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Laptop, mobile, desktop.Originally Posted by phonics
It was fine the night before last.
Is anyone with Virgin Media? My internet has been bust for the past three hours.
Fine here.
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That's the general response I've had. Odd.
Just found an old Voodoo 2 12mb 3dfx card, box, original manuals and games and was quite surprised to find out from a friend that people actually want these things now and pay a stupid [in my view] amount for them on ebay.
What kind of madman wants a retro PC building experience? It was just misery IIRC.
Yeah some friends and I joked about building a voodoo 3 rig only to look on ebay and see they were mental prices.
There you go.
Just want to have a nosey at my old laptop and take anything I need from it before I bin it. Its screen isn't working so need to hook it up to a monitor.
Laptop:
In addition to a standard modern monitor, I also have this prehistoric thing which may be of help:
I only have a HDMI to HDMI cable.
With that lot, what's the cheapest cable/adapter I can get to get me to access the laptop on either monitor?
VGA male to male cable (the one marked PC D-SUB on the monitor). They will be about £2 on Amazon etc.
I just rage quit a document in neat office without saving it as the formatting had gone to fuck [I thought it was autosaving] but it seems that wasn't the case. Does anyone have any idea if it is possible to recover it? I think it was saving itself for recovery purposes [ie if the app crashed] but I clicked don't save so has that nuked whatever it was that was being autosaved?
Right so, no help on that, how about this one excel geeks. I want to have a function that will return a simple sum formula, adding B1 and B9, if B27 is 100, if B27 is less than 100 I just want the result to be B9. Do I want SUMIFS and if I do, how do I write it? All this range and criteria shit is vexing my tiny mind.
=IF(B27=100,SUM(B1+B9),B9)
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Awesome.
Any concern for it going over 100?
It's just a percentage thing so essentially I need a cost factored in at an earlier stage if [an unrelated thing] is 100% whereas if it is less than that I don't, on my model at least.
Chatgpt, son.
Excel function for sum.
I want to have a function that will return a simple sum formula, adding B1 and B9, if B27 is 100, if B27 is less than 100 I just want the result to be B9.
You can use the following function in Excel to achieve this:
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=IF(B27=100,B1+B9,B9)
This function uses the IF statement to check whether the value in cell B27 is equal to 100. If it is, the function returns the sum of the values in cells B1 and B9. If it is not, the function simply returns the value in cell B9.
I just rage quit a document in neat office without saving it as the formatting had gone to fuck [I thought it was autosaving] but it seems that wasn't the case. Does anyone have any idea if it is possible to recover it? I think it was saving itself for recovery purposes [ie if the app crashed] but I clicked don't save so has that nuked whatever it was that was being autosaved
If you didn't save the document before you rage quit and you clicked "Don't Save" when prompted, then unfortunately it's highly unlikely that you will be able to recover the document.
Autosave is a feature that automatically saves your document periodically to protect against data loss in the event of a crash, but it does not save a complete copy of the document. When you close the document and click "Don't Save", any changes made since the last manual save or autosave will be lost.
If you have closed the document without saving and haven't manually set up any backup or recovery options, then the only option to recover the document is to try to use the auto-recovery feature of Neat Office, if it has one. But even in this case, it's not guaranteed that you will be able to recover the latest version of the document.
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word
Try here for unrecovered Word files.
I did wonder about chat gpt, figured TTH would be better and easier to use. Wasn't let down.
Wasn't in word so nothing in the app data realm sadly.
There was/is probably some vestige of it somewhere as the program can autorecover unsaved docs if it crashes, but as I took definitive action to not save it I'm not sure if that got nuked. I looked high and low through temp files etc but couldn't find anything. I came across some things which may have been the autorecover files, but they were incomprehensible code when reopened.
What VPNs do people use? It's last chance saloon for Glasto tickets tomorrow so I'm hoping to attack from a few angles but I've never used a VPN before. Anything with a free trial would be handy.
Surfshark. One account can log in to unlimited devices, and it has loads of countries.
Can use this one if you promise not to change the password:
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I'm also on Surfshark, it's decent but not without it's problems.
Speed can be a bit slow at times, doesn't work with some sites (Bet365) and it can be patchy with Netflix.
Cheers, Baz. I don't think I can easily get a VPN to provide a different connection for each tab so I've given up.
Don't quote me on it because I've never been down that route but I think you can do it in Firefox.
