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General Software Discussion / Re: No video after resuming from sleep - Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

« Last post by Deozaan on September 07, 2016, 02:25 AM »

The beta GPU drivers were causing weird issues in some videos:






So I went back to the non-beta drivers today.

I'm about go put my machine to sleep for the night. We'll see if it goes back to having problems waking up the display after sleep. Wish me luck!

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General Software Discussion / Re: No video after resuming from sleep - Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

« Last post by Deozaan on September 05, 2016, 12:27 PM »

There are beta drivers for the HD6000 series (I'm running a 6850):

-4wd (September 04, 2016, 08:25 PM)

I didn't think I wanted the beta because:

• It's a beta (implies unstable) and won't be updated further.
• The download link says it is non-WHQL.

But I guess I'll give it a try and see what happens.

-Deozaan (September 04, 2016, 10:06 PM)

I installed the beta drivers and let my machine sleep overnight. It just woke up fine without a hitch. I'm cautiously optimistic that this issue is fixed, but we'll see how it handles sleeping a few more times before I say case closed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: No video after resuming from sleep - Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

« Last post by Deozaan on September 05, 2016, 12:07 AM »

Again, from experience, the noisy fan thing may also be irrelevant. The word to use here is "maintenance". Try dismantling and cleaning the fan and heat exchanger, and especially cleaning/lubricating the fan spindle with CRC, or something that doesn't offend electrics - that can make a world of difference. Make it just like a new fan.

-IainB (September 04, 2016, 11:25 PM)

This is the 2nd fan on this GPU after the first one completely failed.

It was noisy, like it is now, so I took it apart and lubricated it with WD-40. It was nice and quiet for a while, but it wasn't long (as in a month or two) before the noise started up again. Eventually (months later) it ground to a halt and when I took it apart again I saw what appeared to be ruined ball-bearings.

You saying "something that doesn't offend electrics" caused me to do some research. I see now that WD-40 is bad for electronics and may have been what caused it to go from just noisy to completely broken. Oops!

Anyway, I contacted the manufacturer after the original fan failed and got a replacement from them (because it seems to be non-standard and I couldn't find a generic/replacement fan online anywhere). Once again it was nice and quiet for a while. But after only about 5 months it started making some noise again, which came and went for awhile. That was nearly 2 years ago and now the noise is pretty consistently there. I haven't attempted lubricating it since I figured it was just a faulty design (and saw other similar complaints in reviews for the product). But now that I know it was probably me who ruined the last one, I may spend a few bucks to get some proper lubrication for it and attempt it once more.

It sure would be nice to have a quiet GPU again. Well, quiet is a relative term, since by default it comes with two speed settings: Loud, and louder! (But I use SpeedFan to reduce the fan speed to make it quieter when it doesn't need to be running so fast.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: No video after resuming from sleep - Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

« Last post by Deozaan on September 04, 2016, 11:04 PM »

An aside:

Honestly it's probably about time to upgrade to a newer GPU anyway (the fan is starting to make a lot of noise) but it's not in the budget at the moment.

-Deozaan (September 04, 2016, 04:33 PM)

I'm also surprised that what I thought was a lower-to-mid-range GPU I got 5 years still ranks fairly high up there according to this chart, and spending the same amount of money today that I spent on it 5 years ago will get me a GPU that is only three tiers higher on that chart. It would move me from the 12th best tier to the 9th best tier.

I certainly expected the price to be lower or the performance to be much better by now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: No video after resuming from sleep - Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

« Last post by Deozaan on September 04, 2016, 10:06 PM »

There are beta drivers for the HD6000 series (I'm running a 6850):

-4wd (September 04, 2016, 08:25 PM)

I didn't think I wanted the beta because:

• It's a beta (implies unstable) and won't be updated further.
• The download link says it is non-WHQL.

But I guess I'll give it a try and see what happens.

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General Software Discussion / Re: No video after resuming from sleep - Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

« Last post by Deozaan on September 04, 2016, 04:33 PM »

Update your video-drivers, or installing a WHQL-qualified release should help, IMHO.

-Ath (September 04, 2016, 02:54 AM)

It seems I'm already using the latest drivers. But the GPU is considered "Legacy" and drivers for it aren't being updated anymore.



But I've been running Windows 10 since it released a year ago and it's never had this problem until after the Anniversary Update, so I know it "should" work in Windows 10. Honestly it's probably about time to upgrade to a newer GPU anyway (the fan is starting to make a lot of noise) but it's not in the budget at the moment.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Was Firefox 47.0.1 the end of the line for you as well?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 03, 2016, 04:43 PM »

Regarding SlimJet:

I wouldn't have even tried it due to all of the "Engrish" on the website if not for the seeming recommendation from multiple folks in this thread.

