/halp/ - Technical Support

Anonymous 17/07/20(Thu)00:04 No. 22488 [Reply]

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I already have a Desktop. Need a laptop that can be bought cheap but then upgraded. I'd like to be able to upgrade the graphics card, hard drive, processor and RAM. I don't mind how bulky it is, I just want to be able to change its hardware and be able to play games in as best graphics as possible when I'm away. I looked up some thinkpads but I can't find anything like this.

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Anonymous 17/07/20(Thu)00:36 No. 22490

>>22489
Well said

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Anonymous 17/07/20(Thu)00:38 No. 22491

>>22489
and thank you for replying

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Anonymous 17/07/21(Fri)19:39 No. 22492

What you probably want is a business or enterprise laptop, which are typically still fully upgradeable (with the exception of the video card).

If you want to upgrade it cheaply look for laptops that use SATA drives and not PCIe storage, as PCIe storage is typically implemented in a proprietary or soldered-on fashion. M.2 exists but for some reason a lot of laptops are going the proprietary route (probably for the same reason as Apple - planned obsolescence). Maybe licensing costs? Dunno.

If you stick with business and enterprise equipment there's usually a lot of technical documentation available including FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) which basically means parts that companies IT can replace themselves if they buy it from the manufacturer. When you poke around those docs you can determine what hardware is actually inside the system.

NVMe Anonymous 17/02/28(Tue)12:25 No. 22446 [Reply]

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1. Will my Asus Z170 Pro Gaming/Aura mobo boot from an NVMe M.2-PCIe 3.0 SSD? NVMe isn't even referenced anywhere in the manual, so I don't have a good feeling about it.

2. Is it really that likely that I'll have to clock my 3000MHz DDR4 down to auto/2133MHz for it to play nice with NVMe, as I've read is sometimes the case?

3. If booting from an NVMe drive isn't possible, are AHCI M.2-PCIe or AHCI M.2-SATA cards worth the expense, or should I just get a 1.8"/2.5" AHCI SATA SSD?

4. Oh, and Windows 10 does have decent native NVMe drivers now, right?

5. Lastly, is migrating my Win10 install from HDD to SDD just a simple matter of creating a partition table on the SDD and cloning the partition over from the HDD?

Sorry for the fuckload of questions.

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Anonymous 17/02/28(Tue)14:39 No. 22447

To anyone who cares: through a lot of googling I've worked out that yes the Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Aura does support NVMe1.1 over M-key M.2Gen3-PCIe3.0x4

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/mainboard/96166-asus-z170-pro-gamingaura/?page=5
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Asus-Z170-PRO-GAMING-AURA/40284
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/solid-state-drives/consumer-ssds/000022677.html

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Anonymous 17/05/30(Tue)09:36 No. 22474

1. yes.
2. wtf no??
3. literally does not matter get the cheapest per gig drive you can that meets the speed specs you want.
4. yes basically full support
5. no, reinstall or you'll be inviting problems.

Anonymous 17/03/10(Fri)01:45 No. 22452 [Reply]

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Should malwarebytes be taking this long to do a full rootkit scan? My pictures folder itself has over 3000 or so files with 207 folders and i have 803 gbs of space left from 930.

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Anonymous 17/05/26(Fri)10:57 No. 22471

>>22452
Wait a minute, malwarebytes isn't a virus?

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Anonymous 17/05/27(Sat)02:28 No. 22473

>>22471
If you believe Russians who write malware it's a virus.

You'd have to be a fool to do so though.

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Anonymous 17/10/14(Sat)04:05 No. 22499

spybot s&d is the only option.
why do people play with inferior software?

Anonymous 17/05/12(Fri)20:20 No. 22469 [Reply]

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Does anyone please know how to change the look of Office 2016 to something that is "Windows 7"? (It's really ironic, because at my work, I've got Windows 10 and Office looks 7. At home, I've got 7 and Office looks 10.)

