DiamondShark286

I just recently replaced my laptop screen because the original one broke. I ordered a screen that was listed as the same as my old one but I received one that is slightly different. I was supposed to get a LP173WFG-SPB1 panel but I actually got a B173HANO4.9 panel. At first glance, the panel appears to work fine but when I went to check the refresh rate of the screen the only option listed is 60hz. from what I can tell even the B173HANO4.9 panel should be capable of 144hz but I can't seem to change it. I tried reinstalling my graphics drivers and checking for driver updates but that did not seem to help. I am also not able to set a custom resolution to force it to 144hz since intel does not allow this on built-in displays and Nvidia control panel does not have any display options since the internal display runs through the integrated graphics. I would prefer not to have to go through the ebay return process if I don't have to so it would be nice if I could get this panel to work correctly. Any help is much appreciated.

THe TV im currently connected to is 4k. I previously used the cable with a 1080p monitor with no issues.

I have been having a really weird issue with my laptop when I'm connecting it to my TV over HDMI. My laptop is a Sager NP7877DW and I don't know the exact model TV I have but is a 55" 4k hisense and I connected to two devices using a 15ft HDMI cable from walmart. The issue I'm having is that when I have a youtube video playing and I put it on the TV the frame rate seems to drop for maybe 10 seconds then it will speed back up and playback fast like it's trying to catch up and it will keep repeating this cycle while it's connected. The same video plays just fine when it's on my laptop screen. I checked the selected refresh rate and it's set to 60hz. I have used this same HDMI cable for a while to connect a different monitor to my laptop and I haven't noticed any issues. The only difference I know of is that the monitor was only 1080p 60hz. So I'm thinking maybe a bandwidth issue with the cable but I would have thought it would cut out completely not just slow down like it does. I'm just wondering if anyone has experienced the same issue or has any Idea what I might be able to try. I will try a different cable when I can but I would really prefer to use the long cable since my TV is across the room. Thanks in advance.

I recently bought an old HP elitedesk G2 mini pc to use as a home server but found out after receiving it that it didn't have a CPU. Im still in the process of seeing if I can get a refund/get a CPU from the seller but assuming I get screwed over I was wondering what CPU would be best to get. I plan on running proxmox as the hypervisor with VMs for: home assistant minecraft server(s) possibly plex I was looking at the i5-6600T and 6500T since they are both about half the price of the i7-6700T on ebay but im not sure if 4 cores is good enough to run everything or if the hyperthreading of the 6700T would make it worth it. Other recommendation are welcome but it appears that the mini PC only supports 6th gen CPUs based on HPs website. I also have the 35W version of the computer so im pretty much limited to the 'T' Variants of the processors. Thanks in advance for the help.

I found this: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09SFN9NRX?psc=1&smid=ALEUSIKNYEECT&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp. It is a bit more expensive but says that it should work without Power delivery and has a few more ports. So I will see how this goes.

I have a USB-C hub for my laptop and the HDMI output decided to commit die, so I have been looking for a new one. I was looking at some of the more expensive options on amazon that appear to have more features but I noticed all of them say that they require USB-C with power delivery and display port alt mode. The USB-C port on my laptop does have built in display port 1.4 so I'm not worried about that, but my laptop does not support power delivery. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with these docks and whether they will function without power delivery. A couple examples can be found below. Examples: Hub 1 Hub 2 Hub 3 All of these hubs either come with a power adapter or use a external USB-C PD brick for powering the dock so it seems like the laptop would only need to support Power Delivery if you wanted to charge the laptop through the dock but I don't know if there is some reason they require Power Delivery to function. Also if anybody has any suggestions for other docks that might work better I will take them. I am looking to stay under $150 if possible. Thank you.

That's very strange. I don't think that is my problem since I tried both and did a clean install at one point while using the dvi monitor. The main issue I kept running into was that when I tried to boot the windows vm with the GPU passed through it either failed to start with a timeout on the start command or the VM was incredibly slow over vnc and I couldn't make it to step 2 of the windows installer without it just freezing. It worked perfectly fine when I removed the GPU passthrough. I also never got any video output from the GPU from the VM. The GPU would freeze on proxmox initialization stuff and when the VM would be started it would stop outputting anything and the monitor would go to sleep. So clearly it was doing something with the GPU but no matter what I did I couldn't figure it out. My only guess is something weird with the GPU not handling the tradeoff from proxmox to the VM well or something. It had its own iommu group and everything appeared to be compatible during the setup process for everything. Too bad I don't have an extra pcie slot to try with 2 gpus. Might have to get a 1x to 16x adapter and try again.

