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On 11/3/2018 at 1:24 AM, Juluis97 said:

No observable damage, when handling the mb I always try to insure that I work in static free environment. No debris in the opening. Yes the and yes. Never tried to use a wireless adapter.

I would try a fresh install of the OS and if that doesn't solve the issue, either use a PCIE NIC, or buy a new motherboard. 

Is there any damage to the motherboard? Any of the metal tabs from the IO Shield stuck in ports? Are all the standoffs installed correctly, with the motherboard seated correctly? Does it work with a PCIE NIC/Wireless card? 

3 hours ago, RandomGuy13 said:

Try running the auto align function on your monitor first, I think that is more likely to solve the problem.

I'd tried that. It's more like the incorrect refresh rate was being used. 

I've got a new PSU plugged in, and so far it seems to have fixed the issue. 

Very interesting, but glad I made the topic as I didn't make the connection between dirty power and analogue display. 

I'll mark it as solved for now, thanks for the fresh eyes!

EDIT: This SORT OF solved my issue. The short version is, my PSU was fine, it was the power bar I had it plugged into that was bad. 
When I tried a new PSU, I plugged it into a different power bar to test; and it seemed fine. So when I redid the bench with the new PSU, I was confused to see that the issue had returned. Then it clicked; two different power bars. 
It's now several hours later, I've gotten no work done, and the entire bench has been ripped apart and put back together with all new power bars, network switches, and a few new USB hubs. 
I'm sure they're going to love seeing 3 hours of overtime and $200 in write offs tomorrow, but at least my monitor doesn't flicker anymore haha. 
 

37 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Monitor, VGA cable, power supply.  Its one of those.

 

VGA is an analog signal, dirty power directly impacts image quality.

Forgot to mention that I've tried a different cable. 
I haven't tried a new power supply though, that is a very valid point. BRB, giving this a shot. 

On my VGA display, I see this scrolling line affect.

I'm out of ideas at this point; I've tried everything I can think of. 

This scrolling happens when a display is connected to this machine by VGA. 
I have tried different displays, different cables, and I've even installed a GPU with VGA to eliminate the motherboard. 

It happens when plugged into the VGA on either the onboard connector, or an external GPU. 

I've tried windows 10, and windows 8.1

It does not happen when plugged into another type of connector like HDMI or DVI.

BIOS is up to date, windows and driver are up to date. 

I'm leaning towards motherboard or cpu failure, but even that doesn't make much sense; since an external GPU does the same thing. 
If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. 

Thanks, 

I highly recommend using EarTrumpet over the stock volume mixer. Ever since ten was launched, I've had nothing but problems with it from not remembering my app volumes, to randomly turning apps down on me. 

https://microsoft.com/en-us/p/eartrumpet/9nblggh516xp?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab

10 hours ago, SimpleTechVids said:

Ok, i have concluded my reaserch. It has come to light that the link to Honey's website including the website itself is contaminated with malicous activity such as cryptojacking. LTT should be inclided to take further action as soon as possib-

 

Im just kidding. I have tried many times and the link will not display the same warning screen as before and my cpu utilisation has not spiked at all. There is no malicous activity on the site. The could be two main reasons for this:

 

1) There never was any malicous activity on the site in the first place and all it was some corrupted files or the link (as explained by the C.E.O.) was not functioning properly due to the expired code.

 

2) Honey recognised the danger to their company due to this allegation and removed their cryptojacking malware (i'm not saying this is true but it is a possible explanation).

 

That or Honey just checked their website for any malware, found it and removed the software. Norton and Malwarebytes did not detect any malware whatsoever.

 

Anyways, the website is clean and i hope this doesn't happen again as i just can not be bothered to do this reaserch again. Holy balls this took me forever.

 

 

The issue is with their extension, not the website. I don't believe it to be malicious. If the intent was to mine crypto off customers machines, there are much easier ways to do it. 

I do, however, think that there may be an error in the extension causing the high system usage. 

On 12/11/2017 at 12:12 PM, gemusan said:

George, CEO of Honey here.

 

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  Happy to clarify everything here.

 

The screenshot OP posted shows a registry value in the location "\software\microsoft".  This is not Honey because 1) browser extensions cannot make changes to registry value and 2) we do not support Microsoft software at the moment.  So what OP observed is not at all related to Honey.  

 

Regarding the YouTube flag, it's because the link OP posted is the redirect URL with an expired token.  If you go to the YouTube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnZM9VY86_w and click on the link in the description, it will not be flagged.

Revisiting this; I've re installed Honey on 3 machines now.

