No problem. We’ll keep. Your statement is why I am only on the
internet in a very limited way. I watch YouTube videos from a
very select group of providers. I come here to get the latest of
a story I have been following for years. I do not watch the news!
It is too depressing. If I’m not watching videos I’m reading or
playing solitaire. Hang in, PC.
I feel for you Petercat, there are days when
i consider taking back up heavy drinking as
well. Like now, I was checking my paperwork
on my tower, I bought it 7 1/2 years ago.
Warranty ran out 6yrs ago. 🙁
I’m not sure, I was just about to post a reply on here
and suddenly I had weird pixels everywhere and then
it locked up. I did a forced shutdown, waited about 20
mins, and it wouldn’t go past post. Last time I had
that happen it was the ram that failed. My son thinks
it’s the GPU, which will suck, I loved that 1080. He’s
pulling 12 hour shifts this week, so I’ll wait until he
can help. My hands shake too much these days and
I don’t want to risk more damage.
If memory serves, it’s a 8700k cpu, 1080ti GPU with
12 gig of ram. The nvida gpu is ASI, can’t tell the MoBo
was made by, the video card covers the brand. It’s so
thick it takes up 2 slots!
Cool. I have everything except the processor. Your RAM is DDR4, I have plenty.
I also have a spare 980ti (6GB RAM). If your motherboard has built-in graphics,
(it should), try plugging your monitor into that. You might need to remove your
1080ti first, though.
It could also be your power supply failing, as well. I have several extra.
Let me know when you figure it out, if your computer serves you well,
it’s going to be cheaper to repair it than to replace it. 8700K and a 1080ti
are a great combination.
I still have my old 7700K with two wet 1080tis, it wouldn’t be a problem
for me to set it up to render TGW again if I needed to.
You’re lucky on the “wet ones”, I wouldn’t dare to price one,
even if they are still available. Heh, don’t say that about
the PS, the last computer I had had suffered with a
short, 120VAC through the mainboard, GPU, a brand new
32in TV input socket, and my left hand…
Yeah it was a check-pulse moment.
The Mobo has a rinkadink base-line GPU built in, but that
wouldn’t handle any rendering or my steam games, but
I would be able to annoy you guys again 😉
Trying the motherboard GPU might tell you where the problem is, though.
But my 980 has only half the memory of a 1080ti.
If you have to replace the GPU, I recommend a 3060. It has a hair more
memory, but it renders twice as fast as a 1080ti. Requires Win10, though.
Take care of yourself, PC. If you don’t, nobody else can.
I mostly don’t go to “news” sites. I don’t watch TV; I only have
a FB account to get pictures of the granddaughter. I still see
some stuff, as I’m still working full time, but as much as possible,
I limit the outside world’s influence.
I said I don’t watch TV. We DO have one. 50″ Plasma, hanging on
the wall, a gift from the kids 8ish years ago. It hasn’t even been
plugged in for months. We will, if we wish to, plug it in and watch a
DVD, or a VCR tape, or, more likely, use Hulu to watch something.
I’m getting the laptop setup, it’s weird, I haven’t used one
in a decade. I’ve got to find a spare RGB cable so I can
hook up the monitor. Now I have to hook up my externals
and see what i’m missing from the tower. Maybe i’ll have
to buy one of those data savers to recover my files from
the tower.
aw crap, I don’t know why that was posted as a
reply to you Sam, this keyboard is weird, not to
mention the old mouse pointer stalk in the middle
of the keyboard…
It’s an HP, metal case, it’s an office laptop
that my sister had, I can tell why she quit
using it, at random it suddenly scrolls
down and leaves the window like on here.
What’s worse, she never activated it, so
I can’t even play games on it… grrr…
“Windows does not support Windows 7,
here are web sites to shop for a new
computer”. All Intel/Microsoft brands…
At least I can get on here for some things.
My boy should be off this weekend.
Woops. I hadn’t read this far. Yeah, Win7 had the worst activation scheme.