For my laptop yes. For the vms or anything I used my TV for a bit until it was too annoying having 1 monitor for my laptop and brought over an old dvi monitor.

Well I landed on windows after all. I tried for the past couple days to setup proxmox and I don't know if my motherboard is goofy or what but I couldn't for the life of me get gpu passthrough to function and wifi was a lost cause(wifi wasn't necessary just would have been nice). I think I have tried every option given by every tutorial online but the windows VM would freeze every time before I got past the first couple steps of the installer as long as I had the gpu assigned to the VM. In the end I did remember I had an old windows 10 pro license lying around so Im just going to use hyper-v and hope that works since I don't need to deal with gpu passthrough anymore.

Thanks I will look into it. I guess I didn't realize that hyper-v was as good as it is and that might make it easier to deal with the gpu since I don't have an extra PCIE slot for another one. If I were to go with proxmox would I need a gpu or could it be run headless. I do have an old card but my motherboard is micro-atx and I only have a spare pcie 1x slot so using the old card might prove difficult. edit: I was looking a bit and saw someone talk about installing proxmox with a gpu then removing it. Any idea if this would work with swapping the gpu out for the one I want to use in the VM?

I was looking into setting up my old desktop as a media console in my living room and in the process setting up a couple VMs to run minecraft servers or home assistant and possibly some network storge, along with windows for games. I think all of this *could* be done in windows as the host OS, but I was kind of hoping to use linux as the host for the lower overhead and better server management tools. The issue Im having is that I don't really know what OS to use as the host. I was looking into truenas but I don't have the extra hard drives for the NAS yet and im not sure exactly when i will have the spare cash to get them. I know its a colossally stupid use case but can trueNAS be used without a storage pool setup in the first place just to host VMs and is there a better option? I know enough about linux to get me by but I don't really have any experience in this area. The specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 2600 RAM: 24gb GPU: RX480 4gb Storage: 500gb m.2 drive + 2tb hard drive (I do have a couple other small drive that I can use for OSs but thats about it) Anther thing is that I would need the GPU to be passed through to the windows VM and I don't have integrated graphics so the base OS would need to run headless.

1. ok thats good to know. 2. just some basic google searches I may have gotten the naming wrong since it seems like they change it every 5 minutes, but I thought that 3.0 was the old original usb 3 standard and was 5 Gbps and 3.1 was typically but not always what usb c used and was 10 Gbps. 3. I don't remember exactly and the hub is not liking my ethernet cable because of the whole dying thing so I can't retest it but I do know that I did back to back testing with the gigabit port on my laptop and that one read much closer to gigabit speeds and is essentially what I expected that hub to deliver.

I currently have a usb c hub that I use to dock my laptop but it has started to be a bit flakey so I was going to look for a new one but I have run into a few questions that I have not been able to find good answers for. My current hub has a few usb ports, a "gigabit" ethernet port (more on that later), an HDMI port and a few SD/micro SD card ports. I am currently using two extra monitors and I would like for them to be able to both run through my new hub but I am concerned/confused about the data rates for the port. I have seen a few docks that have 2-3 display outputs but from my understanding the bandwidth of a usb c 3.1 port is 10 Gbps and a 1080p 60Hz HDMI signal is 6.7 Gbps and that math doesn't work. The hubs I found are not labeled as thunderbolt hubs or anything so I was just wondering whether or not a usb c hub can actually support two 1089p streams at once or if these hubs are being mislabeled from thunderbolt ports or something else. example of amazon listing I was referring to: amazon.com On a slightly different topic my current hub advertises a gigabit ethernet port (I would post link to it but the amazon listing in my buy again is for a completely different hub) but I tried using that port as and I was never able to get gigabit speeds out of it they were typically at most a couple hundred Mbps (I ended up just plugging into my laptop directly for ethernet) and contrary to what I had listed above gigabit ethernet and a single 1080p HDMI signal should have had no problem with the usb gen 3.1 bandwidth limit. So basically I am just extremely confused by all of the marketing and stuff around these hubs and wanted some clarification. Also if you guys have any recommendations for hubs that might work well and last a while that would be great, preferably under $50 since I'm a broke college student. I mainly need at least one HDMI port although preferably 2, a gigabit ethernet port that works and a 3-4 usb ports for mice and keyboards and stuff.