For a browser that prides itself in automatically stopping tracking and blocking ads, it sure comes with a lot of built-in ads and other prompts to get you to use their referral links and things.

It also wants me to "sign into SlimJet" which as far as I can tell is just signing into my Google Account, which means Google can still track everything I do, but also perhaps SlimJet can as well.

I don't trust it. It seems shady to me. Uninstalled.

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General Software Discussion / No video after resuming from sleep - Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

« Last post by Deozaan on September 03, 2016, 03:16 PM »

Hi folks,

Shortly after I updated to the Anniversary Edition of Windows 10 Pro x64 I noticed that my primary display no longer gets any video signal after waking my PC from sleep.

I never had this issue before the update. Sometimes I can "fix" it (work around it) by remoting into my PC and logging in. Then the monitor gets a signal and things start working again. But today, when it happened again, even that workaround didn't work for me.

I haven't been able to find anything relevant in my searches for solutions. The closest thing I've found is people complaining about their lock/login screen being black after resuming from sleep. But that's just the background image they're talking about. Other UI elements and the mouse and everything still seems to work IIUC.

Does anyone have any solutions or troubleshooting suggestions?



More info that might be pertinent:

My GPU is an AMD Radeon HD 6870. I have a dual-monitor setup. The primary monitor just flashes the LED at me like it does when it is sleeping due to no signal. The secondary monitor appears to wake up properly, but just displays a black screen since it's normally black/blank on the lock screen anyway. If I move my mouse around, sometimes I see it on the secondary monitor, but it kind of comes and goes over the course of a few seconds.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Connect - DRM-free access to your Steam library

« Last post by Deozaan on September 02, 2016, 03:32 PM »

Anyone here own the Master of Orion (1, 2, or 3) games on Steam?

They were recently part of GOG Connect, but it looks like the offer has expired now. I'm curious if just having your account linked during the promotional period is enough to get it, or if you really do need to constantly check back and click "refresh" all the time.

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Living Room / Re: robots are killing

« Last post by Deozaan on September 02, 2016, 01:06 PM »

Huh, can anyone please explain the issue for non-programmers ? :p
(Other than the fact that there actually is a command to kill humans in the code, even if it probably wasn't supposed to be triggered.)

-ConstanceJill (September 02, 2016, 12:58 PM)

The "if" statement assigns isCrazyMurderingRobot to true, instead of just comparing it to see if it is equal to true. Therefore it will never be false when that code executes, and the robots will never "be_nice_to" humans.

One equal sign (x = true) is an assignment. Two equal signs (x == true) is a comparison. It's a common mistake, even for experienced programmers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Was Firefox 47.0.1 the end of the line for you as well?

« Last post by Deozaan on September 02, 2016, 02:54 AM »

How does one tell which type (32 or 64-bit) one has? It's not mentioned in the "About" section.

-IainB (September 01, 2016, 12:06 PM)

Check the install location. If it's in "Program Files" then it's 64-bit. If it's in "Program Files (x86)" then it's 32-bit.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2017 Announcement

« Last post by Deozaan on September 02, 2016, 01:19 AM »

It's that time already?

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Living Room / Re: The Keybase Filesystem

« Last post by Deozaan on August 26, 2016, 03:38 PM »

I just got an email with a bunch more invites and some details about new ways to invite other people.

I'd kind of forgotten about Keybase until I received this email and decided to check up on the latest progress of the project, but I can't find any news or official info about recent developments. Even the official blog hasn't been updated in almost 200 days.

Has anyone actually been using Keybase successfully in "the real world"?

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Relatively Minimal Host OS for VirtualBox Use

« Last post by Deozaan on August 26, 2016, 02:53 PM »

My understanding is that it would be like running Windows in a VirtualBox VM (or any VM), where the guest OS doesn't get direct access to the GPU so many video-intensive things would be slow or non-functional. Especially programs which try to grab fullscreen access [such as games].

-Deozaan (October 21, 2015, 08:30 PM)

I have some new (to me) evidence to suggest that using Windows as a guest OS actually is feasible, with near-native performance.

