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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #4665 on: August 27, 2021, 12:29:54 pm »

There are eight chips and they're mounted in such a way that I think I'd need some specialized (and expensive) equipment.
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« Reply #4666 on: August 27, 2021, 02:47:13 pm »

At this point you have nothing to lose? Unless there's someone you hate you can give it as a gift.
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« Reply #4667 on: August 28, 2021, 04:56:29 am »

I bought a soldering iron and a heatgun. What can I solder to my laptop to make it look cooler?

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« Reply #4668 on: August 28, 2021, 04:57:15 am »

I bought a soldering iron and a heatgun. What can I solder to my laptop to make it look cooler?
Solder your laptop to your brain so that you can see the cyberspace in real life.
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« Reply #4669 on: August 28, 2021, 05:32:16 am »

I bought a soldering iron and a heatgun. What can I solder to my laptop to make it look cooler?
Solder your laptop to your brain so that you can see the cyberspace in real life.
I wish computers worked like that. Imagine the knowledge that could be had
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« Reply #4670 on: August 28, 2021, 05:36:31 am »

Very little to most likely nothing. You could open your laptop and see if there's any space left for modules in the board, but if there's any most likely woul be things like 3g (or 4g or now 5g?) module and most likely they would require high expertice in soldering or professional equipment.
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I'm curious as to how a tank would evolve. Would it climb out of the primordial ooze wiggling it's track-nubs, feeding on smaller jeeps before crawling onto the shore having evolved proper treds?
My ship exploded midflight, but all the shrapnel totally landed on Alpha Centauri before anyone else did.  Bow before me world leaders!

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« Reply #4671 on: August 28, 2021, 05:52:59 am »

I bought a soldering iron and a heatgun. What can I solder to my laptop to make it look cooler?
Solder your laptop to your brain so that you can see the cyberspace in real life.
I wish computers worked like that. Imagine the knowledge that could be had
We don't know that they don't for sure until someone has done it. Be that pioneer.
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« Reply #4672 on: August 28, 2021, 07:27:53 am »

I'm in.

This is mostly just porn and conspiracy theories.

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« Reply #4673 on: August 28, 2021, 08:24:29 am »

Get an old clock/bag of clock bits. Cyberpunk it.

(Might not be a heat-attaching process, if not a megal casing.But bonus points if you can get gears to tjrrn. Bonus bonus points if you can get them to turn on command/command upon being turned. ;) )

Clichéd, perhaps, but maybe a gateway idea to the Next Big Thing , that everybody will want to copy off you, in future!
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« Reply #4674 on: August 28, 2021, 09:17:54 am »

I bought a soldering iron and a heatgun. What can I solder to my laptop to make it look cooler?

All-in-one cooler. It'll definitely make your laptop look cooler.
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« Reply #4675 on: September 04, 2021, 10:05:57 pm »

I've had my computer occasionally stutter or freeze for a moment when doing stuff like watching videos. It seems to happen a lot more often when I play games, though. My laptop's relatively high end, is only a few months old, and I've made sure it stays cool.

What might be wrong, and what can I do to solve the issue?
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« Reply #4676 on: September 05, 2021, 06:50:27 am »

First, its still on warranty? If so take it to the store/shop.

If the error happens when doing video intensive stuff then most likely is the video card, or its drivers. Try to check if the video drivers are up to date. Which OS are you using?
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My ship exploded midflight, but all the shrapnel totally landed on Alpha Centauri before anyone else did.  Bow before me world leaders!

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« Reply #4677 on: September 05, 2021, 07:37:33 am »

I've heard of something like this if there is an internal GPU and then a video card installed too. Might be an issue there - I'll see if I can find more info on that beyond "I heard this once."

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« Reply #4678 on: September 05, 2021, 09:01:25 am »

To be honest, it could be anything, an AV backend deciding to do a randomly scheded scan, Windows deciding to reindex some soft-linked media folder, other software deciding to 'phone home' to see if there's one of the occasional and infrequent updates, your spreadsheet that you have open in the background is being periodically autosaved... Something that gets in the way of the (normally just about managing) pipeline from media file through to media-player, or that already 'knows' it needs (e.g.) about five seconds of lookanead of media stream to deal with buffering issues, but gets hit by maybe 5½ seconds of interuption dje to one lf many (including the above) reasons.

That's if it's not consistently stuttering at the same point in the same media playback, every time, when it might be codec issues (a permanently 'awkward' unpacking/rendering situation). But you probably would have noted that already.


What's your OS? (Esp. if not Win10, which I think we're presuming.)
What's your media player? (Windows's/whatever's default {whatever that is at the moment..}, VLC {might be worth a try, if not ready, to see if it's better/worse}, FF {ffplay, part of winff package if necessary, could be a tad more technical to use but plays pretty much anything that any other non-proprietry player can - processing power allowing}, etc, etc.)
Do you know if/how much hardware acceleration is being used, or is it all going through the CPU?
For the games, do you mean normal interactive action, as well as cit-scenes? (More inclined to blame GPU momentary underpoweredness, but also other data bottlenecking/timeouting could still be at play.)
Have you checked for CPU/Memory/Disk/Pagefile(=Memory+Disk) use occasionally spiking in any way? (And also looked for odd spikes when you aren'tviewing/playing, so that normally you'd not see the knock-on-effect.)
Are the media files *huge* BluRay rips at a 4k resolution that is overkill for your (high-end, but not 'home cinema'-quality) setup, or (conversely) are they low-res files which you're somehow on-the-fly upscaling to match your super-hi-res monitor/screen?
You're not screen/session-mirroring (VNC, TeamViewer, etc) or networking some or all the rest of the data-moving tasks (involving rssh, scp, etc..). (Probably not, but while I'm asking questions I thought I'd ask that too.)

...now see, that's why I didn't reply earlier.


You do really want a Friendly Neighbourhood Spiderman Techie getting their eyes on your problem[1], whether that's your warranty-agreed original supplier who may have to RTB it to do a 'proper' job, or the person with the reputation for being the nerdiest geek/geekiest nerd on your street who might know what's wrong just by popping by and listening to the harmonics generated between the CPU and PSU fans...


[1] Odds on are that it won't (mis)perform in front of suchban audience, though. That's a fundamental law of the universe..

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Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« Reply #4679 on: September 06, 2021, 12:18:54 am »

Honestly, the issue is so minor (at least for now) that I don't think I'm going to do anything about it at the moment. As long as I'm not trying to, say, watch a youtube video while playing a graphics-intensive game, I'm fine.

If it gets worse, I'll take it to the manufacturer and all that.
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