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[MrToughPants]

I've looked all over and cannot find this so maybe Tech GAF can.

I'm looking for a female 30-pin to female usb adapter for my stereo. My stereo doesn't take usb and only has the male 30 pin i-pod connection.

 

[Scirrocco]

Here's something that seems like it should be an easy thing, but i can't seem to find any information on it. Is there a way to throttle down my own download speed?

My jobs taking me out to the middle of no where, and we don't have great internet. If I hog to much bandwidth downloading podcasts, we don't have enough to do actual work, and i get in trouble, but we do have a lot of time and no data limit, so a continual, very slow download would probably let me get what i wanted without disrupting work. I'm using windows 7 if that helps.

I've done a few google searches, but most of them suggest things that would work for me or in one case suggests buying some program.

 

[Jzero]

I've looked all over and cannot find this so maybe Tech GAF can.

I'm looking for a female 30-pin to female usb adapter for my stereo. My stereo doesn't take usb and only has the male 30 pin i-pod connection.

What are you trying to do? Connect your phone to your car? We need more details bro.

 

[neocoder]

Here's something that seems like it should be an easy thing, but i can't seem to find any information on it. Is there a way to throttle down my own download speed?

My jobs taking me out to the middle of no where, and we don't have great internet. If I hog to much bandwidth downloading podcasts, we don't have enough to do actual work, and i get in trouble, but we do have a lot of time and no data limit, so a continual, very slow download would probably let me get what i wanted without disrupting work. I'm using windows 7 if that helps.

I've done a few google searches, but most of them suggest things that would work for me or in one case suggests buying some program.

I don't think there's anything built-in to 7 that will do what you want. I would suggest googling for "traffic shaping" & "bandwidth manager" to find programs that will do this sort of thing. I don't have any specific recommendations.

 

[Agent Cooper]

Brand new gaming PC built by my brother and his friend for me. Works fine on his friend's monitor, because it's working and running.

Go to connect it to an Acer monitor I have, says that there is no signal. Unplug everything, try a bunch of times, cry a little, come back and try on a different monitor.

Same thing. No signal.

I plug my PS3 into my Acer monitor to see if maybe it went janky thanks to all my poking and hitting. PS3 shows up fine.

I'd give more details about the spexs and such but I can't fucking do shit to see anything.

I'm at my wit's end. GAF, save me.

 

[Jzero]

Brand new gaming PC built by my brother and his friend for me. Works fine on his friend's monitor, because it's working and running.

Go to connect it to an Acer monitor I have, says that there is no signal. Unplug everything, try a bunch of times, cry a little, come back and try on a different monitor.

Same thing. No signal.

I plug my PS3 into my Acer monitor to see if maybe it went janky thanks to all my poking and hitting. PS3 shows up fine.

I'd give more details about the spexs and such but I can't fucking do shit to see anything.

I'm at my wit's end. GAF, save me.

Does it have a graphics card?(it should) A lot of times people accidentally plug it in to the wrong VGA/DVI/HDMI port on the mother board. Make sure you are plugging it in to the graphics card. If that doesn't work try changing the "source" on the monitor itself.

 

[Salsa]

hey tech gaf

help

 

[shira]

My comp died and I have a 250 GB IDE HD and an IDE DVD/RW can I use something like this
http://r.ebay.com/c2xfBO
to hook up to my Macbook Pro?

Seems like it would work but I'm afraid it might overheat or something.

 

[Jzero]

My comp died and I have a 250 GB IDE HD and an IDE DVD/RW can I use something like this
http://r.ebay.com/c2xfBO
to hook up to my Macbook Pro?

Seems like it would work but I'm afraid it might overheat or something.

Should work. I have the same one. The power adapter sucks ass though.

 

[accx]

Brand new gaming PC built by my brother and his friend for me. Works fine on his friend's monitor, because it's working and running.

Go to connect it to an Acer monitor I have, says that there is no signal. Unplug everything, try a bunch of times, cry a little, come back and try on a different monitor.

Same thing. No signal.

I plug my PS3 into my Acer monitor to see if maybe it went janky thanks to all my poking and hitting. PS3 shows up fine.

I'd give more details about the spexs and such but I can't fucking do shit to see anything.

I'm at my wit's end. GAF, save me.

It could have something to do with the resolution perhaps?
Also try different input/output sources like Jzero said.

