's time. 
     
    Here, I'll give you a diagnostic tip. If you want to narrow it down between software and hardware, do an install of Windows 7, update it and see if the problem persists. If it does then it is a hardware problem more than likely. But then again, windows10 has sooooo many problems with gaming and power management that it should not of ever come out of beta. I have never seen so many shut down while in use issues ever. Run the tests and good luck.
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    zanthros got a reaction from niceman199 in WD Black HDD loud whining noise during shutdown   
    This is bearing spin down noise. It may be due to lack excessive clearance in the bearings in the drive. Although not failing at the moment, it may have a shorter life expectancy due to the excessive clearances. IMHO I would see if it could be RMA' Ed as they always go at the most inopportune time.
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    zanthros got a reaction from Ilyas123 in HELP! PC not turning on   
    Here ya go...
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    zanthros got a reaction from NinJake in HELP! PC not turning on   
    Here ya go...
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    zanthros reacted to bgibbz in Connecting Mac and Windows Wallpaper   
    Find a dual screen wallpaper (3840 X 1080) use a photo editor to chip it in half, put one half on one screen and one half on the other screen. 
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    zanthros reacted to dragoon20005 in WD Black HDD loud whining noise during shutdown   
    @Captain_WD
     
    @niceman199
    is the HDD in a secure spot are you using a HDD caddy?
     
    does the drive makes any noise during the test?
     
    sounds more like the drive spindle is spinning down but it may seem the bearings may be the problem
     
     
     
     
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    zanthros got a reaction from Wolfskie in How do I shut my Ethernet switch up?   
    I am glad that you were able to achieve your goal. If you found information provided by one of the posts here give it a thumbs up and Mark it as solved. ( See the main forums page on how to use the Solved feature) 
     
    You will always find people here at the LTT forums to help you. The best community on the web.
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    zanthros got a reaction from grimreeper132 in How do I shut my Ethernet switch up?   
    The plastic holder or the plug has locking tabs on each wire on the plug. You can use a saftey pin or a needle to slightly bend the tab up, press down lightly on the tab on the metal part that has a tab as well and then pull lightly on the wire to remove it from the plastic plug. Be careful not to break either tab as it will cause the wire not to lock into the plug an it will easily slide out. I've done this before and it will work. Just inspect the plug closely to see the tabs that I am talking about.
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    zanthros got a reaction from Canada EH in President Donald J Trump   
    Just some guy that the Donald has hanging around to translate what he says. 
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    zanthros got a reaction from T.O.E in I won an Inno3D GTX 980 Ti. Support tells me to send it to a local store   
    Like I said, the sales department is the one to contact. I would wait for their email and take it from there. I am fairly certain that they will take care of your warranty problem as the replies that you have got were positive. Good luck.... although I do not think that you will need it now as it appears that you are on the path to warranty replacement.?
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    zanthros got a reaction from NinJake in Folder cannot be deleted   
    Me 2. I have used Ubuntu and I have a couple of hackintoshes with working NTFS software drivers on them and that works as well. Always Keep a Linux distro around for the "problem children" LOL
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    zanthros reacted to KouenHasuki in Weird Thermal Issue on Asus K53E Laptop   
    Hey Zanthros, Amusingly all I had was 2000 Grit paper so you can imagine how long I was at it (2 hours) though the surface even around the dinged and bump is smoother now though as we know most of the time that doesnt give much of a difference as luke showed in a video, but I think I sorted the issue getting rid of the dings and bump
     
    As for how it happened, I would hazard a guess it was just poor manufacturing from Asus, Given it was originally the lowest possible version of the K53E maybe they just chucked the junk coolers on those knowing the B800 Celery's are only 1.5GHz compared to the i5 2450m's 2.5GHz to 2.9GHz
     
    Some may have said I should have just got a new notebook but to be honest my notebook does all I need and thats all I can ask for! I also wanted to follow up on my own post since I hate when people never follow up or only put "Fixed now"  better to share information than not is how I roll
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    zanthros reacted to brwainer in How do I shut my Ethernet switch up?   
    fan connectors in switches are notorious for using a different pinout from standard PC connectors.
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    zanthros reacted to skimmilk5 in Computer won't turn on   
    Ditto, sorry for the late reply; unfortunately, if they're stress crack sounds, there's a good chance that you've simply been dodging bullets this entire time and that the board's been on the brink of collapse for the time that you've been using it. Sorry to break the bad news.
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    zanthros reacted to Naeaes in Audiodg.exe high cpu   
    That's what I was afraid of. Win 10 has had this audio issue come and go for a while now. I haven't personally been able to replicate it but this one guy said it helped him then he disabled all the audio devices in Device manager and unplugged his USB headset, then rebooted and only plugged the headset in. You should try it but too but I'd imagine you need to get them all even if there's nothing plugged in. So the sound card, both analog and digital and also the one built in to the GPU. 
     
    There's one thing though. It might be malware by the same filename. From right-clicking the task in task manager, pick "open file location" Make very sure the file is located in C:\Windows\System32\. If the file is located in any other folder, we gotta address this as a malware issue. 
     
    Also, even if you're not using the Windows audio enhancements, they may well be enabled and active in the background, piping audio into your unplugged ports. So, as afraid as I am to say it, you really should shut off the enancements.
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    zanthros reacted to jools in Radeon settings wont run becuase Qt5().dll is missing   
    hi saw this on reddit.com
     
    Had this exact same issue, apparently AMD accidentally released a couple versions of the Radeon Software (e.g. 16.5.2.1) that don't correctly install with the Qt5 .dll's it needs to run.
    My fix was using Guru3D's DDU to uninstall whatever AMD software was on the computer, then installing 16.2.
    After that, I checked the CCCNext folder to see if the Qt5 .dll's were present and they were- launched Radeon Settings and it worked fine.
    Checked for new software versions and it installed 16.3 for some reason, went through the install and this worked fine as well.
    Finally I checked for a new software version on 16.3 and it detected 16.5.2.1 and began installing it- note that I never installed Gaming Evolved. Currently happily using the latest Radeon Settings version with no issues.
    Hope this helps someone!
     
    I know not same card but same issue, def driver issue install
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    zanthros got a reaction from SavageClone in Key Fell OFF   
    It looks like the second and third part are supposed to be either 1 part or connected together. The white part goes in with the black part of it facing down onto the keyboard. all 4 pieces connect together forming like a scissor pivot at the top and the bottom. I would look on eBay for a new key... 
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    zanthros got a reaction from SavageClone in Key Fell OFF   
    The key just snaps into the board when properly assembled.
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    zanthros got a reaction from SavageClone in Key Fell OFF   
    Are the metal tabs bent?
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