[PC] Ask The Experts Thread

[mshingore]

ahh thanks for the diagram mate......but your situation seems way better than mine.........if i had access to solid edge on my pc i could have have given u a diagrammatic situation of my home setup

 

 

in my case:

anyways imagine at least 40-50 ft distance from bedroom 1 to the location of the router(acc to ur diag),in my case.....the location where the router is placed also has access to landline

 

 

and according to your diagram ..in bedroom 1 where i have my actual modem...if i go near the door i get probably 80-85% of the signal.

so if i place an access point at the door of bedroom 1....will it amplify a signal upto 40-50ft

 

or no need of a access point when i already have a phone line available at the location of the router?? (location as shown in ur diagram)

 

I am guessing if you want to use the router that you already have, then you can place 1 router at the location marked in my diagram (the other being in your own bedroom of course). Set that router up as a Access point and you are good to go. Can you please try just drawing a rough sketch in paint (that's all i did) and post it here? It will help a great deal.

 

Ya, in fact all you would have to do is set your spare router in the hall as an Access Point (refer manual for the same). You don't even need to connect it to the landline. If you have push button configuration on both your routers, you are good to go. Just make sure that they are compatible with each other

 

The D link mobile companion suggestion was bcz i read in some post of yours that you were ready to shell a few bucks. But I think you can manage with your existing routers. Again a sketch would help a great deal.

 

Can you tell me the models of both your routers?

 

Edit: According to your previous posts, I imagine there are a lot of walls in between the existing router and the proposed site of the AP/ Landline. If the signal at the proposed location is strong/fair then maybe a wireless AP could help you. else you will have to run a wire through your existing router to the Asus router, thereby making it a wired Access point (like two routers in parallel). What is the signal strength at the proposed location?

Edited December 6, 2012 by mshingore

[hope]

My laptop resolution is 1366*766.Just now i formatted and now the resolution is only 1024*768.Have tried changing the screen resolution also but max it shows only 1024*768.But doesn not show 1366*768?

 

Have intel 3000 graphics card.before format intel 's control panel would let me set the resolution but now the control panel doesn't show up in my computer.Is it a driver issue.Wouldn't the driver get installed with windows?

 

Help please.

Edited December 6, 2012 by hope

[piper]

My laptop resolution is 1366*766.Just now i formatted and now the resolution is only 1024*768.Have tried changing the screen resolution also but max it shows only 1024*768.But doesn not show 1366*768?

 

Have intel 3000 graphics card.before format intel 's control panel would let me set the resolution but now the control panel doesn't show up in my computer.Is it a driver issue.Wouldn't the driver get installed with windows?

 

Help please.

You need to reinstall proper drivers. Try downloading from here : http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Graphics&ProductLine=Laptop+graphics+drivers&ProductProduct=2nd+Generation+Intel%C2%AE+Core%E2%84%A2+Processors+with+Intel%C2%AE+HD+Graphics+3000%2f2000

[Ph3N0M]

Continued from the "What you bought this week thread":

If the electricity supply is reliable give it a shot.

 

Should work fine without a UPS but do have a spike-guard handy. Cheers!

How is thisone? Okay to connect it to wall and have a UPS and a PC running off that, with monitor, speakers, router, and possibly some other devices running through the UPS? Power cuts don't happen usually, but when they happen(once in a blue moon), it's sudden and without warning, as it is due to some fault with the supply. Is it worth the risk?

[ALPHA17]

How is thisone? Okay to connect it to wall and have a UPS and a PC running off that, with monitor, speakers, router, and possibly some other devices running through the UPS? Power cuts don't happen usually, but when they happen(once in a blue moon), it's sudden and without warning, as it is due to some fault with the supply. Is it worth the risk?

 

Better get something of this calibre -- MDR Electronics.

 

Try to get it locally OR for alternate brands look at -- Belkin, Huntkey.

 

Hope this helps, Cheerio!

 

Jab kucch kharaab hona hota hai, warning nahee deta bus baith jataa hai.

Edited December 7, 2012 by ALPHA17

[Ph3N0M]

Better get something of this calibre -- MDR Electronics.

 

Try to get it locally OR for alternate brands look at -- Belkin, Huntkey.

 

Hope this helps, Cheerio!

 

Jab kucch kharaab hona hota hai, warning nahee deta bus baith jataa hai.

That's a phodu site which you have linked. I'm having a temptation to buy some of their cable management products too. And it's okay to use a UPS AND a PC off of that thing, right? I read somewhere that one shouldn't use a surge protector through a UPS, but I guess running a UPS through a surge protector should be fine. And does it actually help in safeguarding the equipments during a sudden power cut?

