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Live Events Engineer. Working in Audio, Video and lighting fields.
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I'm after a small monitor to have under my main display preferably smaller than a 16 inch as that's too big. The only problem I'm finding is that everything is trash quality. Horrid colours terrible resolutions etc. with the millions of tablets with decent screens does someone make something around 10inchs with a decent quality display?
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Hi I have a 4tb Samsung Sata SSD and there about a terabyte of important photos on it and 3TB of games. I've just finished building a new PC and Im transferring it from a old computer to the new one. How do I add it to the system without having to format it and wiping the data.
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WIndows installed on m.2 drive, but not booting to windows
Ahoy Hoy replied to Ahoy Hoy's topic in Troubleshooting
I didnt change the USB install that was the same. used the same m.2 port did multiple install attempts on the WD750 and formatted the drive every time. Tried so many different settings in bios with the WD750 CSM on CSM off, secure boot. I wont sell the WD750 not worth the effort there like 50 quid new on clearance at the moment. Probably buy a M.2 external enclosure and use it for storage of video files. It worked fine in the laptop as my second SSD -
WIndows installed on m.2 drive, but not booting to windows
Ahoy Hoy replied to Ahoy Hoy's topic in Troubleshooting
Both installs the only drive in the system was the drive I wanted it to boot off. I changed nothing but aa used but formated drive with a brand new one -
WIndows installed on m.2 drive, but not booting to windows
Ahoy Hoy replied to Ahoy Hoy's topic in Troubleshooting
@leclod I fixed it and got it to work. I went down to Sainsbury's bought a Samsung 980 pro 1tb and installed that first try. In other news I have a 1tb Western digital SSD for sale. -
WIndows installed on m.2 drive, but not booting to windows
Ahoy Hoy replied to Ahoy Hoy's topic in Troubleshooting
no, id prefer not to as its a mitx and the other m.2 slot is very difficult to get to. Probably have to remove the GPU, half my fans and unplug a good amount of the cables. Preferably not either as currently it has nearly 3tb of games installed on it and that would take a while to redownload. -
WIndows installed on m.2 drive, but not booting to windows
Ahoy Hoy replied to Ahoy Hoy's topic in Troubleshooting
yep first thing i did -
WIndows installed on m.2 drive, but not booting to windows
Ahoy Hoy replied to Ahoy Hoy's topic in Troubleshooting
I did anyway even without seeing the drive as bootable and it still didn't boot. just went into blank screen with text saying insert a bootable drive and restart -
WIndows installed on m.2 drive, but not booting to windows
Ahoy Hoy replied to Ahoy Hoy's topic in Troubleshooting
Followed that process and got to step 8 when I got back into the BIOS it didn't list my NVME drive as an option in the boot list. -
In the BIOS is seeing the WDBlack 1TB m.2 drive as the only storage connecting to the computer. I've downloaded Windows 11 and gone through the install process, it restarts after successfully installing. I've unplugged my USB with the Windows install on and the system says there are no bootable drives. System: CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III A-RGB 48.82 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B660-I GAMING WIFI Mini ITX LGA1700 Motherboard Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5200 CL40 Memory Storage: Western Digital Black SN750 SE 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Storage: Samsung 870 QVO 4 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (not plugged in currently) Video Card: Zotac GAMING Trinity GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB Video Card Power Supply: Corsair SF850L 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply Case: Corsair 2000D
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It's so annoying that Apple thinks people don't need PCI slots. Have you ever tried to run an SDI input card to an Apple device through a USB adapter? it goes terribly, if it's a MacBook and you close the lid you also get the fun that all your routing changes. I still have the intel version and it's great. I wouldn't mind using an Apple silicon version but I don't want to spend three grand for PCI slots. If they made a desktop size mac studio with PCI cards and charge a extra grand for it, I would buy it and know multiple industries which would use it. But they don't so they currently use mac studios with a stupid amount of USB to HDMI adapters and things will eventually go wrong. also my nokia 950L was great, windows phones were great.
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This is the most real comment ever. there was a guy on this forum a couple of years back, clearly very wealthy and he spent 5k+ on his headphone set up amps dacs the whole whack. He got his wife/girlfriend to blind A B test him. He couldn't tell the difference he got it wrong multiple times he couldn't figure out what was what. IMO if you are buying those stupidly expensive headphones with multiple 0s in the price tag spending extra money on amps and dacs, sure you passed the price to performance many thousands ago. But if you are buying mainstream headphones from the likes of Sennheiser, Beyer etc. They design their headphones to be used with modern (last ten years) electronics. Why you may ask, because they don't want to have to get a phone call every day to customer support saying my new headphones don't work with my iPhone I want a refund. If you are getting mainstream headphones and have a modern electronic device which isn't the cheapest rubbish on Temu, you don't need to waste money on a DAC and amp. Or at the bare minimum. Get the headphones first try it and if you are having background noise, interference etc get a DAC. If they don't go loud enough get an amp.
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In the politest way possible. That's stupid and a waste of money. getting a mixer to mix multiple sources to different outputs. Perfectly acceptable. Spending a chunk of money on a headphone amp even though MacBooks have great built in audio and if your computer is not the cheapest rubbish you can find probably also has a perfectly acceptable and capable audio system. Both will probably run the HD650 with no problems because they are not one of these one off specialist headphones with stupid impedance and low sensitivity. Obviously, a shop advises you to spend money on things they sell. My recommendation on headphone amplification for 99.99% of headphones is to test it first on the device you want to use and if it's loud enough without interference/background noise etc. Then it's good enough and an extra piece of equipment will change nothing. The obvious downfall is you have a decent audio sauce in the MacBook and computer going through what is a cheap crappy mixer and most likely the cheapest cables you found on Amazon (before you say cables don't matter, they do, cheap crap is cheap crap, expensive snake oil is expensive bollcocks, but decent quality at the correct price is what you should buy) going to an expensive amp. Since I'm two weeks late to the party and you've probably bought this. Test it. Listen to the headphones in your system as said, then plug them directly into the MacBook and computer (adjust the volume to about the same). Can you tell a difference?
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Security camera setup needed...suggestions?
Ahoy Hoy replied to Radium_Angel's topic in Photography and Videography
I built my parent's security system with blue iris. Its a one time purchase like others said but you get a year's worth of updates and then have to pay for more updates. So Ive bought it once then about five years later paid for the upgrade. Works on any windows computer and can be a little confusing but the online guides and youtube videos are exceptional and you'll easily have any networked camera system up and running. You can also just used a simple 3g USB dongle to provide internet to the computer to allow you to view the footage yourself. You can also set up text and email notifications when blue iris spots something ie car license plate or a person, don't do it on a camera near a footpath or road otherwise enjoy the spam.