Desktop PC with internal drives
Desktop PC with internal drives
Well i left mine open for 30 mins before i bumped my knee into it making it close, could you have brushed by it or was the drive waiting for you to change a disc or something/
There's no actual program in Windows that closes a DVD drive, not even powersaving stuff does that, although, I don't know when it comes to M$ $pyware 10 I am not up to scratch, might be M$'s telemetry signed home that your drive was open an a trained $pyware operative closed it for you.. 
The only program I had running at the time was PowerDVD
^^Could have been that then, maybe it was looking or waiting for a disc and it polled the drive to see if there was one in it.
Yeah, some drives i think have a auto close feature, but i have not bought a dvd rom drive in must be 10 plus years, and the one i still have i use for ripping the occasion music cd into mp3, or when i ever need to re-install windows.
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A few of my machines do auto-close drives, others don't. It seems to be a hardware feature, independent of the OS.
Has anyone here had experience with the NBN here in Australia?
My current modem is Dlink DSL-2877AL
It has a read WAN port on the back so is this compatible with the NBN because the packaging that came with my original modem says it is NBN compatible.
My actual NBN modem arrived by courier today 2 weeks ahead of the installation It's an Archer VR1600v
My current modem is Dlink DSL-2877AL
It has a read WAN port on the back so is this compatible with the NBN because the packaging that came with my original modem says it is NBN compatible.
My actual NBN modem arrived by courier today 2 weeks ahead of the installation It's an Archer VR1600v
As always google is your friend.
Thank you........... I figured it out the red WAN port and my existing modem are compatible, just I won't be able to do VOIP without an external ATA.
Thought this would sit better in this general thread rather than one of its own:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy
Baby steps.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy
Baby steps.
^^But can it run Crysis?
A friend dropped off an old machine he hadn't used in a long time, old and obsolete but still there were usable parts to scavenge.
Antec casing, he must have dropped it, crooked as hell, didn't stand straight and prying the side panels off was a hassle since everything was bent out of shape, I scrapped it but it had an Antec Eartwatts 380watt PSU, still usable I would say.
Gigabyte GA something something AM2 mainboard with an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ chips which runs at 3.1Ghz, 2 or 4Gb RAM, haven't been able to decipher what the hell is written on the DIMMs, it's in any case DDR2.
It had a 320 Gb 2.5" HDD built in, seems to be working fine, DVD writer, old but works well, WiFi card which is no use to me.
Best part though is that it had a MSI built Radeon7850 2GB graphics card, the machine is from about 2008, this card is from 2011 or 2012, Twin Frozer cooler and all so pretty neat stuff.
Cleaned everything, it was REALLY dusty, but at least no nicotine corps, poor CPU cooler (AMD stock) is still really dirty, need to find a way to pry the fan off without breaking the plastic shroud which covers it
, the person who designed it should be kicked in the balls
, there are about 3 fragile plastic clamps on each side which attach it to the cooler, nearly impossible to wiggle them loose, will try tomorrow again.
Antec casing, he must have dropped it, crooked as hell, didn't stand straight and prying the side panels off was a hassle since everything was bent out of shape, I scrapped it but it had an Antec Eartwatts 380watt PSU, still usable I would say.
Gigabyte GA something something AM2 mainboard with an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ chips which runs at 3.1Ghz, 2 or 4Gb RAM, haven't been able to decipher what the hell is written on the DIMMs, it's in any case DDR2.
It had a 320 Gb 2.5" HDD built in, seems to be working fine, DVD writer, old but works well, WiFi card which is no use to me.
Best part though is that it had a MSI built Radeon7850 2GB graphics card, the machine is from about 2008, this card is from 2011 or 2012, Twin Frozer cooler and all so pretty neat stuff.
Cleaned everything, it was REALLY dusty, but at least no nicotine corps, poor CPU cooler (AMD stock) is still really dirty, need to find a way to pry the fan off without breaking the plastic shroud which covers it
, the person who designed it should be kicked in the balls, there are about 3 fragile plastic clamps on each side which attach it to the cooler, nearly impossible to wiggle them loose, will try tomorrow again.
I just did another windows update on my laptop and for the first time have a recurring problem. Every time I boot my system up I keep getting a message that an update failed to install but the system says it has been installed.
The offending update is KB4517389 Looking this up online says that this is actually one of the issues that this update may present.
The offending update is KB4517389 Looking this up online says that this is actually one of the issues that this update may present.
^^
M$: Thank you beta tester.. maybe we'll fix this in the next next version of M$ $pyware 10..
CPU cooler of that AMD machine is dead, I was able to get that frigging shroud off the heatsink but turns out the fan is close to death, rattle rattle chrrrrkkk.
junked the damn thing, I've got spares.
M$: Thank you beta tester..
maybe we'll fix this in the next next version of M$ $pyware 10.. CPU cooler of that AMD machine is dead, I was able to get that frigging shroud off the heatsink but turns out the fan is close to death, rattle rattle chrrrrkkk.
junked the damn thing, I've got spares.
^^
M$: Thank you beta tester..
CPU cooler of that AMD machine is dead, I was able to get that frigging shroud off the heatsink but turns out the fan is close to death, rattle rattle chrrrrkkk.
MS customer base are the beta testers you're not wrong.
OK I ended up fixing it by wait for int installing another update?
There was an optional cumulative update listed on the update screen that I could install which I did and that seemed to fix the problem, also seems to have made the laptop run a little faster and smoother.
So the October patches have been improved to a point that on most machines they'll not cause a total meltdown.
https://www.askwoody.com/
A few times more patching Windows 7 and then it is goodbye for the old warhorse, well actually not, the machines will simply be disconnected from the internet like about every computer in the old days, things won't change, your computer will still work, it will just need to be disconnected from the 'net, that is all, so many people around kind of expect everything to fall apart which is of course not the case, in a while you'll probably will see ultimate rollup packs appear which will negate the need for Windows update and probably will kill the addded telemetry M$ pushed to your 7 machine.
Windows 8.1 will be supported until 2023, for this OS everything will go like it went down with 7.
After 2023 you either will have to use Windows 10 or a suitable Linux distro.
https://www.askwoody.com/
A few times more patching Windows 7 and then it is goodbye for the old warhorse, well actually not, the machines will simply be disconnected from the internet like about every computer in the old days, things won't change, your computer will still work, it will just need to be disconnected from the 'net, that is all, so many people around kind of expect everything to fall apart which is of course not the case, in a while you'll probably will see ultimate rollup packs appear which will negate the need for Windows update and probably will kill the addded telemetry M$ pushed to your 7 machine.
Windows 8.1 will be supported until 2023, for this OS everything will go like it went down with 7.
After 2023 you either will have to use Windows 10 or a suitable Linux distro.
@Santaman Thought you might enjoy this. The history of scroll bars
https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/
I found it rather amusing.
https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/
I found it rather amusing.