One my main machine; Notices high CPU usage from chrome immediately after installing honey. Removing Honey resolves this. In Chrome task manager, Honey process uses a significant amount of CPU.  (GPU Usage in screenshot not related to Honey - Youtube).  Malwarebytes no longer flags crypto - first flag was actually for my eth miner, but not it's location. 

Two, my work machine; Notices high CPU usage from chrome immediately after installing - new chrome profile with different extensions. Removing Honey resolves this. Same usage in chrome task manager. 

Three, my server; Notices high CPU usage from chrome immediately after installing - Brand new chrome install, no extensions. Removing Honey resolves this. Same usage in chrome task manager. 

All machines notice slowdowns in Youtube playback when above 1X playback speed with Honey installed, but not when it's removed. 

Main machine - 4790K

Work machine - 4770K

Server - 3770k. 

16GB + on all. 

This no longer seems like a malware issue, and more like a bug; issue still very much present however. 

38 minutes ago, IAmDeneke said:

is 4k editing possible with a 1050ti? should i just cough up for the 1070ti?

Yes; however depending on what affects you're putting on the clips, the 1050 ti might be suuuper slow about it. Also, depending on the software.   Vegas, for example, doesn't play very well with CUDA. Premiere on the other hand uses about 80% of the GPU in my testing. 

I wonder where you got that 8120..

On 1/28/2015 at 7:27 PM, MrBucket101 said:

@LinusTech

 

I was looking for a new office chair, right around the time your first gaming chair video came out. I honestly didn't know there was such a big market for "gaming" chairs. But I LOVE the chair that I bought shortly after your review. It'd be nice if you reviewed some other options to prove (or disprove) the maxnomic chair is superior.

 

TL;DR MOAR GAMING CHAIRS KTHXBYE

I bought 3 other "Gaming/Office" style chairs in the $300-350 range, and returned them all. I bought a Maxnomic Office Comfort chair and haven't looked back. 

They're simply superior to the other options in the same price range. 

On 1/15/2018 at 12:13 AM, HK - 47 said:

Windows 10 pro unactive (thx eBay) legit 

might have to reinstall, can’t remember how I installed it, could be a different file altogether.  

If it was installed without mounting, that would likely be it. Windows 10 has a built in iso mounting tool. Just double click on the iso to mount it and it pretends to be a drive; works fairly well even with older software. 

If that doesn't work, the iso may be broken or there may be some patch you need to install to get it to work on windows 10. 

1 hour ago, CooperMyers said:

WE GET IT, YOU VAPE. 

3 hours ago, HK - 47 said:

i've got a disk based game, but no disk drive. By making an iso file of the game i can hopefully run it on my pc. When i load the game up (medal of honour airborne)i get to the load, running it in compatibility mode, but it tries to verify the disk but obviously i dont use it. It then asks to insert the original disk rather than a backup, help?

 

Thanks

What version of windows? Is the file legit? Is the ISO mounted? Did you install from the mounted ISO, or extract it and install from the folder?

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Either this new sponsor is shady af, or they just coincidentally got hacked in the last few days.  I think it could be the latter.  For one thing, I'd imagine LTT looks into their sponsors before advertising for them.  Second, lets pretend you had just hacked them but they didn't know about it yet.  You would see emails and know they're about to be on WAN show, so what do you do?  Sit back and do nothing until the link goes live then deploy your shit to hit the most people.  If you just did it as soon as you could, you could be found out and cleaned up before hand and miss a big opportunity.  Considering what they do (it's a browser extension that finds and applies coupons for online shopping automatically, so it would have access to all your most sensitive info), that scenario is truly terrifying.

I have 100% faith that LTT looks into their sponsors; and I have no doubt that it passed their vetting process at the time. Just wanted to point this out for obvious reasons. 

1 minute ago, LinusTech said:

Will be looking into this immediately.

Thanks!

During the WAN show this week there was a new sponsor, Honey (https://www.joinhoney.com/linus). 
I figured I'd give it a shot and installed it. 
That night, malwarebytes popped up saying that it quarantined a cryptominer. I thought this was my etherium miner folder and promptly ignored it. 
The next day (today) I noticed that youtube was choppy at 1.5x speed. I checked task manager, and chrome was using 50% of my 4790K. I restarted, same thing. Malwarebytes again popped up warning me of a cryptominer. 
 

So I removed the Honey Extension and usage went back down to 0% immediately. 

Re install Honey; usage back to 50% and malwarebytes freaks out right away.. 

Perhaps LTT should look into this sponsor and consider dropping them. You guys are generally pretty good at making sure your sponsors are reputable, and I can understand that things get missed; but I hope that someone sees this ( @nicklmg ) and looks into it. 

