rapidsailor11 said:I've got an HP Envy too... just popped in some third-party ink for the first time today. The printer is only two weeks old, but when I hit stop, nothing happens. So I swapped it out, hit stop again to let it run through its thing—that 2 or 3 minute cycle—and now it’s printing photos in weird colors, like crazy pinks. It prints text, but there are gaps every few inches. I have no clue... help... should I try running a head cleaning through the software?
P.S. I'm using an HP Envy, but the manual is for an HP Envy.
Is the manual being wrong the problem, or is this actually okay?
What else did you mention besides having an HP Envy?
Look, money aside, nobody tells you to go out and drop a fortune on a high-end PSU unless you actually get it—it's common sense. Buying one of those 600W units from LC Power is a total disaster because that hardware is complete garbage... and that "600W" rating? It exists only in their wildest dreams. Honestly, the only decent stuff from LC Power is the Greenpower series, but even then, you have to be careful. Only the ones specifically labeled GP3—the third generation of Greenpower—are actually worth anything.
As far as budget-friendly options that actually work go, these are some solid choices, so take a look and see if you can pick something out...
People aren't giving you the green light on these cheap power supplies because they don't want to deal with you coming back in two weeks, pissed off and blaming us all because you fried your graphics card with some "good" PSU we supposedly recommended.
What is this, some kind of retirement home? I've spent 20 years in IT, he's put in 17... where does that leave me? 😁
I have to admit, Morgan Moore37 really shook me up. It actually made me question my entire career and everything I thought I knew... Was Atari the first computer to have actual Windows? Dammit, I must be getting senile, because I have zero memory of that... I know Windows 1.0 came on two 5.25" floppy disks with 360k capacity... but those were for the PC...
If it’s a newer model, maybe. Where are you even shopping?
You can grab a Fortron for an HD5770 on Amazon (though I wouldn't bother putting anything beefier in there), or check Linksys for some cheap Chief units...
What's there to say when nobody's even heard of it?
As for what you need, you'd probably have to test every single adapter. Honestly, no one can give you a guarantee because nobody knows your specific setup—you just have to try it and see... that's how it works.
If you actually have any say in which replacement card you end up with—since hunting down an HD4850 is getting pretty damn hard these days—try to aim for a decent NVIDIA card instead. Programs like Adobe Photoshop and Corel can really take advantage of CUDA technology. It's basically tech that lets your processor tap into those NVIDIA GPU cores to help with heavy lifting, which leads to some serious speed boosts. AMD's Radeon cards just don't support that specific tech...
Look... you’d also need a motherboard with a native e-SATA controller or an expansion card to make it work... and even then, some games might just refuse to run off an external drive.
It would be a lot easier if you just told us what kind of rig you're running and what your actual goal is. If you've got a desktop, just slap another internal drive in there and call it a day. If you're on a laptop, you'd need one with e-SATA support. And if your plan was to install a game on an external drive just so you could lug it from computer to computer? Yeah, that’s not going to work. Every single program, including games, has to register itself in the Windows Registry during installation to set up permissions, configurations, and all that other junk...
First off, that link you posted is dead, but whatever.
Second, installing a game onto an external USB drive isn't exactly a genius move. USB 2.0 is way slower than a standard SATA connection, so you're basically looking at sluggish load times. Honestly, I'm not even sure if some games would let you install them on an external drive at all... some would probably just throw an error and quit.
I can't speak to the gearbox specifically, but if you actually bother to search for a decent review online, you'll find that info easily. And I’m telling you, do your homework now so you don't end up pissed off later... It's an open secret that companies peddle steering wheels, joysticks, tablets, and all kinds of "wannabe" gear that's practically useless once you get it home. If you want brands you can actually trust blindly when it comes to functionality, stick with Logitech or Genius... anything else is a gamble unless you're 100% sure it actually does what it claims to do. $267It's a big deal...
Just type the model name into Google followed by "review" or "test"...
The only thing worth looking at is the spitter, provided you don't get ripped off on the paint job... though those lasers are gonna run you at least $1.5 million.
Unfortunately, no. That’s a thermal transfer printer, which means it only prints on specific heat-sensitive paper by burning through the top layer—think those monochrome barcode labels you see everywhere. It won't touch plain paper...
You do that on massive industrial printing presses using huge rolls of media... you print the whole thing on a giant roll first, then cut it down and wind it onto smaller rolls...