Search for Windows 7 OEM keys, they can be used to activate without any
pain, OEM keys don’t need to be verified. I’ll dig through my USB drives
and see if I can find my copies.
Here ya go: https://gist.github.com/shiritrong/d85bb1e16c66d1a09896727780b4fc7c
What kills me is when they did this for XP, they sold CDs
that had all the updates on it, when I went to the store
to see if I could do it for Win7 there’s nothing but the
same old notification. My sister has/had a copy of XP home
and gave me a copy, with a bulk system activation code.
It’s what I used when I rebuilt frankentower 😀
Thanks for the link, I copy/pasted the list to
a notepad, I’ll share with my sister, she’s got
several laptops that need minor repairs.
Mostly hard drives, Wifi cards, that sort of thing.
Like this one, it’s missing the Wifi card, the
bracket is there, but it’s missing and the socket
is wrecked. I got her hooked on computer
repair, I taught her and she ran with it lol.
She started doing IT work for the hospital she
was working for! Then took a job at a big concrete
place her hubby was driving for, the lady was
pulling $80k a year! (grumbling…)
I watch YouTude, Netflix, Prime, and Disney+. all of which I decide what I’m watching and the content. I
have a 55 in on our bedroom wall, mostly so my wife
can watch her game show network and her hallmark
rom-coms and dramadies movies. (eye-roll)
That’s why I don’t watch TV or any news service, I get so enraged
at the hate/cancel culture that if I was a bit unstable, I’d be on the
news myself. I think your vision here, PC, is coming, and becoming
a prepper is making sense.
Get your bike out and take a short road trip, my friend.
Will add you on Twitter, as soon as my site-blocker allows me access again, this afternoon. I block all the political sites during the day, so I can write when not working on the barn or the yard.
Food for thought: I saw this meme on Johnny B’s humpday
Wednesday video:
The tobacco industry paid government to say
that cigarettes were safe.
Then the same thing happened with the plastics industry
and food packaging.
And government scientists pushed seed oils
and an unhealthy food pyramid.
But I’m absolutely certain that vaccines are safe and effective
because that’s what the CDC says!
Screw the anti-vac people, I haven’t had the flu of
any kind in years, even before co-19. Including the
pneumonia shots. You should include the Teflon BS
too, I used pots and pans for decades with it. Then
the FDA did a 180 on it.
if you find your own usual sources of information depressing at the moment, maybe you’d like to read some from the other side of the spectrum more, currently?
Well, at least my personal main (and ‘mainstream media’) source is full of articles that are complaining, whining and out right panicking about Trump and Musk and their plans and growing influence and about how company/media leaders are bending over backwards to appease them?
So if both sides of fence are depressed about how the world is going to change — maybe at least one of them is wrong?
TO BE CLEAR: this is not meant as an attack, rather as an slightly self ironical/weird try to maybe lift your spirit just a bit.
Thanks for the advice, welcome back. It’s good to hear from you.
I already do. I use different websites of different persuasions such
as Politico, Bluesky, Twitter… I’m more interested in what works
rather than what side.
My core is personal freedom, and that the first, overriding purpose of
any true adult is too protect those who can not protect themselves.
Anything else comes from that.
I do hope that you will stay and continue presenting your own views.
I know what you mean PC, It’s the same with my
father, he insists on watching CBS and CNN, he
then rants at the TV. Since the Roku is out of his
skill set, I have to change the channel to Fox
whenever he gets up or he upsets himself. I
have tried many times to set him up with Hulu
so he could watch shows like Bewitched and
I Dream Of Genie, but he gets bored, I think
he likes to get pissed off, but I worry he’ll cause
another heart attack. Real World news is bad for
anyone’s health.
Sorry that I’m rambling.
Everything just came together in one day,
and I got overwhelmed.
Friday will be much better.
Please take care of yourself,
not for us or the comic, but for yourself.
Be selfish for once.
I am like Sam, I do not watch TV or the news.
No problem. We’ll keep. Your statement is why I am only on the
internet in a very limited way. I watch YouTube videos from a
very select group of providers. I come here to get the latest of
a story I have been following for years. I do not watch the news!