[ALPHA17]

That's a phodu site which you have linked. I'm having a temptation to buy some of their cable management products too. And it's okay to use a UPS AND a PC off of that thing, right? I read somewhere that one shouldn't use a surge protector through a UPS, but I guess running a UPS through a surge protector should be fine. And does it actually help in safeguarding the equipments during a sudden power cut?

 

I dunno about the site, was referring to the product in general (on page). Now where you source it from is your call.

 

Yes perfectly safe. I am running a surge protector via UPS and it is fine. No issues, till now. =|

 

Most APC units have surge protection + backup through the same ports OR labelled appropriately. Cheers!

[Ph3N0M]

^I'l only be able to use this PC for a few more days this month as I'm going home in the holidays. I'm planning to use the PC without UPS till January while saving some money, and will get a BR1000G afterwards.

[i_rock098]

I am using that product, its quite good quality

[ALPHA17]

^I'l only be able to use this PC for a few more days this month as I'm going home in the holidays. I'm planning to use the PC without UPS till January while saving some money, and will get a BR1000G afterwards.

 

So is the site good OR bad?

 

I did not get it?

[KJD]

MDR is good site. I have 1 time experience with it. Had ordered same 6 outlet surge protector long time back. May be 2 years back. they have support for direct CC/DC/Netbanking payments. And IIRc i also received the product in 3-4 days. They sent it by bluedart at that time.

 

Aprt from that I have some other HDMI cables and stuff purchased from them locally. Their quality is best as fas as an indian company in the similar business is concerned.

Edited December 7, 2012 by KJD

[i_rock098]

are the mobile version of a gfx card equall in performance to their desktop counterpart?, as in 670M=670?? and 7850M=7850??

[ALPHA17]

are the mobile version of a gfx card equall in performance to their desktop counterpart?, as in 670M=670?? and 7850M=7850??

 

No mobile graphic cards are weak compared to their desktop counterparts.

 

Slower core-clocks, slower RAM-clocks and overall everything that goes down to making the power-draw as low as possible (trying to balance battery-life vis-á-vis performance).

[Ph3N0M]

Quick question for Alpha:

I have just booted the PC from my GPU for the first time, and am installing AMD Catalyst/drviers/etc. I have booted using my old UPS for now. My question is whether checking Windows Experience Index causes enough power draw of the system to reach the limit of my 660VA UPS. I will anyway not use this UPS later, but am asking whether it is safe to check that right now.

Edited December 8, 2012 by Ph3N0M

[ALPHA17]

Quick question for Alpha:

I have just booted the PC from my GPU for the first time, and am installing AMD Catalyst/drviers/etc. I have booted using my old UPS for now. My question is whether checking Windows Experience Index causes enough power draw of the system to reach the limit of my 660VA UPS. I will anyway not use this UPS later, but am asking whether it is safe to check that right now.

 

Is it the situation where Murphy's Law is in motion (if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong), the power is out ironically on the day you wanted to inaugurate your RIG?

 

Anyway if the power is not out, quit worrying, the PC is not running on the UPS and even if it is beyond the UPS's load capability the RIG will not shut down.

 

Windows User Experience is not really very resource hungry, use it to see how balanced the RIG is. Cheers!

[Ph3N0M]

Is it the situation where Murphy's Law is in motion (if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong), the power is out ironically on the day you wanted to inaugurate your RIG?

 

Anyway if the power is not out, quit worrying, the PC is not running on the UPS and even if it is beyond the UPS's load capability the RIG will not shut down.

 

Windows User Experience is not really very resource hungry, use it to see how balanced the RIG is. Cheers!

Power is not out. I just booted from the UPS due to habit. I have anyway run the Experience Index Test on faith that it doesn't draw too much power. Can you please explain the bold part, as in how can the system not shut down when it is asking the UPS to draw more power than it can?

 

Anyway, my Experience Index Score is a 7.8(due to primary boot drive). See screenshot below(BTW, I can't believe how Windows falls behind in taking the screenshot. In Linux, I used to press "Print Screen" and it immediately made a jpg file of the thing in my Pictures folder. In Windows, the same button only copies the screenshot, and I have to make a new BitMap image file, and paste it there. Please forgive my noobiness in Windows and correct me if I'm wrong):

 

Will post photos of the actual card AND rig tomorrow(the pics are in a friend's camera).

 

PS: I noticed a strange thing. Blue lights started glowing from the top case fan, when I booted from the GPU for the first time. I never noticed that it didn't glow before. What may cause it to not glow in the absence of a GPU?

