whatever the motherboard provide, before it was bios boot menu, today it has some cute software :-) but it is still a basic hardware "bios" to me, just more cute software stuff that created more vulnerabilities , that does the same basic thing a different way .
I still boot a Phenom machine on Dual 4:3 17" monitors :) Here I thought I was behind the times. Didn't know there was a folloing for that aspec ratio :P
the reason I like my ultrawide on my main desktop is because, even though I have tons of horizontal, even the vertical is generous enough that pages don't feel "cut off" or "constrained" at the default DPI (no custom scaling), and the res is low enough that I can read it from a natural viewing distance
on a laptop I actually like 16:10 or 4:3 more than 16:9, and an ultrawide laptop would be dumb
@RichManson if you remember back when this "change" that MS did , linux people were afraid that microsoft was trying to lock them out completly. chainloading one os from another oses boot structure , again where do you go, when either one breaks?
Well, vertical space is absolute. I actually like my old r60 better than an r61 (at 14 inches) but at smaller sizes widescreen is fine. At 27 inches.....
the only time I really notice vertical space is (1) the RA star wall -- on vertical constrained devices I can only see like 5 things on the star wall; and (2) Eclipse and Visual Studio, which have so much widget decoration that you barely get to see a viewport of your code on low-res devices
@Psycogeek Your method sounds interesting. It works for you and may have its merits. I'd like to see the drawings just because I like to study different multi boot systems. Kinda a geek that way.
@allquixotic they will play HD movies , and browse the web? I am going mobile eventually , could be you should sell them to me :-) Gonna get me a weak touch tablet of 10+inch size someday.
oh wait , touching the 10 inch, thats not safe for work.
Just a matter of shoving a huge battery pack on it , so it runs for 10 hours non-stop
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My public pgp public key has a subkey with a signature (self signed) that contains an outdated reference to a policy. How can I update the signature and remove the reference?
I had the same problem with my main key and its UIDs. I could solve it by deleting the signatures and self-signing them a...
@djsmiley2k It may not be that simple, depending on how interoperability-heavy your system is. If your service interacts with tons of other services, you may not be able to fully verify that it works
@djsmiley2k They were auto-tested by the backup tool (random files verified) and occasionally mounted to manually double-check.
That was just for data integrity though.
We didn't have a full restore test nor a hardware failure recovery plan.
@RichManson Ok. So Windows always creates a MSR only if the drive is GPT. Win7 chucks recovery (winre.wim) onto C:\Recovery\. Win10 creates the extra partition for recovery. All boot data is still stored in the ESP directly.
I'm not massively happy with the results (though I suspect its more my image editing skills than anything else), and it needs some tweaking for your specific monitor but in theory I could get this to work with a few small tools and some sneakiness.
I've not tried this for gaming (and it probably...
I had to get on with work / wasn't able to complete the memory test, but, did about 12 hours which was a few passes without issue
I never had a single bluescreen in the 2/3 years I've had this pc before I put the GPU in
heat - cpu averages 50 degrees - I thought it was only 35 when I first got it - so, I may try a new fan... I also have a good PSU, but, can't rule that out at all...
DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (133)
The DPC watchdog detected a prolonged run time at an IRQL of DISPATCH_LEVEL
or above.
Arguments:
Arg1: 0000000000000000, A single DPC or ISR exceeded its time allotment. The offending
component can usually be identified with a stack trace.
Arg2: 0000000000000501, The DPC time count (in ticks).
Arg3: 0000000000000500, The DPC time allotment (in ticks).
Arg4: 0000000000000000
seriously wondering about just scrapping it off and getting a new i7 7 series! I only have a B series mobo/business one, so, just thinking of getting ... for a few hundred quid, thinking it isn't worth the trouble... but that feels lazy!
@noitsbecky hm, yea, I'm seeing 18AWG as rated at up to around 9A if single-core. That's without significant heat I guess. Some 300 W would be completely safe then, with 3 wires.
500 W should be fine, bit of heat
1000 W would be pushing it but it probably won't melt :P
Well no. Bear in mind a PCIe 1x slot carries like, 15w and a 16x slot provides 75w, the longer slot uses more pins for more power = not using one single 6A trace
@Bob Oh, yeah
Somehow I got it into my head EPS 12v and PCIe 8-pin were the same... probably because all my connectors and conductors are just entirely black.
> Yes. With a default OCP of 40A on each 8-pin connector on the modular interface, there is MORE THAN ENOUGH power for any peripherals you plug into the PSU. The ability to toggle it to single +12V rail mode is only there for those people that refuse to believe anything other than "single +12V rail is better".
Huh maybe it is per connector
I can't remember, and not got time to read the manual atm. Still, close enough
... going back, sorry! I have a gut feeling that there is something wrong with my motherboard... every crash I have ever had has been since putting the card in... It always seems to be 2/3 very close together... the stability patch (which goes back to 2015) seemed to make it last about a week...
I'm just wondering if the B chipset board were designed for graphics being low cost/business ones... I just had an extra i7 from a project and bought a load of these in bulk :/
@Burgi Explain to them it was necessary because they weren't doing their job monitoring the website and you didn't want the joint customer to suffer any more downtime than was necessary
@Bob :( you are right... argh, just fancy screaming... maybe I should do a reinstall, probably have so much crap over the years as well which wouldn't help
@JourneymanGeek Only if you really want to be able to restore from the backups. In that case, you should routinely restore backups to non-production hardware just to be sure the process is staying valid. Not to mention having scripts that run as part of the backup that make sure the backup is a reasonable size
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