 

[shira]

Should work. I have the same one. The power adapter sucks ass though.

tx

 

[Darklord]

Why is Firefox so ugly? Seriously, I haven't used it since 3.6 but is that how it's meant to look? It's so dark now and the menu bar doesn't even look like it's meant to be there. I liked the old look way more. :s

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Having a lot of issues with Flash lately. It started a couple weeks ago when YouTube videos would sometimes not load. Like, I'd just get a black square, with no player or anything. A refresh would fix it though.

But now, I've been having videos lock up FireFox. A couple of YouTube videos have done it, but a task-killing FireFox and restarting it would get things working again. Then today I was trying to watch Half in the Bag on RedLetterMedia, and I kept having the video lock up. It happened about 4 times before eventually I just got a green screen within the flashplayer. I tried other videos and all of them were green. A google search said a quick fix would be to disable hardware acceleration, which I did, and I could watch videos again. But still, I had Half in the Bag lock up again, even without hardware acceleration.

Anyone else having similar problems or should I just try uninstalling/reinstalling flash?

 

[BigJonsson]

Any reccomendations on thermal paste to help my laptop run cooler?

 

[Jzero]

Any reccomendations on thermal paste to help my laptop run cooler?

Arctic Silver 5

and if you don't have one already you should get a laptop cooler.

 

[BigJonsson]

Arctic Silver 5

and if you don't have one already you should get a laptop cooler.

I have a cooling pad, I can't play games without it

 

[Necrovex]

Maybe someone here can assist me. I just got myself a Macbook Air, and I am attempting to transfer iWork '09 over from my old Macbook. I tried the typical USB approach, but that doesn't seem to be working too well. So, is there anyway to transfer my iWork stuff to my Air without rebuying the products?

 

[Derrick01]

So I finally moved over to MSE after all these years when the new norton version almost broke my computer for whatever reason. Does MSE cover internet browsing and firewall duties like Norton did? I'm looking at the firewall now and the windows one is on, which I have no idea how good it is. Norton overruled that in the past.

Everyone says this is better so I hope they're right. Norton may not have been the smoothest running software ever but it rarely let anything get to me, and malwarebytes cleaned up what did get through.

 

[Jzero]

So I finally moved over to MSE after all these years when the new norton version almost broke my computer for whatever reason. Does MSE cover internet browsing and firewall duties like Norton did? I'm looking at the firewall now and the windows one is on, which I have no idea how good it is. Norton overruled that in the past.

Everyone says this is better so I hope they're right. Norton may not have been the smoothest running software ever but it rarely let anything get to me, and malwarebytes cleaned up what did get through.

Don't know about internet browsing but i can tell you that MSE is x100 better than Norton

If you have Chrome it does a pretty awesome job at protecting you while you browse the web. You can also install this extension to be even safer

 

[MrBig]

Why is Firefox so ugly? Seriously, I haven't used it since 3.6 but is that how it's meant to look? It's so dark now and the menu bar doesn't even look like it's meant to be there. I liked the old look way more. :s

Something is wrong with your settings.

This is what it should look like with small icons turned on

Having a lot of issues with Flash lately. It started a couple weeks ago when YouTube videos would sometimes not load. Like, I'd just get a black square, with no player or anything. A refresh would fix it though.

But now, I've been having videos lock up FireFox. A couple of YouTube videos have done it, but a task-killing FireFox and restarting it would get things working again. Then today I was trying to watch Half in the Bag on RedLetterMedia, and I kept having the video lock up. It happened about 4 times before eventually I just got a green screen within the flashplayer. I tried other videos and all of them were green. A google search said a quick fix would be to disable hardware acceleration, which I did, and I could watch videos again. But still, I had Half in the Bag lock up again, even without hardware acceleration.

Anyone else having similar problems or should I just try uninstalling/reinstalling flash?

The latest flash update is slightly better, but it's still bad. Adobe has really fucked up flash recently.

I'd recommend using chrome for any flash specific stuff until they sort it out.

 

[Derrick01]

Don't know about internet browsing but i can tell you that MSE is x100 better than Norton

If you have Chrome it does a pretty awesome job at protecting you while you browse the web. You can also install this extension to be even safer

Ah yeah I forgot Chrome had that. I never used to see it but I'm guessing that's because Norton overruled it like it did with Windows firewall. Like people here would say "this link makes Chrome give a warning" and I never got that before.

One thing I'll say is I can already tell my whole PC is running faster :lol.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

I bought a new laptop sometime ago, and sometimes when i want to install or remove some software it tells me that i need system permission or i don´t have permission. I tried changing my account type to standard but the standard button is grayed out and i can´t click on it. How do i remove this or at least can control my own laptop? Please help.