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Anonymous 17/05/26(Fri)19:01 No. 22472

That's Office 2010 in the picture, that's why it looks like windows 7, if you install it on Windows 10 it looks like that too, but i don't know of any office 2010 themes for office 2016

Anonymous 16/01/03(Sun)06:30 No. 22005 [Reply]

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I really want to download those paid apps but because they're unpopular, there's no apk online or on Blackmart. Does anyone know how can I download those?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeroone.yumoriseki1
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeroone.yumoriseki2
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeroone.yumoriseki3
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeroone.yumoriseki4
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeroone.yumoriseki5

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Anonymous 17/04/09(Sun)09:02 No. 22467

1. buy them 2. call for a refund 3. ???? 4. profit

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Anonymous 17/04/13(Thu)01:53 No. 22468

1. wait 1.5 years
2. reply
3. ???
4. profit

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Anonymous 17/07/01(Sat)00:42 No. 22482

>>22468
Maybe he has a slow connection.

Alternitve to Down Them all Anonymous 17/03/27(Mon)00:07 No. 22463 [Reply]

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This highly useful addition to both Firefox and Pale moon has stopped working.
I am running firefox 43.0.1 and Palemoon 27.2.0 and have tried both 2.0.19 and 2.0.18.1-signed.1-let-fixed with shit results.
Is there anything that will allow me to download images / pdf's etc as easily?

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Anonymous 17/03/27(Mon)09:15 No. 22464

Have you considered running an ESR release of Firefox and a current version of DownThemAll?

Why are you interested in ensuring your system gets infected?

new laptop shepard+dog 17/03/03(Fri)05:24 No. 22448 [Reply]

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im looking to get a new lap top in like a week and a half from now, nothing crazy just tf2 and robo craft but anyone at work i ask for imput is constently trying to get me to by some like 500 alien ware right after i clearly say im on a 300 budget would you guys recomend?

im hoping to stay under $300 and get at least enough power to run tf2 and some other simple low power multiplayer games

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Anonymous 17/03/03(Fri)13:12 No. 22449

https://pcworld365.com/best-gaming-laptops-under-300-dollars.html

I'd pick something with a core CPU rather than a celeron or pentium, if you're going with intel. AMD's APUs are also worth a look as they used to have good graphics performance (I haven't checked in a while)

example
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J42JPL4/
(acer isn't exactly a great brand I'd recommend, but I'm just giving an example)
then you check the graphics are intel hd graphics 520 and google for tf2 performance
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/request-team-fortress-2-fps-on-intel-hd-graphics-520.792764/
or check on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZDRfa2k1SQ

you may have to shop around and look at features. (do you need touch? screen size etc)

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Anonymous 17/03/03(Fri)22:05 No. 22450

If you're looking for a basic laptop for work and general usage get an Intel CPU.
If you're looking for a basic "gaming" laptop get an AMD-APU.

>>22449
AMD's APUs are great if you're on a budget, I built my current desktop using A10-7700k and it's run everything I've thrown at it (in 720p with mid-high settings). If you're building a desktop with one it'll be more expensive if you shell out for a discreet graphics card in the future but at least you can game while you saving for one; personally, I spotted an R7-250 for $30 and cross-fired it with my APU for a noticeable improvement over the APU alone. The big thing to note with APUs is RAM speed is crucial, the difference between 1600 and 2133 is a good 15-20fps.

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Anonymous 17/03/04(Sat)06:50 No. 22451

Intel laptops will generally have better CPUs and weaker GPUs than AMD laptops.

However most tasks are being offloaded to GPU now and CPUs reached the "fast enough" stage around the time of Core2. As a result unless you're doing something really CPU intensive like compressing video you're unlikely to notice the weaker CPU, while you will notice the GPU being slower in just about everything else. Even Windows/Linux offloads functions to the GPU.