It is too depressing. If I’m not watching videos I’m reading or
playing solitaire. Hang in, PC.
I feel for you Petercat, there are days when
i consider taking back up heavy drinking as
well. Like now, I was checking my paperwork
on my tower, I bought it 7 1/2 years ago.
Warranty ran out 6yrs ago. 🙁
So what’s wrong with the tower?
Can it be repaired? I have lots of spare parts.
What are it’s specifications?
I’m not sure, I was just about to post a reply on here
and suddenly I had weird pixels everywhere and then
it locked up. I did a forced shutdown, waited about 20
mins, and it wouldn’t go past post. Last time I had
that happen it was the ram that failed. My son thinks
it’s the GPU, which will suck, I loved that 1080. He’s
pulling 12 hour shifts this week, so I’ll wait until he
can help. My hands shake too much these days and
I don’t want to risk more damage.
If memory serves, it’s a 8700k cpu, 1080ti GPU with
12 gig of ram. The nvida gpu is ASI, can’t tell the MoBo
was made by, the video card covers the brand. It’s so
thick it takes up 2 slots!
Cool. I have everything except the processor. Your RAM is DDR4, I have plenty.
I also have a spare 980ti (6GB RAM). If your motherboard has built-in graphics,
(it should), try plugging your monitor into that. You might need to remove your
1080ti first, though.
It could also be your power supply failing, as well. I have several extra.
Let me know when you figure it out, if your computer serves you well,
it’s going to be cheaper to repair it than to replace it. 8700K and a 1080ti
are a great combination.
I still have my old 7700K with two wet 1080tis, it wouldn’t be a problem
for me to set it up to render TGW again if I needed to.
You’re lucky on the “wet ones”, I wouldn’t dare to price one,
even if they are still available. Heh, don’t say that about
the PS, the last computer I had had suffered with a
short, 120VAC through the mainboard, GPU, a brand new
32in TV input socket, and my left hand…
Yeah it was a check-pulse moment.
The Mobo has a rinkadink base-line GPU built in, but that
wouldn’t handle any rendering or my steam games, but
I would be able to annoy you guys again 😉
Trying the motherboard GPU might tell you where the problem is, though.
But my 980 has only half the memory of a 1080ti.
If you have to replace the GPU, I recommend a 3060. It has a hair more
memory, but it renders twice as fast as a 1080ti. Requires Win10, though.
I was thinking the same, I’m hoping the price will
drop with the new releases.
Take care of yourself, PC. If you don’t, nobody else can.
I mostly don’t go to “news” sites. I don’t watch TV; I only have
a FB account to get pictures of the granddaughter. I still see
some stuff, as I’m still working full time, but as much as possible,
I limit the outside world’s influence.
And thanks for letting us know.
I said I don’t watch TV. We DO have one. 50″ Plasma, hanging on
the wall, a gift from the kids 8ish years ago. It hasn’t even been
plugged in for months. We will, if we wish to, plug it in and watch a
DVD, or a VCR tape, or, more likely, use Hulu to watch something.
I’m getting the laptop setup, it’s weird, I haven’t used one
in a decade. I’ve got to find a spare RGB cable so I can
hook up the monitor. Now I have to hook up my externals
and see what i’m missing from the tower. Maybe i’ll have
to buy one of those data savers to recover my files from
the tower.
aw crap, I don’t know why that was posted as a
reply to you Sam, this keyboard is weird, not to
mention the old mouse pointer stalk in the middle
of the keyboard…
You have a Lenovo? With Windows 7?
Lucky guy. Really. I love that combination.
It’s an HP, metal case, it’s an office laptop
that my sister had, I can tell why she quit
using it, at random it suddenly scrolls
down and leaves the window like on here.
What’s worse, she never activated it, so
I can’t even play games on it… grrr…
“Windows does not support Windows 7,
here are web sites to shop for a new
computer”. All Intel/Microsoft brands…
At least I can get on here for some things.
My boy should be off this weekend.