 

[Marz]

My laptop all of a sudden out of nowhere just stopped outputting any kind of volume. I have an HP Pavilion DV6 or sum shit and it will only output volume through the headphone jack and even then it only does it about half the time....I didn't blow out my speakers did I? Doesn't seem like this computer would even be capable of blowing speakers as max volme isn't really loud at all someone please help.

 

[Wafflecakes]

Keep getting blue screens of death on my PC when using video content.

Here is a screenshot. Any advice is to what is causing it/ how to fix it?

 

[Jzero]

Keep getting blue screens of death on my PC when using video content.

Here is a screenshot. Any advice is to what is causing it/ how to fix it?

Do you have the latest video driver installed?

 

[Wafflecakes]

Do you have the latest video driver installed?

Yes.

I even did a full system reset and re installed windows. Then re installed all drivers and no change.

 

[Jzero]

Yes.

I even did a full system reset and re installed windows. Then re installed all drivers and no change.

Oh it must be a hardware problem then. Did you recently add any new hardware?

 

[Wafflecakes]

Nope though that doesn't mean much. Been doing this since the day I purchased it. Just super annoyed right now. Happens usually 2-3 times a week.

 

[BigJonsson]

Holy shit

When I lifted up the fan/heatsink to put the thermal paste on there was a few CM thick sheet of dust covering the exhaust lol......no wonder this computer has been running so hot, and there seemed to be almost no paste on the GPU and really worn out paste on the CPU........laptop is running 20 degrees cooler now lol

Last time it was running so hot I sent it in for warranty repair, I guess if I had just taken the extra step and unscrewed the heatsink I'd have seen a ton of dust back then as well

 

[Jzero]

Holy shit

When I lifted up the fan/heatsink to put the thermal paste on there was a few CM thick sheet of dust covering the exhaust lol......no wonder this computer has been running so hot, and there seemed to be almost no paste on the GPU and really worn out paste on the CPU........laptop is running 20 degrees cooler now lol

Last time it was running so hot I sent it in for warranty repair, I guess if I had just taken the extra step and unscrewed the heatsink I'd have seen a ton of dust back then as well

Yup you have to do maintenance with laptops since dust builds up pretty quickly.

 

[Derrick01]

So does anyone know what spyware.password does, assuming it's not what it implies? MSE is so amazing that before I even had it for 3 days it decided to give me this wonderful present. I used malwarebytes to get rid of it but I'm not sure if it's gone for good yet, I haven't been able to run any more scans since I'm trying to get my old Norton version back.

 

[Jzero]

So does anyone know what spyware.password does, assuming it's not what it implies? MSE is so amazing that before I even had it for 3 days it decided to give me this wonderful present. I used malwarebytes to get rid of it but I'm not sure if it's gone for good yet, I haven't been able to run any more scans since I'm trying to get my old Norton version back.

Stop downloading so much porn man. I've had it for years and I've never caught any viruses.

You're so wrong if you think Norton is better.

 

[Kickz]

Hello Techgaf, my laptop speakers make an annoying click noise in intervals when no audio is being played on them. So I usually have to mute the sound if I am not listening to anything otherwise I get a clicking/snap sound every 40seconds or so. I have tried re-installing the audio drive, but nothing..

 

[Derrick01]

Stop downloading so much porn man. I've had it for years and I've never caught any viruses.

I rarely browse anything out of Gaf anymore and MSE failed me. But back to my question how bad is that virus? Does it steal passwords like it implies?

Also I think I figured out that d3doverrider was causing Norton to bug out and go apeshit but I can't figure out how to make it ignore Norton. I put the application in there and switch it off but it still recognizes it when I bring Norton up.

 

[Jzero]

I rarely browse anything out of Gaf anymore and MSE failed me. But back to my question how bad is that virus? Does it steal passwords like it implies?

Also I think I figured out that d3doverrider was causing Norton to bug out and go apeshit but I can't figure out how to make it ignore Norton. I put the application in there and switch it off but it still recognizes it when I bring Norton up.

Have you restarted your computer? According to this thread it may change your user password once you restart.

 

[Derrick01]

Have you restarted your computer? According to this thread it may change your user password once you restart.

Don't think I did before I did a scan. Thankfully installing MSE made me paranoid for the initial period of having it so I've been doing Malwarebytes scans multiple times a day before restarting. I just did another one in safe mode and nothing came up so I think I'm clear there.

