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StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

Captain Muffin posted:

pop quiz hotshot.

What is the best way to record HDMI to disk for long periods (e.g. days) cheaply?

Look into security video encoders/DVRs. Those are built to run 24/7.

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StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

Unmature posted:

My computer suddenly started doing this thing a couple weeks ago. Whenever I'm playing any media, whether it's Youtube, VLC, or just editing audio in Reaper, every time I move the mouse or do anything it'll stall for like half a second and sound all robot-y and crunchy for seemingly no reason. It's happening a ton and has been loving up a lot of what I do. Any idea what freakin cache I need to clear or whatever to make it not happen?

Like, the audio is crunchy (I'd check that your cables haven't come loose & try switching front/back panel audio ports) or the machine is crunchy (back up everything you have)?

StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

5er posted:

This is probably not a short question, or maybe a question for a better thread I'm unaware of.

Up front: friends of mine that run a small business with two locations, have asked me if I know much about procuring / setting up business surveillance cams. I wanted to know if that was anyone here's particular strength, as I figure we are probably looking at needing a small number of cameras, maybe positioning advice, and a good Windows-based software suite to run them all.

More background, is that these people are essentially running a cafe that serves my favorite coffee. They just bought a second location and are lighting it for business, imminently. Over the past couple of years, because they know I'm a systems specialist for my job, they ask me nickel and dime PC questions, and I also helped them recover account & access information to their webhost, and web development portal. So, they consider me somewhere between a sorceror, and a savior, and they ask me all manner of tech questions I'm not personally invested in. Since I enjoy learning new poo poo, I never back down from a question.

I've been out of the game too long to accurately recommend brands or software, but there's one major piece of advice that's frequently ignored: work out your level of video storage first (video quality, surveillance times & length of time you'll store footage before overwriting it). Spend from your storage medium out.

I can't tell you the number of times a customer would order high-level cameras only to compress the poo poo out of the captured footage because they need 24/7 recordings stored for 90/180 days....and they can't afford enough disk space for anything above near-minimum quality of that level of footage because they blew the budget on the camera.

StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

That PSU only comes with one CPU cable. You can hook up another one, if you have it (disclaimer: don't use cheap/knockoff PSU cables for the love of god).

That said, from what I can tell the Ryzens don't necessarily need the second 4-pin line...unless you're going apeshit with power draw...in which case I would've expected more than a 550W PSU & you would've had the second CPU cable & therefore wouldn't be posting here v:v:v

StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

speaking from personal experience, getting metal in the CPU socket is p much death regardless of sucker

StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

super floppy disk posted:

Can someone tell me how to toggle the dang scroll lock on this Realforce keyboard? There's no function key or anything, the layout looks like this:


If there are switches on the underside of the keyboard, flip switch 3. Probably have to unplug/re-plug the keyboard to get it to work.

StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

Carillon posted:

I'm not sure if this is a hardware or software question, or even really how to diagnose, but my computer about 40% of the time when it's put to sleep require me to turn it back on in the morning. It's a small thing, more of an inconvenience really, but if it's fixable I'd like to try and fix it. The thing is because it's intermittent and happens when I'm not around, I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. I'm fairly sure it's not a power loss thing as I don't have to reset the clocks anywhere near that often. I'm very sure I'm hitting sleep and not power when this happens, my first thought was that I was misclicking but now having noticed it I've been quite deliberate. Any ideas where to start figuring it out?

Event Viewer should tell you whatever's triggering a shutdown & when.

StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

Some Goon posted:

Has anyone ordered anything from monoprice recently? I put in an order last Friday and still haven't gotten a shipping notice. They've got notices shipping is slow but a whole week seems long, wondering how others' experience has been.

i have an order from October that hasn't made it out of Seattle yet

StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

yeah that card's an AGP, and there's no AGP slot on that motherboard. you'll need a more recent video card to test the motherboard, unfortunately.

StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

I recently bought a USB hub with ports that can be switched on and off. It works great, and everything plugged into the ports works as expected. Except an 8BitDo controller I have. The controller works and all that, but when I switch off the port, Windows still sees the controller, and the controller can still be used. It's not the port, as the controller does this in every port I've tried, and any other peripheral turns off when plugged into the same ports and the switch is deactivated.

So what's going on here? Why does every other USB item I have switch on and off as needed when using this hub, but the 8BitDo controller somehow ignores the switch and keeps on chugging?

controller's not connecting to the motherboard's Bluetooth, by chance, is it?

StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

gradenko_2000 posted:

Thank you for all the answers.

To add some additional information:

1. I already tried changing power cords. Still got restarts using the new one that came with the new PSU, so it's not that

2. It's not the original SSD that I was using as a boot drive, since I put in a new SSD...

3. ... and it's not Windows either, since I did a fresh install of Windows to go with the new SSD

4. This morning, I unplugged all the other drives I had, from both the PSU power cable and the SATA cables. Pilfered I know you said you can do this from BIOS, but the system wasn't stable enough to let me root around in the BIOS for five minutes, so I did it directly. I was still getting restarts, so that rules out the other drives.

5. [WHERE I AM RIGHT NOW] - I am no longer using the AVR, and have the PSU plugged directly into an extension cord socket. The system has been up for about 15 minutes as of this post (with all the other non-boot drives still unplugged). Holding steady so far, but it took about 12 hours yesterday before it became unstable, so I may need to keep this running for longer in this state to observe for any changes.

6. If that still doesn't work, my next move will be to unplug the front headers of the case, and use a separate/external power button to turn on the PC. That should isolate if it's the case('s cables) that are doing this.

weird dumb problems I've seen in this same vein:
1) have you tried running the machine with the side panel off & a fan blowing in on it? The whole "runs for a while and reboots and then immediately refuses to run for a useful length of time" is triggering my 'something overheating' spider-sense; I seriously doubt it's the issue but it's also a really simple check
2) on to your step 6, if your tower front header has a reset button, just don't connect it.

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StupidSexyMothman
Aug 9, 2010

my old setup used to do this until i throttled the upload speed down to near-unusable levels, like sub-5 kb/s. i have no idea why this worked (or even if it did work & wasn't just placebo effect)

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