Addition: Installed at 10:30 PM, malwarebytes didn't react until 3AM and symptoms were not noticed until around the same time. The second install, however, spikes CPU usage immediately. 
Malwarebytes scan results:  

Addition 2: It appears the site no longer affects GPU usage, and installing the extension no longer gets flagged as a crypto miner/affects CPU usage from what I can see. 
There doesn't appear to be any statement from Honey, so I can only assume that they dealt with the issue quietly and hoped no one noticed. 
I won't continue using the extension, but it may be relatively safe now. 

I've got an old school question here... I've got a 16 bit ISA memory expansion, and my machine only has 8 bit ISA slots. 

Can I cut the end of the slot to allow the new card to physically fit and expect it to work; like you (mostly) can with PCIE?

On 10/26/2017 at 8:22 PM, johnukguy said:

Don't use Windows Defender. Turn it off and run malwarebytes anti malware and a free antivirus such as Avast or Panda. Defender itself is a huge system resource hog and not very effective at what it's supposed to do.

You've got that very, very backwards. 

Defender is fine, Avast is garbage. 

17 hours ago, KhandakeF said:

I did that and it helped quite a bit. However, right-clicking still has a delay. Nothing like before tho.  

First step would be to install seatools and test your hard drive to see if it's failing. 

https://www.amazon.ca/SODIAL-Express-Extender-Adapter-Litecoin/dp/B00OPO4K8K

I have a similar USB riser like this and can confirm that it works. You would have to find a way to mount the board to something, but it should work for what you need. 

3 hours ago, thorsong said:

Ease up dude. Lazy is just coming in here and throwing snark at the issue. Yes, you are correct that if he has some sort of browser extension hijacking things it will come back. I did say resetting is the option after everything else. What is it about resetting a system angers you so? Not that big of a deal. Kind of like having a yard sale for your system. Get rid of accumulated bloat that you don't need. 

I do believe I was the only person to provide actual help. 

Just now, Enderman said:

With the amount of cluttered, messed up, and half-corrupted stuff on most people's computers due to negligence and years of not doing any maintenance I would highly recommend clean installing first.

Actually read my post please, it explains why fresh installing may not even fix the issue. 

On 6/24/2017 at 6:48 PM, Enderman said:

It is, it perfectly describes how to clean install windows.

Clean installing will get rid of all viruses.

Do you not know how clean installing works?

Clean installing should be the last resort, not the first.  It may not even fix the problem, because chrome and most other browsers sync your settings and extensions with a sign-in. You could reset your pc, getting rid of everything, and then sign into chrome and have it all back again. 

On 6/24/2017 at 7:32 PM, thorsong said:

I am with Enderman. If you have something infecting your system that you can't find and that reputable programs aren't fixing. I would do a full system reset. If you want to keep some things on your computer you can do a reset that leaves your files in place but otherwise essentially gives you back a clean install. If the malware persists beyond that, you really need to just wipe it all and do a clean install. 

  I know that answer sucks. It is a crappy situation. But in this day and age, there is too much at stake. Most of us use our computers for a lot of things, including finances. You do not need someone getting into that and destroying your life. It is just not worth it. Wipe the computer.

And if you don't already use it, you NEED to go turn on 2-factor authentication for every site you use. That is a need. It is one of the few methods that will generally save your bacon if some scheister gets your login info to sensitive sites.

If malwarebytes and everything else didn't find it, chances are it's a chrome extension. You know what syncs across installations with a chrome sign in? Extensions. 
If it's a chrome extension causing redirects, and he resets his computer, what's the first thing he'll do? Download and sign into chrome, syncing his extensions and ending up no better off, but missing all his programs. 

It's this kind of lazy attempt at a response that made me stop publicly helping people on forums, because some jackass will come in and tell me that the thing I've been doing daily for 5+ years can't be done, and everyone will believe him. Resetting a computer should be the absolute last resort; if nothing else can fix it, reset it. 

1 hour ago, Enderman said:

https://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

That's not very helpful

1 hour ago, Cotroneo said:

Been getting redirected like crazy, and thankfully MWBytes blocks the pages, but no matter what I've tried, I can't find the adware/virus. What can I do?

Run Hitman Pro, Adware Removal tool, and malwarebytes deep scan/ae. If that doesn't help, it could be a browser extension. Reset your browser, and if all else fails, do a windows refresh.  

18 hours ago, TheKDub said:

Two things...

1. Make sure there's not a group policy setting blocking scripts from being run.

2. Edit your post to remove formatting so night theme users can read your post without highlighting the text.

1. Running the script on any machine results in the same result, despite settings/group policy. 
2. I use night theme and can see it just fine, but I'll remove whatever formatting it had.