Recent content by StaticShoes

I'ma bloke git. That is just a foolish fellow who is worthless in most situations. I don't post a lot because I can't add much to a conversation and don't have enough tech knowledge to help out anyone in desperate need. I got into PCs because I didn't want to play Mike Tyson knock out I wanted...

One inexpensive thing to check with a boot loop problem would be replacing the battery on the motherboard.

I had been using two HP LP247w monitors for a loooooooong time, one just died recently, replaced with an ASUS TN panel. The TN is just at OK level. I'm not sure any modern panels will satisfy my eyes like the older HPs. The Microcenter combo sounds temping.

FPS review was the first one I found this morning. My schedule tomorrow doesn't allow any computer time during the release (seems to happen to me every time LOL). With all these glowing reviews it will be interesting to see how long stock lasts. Will make for perhaps amusing reading when I...

I've been using this 2080xc B stock that I got before the GPUpocalypse for a lot of not so heavy gaming (Elden Ring, Q2RTX, FFXIV, Skyrim with oodles of mods, MK11, etc) and it's been a champ these last few years. I might keep my eyes out for one of those 3090s, as I expect the RTX 40 series...

Welcome to the forums! After installing Windows 10 I usually go into settings and turn off all the Xbox stuff in the gaming section. That ought to shut off full screen optimize. If you use any of those features though such as capture or game mode, shutting off the Xbox bar might be enough. Are...

Here is the github repository that I get the builds from: https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases I've been using Media Player Classic for a long ass time. I used to switch on and off with VLC depending on what codec was most popular at any given time.

K so where you need to go in that version of MPC is under View - Options - Player - Keys - Look for Play/Pause, to the right of that you should see Space and maybe ID column of 889, to the right of that you would probably find Mouse Windowed and Mouse Fullscreen. Under those two settings which...

Over at AVSforum the Klispsch Reference Cinema and Def Tech 6D tend to cause a lot of head shaking and face palming. My sample size for speakers is much smaller than those guys but I would tend to agree those "home theatre in a box" deals could see the money spent to better effect on something...

Hmm. Seems as though Alexa found and absorbed the code from Microsoft Tae. Getting closer to skynet little by little, passive aggresiveness toward humans achieved, next step will be more malevolent. Can't wait till Bezos connects his consciousness directly to Amazon servers.

Dominic Toretto and friends falling back on old habits? I agree with hititinquitit these probably already had a buyer before being sponged. Could see one private party having a nice coin farm.

For the friggin places around us it wasn't weeks it was a few months, for real. Family Fare, the same company featured in the web video of women wrestling over bath tissue. When warehouse supply was exhausted, only then was it rationed to customers, after corporations had been satisfied by...

Samsung Z? And here I thought the jeans were an homage to The Z Man Tom Zenk R.I.P. Dumbass place for a pocket with expensive phone. Stand up and lean against desk, crunch. Carry a heavy box and it starts to slip and try to balance it on leg, crunch. Perfect height for random toddler to grab...

I'm shocked that no one on the executive boards of Kroger, Meijer, or SpartanNash came up with this "pay membership fee to get into the door" during the batshit crazy rush on bath tissue and other grocery supplies. So many stories of trains of shopping carts filled with cases of bath tissue all...

Man I loved that game. Still to this day at random times I imagine I hear Grimgnaw's creepy voice. So Google.....Time Crystals, both stable and in constant flux. Conjures thoughts of Final Fantasy Aetheryte crystals, or perhaps this experiment will lead to the creation of The Dark Crystal. Woe...