That is a fantastic question I am looking through windows update history there was one update approximately a week before the issue other than that I haven't really installed any new programs and the only thing that I did that night was charge the headset and hibernate my computer. I have absolutely no clue what else might have changed. I will probably try uninstalling the windows update but I have my doubts about that helping since it was installed for almost a week before I had an issue.

I am having an issue with my corsair virtuoso wireless se where the wireless dongle doesn't seem to be getting detected correctly by icue or the headset. The issue started randomly overnight a few weeks ago. The night before it worked fine and the next morning when I went to use my headset it just would not connect to the dongle no matter what I did. I looked at iCUE and saw that the dongle was recognized by iCUE but no options were showing up (screenshot below). After some googling I decided that it looks like its a firmware issue and it appeared that force updating the firmware would probably fix it. So I contacted corsair support and after confirming some details they sent over the correct firmware. The only issue is that the firmware refused to flash either directly to the dongle or through the headset. So now I was thinking that maybe the dongle was bad and died so I talked to support again and they agreed and said they would send me a new dongle. So all that brings me to now. The dongle arrived today and I thought that for sure this would be the fix but I am getting the exact same symptoms as before. I am at a complete loss of ideas and I will have to contact support again but they take at least a few days to get back to me so I thought maybe someone here could help. As far as troubleshooting I have tried: reinstalling iCUE upgrading iCUE downgrading iCUE every single port on my laptop I plugged the new dongle into a computer that had never before seen iCUE or my headset until now and it still didn't work. Any help would be appreciated I do have logs for iCUE and have glanced through them but there aren't any huge errors from what i can see. I have attached them just in case yall can find something. please help I am losing my sanity. CUELogs.zip

No one will tell me so I am trying to stay under $1500

Hello everyone, I hope yall are having a good day. I am looking for a good laptop for my girlfriend because she is going off to college next year and her laptop is in dire need of an upgrade and she has no idea about computer hardware so she asked me for suggestions. After a bit of looking I am thinking that the MSI Creator 15 A10SD-015 probably fits what she wants best. I just wanted some second opinions and to make sure that there are no glaring problems that I missed. She is going to use it for some light gaming, school work, drawing, and potentially engineering which is what she is thinking about majoring in(still undecided and is not necessarily sure what field of engineering). here is a link to what I was looking at: https://www.newegg.com/space-gray-with-silver-diamond-cut-msi-creator-15-a10sd-015-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16834155680?quicklink=true Thank you for taking a look.

I will have to talk to her about this. I'll have to see what she would prefer ergonomics-wise. As far as waiting while she probably could she has already been putting this off for a year or so and her hard drive is making that noise that means that its about to Thanos your file system(this has also been going on for about a year).

I have ben trying to find a laptop for my girlfriend but I'm not really very familiar with good laptops(or 2 in 1s) for art. Her parents said they would pitch in for it and when I asked none of them were able to give me a good budget but Im guessing they don't want to go much over $1500. The laptop will be used for fairly light gaming(she plays a lot of slime rancher/minecraft/phasmophobia/etc.) and she likes to draw. She has a cheap drawing tablet but I was thinking that while she is upgrading her laptop maybe she should get something with a touchscreen/pen. It should also be able to last a decent amount of time because she is currently a senior in highschool and I'm hoping that she wouldn't have to buy a new one before she gets out of college. I am not very well versed in what to look for when it comes to 2 in 1s or anything related to screen quality so I could use some help in those areas. TLDR. Used for light gaming/drawing Respectable build quality hopefully under $1500 a 2 in 1 would probably work pretty well

ok thanks i was just wondering if there was way to bypass the graphics check.

I had an old athlon 860k system laying around that i want to repurpose as a home server. The only problem is that the gpu that was in it is in my current desktop so it doesn't have any graphics output. I used the graphics card to setup ubuntu server and removed the card and tried to boot. The system seemed to stat but I was never able to ssh in. After some googling I decided that it is probably not POSTing. Does anyone know a way to get around this and boot without a gpu installed? Here is the full parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YQfrw6

i have an rx 480

would this be a decent option or not: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824160275

I'm looking to upgrade my monitor from the horrid vizio tv i have been using for awhile and was wondering what people suggested. I looking for something thats 1080p 120hz with low input lag. I would prefer something under or around $200 if possible.

no it does not. the other strange thing i forgot to mention was that while stress testing with furmark i saw a clear almost 10fps increase between non overclocked and overclocked. So it seems that did not see the same problem.