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

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

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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 😁

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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 😁

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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 setting to 80% and stayed there. But I didn’t like the colours so I changed the monitors display setting from standard to dynamic (that is meant to enable senseye and it disables the display controls for brightness, contrast and colour) and put the Windows colour profile back to Benq.

I now have a nice bright and colourful display that stays that way !

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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 ?

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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 ? Normally I would say not, especially over VGA, but when I plugged the monitor in Windows detected its make and model and loaded a new driver for it. On my PC at home this monitor only ever showed up as a generic PnP monitor.

Come to think of it I’m going to try rolling back the driver.

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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.

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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.

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

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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 ?

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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 ?

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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.

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

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I think you will have to wait for an apple app to make that work.

If the game were running on your own PC it would be simple but forwarding a game streaming service ?

I set up AMD link the other day, just because it was there, and it worked fine but I can’t see me using it 🤔

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If you tick the clean system files box in disk clean up then it will remove all the update files that Windows keeps after an update but you then won’t be able to roll back the update.

You may have to run disk clean up once to make the clean system files box appear and then again with it ticked. Don’t ask me why 🤔

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I wonder if Sony TV’s use the same “interesting” formatting that they use on the Play Station ?

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Does the “registration” process also partition the disk JCD ?

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Oh just one more thing 😁

If you have a newish PC with UEFI then there is a chance that Windows will partition your data disks as GPT instead of MBR. My TV won’t even see them.

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There is a reason for many USB drives showing up as SCSI too and it is the Advanced SCSI Programming Interface. ASPI is designed for many different devices and it supported data streams long before ATA 8 did so many drivers are written to use it. If your USB drive emulates a SCSI device then it can often use the built in Windows SCSI drivers.

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