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kagarium

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  1. Finally, a wallpaper that shows just how terrible the backlight bleed on my monitors are
  2. That drive is a normal sata drive. Remove it from the carrier sled it's in and the adapter will come off.
  3. Here is a good post on Gamers Nexus that explains most of the display types you'll find. (CRT, TN, IPS, PLS, and VA) https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1890-panel-comparison-tn-ips-pls-va-crt
  4. I've been using this switch on my desk for a few years now. And its less than $20
  5. Hitachi is a large name in the Hard Drive industry, that'd be perfectly fine. The SSD I'm not sure about, but you can easily look at the reviews from people who actually bought it
  6. Ah. I see now Unfortunately from searching amazon and newegg, as well as some other recent forum posts on the internet there doesn't seem to be an existing cable like this yet. My theory is that its not super-widely adopted yet in cases or on all motherboards. So I guess the answer is... wait until the product exists. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  7. I assume this is the connector you are talking about. This is a USB 3.1 header. You can adapt it to a standard 20-pin USB 3.0 header using a cheap adapter such as this one: https://www.amazon.com/JSER-Front-Header-Extension-Motherboard/dp/B077PNJNGJ/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1523474146&sr=1-3&keywords=usb+3.1+to+3.0+header
  8. Towards the end of this video Linus talks about how the wifi and cellular radiation being strong and harmful is a load of bull
  9. The point of floatplane is to be a paid benefit No ads, a separate discussion forum, discord channel, (and now an alpha site), and all content a week before release on youtube You pay, to get more.
  10. Here's 2 step by steps by a guy who did it to his H440 himself.
  11. Yeah its just too much work, she doesn't need wired internet anyways. She just has a phone, a laptop, and then a smart tv. Which all have wifi
  12. lol i wish. Absolutely nothing done with them. I dont even know why they bothered installing the jacks
  13. If you haven't already, pull one of them off the wall and see if its actually wired. My mother moved into a house recently that had rj45 wall jacks but none of them were actually wired up anywhere - just blank plates
  14. I would say the Define R6, but unless you need all the front hard drive bays, optical drive, and watercooling space, you may be better off with the smaller and cheaper Define C or Meshify C.
  15. +1 for the Samsonite bag. I own a laptop shoulder bag from them that I have used for work for about 1 1/2 years now. Very high quality product.
  16. Double check that you have Windows Update to -not- download over metered connections. If you've been blocking updates for 2 months or so they will be downloaded anyways due to necessary security updates
  17. I apologize in advance for the wall of text in front of you. So, I've spent the last few weeks configuring and testing Windows Deployment Services and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit on an install of Server 2012 R2. This is used to image computers that we give out as donations to students at our college through a raffle. I have a laundry list of issues that have been popping up here and there. I have solved a good number of them with some lucky guessing and a lot of them with good old google.com. I've still got a few that I could really use a hand with however; Application Installation We install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Google Chrome, MalwareBytes, Mozilla Firefox, and LibreOffice on all computers. So far, Chrome, MalwareBytes, and Firefox install silently without a hitch. Adobe Reader installs, but the end screen still appears requiring me to click 'finish'. Ive tried /silent, /passive, and /sAll as suggested in an adobe forum question, and none have worked. Deployment continues fine after clicking finish LibreOffice refuses to install. /silent and /passive do not work. It will not even open the installer, it just says 'failed, returned with error code 2 or something similar. Cannot remember exactly. Driver Installation Most of the computers we give out are supplied to us by the college. All the same model (HP Compaq DC7900). Windows gets all of the drivers installed itself except for the audio driver. Even going into device manager and forcing it to look for a driver, it wont install one. So we use the Windows 7 driver off of HP's website. Works just fine. So how can i add this driver into the deployment task sequence? I assume its more than just throwing the .exe in a folder. Skip Deployment Settings I would like MDT to skip certain items during the pre-deployment process. For example, we never enable bitlocker, so it would be nice to just never have to see that screen and have it always set to "do not enable bit locker by default. Another good example would be region settings. They are always going to be English, and Eastern Standard Time. I would like to just be able to skip these screens and have it set to the defaults i want. Skip domain login Everytime we image a computer, it asks for a domain login (username, password, domain). Can i set it up so it will automatically login with a certain account and skip the dialogue? Or just a way to skip the dialogue entirely? Windows Update Rather than constantly updating my boot image, I would like Windows to get some updates during the deployment. I see 2 disabled tasks in the task sequence. Windows Update (Pre-Application Installation) and Windows Update (Post-Application Installation) Is one of these preferable? Is there any issue/disadvantage to just enabling them both (They are disabled by default) Changing default programs I have no idea how i would go about this through deployment, but i would like chrome to be set as the default browser, pinned to the taskbar, and edge removed from the taskbar. I would also like adobe reader to be set as the default pdf viewer instead of edge/chrome. Disabling built-in administrator We create a generic account on the computers named "User" with administrator privileges and no password. I currently run two scripts in the custom tasks in my task sequence to do so AddUser.cmd @echo off net user User /add net localgroup Administrators User /add AdminDisable.cmd @echo off net user administrator /active:no These run at the end of deployment. After the deployment finishes we manually reboot the computer and the administrator account disappears. It works, and I don't mind it being what we need. But if there are any other ways I could do this I'm open to them These are my main issues as of now. Any and all help would be super amazing! Thanks, Ken
  18. It is an issue with the bios. Try replacing the cmos battery and flashing the bios
  19. Its not worth the time or hassle, even if you do get a free garbage card out of it What would he even do with the like - gt 210 that might show up? Use it as a sandwich cutter?
  20. What color is the power button blinking?
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