Wheels-Of-Fire

That IS a rant Bob but I don’t blame you 😁

Argos are OK for non technical stuff but they are a nightmare for anything electronic.

My meters are series 2 Bob and only about 8 months old. Looks like the com unit on top of the leccy meter is dead though, no lights at all.

I am on Pay as you go because thats the way the landlord likes it and I don’t mind. The problem at the moment though is that the meters can’t top up automatically and I can’t use the display thingy to enter a…[Read more]

May be worth a pop if you don’t mind it really being a HiSense TV. The only thing is that all of these are old stock now and, from the reviews, a number of them appear to have been knocked about a bit before delivery.

Sharp have new owners now and they have brought back the rights to sell TV’s under their own name in the UK and north America.…[Read more]

I signed up for a year. – £55.00 29/3/20 on my paypal account.

He often quotes word for word but never gives any credit.

I wouldn’t have thought so. Looks like he just has the same Upgrading and Repairing PC’s book by Scott Mueller that I do 😁

My question with an externally powered PCIe card is really whether it is electrically safe. An eternal SATA HDD  would only take its power  from an external supply but a PCIe card would draw power from the bus as well. I once had a bad experience connecting two supposedly identical rectifiers  in parallel and I don’t want to repeat it 😁

Thanks Ed. I do not have the adaptive brightness setting but it got me thinking…

With the correct Monitor driver installed Windows can and dose change the display settings of a Benq Monitor with Senseye, even with it supposedly switched off.

I changed the colour profile from Benq to sRGB and the monitor immediatly changed its brightness…[Read more]

It is something that Windows is doing. I had a thought before rolling back the driver. You can stare at the login screen for as long as you like and nothing will happen but 45 sec after logging in the screen goes dim.

Any ideas on that ?

The PSU idea is interesting, I would need a Molex to 6 pin PCIe adaptor, but has anyone else tried powering a PCIe card from an external supply ?

I have gone through all the monitors settings and the only power saving option puts the monitor into standby, and its off 😁.

I was wondering if the dimming was something Windows could control ?…[Read more]

And I wanted to fit a graphics card too but I can’t because although the motherboard has a 16X pcie slot, the PC uses an external power brick like a laptop and an internal pico PSU with no pcie connectors and a TOTAL output of 150W.

That cable does HDMI to VGA (so it claims) but my Mum’s PC really only has VGA out (not even DVI) so I would need a cable to convert VGA to digital and I don’t know of a passive cable that can do that 😁.

I don’t think that that is the real problem though.

The other thing I should have mentioned is that the monitor has senseye auto dimming but I have switched that off.

I should read the start of a thread before I jump in 😂.

So your VPN is just your link to your Linux server in docklands then ?

If your VPN provider runs its own DNS servers then they could be returning IP addresses without going anywhere near Google or anyone else, could they not ?

Or have you got greater control over your VPN than me ?

I have been getting that slow to connect thing on Talk Talk but it goes away if I connect through the Avast VPN. Makes me wonder how Avast routes my DNS lookup request packets. Could be that they route all lookup requests to their own DNS server.

If the Talk Talk DNS server was being overloaded then that would explain the speed difference.

Could there be some strange electrical fault with one of his peripherals ?