Computer Issues

Well, I went and picked up a new motherboard and now it's locking up at the boot screen and sometimes doing the same shit where the mouse and keyboard don't light up. I've even tried different video cards, and with the other video card the keyboard/mouse don't light up at all. I have no idea what the issue is now.

Put my old video card in my bitcoin rig so I could use it as an HTPC/Steam machine from my couch. Installed windows and everything worked fine until I installed AMD drivers now it's BSOD'ing on startup, FML.

Hekotat_sl said:

Well, I went and picked up a new motherboard and now it's locking up at the boot screen and sometimes doing the same shit where the mouse and keyboard don't light up. I've even tried different video cards, and with the other video card the keyboard/mouse don't light up at all. I have no idea what the issue is now.

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Any chance to try a different PSU?

Hekotat_sl said:

Put my old video card in my bitcoin rig so I could use it as an HTPC/Steam machine from my couch. Installed windows and everything worked fine until I installed AMD drivers now it's BSOD'ing on startup, FML.

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Can you try older video card drivers? I know your 750Ti is brand new, but I would imagine older drivers would probably still be compatible. Every once in a while Nvidia releases a driver version that just totally screws some peoples cards for whatever reason, reverting to an older version often works, and then skip that new version while waiting for a yet newer one.

I was using a new PSU on the HTPC, brand new in fact, with my old HD6850.

I said fuck it and went and picked up a brand new PC at Microcenter.

I5-4670k
MSI Z87-G45
Ripjaws from blowed up PC
750ti from blowed up PC
another 120gb SSD
New Corsair 600w PSU
SSD and Old HD's from blowed up PC


Shit's working fine now, while researching the issue it looks like the Motherboard decided to up the voltage on the CPU for no reason and it seems to be pretty common with that auto-overlocking setting.

is there a way to see whats eating up my HD space? I only have a 128 gig ssd right now but, I literally only have windows and blade and soul on it and I don't think those two things are eating up close to 70-80 gigs?

WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics

Also free up space on SSD here:7 Ways to Free Up Disk Space on an SSD in Windows 7

so yeah windows is close to 40 gigs? BnS another 15, then a few 1gig programs here and there.

some winsxs folder is another 8 gigs.

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Ok so all those folders under the Chinese symbols are blade and soul, Now it says that there are 6 folders, with over 10 gigs am I looking and understanding this right?

theres the 16gigs in program files, then I see 15.3 15.3 14.4 12.3 12.3, in subsequent order are each of those over 10 gigs? or is that the 16 gigs broken down? dosent seem right.

Your windows shouldn't be 40 gigs, make sure to follow those steps in the link above. Disabling your page file, Indexing, & system restore will cut the size of your windows install at least in half. After doing all of that, My Win 7 was around ~20GB install, and I think my Win 8 was actually a tad smaller than that, maybe 18-19ish.

Not really a computer question, but how hard is it to replace a hard drive in a PS3? Is it generally worth doing, or should I just buy a new system?

It takes about 30 seconds. Then whatever installation the system does

Looking for some help on some backup issues. I have a Qnap NAS that has all of my media on it, as well as a bunch of documents and other stuff. Basically my entire digital life and everything I've accumulated over the past 20 years is stored there. It's populated with four drives that get swapped out as needed to bump up storage as I inevitably download more porn. So I've got redundancy covered with the NAS. However for backup, I've been mostly half-assing it. I've got a spare 1.5tb drive in my desktop PC that every few months I just manually copy over the important folders from my NAS on to it.

I figured that it was time to update this, and picked up a WD My Cloud 4tb drive. At first I was just looking at a 4tb external HD that I could plug directly in to the NAS, and then use built-in backup feature in the Qnap console. Also that way if my building is burning down, I can quickly grab the small external drive on my way out the door. But then for like 20 bucks more I saw the My Cloud and figured why the heck not, it even has backup software! My thinking was that I'd install that backup software on my always on HTPC (since it's running Plex's server as my NAS can't handle it), and then use the included software to backup the network share for my NAS.

Turns out the cheap shit software that you can download won't backup network shares. So here I am manually copying over all my data again.

TLDR: I want to run a backup from a network share (Qnap NAS), to a network share (WD My Cloud). What is the best way to accomplish this? Instead of running entire backups, is it possible to just run some sort of continuous backup? Is there freely available software to accomplish that?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

nvm I got it working, quick question ive never had two hard drives, how will this work if I have origin and steam on my 128 and I go to install/download games that run through origin on my 256, how does that work, do I need origin and steam on the hard drive that will have the games?

Fucking monitor is not displaying anything. I don't know if it's a video card or monitor problem. There is power connected to the monitor per the light. However, there is absolutely no display when I plug it in. Went ahead and bought a QNIX in hopes that it is the monitor as I don't want to have to buy another video card. Ugh. ;[

Kuriin_sl said:

Fucking monitor is not displaying anything. I don't know if it's a video card or monitor problem. There is power connected to the monitor per the light. However, there is absolutely no display when I plug it in. Went ahead and bought a QNIX in hopes that it is the monitor as I don't want to have to buy another video card. Ugh. ;[

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Reseat your GPU if you haven't already (take it out and put it back in) - and double check the power is properly connected to it. Also most modern mobos have an HDMI slot to use a monitor on the built-in graphics, pull the GPU and test that to see if the monitor works there.