 

[Noisy Ninj4]

Hello Techgaf, my laptop speakers make an annoying click noise in intervals when no audio is being played on them. So I usually have to mute the sound if I am not listening to anything otherwise I get a clicking/snap sound every 40seconds or so. I have tried re-installing the audio drive, but nothing..

Sounds like electrical interference. Do you have a cellphone near them? (can be as far as a few feet) This can also be cause by wifi routers. Pretty much anything that uses radio waves can cause this (this includes microwaves).

 

[Kickz]

Sounds like electrical interference. Do you have a cellphone near them? (can be as far as a few feet) This can also be cause by wifi routers. Pretty much anything that uses radio waves can cause this (this includes microwaves).

Thanks for reply.

I do have my cellphone near my laptop, but this phenomena only started recently since I've had my cellphone since before the problem started. That goes for my wifi router as well.
It makes the clicking/crackle sound even when I have my headphones plugged in. Its extremely annoying when I finish listening to something with my headphones on and I forget to mute the sound as then I get the surprise click/crackle in my ears super loud. -__-

 

[Noisy Ninj4]

It makes the clicking/crackle sound even when I have my headphones plugged in. Its extremely annoying when I finish listening to something with my headphones on and I forget to mute the sound as then I get the surprise click/crackle in my ears super loud. -__-

Have you gotten a *new* cellphone/wireless router recently? If you have, that could still be an issue.

If not, then what are you plugging your headphones into? Is it the computer itself? Is it a port on the speakers?

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Is there a reason why I can't "Edit Details" in Google Maps? When I click on the options for My Places, I see it as an option, but it's not clickable.

I'd really like to change some places from "123 Whatever Street" to "Dave's House."

 

[xCobalt]

My sister is having some battery issues with her netbook and I'm thinking of just buying a new battery and see if it solves any of her problems. The battery she has is 10.8 volts and I can only find ones that are advertised as 11.1v, despite being the same model number. Would there be any problems if I used the 11.1v battery? I looked around online for a bit and saw a few sources that said +/- 10% voltage won't matter. Not sure if that's reliable information though.

 

[UnluckyKate]

GAF, my period key isn't working anymore

Is there some kind of windows shortcut I might have type to disable that particular key or is it dead ? How to fix a dead key ?

 

[TUSR]

Troubleshoot it. Hook another keyboard up.

 

[Kickz]

Have you gotten a *new* cellphone/wireless router recently? If you have, that could still be an issue.

If not, then what are you plugging your headphones into? Is it the computer itself? Is it a port on the speakers?

I am plugging the headphones straight into the laptop. the last new thing I got was my Iphone 4 and that was a little over a year ago.

 

[Noisy Ninj4]

I am plugging the headphones straight into the laptop. the last new thing I got was my Iphone 4 and that was a little over a year ago.

Wait, are these built-in speakers? I get the feeling it may just be that your audio card is unable to provide enough fidelity for two outputs.

 

[Kickz]

Wait, are these built-in speakers? I get the feeling it may just be that your audio card is unable to provide enough fidelity for two outputs.

Yes they are built in speakers. Not sure about the 2 outputs thing? I still get the noise in intervals with headphones plugged in or without them.

 

[Noisy Ninj4]

Yes they are built in speakers. Not sure about the 2 outputs thing? I still get the noise in intervals with headphones plugged in or without them.

Hm. Ok it's probably either an internal defect that's come up. Still thinking it could be external electrical interference though. What's the frequency of the clicking when it occurs? (electrical interference can range from a one-second click.click.click to a very rapid chchchchchchch. depends on the frequency of the source)

 

[Kickz]

Hm. Ok it's probably either an internal defect that's come up. Still thinking it could be external electrical interference though. What's the frequency of the clicking when it occurs? (electrical interference can range from a one-second click.click.click to a very rapid chchchchchchch. depends on the frequency of the source)

The crackle/popping sound happens in intervals of 3/5 min. Its just makes one pop noise and then goes away for a few min before coming back.

 

[Noisy Ninj4]

The crackle/popping sound happens in intervals of 3/5 min. Its just makes one pop noise and then goes away for a few min before coming back.

That'd rule out interference then. This sounds more like an intermittent short-circuit in either the speaker system or the sound card. Could be a lot of things in that case.

 

[Kickz]

That'd rule out interference then. This sounds more like an intermittent short-circuit in either the speaker system or the sound card. Could be a lot of things in that case.

I have dropped the laptop before so that's probably where it could've gotten short circuited.