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[AzyWng]

I didn't do anything and the icons are back to normal now. All showing the blue arrow in a white square that represents a shortcut.

[scourge728]

nvm randomly assigning compatibility and running things in the cd files fixed it

[Greiger]

Odd little question.  I suspected power supply problems recently long story short it seems to have just been a loose connector, because after preparing to replace the power supply I reseated everything and now it seems fine.

Oddly though HWmonitor a software tool to I used to check the supply voltages is still saying the 12v rail is only 7v.  I know they can be inaccurate but my understanding was they were inaccurate by 1 or 2 volts, not 5 or 6.  Anyone have any more experience with such things?  I don't want to return the new power supply until I am absolutely sure all is good, and that's still a red flag.

[wierd]

replace the PSU.

the 12v rail should be 12v+/- .6v

If it is not, you are going to damage the motherboard and peripheral devices over time from undervoltage.

replace the PSU.

[Lord Shonus]

You could double-check with a multimeter if you have one, but wierd is correct.

[Greiger]

Alrighty will do.  I already have the replacement supply since the issues seemed to be resolved after reconnecting the cable I figured it might be misreporting, but was not sure if that was even possible.  Better safe than sorry.  Thanks y'all.

[Broseph Stalin]

Laptop charger was only charging when rotated at a certain angle, when it slipped out of that angle the audio would crackle the speed would fall off and the battery wouldn't charge. Eventually it stopped working totally. Replaced the charger, after a month or two the same issue cropped up. Replaced the charging port, replaced the battery, great for a month or two.

Now I have to rotate the charger.

[Reelya]

Small white "X'es have appeared in the bottom-left corner of all my desktop icons - in the place where the shortcut symbol would normally be.

What does this mean and how do I change things back to normal?

EDIT: Now they're green circles with a check mark inside them. I dunno if that's good or bad.

Windows 10 update recently brought in a new system for selecting things on the desktop, instead of holding ctrl or shift and clicking you can click on those boxes. that might be it? I turned it off through some settings.

[scourge728]

I didn't do anything and the icons are back to normal now. All showing the blue arrow in a white square that represents a shortcut.

Oh this is normal, well idk if it's normal, but this has been happening to me infrequently for awhile, I don't know what causes it but it hasn't actually done anything so I've been ignoring it

[George_Chickens]

Some time last year I managed to remove the letter for my DVD drive. I have a need to use it again, so I've gone into partition manager to redo everything, but it isn't there. The drive works fine on my Linux partition and is fine in device manager, but it does not show up anywhere else, so I can't get to using it again.

Any advice? I'm on Windows 7

[wierd]

Open windows explorer.

Right click on My Computer, and choose "Manage".

Choose "Disk management"

Find the device in the list, right click on it, and choose "change drive letter and paths"

Assign a letter.

Bob's your uncle.

[George_Chickens]

Open windows explorer.

Right click on My Computer, and choose "Manage".

Choose "Disk management"

Find the device in the list, right click on it, and choose "change drive letter and paths"

Assign a letter.

Bob's your uncle.

That's the problem. It's not in disk management, but appears in device manager without issue and continues to be fully functional outside of Windows. I've uninstalled and reinstalled drivers,  and done basically everything short of formatting or screwing with the registry to try to fix it.

[wierd]

Ok.. Hmm..

Try putting a disc in the tray first.

That will cause windows to find a volume with a unique volume ID in that drive. (where otherwise, it has a null value, and so does not appear in the list part of disk management.) You should then see it in the list, and should be able to assign a letter.

[George_Chickens]

I did that, and nothing. In fact, I am pretty sure I just caught the disk tray at the very moment it started dying, hence all the problems. It no longer is detected in the bios or in Linux either. Oh, well, it IS 12~ish years old.

[Reelya]

Try going to a cmd prompt and run "diskpart"

In diskpart, wait for the prompt (it needs to scan for drives like disk manager does) then type "list volume" and see what comes up.