Kind of hard to follow... - You can't just connect to your home modem from abroad because the Wi-Fi range is only about 100 meters, not like 311 miles. - If you're using a router while you're out of the country, there's a chance it doesn't support certain channels. If that happens, just log into the router settings and manually switch the channel (CH) from "auto" to something fixed like 6CH. Also, double-check that the encryption is set to WPA2 or AES.
So I’m running a dual monitor setup here, and Windows just flagged both of them as "generic PNP monitors," but honestly? It doesn't really bother me. The first one was sitting at 1440x900 and worked fine, but the second one wanted to be 1680x1050—except Windows didn't even list that resolution as an option. I ended up jumping into AMD Catalyst CC to manually force that resolution in, and ever since then, Windows has been playing nice with it. I haven't even bothered installing specific GPU or monitor drivers since moving to Windows 10; I've just been sticking with whatever the OS decided to install on its own. And seriously, the idea of messing with firmware? No thanks, not happening.
Yeah, it's the same company, it's just that I have the 1st Edition while the one on your link is the 2nd Edition, and they both have a power output of 500W. I'm pretty religious about cleaning my PC heatsinks and fans—even the PSU—but I never really paid much attention to the exhaust temperatures before. With this power supply, though, it’s constantly running hot even when it's just idling, and since everything has been working fine for a long time, I kind of just got complacent. 🤔 As soon as I get a chance to snag something better, I'm swapping it out just to be safe. Plus, I'll finally be able to ditch those annoying Molex-to-6pin adapters for my GPU and the Molex-to-SATA ones too.
Intel Core i5-2400 (95W TDP) 8GB DDR3 Radeon 5770 Vapor (max 118W) ASUS P8B75-M 2HDDs, 1SSD, 1CD/DVD drive My power supply is some random "SL-500" with a gray sticker on it. It's been running fine for months, but I noticed the air coming out of the PSU is scorching hot, unlike the air coming from my case fans which stays pretty cool.
Should I be worried about this before summer hits?
crimsonharbor313 said:The audio driver finally went through smoothly. Most of the others from the motherboard site worked too—just a bunch of random drivers at this point. Honestly, I'm just grasping at straws here.
It looks like I’m stuck manually installing every single driver... I don't think I've ever had a situation where Windows 10 didn't just grab everything it needed during an update. Usually, if a driver is a bad fit, you just get hit with the Blue Screen of Death.
Windows 7 just isn't built for modern hardware, man. Just go ahead and install Windows 10 like a normal person. Besides, support for Windows 7 is basically hitting the wall in a few months anyway. The thing is, Windows 7 was designed way before these new chipsets even existed. You'd be stuck hunting down every single driver for that motherboard, assuming Gigabyte even bothered to make them for Windows 7 in the first place.
I don't have that specific Dell G-Series Gaming Laptop myself, but you didn't mention if the WiFi adapter even shows up in your Device Manager. Like, check your control panel—is the WiFi actually turned on? Is there even a WiFi icon sitting in your taskbar down at the bottom?
If you don't have three-phase power at your place, then honestly, any standard 120V outlet is fair game for those powerline adapters to work (you mentioned before that there was only one meter anyway).
If you're running powerline adapters, sometimes they only play nice if they're plugged into the same phase—especially if you've got a three-phase setup at your place. Other times, they work just fine even on different phases, so I figured it was worth a shot to test it out.
Also, take a look at the phone jack by your router. If there are extra wires tucked in there, check if you can run those four wires all the way down to the phone jack by your PC. If you can, you could basically wire them up to act like a 10/100Mbps LAN cable. If you need WiFi down there too, you could just hook up an old router in AP mode to that connection.
"Outlet"... wait, are you talking about a phone jack or a standard 120V wall socket?
Basically, you plug one Powerline adapter into a 120V outlet near your router, then just hit the router with an Ethernet cable from one of its LAN ports. Then, you take the second adapter, plug it into a 120V outlet down in the basement, and run a LAN cable straight to your PC. It works best if they're on the same electrical phase and the same meter, though sometimes they'll still talk to each other even if they aren't—so it's worth checking first.
That last link isn't the culprit, it's working just fine. What you're looking at isn't actually an update. It’s basically just giving permission to run test add-ons for developers, plus that line right above it about sending tech data over to Mozilla—which most people already have turned off. Only those of us who actually kept that setting disabled ran into those blocked add-on issues over the last few days.
It seems like the only people who didn't run into issues with blocked add-ons were the ones who actually checked their settings and turned off the option to send technical data and other telemetry back to Mozilla in the Privacy & Security tab.
Everyone else who unchecked that box to stop sharing their data ended up getting hit with the whole broken add-on mess. ps: I've tried a clean install and ran every antivirus/malware scanner out there, but nothing finds anything... nothing works.
...so we're just stuck waiting on the patch (66.0.4).
Look, it’s definitely not because of some "sketchy" websites, and it’s got nothing to do with CCleaner or some random malware/virus. The 66.04 patch is currently in the works, but if you aren't really feeling the wait, I’ve got a workaround right here—complete with screenshots... you can just roll it back once the official update drops.
If it’s already been cracked open, then yeah, it’s basically just junk, just like > said.
When you're putting together an IBM drive at the factory, everything happens inside this super controlled environment with specialized ventilation and heavy-duty filters, and the workers are decked out in thin hazmat-style suits. Even the data recovery shops over here rarely ever have to crack open an IBM drive, but on the rare occasion they do, they’re working in a dedicated clean room with air filtration systems that mimic those big manufacturing plants.
...the monitor doesn't actually kick in right at startup. You're just staring at a black screen until those GPU drivers finally load up, and since they aren't prioritized over the core system files, there's a bit of a lag. That’s basically why we have the power and hard drive LEDs—so you can at least tell the machine is actually doing something while you wait.