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[Sonlirain]

I tried waiting a bit and it kept going at full power all the way to the login screen and weren't showing any signs of stopping.
I wouldn't be worried if it was just a short revving up during system startup.
And again newest drivers and i'm sure if it was the drivers fault i'd see loads of questions about it in Q&A forums but those are mostly about fans going to 100% as result of personal meddling with OC or playing games on a lower end card.

[BigD145]

Completely uninstall the drivers, every last trace, reboot, reinstall latest, reboot, listen. Sometimes things get muddled when you install over older drivers and older settings.

[Sonlirain]

Well i did update my driver several times since Christmas so i guess it's worth a shot.
I'll update the drivers again and see if the problem persists first tho since a new update came out a few days ago.

[Catmeat]

I need some help
I am usually a console gamer but I do have a laptop for DF, MC, AOE.. low end games and would like to get some advice on making a gaming computer for 2016-18 released games, I have a minimum budget of $1000-1250 american.
I have never built one nor do I care for its asthetics.
If it matters I have a HD flatscreen tv I plan to use for a monitor.
Any help, guidance parts advice or insults will be apreciated.
I dont know the jargon either

Hopefully I will get a nice fps on DF

[Arx]

Logicalincrements.com is generally a good place to start looking.

[Thief^]

Yeah the parts listed at the ~$1000 tier on LogicalIncrements.com are a pretty solid choice. i5, high-end graphics card, 8-16GB of ram, an SSD, decent PSU... all good!

Don't forget your Windows license if you're building yourself!

[origamiscienceguy]

Hey, I know this isn't exactly the correct thrread to post this in, but I figured you guys could help out the best.

I have a blu-ray player, and a tv with red, white, yellow inputs. I got a box that converts the hdmi and its outputs are: red, blue, green, (space) red, white.

I have a cable with red, white, yellow on both sides, but there is no yellow on the converter, even though the guy said it could still do it.

[Lord Shonus]

Put the yellow in the green.

Red, White, Yellow is a Composite output format, often called RCA. The Yellow has the whole video signal, while the Red and White are the left and right audio channels.

Red, Blue, Green, Red, White is Component output video, where the Red and White by themeselves are the two audio channels, while the other three are the video feed with each RGB color on its own seperate wire for better image quality. To save space, manufacturers often use the Green port for composite input/output as well.

Pure HDMI is superior to both, and should be used whenever possible. If you only have RCA input on your tv, your Blu-rays will look like shit anyway.

[origamiscienceguy]

Okay, I got it to work, sorta. When I turn the blue ray on or turn it off, the TV flashes to showing the blue ray logo before going to "searching for signal" So it only works when it is turning on or off? Is this a known problem?

[Aklyon]

You need a disk in the player for it to work, of course.

[origamiscienceguy]

You need a disk in the player for it to work, of course.

already was. I'm sure there is a movie playing inside, but the TV says, "searching for signal" except the 2 seconds after I turn the blue ray on and before It completely turns off.

[Sonlirain]

I need some help
I am usually a console gamer but I do have a laptop for DF, MC, AOE.. low end games and would like to get some advice on making a gaming computer for 2016-18 released games, I have a minimum budget of $1000-1250 american.
I have never built one nor do I care for its asthetics.
If it matters I have a HD flatscreen tv I plan to use for a monitor.
Any help, guidance parts advice or insults will be apreciated.
I dont know the jargon either

Hopefully I will get a nice fps on DF

i7 CPUs are nice and unless you want to go full budget avoid AMD processors because while the FX-8350 is entirely functional (and likely will be for quite some time still) they won't last nearly as long as an i7... unless games will suddenly start using all of its 8 cores efficiently.
Overall it's kinda like comparing a diesel powered train with a TGV. Both will work well but one is just better.
The PSU is super important so be sure you get a good one. If you buy cheap and are especially unlucky you might even end up frying your PC because of it.
8 gigs of ram is entirely sufficient and likely will be for the foreseeable future. Get 16+ if you are a snob.
Both AMD and Nvidia do nice graphics cards.
AMD is cheaper and has more straight up performance (and power draw) while also trying to recreate some of Nvidia specific effects. Also they are easier to SLI if need be.
Nvidia GPUs are slightly weaker power to price ratio but get some extra effects and power efficiency (and are quieter).
The case and notherboard... well whatever fits the stuff you want to put inside.
Oh and if you get something like R9 300 get a case fan unless you want to watch the card idle at 80 degree.

[Tiruin]

I'm unsure where to inquire about this but it's about my phone (android; huawei 4.1) rather than the computer.

I'm trying to recover deleted files (from my SD?), and there's a lot of info online but a lot of download sites with me having a very vague feeling on which is more helpful than the other. And I'm unsure how to ask help for it! D:

[wierd]

Pop it out of the phone.
Pop it into a computer.
Run testdisk/photorec on it.

Photorec is awesome, it looks for actual data structures of image files, instead of the FAT. Even of the fat entry is totally nuked, if the block isnt overwritten, it will get the image back.

Wont have the filename anymore, but you still have the pic. Recovers Jpegs, mpegs, GIFs and PNGs.




Now then..

I recently purchased a super duper cheap android tablet at walmart for 78$.  It is sporting and intel atom quad core baytrail SoC, and has 1gb of RAM, with theoretical 16gb internal storage, and comes with android lollipop 5.0.

The cool thing?

The BOOT partition looks like an ordinary UEFI fat32 boot partition, with an EFI folder, and a BOOTx64.EFI file in it.

Why is that cool?

I strongly suspect I can manually swap it out with GRUB, and chainload any other .EFI bootloader, meaning I can probably get this thing running real linux and windows 8.1 from the sdcard slot.

I am gonna play with that over the weekend.

[Thief^]

x86 android? Are you sure?