Here's a post from Sep 2012: HOW-TO make dual-boot obsolete using XEN VGA passthrough
Here's one from Dec 2015: HOW-TO make dual-boot obsolete using kvm VGA passthrough

So I may be looking into this topic again soon(ish).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Desktop tool for programmatically removing URL's from PDF files

« Last post by Deozaan on August 25, 2016, 12:58 PM »

Perhaps a better question is, "Why do you have hundreds of PDFs with deceptive links to malware?"

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Deozaan on August 23, 2016, 04:16 PM »

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Curious flock to KFC's fried-chicken scented sunscreen

-Arizona Hot (August 23, 2016, 12:03 PM)

This is not a new idea. Back in 2008, Burger King released Whopper-scented cologne.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Workbench Design SW :: $10 bounty for 1st accepted answer

« Last post by Deozaan on August 09, 2016, 09:40 PM »

A somewhat related thread:

Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

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DC Gamer Club / Faeria is free (to keep) for 24 hours!

« Last post by Deozaan on August 09, 2016, 07:38 PM »

Faeria combines the core values of Strategy Card Games together with a Living Board, giving you the ability to shape the board as you play to create mind-blowing strategies. Each game of Faeria is not only unique, beautiful and fast-paced but also highly competitive.

-http://store.steampowered.com/app/397060/

http://store.steampo...ered.com/app/397060/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Deozaan on August 06, 2016, 01:20 PM »

You can change some of the settings straight from the Windows 10 bootloader by pressing the "change settings & other options" text at the bottom of the screen. I just adjusted it so that it automatically boots after 5 seconds instead of 30 seconds.

Oddly enough, I ran msconfig and it doesn't show any other bootable OSes aside from Windows 10, even though the Windows 10 bootloader always gives me an option.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Deozaan on August 05, 2016, 09:12 PM »

That makes it then a triple boot setup 

-Shades (August 05, 2016, 07:52 PM)

Yeah, that's exactly what it is.

But somehow the grub bootloader only shows Mint and Windows. Then, if I select Windows, I get a Windows bootloader which allows me to choose between Windows and Remix OS.

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Living Room / Re: Time lapse video (thread)

« Last post by Deozaan on August 05, 2016, 05:17 PM »

I don't understand why the video doesn't show up in the quote as well:

-Curt (August 05, 2016, 05:16 PM)

Try quoting tomos' post and see why.

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Living Room / Re: Upgrade your PC or build a new one with Logical Increments

« Last post by Deozaan on August 05, 2016, 12:19 PM »

But since they have a way of renaming the same old ketchup and putting it in a different bottle I was wondering if you had heard of something similar where people with a business LLC or INC could get Windows wholesale for build installs?

I am just curious because a kid in my Computer Repair class is under the delusion you can build systems and just pre-load Windows from a retail DVD.  I tried to tell him the activations would catch up to him if he just kept on with this method.

-MilesAhead (August 05, 2016, 07:04 AM)

My guess is that kid is doing one of the following, most likely the last one:

• I've heard of some schools offering a deal to computer-related majors a free subscription to Microsoft's TechNet, which includes free licenses for every available version of Windows, which could be installed on up to 10 different machines. (But that was probably close to 10 years ago when I heard about it, so things have probably changed.)
• I have also heard of Enterprise/Volume Licenses that can be used on many many many different computers.
• And finally, I've also heard of "warez" activators that will trick Windows into thinking it is legitimately activated. This would allow a person to install from a retail DVD and "activate" a completely different serial than the one that came with the DVD.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 - The gloves come off!

« Last post by Deozaan on August 05, 2016, 12:10 PM »

Oh Yeah... After going through the usual turn-off-the-nosey-bits part of the install. Cortana seems just as off as it has always been in previous versions ... So I really don't quite get what all the hub-bub is about.

-Stoic Joker (August 05, 2016, 09:55 AM)

As far as I can tell, all my previous privacy settings are the same before and after the upgrade. I didn't have to change anything in that regard. And yes, Cortana is still disabled for me as well.

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Living Room / Re: Time lapse video (thread)

« Last post by Deozaan on August 04, 2016, 07:54 PM »

I dont think I can embed Vimeo video, can I?

-tomos (August 01, 2016, 09:24 AM)

Did you try?

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Living Room / Upgrade your PC or build a new one with Logical Increments

« Last post by Deozaan on August 04, 2016, 06:57 PM »

Hi all,

I recently came across this site which gives detailed information about components, with charts and tables making it easy to compare performance and price of certain builds. So the next time you're looking to upgrade your PC or want to build a new one, it may be worthwhile to check out Logical Increments.

http://www.logicalincrements.com/