Family friends kid had an ROG G20 and it seems to have broken. The thing was decent for the time but it's nearly 10 years old now and they didn't want it cluttering up the place. They've basically said if I can fix it and sell it then I can keep whatever cash it makes.
I could probably get around £200 for selling it, so it's worth me at least having a go. If not stripping it and selling for parts. Kid claims on those 40 degree days last year it conked out. My guess is that because of the enclosed nature of the case, something got cooked in there.
I guess my question is, has anyone here ever taken anything like it apart? I've not looked for specific videos yet but there seems to be no way to get into it naturally. No exposed screws or anything. I dont want to crack it open to find I can't put it back together.
Loads of disassembly videos on YouTube and forums. Looks easy enough to open, panel slides off after undoing one screw by the looks of it.
Looks like I'll have to try and get into it later tonight. I did have a quick go at that screw but it just turns without coming out.
When I got the thing it was just endlessly boot looping. It would also only show a display through one of the two HDMI ports. I've managed to get a copy of Windows 10 on there, but it still only will display through the onboard graphics. So the obvious theory is the GPU got cooked and is a dud now.
After spending the best part of a week looking for something to pry out that cross threaded screw I finally got it out today. Opened her up to a surprise. There's a SSD in it that's not listed on the prebuilt part list.
First thought was maybe that's tipping the small power supply over the edge. Removed it and only the bios would start. No bother really as the plan as before was a clean windows install anyway. But the HDD would only take storage and not a windows install. However at this point, putting everything back in I do get a display through the GPU HDMI port, so that's confirmed working.
Upon trying to put the SSD back in, I noticed the SATA cable was actually broken and loose where it connects to the SSD, so after fishing a new one out of my motherboards old box, I put it all back together and it works.
It's not the best system in the world but CeX have it on their website without the SSD at £160 cash and £225 credit and sell it for £340. I'm torn between dumping it off on them to get shut quickly, or to try somewhere like facebook to see if I could get maybe a bit more cash.
Depends what price you put on your time dealing with the deluge of spastics on Facebook
How big is the SSD?
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Pretty standard 250gb boot SSD and 1tb HDD combo.
Took it to CeX, passed their test but they quoted me half of whats on their site for the same machine. The only difference being I installed windows on it. The one on the site states Linux.
I'm guessing they've just failed to update their pricing, but I've come home and the listing is still there. So I've done the sale through the site and locked my price in for three days.
Gives me time to install Linux on it, which surprisingly I've never done before.
It's a good thing I locked in the price as I've just checked again and the trade value has gone down from 233 to 54...
I've tried putting Linux on it but it's not booting after install. I should have just left this thing gathering dust.
Is there such a thing a good free VPN?
I'm assuming not, but don't ask, don't get etc.
Baz's passworded one above is working for me from abroad so big thanks.
No worries. All welcome to use it so long as you don't change the password and ruin it for everyone.
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Does anyone have any positive experiences of low cost UK fibre providers? For example HEY!Broadband?
There are only two companies with actual infrastructure, BT (Openreach) and Virgin Media. All the others lease BT lines as far as I'm aware, so as long as you're happy with advertised speeds, they're probably worth a punt.
I know people have said Talk Talk are a pain to contact if you have issues. Youfibre seem fairly new but hyped up, I'm sure my mate got a deal where they were giving people free internet until their current contract ran out to get customers signed up.
They're all a pain really. Virgin are notoriously shit customer service, but nobody else can touch their £30/month 500Mbps-1Gbps offerings (depending on where you are and what sales they've got on). For example, Sky could guarantee me 67Mbps for the same price.
What about these people - is that a stand alone network or are they using existing Virgin/BT infrastructure? Obviously fairly niche at the moment, but I think I can get that.
Also remember if you are with O2 you get better Virgin offers now.
They're Openreach, just like all others.
I used some birthday money towards upgrading my laptop RAM from 16GB to 64GB.
Turns out removing the bottom off a HP Omen laptop is really difficult, so while I had it open I’ve noticed there’s an empty slot for a NVME m.2 SSD so I’ve ordered one to come tomorrow (Crucial P5 Plus 2TB) to whazz in it before sealing it shut FOREVER. sandlot.gif
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My laptop has taken to turning itself off when it gets a slight nudge, i.e. placed down gently on the table/floor. It otherwise seems to work fine. What is up with it?
Probably a loose wire inside somewhere.
I can't fathom what a laptop would do with 64GB RAM.
I've got 64gb RAM in my desktop, slightly less egregious.
Same as a PC would.
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