[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

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i figured out the hard way that my motherboard has a button on my case that allows me to do a hard restart (just cuts power to the hard drive and restarts the computer) for the hard drive
kinda terrified me at first really

Maxx, I am more than positive that is not how a "hard reset button" works.

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[shitlord]

Maxx, I am more than positive that is not how a "hard reset button" works.

[ZERØ]

And as I said in that thread, it only started happening after I updated to the 1511 release for Windows 10

Oh I know how to fix this, I had the same issue with my GTX 750, the fix is actually simple and its actually caused by drivers overlapping each other.

What you need to do is the following, first uninstall all nvidia related drivers and software, once your done you need to find every folder related to nvidia in any of the program files locations, both the x86 folder and the normal folder where 64bit stuff is installed, last click the search bar in star and type in %appdata% and delete any nvidia folder in there, once you did that go up a folder by hitting the up arrow on the adress bar and check both Local and LocalLow for any nvidia folders and delete them.

Once thats done, reboot, login, Windows will install the drivers for the gpu and you should be set, optionally if the drivers that nvidia provided through windows update aren't good enough you can just install them from nvidia's site again, but the problem might start again.

The drivers Nvidia provided for me through windows update work fine for me and the nvidia control panel was supplied through there as well, I don't use GeForce Experience, I find it bloatware, but its not included through windows update.

Also incase anybody doesn't know this, if you go to %appdata% you will sometimes find folders of programs you have uninstalled that still have stuff in them, same if you go up and go into Local and LocalLow, you will find folder of uninstalled programs that still have things in them, so make sure you clean in there regularly.

i figured out the hard way that my motherboard has a button on my case that allows me to do a hard restart (just cuts power to the hard drive and restarts the computer) for the hard drive
kinda terrified me at first really

I'm going to ignore the part where you said case and assume what really happened is you hit the clear cmos button(Clear BIOS) on your motherboard while you where running an OS and the computer had a panic attack after that.

[Tokthree]

The real question here is who the forget touches their motherboard while it's still powered?

[shitlord]

The real question here is who the forget touches their motherboard while it's still powered?

https://youtu.be/RtlYi1yLTVQ?t=49s
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https://youtu.be/RtlYi1yLTVQ?t=49s
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[AtlasBlue]

The real question here is who the forget touches their motherboard while it's still powered?

Not me; that's for sure.

Update on that PC building class I posted about way back:

It's going alright, I'm learning a LOT more than I thought I would have. I've answered most of the burning questions I've had about how certain components work, what does what and why it is used, and so on. It's my first period and the highlight of my day, which is... OK. It makes me determined to stay awake through 1st period, but after that the rest of my day is a complete drag. I also wish the content we're learning was a bit more updated, I mean the build kits we use for labs only support up to 2 GB of RAM and the kits include floppy drives (even though we don't use them.) and IDE HDDs. Don't get me wrong, I love learning about old computer hardware, but with the CompTIA A+ Certification test apparently about to go through a major overhaul, I really hope we start learning about some of the newer or upcoming tech.

Also, I wish we did more labs. A lot of the stuff we do is online, and it's kind of a drag considering how terrible the school issued laptops are. But hey, I'm still loving it.

[Skig²]

Im going to get the same one. Reviews says its good so I guess it is.

I might get it tomorrow at Micro Center. Many of the reviews say it works better than a wired connection (not an option for me). Hopefully I'll like it.

[Nickelob Ultra]

Not me; that's for sure.

Update on that PC building class I posted about way back:

It's going alright, I'm learning a LOT more than I thought I would have. I've answered most of the burning questions I've had about how certain components work, what does what and why it is used, and so on. It's my first period and the highlight of my day, which is... OK. It makes me determined to stay awake through 1st period, but after that the rest of my day is a complete drag. I also wish the content we're learning was a bit more updated, I mean the build kits we use for labs only support up to 2 GB of RAM and the kits include floppy drives (even though we don't use them.) and IDE HDDs. Don't get me wrong, I love learning about old computer hardware, but with the CompTIA A+ Certification test apparently about to go through a major overhaul, I really hope we start learning about some of the newer or upcoming tech.

Also, I wish we did more labs. A lot of the stuff we do is online, and it's kind of a drag considering how terrible the school issued laptops are. But hey, I'm still loving it.

I can imagine the only reason they still make you work with floppy drives and IDE/ribbon cable hardware is for the sake of familiarity.  Then again the ribbon cable of IDE is so recognizable and pretty hard to forget up.  There's probably still a percentage, though shrinking, of computers out there with that kind of hardware.

[ZERØ]

I can imagine the only reason they still make you work with floppy drives and IDE/ribbon cable hardware is for the sake of familiarity.  Then again the ribbon cable of IDE is so recognizable and pretty hard to forget up.  There's probably still a percentage, though shrinking, of computers out there with that kind of hardware.

IDE and Ribbon cable is a bit confusing for me, The whole slave thing I still don't understand, tried fixing up and old Windows 98 computer I had in the garage and when it came to putting it back together the CD rom did not read anymore but the floppy did, we never figured it out so that old pc went to the recycling plant because we couldn't reinstall the OS on it, 98 did not come in floppy drives and a computer that old does not support booting from usb.

[Nickelob Ultra]

IDE and Ribbon cable is a bit confusing for me, The whole slave thing I still don't understand, tried fixing up and old Windows 98 computer I had in the garage and when it came to putting it back together the CD rom did not read anymore but the floppy did, we never figured it out so that old pc went to the recycling plant because we couldn't reinstall the OS on it, 98 did not come in floppy drives and a computer that old does not support booting from usb.

It's very easy, IDE plugs and ribbon cable plugs are just big 40/80 pin plugs that have a little notch on them for foolproof fitting.  "Master" and "slave" drives are just legacy terms to indicate drives 0 and 1.

[ZERØ]

It's very easy, IDE plugs and ribbon cable plugs are just big 40/80 pin plugs that have a little notch on them for foolproof fitting.  "Master" and "slave" drives are just legacy terms to indicate drives 0 and 1.

Oh well that makes much more sense, but can you leave one unplugged and go onto the other?
Like 0 and 2, I though there was limitations to it, and isn't there 2 variants of it though? I heard there was a ribbon cable variant with double the wires but the same pins.

[espio100]

I might get it tomorrow at Micro Center. Many of the reviews say it works better than a wired connection (not an option for me). Hopefully I'll like it.

PM me how it works some day :^)

[Nickelob Ultra]

Oh well that makes much more sense, but can you leave one unplugged and go onto the other?
Like 0 and 2, I though there was limitations to it, and isn't there 2 variants of it though? I heard there was a ribbon cable variant with double the wires but the same pins.

You can leave one unplugged and go onto the other AFAIK but make sure you correctly mark master drive with the provided jumper.

[mod-man]

can we also ask for help here?

in an effort to uninstall a bad driver a couple days ago, i accidentally uninstalled the usb controller for my computer. will my keyboard still work to get into the bios? i think i can fix it from there, but literally nothing i plug into my computer works now