Woops. I hadn’t read this far. Yeah, Win7 had the worst activation scheme.
Search for Windows 7 OEM keys, they can be used to activate without any
pain, OEM keys don’t need to be verified. I’ll dig through my USB drives
and see if I can find my copies.
Here ya go:
https://gist.github.com/shiritrong/d85bb1e16c66d1a09896727780b4fc7c
What kills me is when they did this for XP, they sold CDs
that had all the updates on it, when I went to the store
to see if I could do it for Win7 there’s nothing but the
same old notification. My sister has/had a copy of XP home
and gave me a copy, with a bulk system activation code.
It’s what I used when I rebuilt frankentower 😀
Thanks for the link, I copy/pasted the list to
a notepad, I’ll share with my sister, she’s got
several laptops that need minor repairs.
Mostly hard drives, Wifi cards, that sort of thing.
Like this one, it’s missing the Wifi card, the
bracket is there, but it’s missing and the socket
is wrecked. I got her hooked on computer
repair, I taught her and she ran with it lol.
She started doing IT work for the hospital she
was working for! Then took a job at a big concrete
place her hubby was driving for, the lady was
pulling $80k a year! (grumbling…)
I watch YouTude, Netflix, Prime, and Disney+. all of which
I decide what I’m watching and the content. I
have a 55 in on our bedroom wall, mostly so my wife
can watch her game show network and her hallmark
rom-coms and dramadies movies. (eye-roll)
dramadies = drama + comedy I invented
that term a while back to tease her 😛
That’s why I don’t watch TV or any news service, I get so enraged
at the hate/cancel culture that if I was a bit unstable, I’d be on the
news myself. I think your vision here, PC, is coming, and becoming
a prepper is making sense.
I pasted it on my Twitter. Let’s see what happens.
https://x.com/GentleWolfX/status/1877282339559993404
Get your bike out and take a short road trip, my friend.
Will add you on Twitter, as soon as my site-blocker allows me access again, this afternoon. I block all the political sites during the day, so I can write when not working on the barn or the yard.
Not that I am getting very far with writing…..
Food for thought: I saw this meme on Johnny B’s humpday
Wednesday video:
The tobacco industry paid government to say
that cigarettes were safe.
Then the same thing happened with the plastics industry
and food packaging.
And government scientists pushed seed oils
and an unhealthy food pyramid.
But I’m absolutely certain that vaccines are safe and effective
because that’s what the CDC says!
Screw the anti-vac people, I haven’t had the flu of
any kind in years, even before co-19. Including the
pneumonia shots. You should include the Teflon BS
too, I used pots and pans for decades with it. Then
the FDA did a 180 on it.
Dear PC,
if you find your own usual sources of information depressing at the moment, maybe you’d like to read some from the other side of the spectrum more, currently?
Well, at least my personal main (and ‘mainstream media’) source is full of articles that are complaining, whining and out right panicking about Trump and Musk and their plans and growing influence and about how company/media leaders are bending over backwards to appease them?
So if both sides of fence are depressed about how the world is going to change — maybe at least one of them is wrong?
TO BE CLEAR: this is not meant as an attack, rather as an slightly self ironical/weird try to maybe lift your spirit just a bit.
Thanks for the advice, welcome back. It’s good to hear from you.
I already do. I use different websites of different persuasions such
as Politico, Bluesky, Twitter… I’m more interested in what works
rather than what side.
My core is personal freedom, and that the first, overriding purpose of
any true adult is too protect those who can not protect themselves.
Anything else comes from that.
I do hope that you will stay and continue presenting your own views.
I know what you mean PC, It’s the same with my
father, he insists on watching CBS and CNN, he
then rants at the TV. Since the Roku is out of his
skill set, I have to change the channel to Fox
whenever he gets up or he upsets himself. I
have tried many times to set him up with Hulu
so he could watch shows like Bewitched and
I Dream Of Genie, but he gets bored, I think
he likes to get pissed off, but I worry he’ll cause
another heart attack. Real World news is bad for
anyone’s health.