PS2: The supplied CD just didn't work(it didn't go beyond the initial screen), and I had to manually install all software from the net.

 

EDIT: Better screenshot added.

Edited December 8, 2012 by Ph3N0M

[ALPHA17]

Power is not out. I just booted from the UPS due to habit. I have anyway run the Experience Index Test on faith that it doesn't draw too much power. Can you please explain the bold part, as in how can the system not shut down when it is asking the UPS to draw more power than it can?

 

Anyway, my Experience Index Score is a 7.8(due to primary boot drive). See screenshot below(BTW, I can't believe how Windows falls behind in taking the screenshot. In Linux, I used to press "Print Screen" and it immediately made a jpg file of the thing in my Pictures folder. In Windows, the same button only copies the screenshot, and I have to make a new BitMap image file, and paste it there. Please forgive my noobiness in Windows and correct me if I'm wrong).

 

Will post photos of the actual card AND rig tomorrow(the pics are in a friend's camera).

 

PS: I noticed a strange thing. Blue lights started glowing from the top case fan, when I booted from the GPU for the first time. I never noticed that it didn't glow before. What may cause it to not glow in the absence of a GPU.

PS2: The supplied CD just didn't work(it didn't go beyond the initial screen), and I had to manually install all software from the net.

 

What I meant was, if the mains are functional the UPS is not acting and it is just a power conduit (cleaning the PC, doing its bit to clear spikes and troughs). So even if the power draw was higher than the UPS's rated output the system will not shut down but don't try this when the power is out.

 

Nice round score there, I am stuck at 5.9 (courtesy electro-mechanical hard-drives).

 

Yeah, welcome to the world of us mere mortals and WHY THE ******************************************** are you using Windows8? :threatenlumber:/> (compared to 7 in my opinion it is not at all optimized for mouse + keyboard).

 

About the blue-lights, glowing I dunno Sire. Are there any LED's on the graphic card OR does your motherboard have a funky LED system for every component that is functioning and different colour for non-working components?

 

Yeah! Happens very often, anyway if you are a Windows user simple rule -- DO NOT TRUST DRIVERS ON THE DISC, DOWNLOAD THEM. ALWAYS.

 

Wish that the RIG serves you well in the coming years.

 

Take care and hope to see the pictures, Cheers!

 

P.S. -- I have a terrible apathy towards shortcuts, get rid of them. GGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!

Edited December 8, 2012 by ALPHA17

[Ph3N0M]

What I meant was, if the mains are functional the UPS is not acting and it is just a power conduit (cleaning the PC, doing its bit to clear spikes and troughs). So even if the power draw was higher than the UPS's rated output the system will not shut down but don't try this when the power is out.

 

Nice round score there, I am stuck at 5.9 (courtesy electro-mechanical hard-drives).

 

Yeah, welcome to the world of us mere mortals and WHY THE ******************************************** are you using Windows8? :threatenlumber:/>/>/> (compared to 7 in my opinion it is not at all optimized for mouse + keyboard).

 

About the blue-lights, glowing I dunno Sire. Are there any LED's on the graphic card OR does your motherboard have a funky LED system for every component that is functioning and different colour for non-working components?

 

Yeah! Happens very often, anyway if you are a Windows user simple rule -- DO NOT TRUST DRIVERS ON THE DISC, DOWNLOAD THEM. ALWAYS.

 

Wish that the RIG serves you well in the coming years.

 

Take care and hope to see the pictures, Cheers!

 

P.S. -- I have a terrible apathy towards shortcuts, get rid of them. GGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!

I got Windows 8 from DreamSpark. They didn't have Windows 7 at the time(they now have it).

The dumb software automatically added those shortcuts(will delete them). :furious:/>

The lights ARE certainly coming from the fans, and it certainly didn't glow before installing the GPU. Strange.

Edited December 8, 2012 by Ph3N0M

[thedarkrider]

 

 

 

Wow experience index of minimum 7.8..dude thats awesome..mine is a mere 4.9(graphics card)

Ok wanted to ask something until i buy a new rig can i overclock my 9500gt??

Until previous year my gpu used to run all games n medium settings without any lag but now is lagging a little..so wanted to know can overclocking solve my problem temporarily??or its not an option??

[ALPHA17]

Until previous year my gpu used to run all games n medium settings without any lag but now is lagging a little..so wanted to know can overclocking solve my problem temporarily??or its not an option. :helpsmilie:/>

 

You have answered your own's question.

 

The GPU is almost 4 generations old and was considered an entry-level solution on its release, now is about the right time for an upgrade.

 

Sorry for the bad news.

Edited December 10, 2012 by ALPHA17