The problem is $300 is just too low for anything except an Intel Atom or Celeron, with a bottom of the barrel barely functional crippled GPU. There's a lot of Chromebooks down that low, but you probably won't want to live with ChromeOS on hardware that's basically the same (Atom or Celeron).

If you're willing to go refurbished there are some better options, although some of them are rather long in the tooth...
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834234530

If you need a better understanding of any laptop with minimal information like that one, just punch its model number into Google, someone will list better information on it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YR6BMOQ

thats gay a 17/02/21(Tue)16:27 No. 22443 [Reply]

7chan is cancer xdd, hopefully it dies like 4chan.

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Anonymous 17/02/24(Fri)11:25 No. 22444

You know what's really cancer?

Wandering into a board for the first time and shitting it up with offtopic pointless fucking bullshit.

Not every board is /b/ newfag.

Homebrew (MYM) Anonymous 17/01/11(Wed)19:19 No. 22429 [Reply]

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This is some OLD shit so most of you probably wont be able to help. I have recently modded my Nintendo Wii with Homebrew, and noticed some people have custom Wii Menus. I looked up some tutorials, and got the .csm file and the channel installed on homebrew. I did everything right, at least I think I did, but when I load MyMenu it gives me a blank screen. Wii mote freezes, so you have to power off the console via unplugging. I have re-done this 3 times, blank screen every time. I have the 4.3u menu version. Please help, my wii menu looks plain and naked compared to others.

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Anonymous 17/01/15(Sun)02:05 No. 22435

I don't know anyone that would have this fil.

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Anonymous 17/01/15(Sun)02:05 No. 22436

File*

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Anonymous 17/01/18(Wed)00:26 No. 22437

I'm not sure how active they still are, but GBATemp.net used to have a ton of information on Wii softmodding, including pretty much anything and everything you'd want to do with Homebrew. I'm showing a lot of posts in the past week, maybe search through their forums for a file someone else has posted or, if that turns up empty, ask a question. They know a hell of a lot more about what you want to do than I do. I just wanted my Wii to load games off USB...

Win2K on a LAN Anonymous 17/01/13(Fri)19:02 No. 22430 [Reply]

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I have to retype this because of an error :(

I have made a Win2K virtual machine to run as a retro PC game host on a LAN... because it's half the size of XP, that's why!

Okay, I created a shared folder called "test share", but when I try to access it from other machines (XP and 7) the folder is visible but I get the "x is not accessible, you might not have permissions etc" error. I have enabled the Guest account in Advanced User Management, and there are no firewalls involved, but I can't seem to recall what else involved here because it's been so fucking long since I last did this! And this is the point where I need /halp/.

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Anonymous 17/01/14(Sat)00:26 No. 22431

>>22430
Op here... nvm, I found it.

Turns out that I had to add Guest to the permissions list directly, even after enabling it. I seem to recall that it was supposed to do that automatically (which may or may not be a wise idea), but doing this one folder at a time could easily become an annoyance, albeit an annoyance that I'm willing to handle.

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Anonymous 17/01/14(Sat)01:03 No. 22432

Turn off simple file sharing, which makes you use usernames & passwords to connect to shares. So long as the account you login with on each system uses the same name & password you won't have to bother with typing anything. Otherwise you type the name & password and you're in.

7 also needs to be switched back to 40/56-bit encryption vs. 128-bit. You'll also want to disable homegroup but since you have XP hopefully you've already done that.

Also XP and 7 need to be at least Pro, the Home versions can only network with other home versions. 2000 and earlier only had "pro" networking, Home was an abortion created for XP.

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Anonymous 17/01/14(Sat)01:07 No. 22433

>>22431
There's two sets of permissions, the share permissions, which control who can access the share, and the file permissions, which control who can access the files. If you had added guest to the share permissions you would need to still add guest to the file permissions, otherwise it would be able to connect but not actually read any files.

As far as file permissions go you can enable inheritable permissions on child objects, which means you set the permissions on test share, then set all the items in test share to inheritable, and they all use the same permissions set in one spot (test share).