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Possibly as a wireless / network display. If you’ve connected some media to it, maybe by plugging in a USB drive, it’s now acting as a media server?
I would not want to be wandering around the streets at 2 or 3 am with a bagful of cash, looking for a bank with a Night Safe!
Ours was near a takeaway, so I’d tuck the bag under my jacket and walk over with one of the security. We’d drop it off then pick up a load of food for the staff. As the drop off was so quick, any casual observer would just see us going for food for the end of the shift.
Roll on killing cash off. Woudl save me an hour a week stood in the bank, holding people up, and listening to them tuting each time I pull anther bundle of 50 notes, (as that’s the max limit) pita.
Can you do a night drop, where you put the paperwork and cash into a sealed bag and drop it into the night safe? It’s been years since I did anything like it, but the work on our end was basically the same, and the bank would sort out their end instead of us.
I’ve been using AdGuard on Android for the last few days, and it seems to be doing its job. It doesn’t remove the frames from the ads, but it stops the content from loading. I haven’t played with the family filter yet, but I’ve got it set up on my OnePlus One ready to test for Alice.
If you set it up using the private dns setting on Oreo and up, it works on the mobile connection too.
There’s no whitelist option that I can see, but to be blunt, other than a handful of sites like Forumite, I’m not bothered, I’d rather save my data. I’d prefer the whitelist on the computer though.
Thanks for the replies guys 🙂 I’m glad you lot are intelligent. I posted this after being awake all night with a snot nosed toddler, and even I’m struggling to figure out what I was trying to say 😀
Make sure you read reviews of which ever one you do go for as apparently some can do weird things to the car.
Thanks for the heads up. The KA probably isn’t going to move off the drive while I’m sorting it, so hopefully I won’t get it doing anything too dangerous 😀
I have no idea what an ABD adaptor actually is.
Sorry, it should have said OBD, as @jayceedee spotted 🙂
Ryan, before you buy anything give me a few days to dig around at my place and mum’s, I have a feeling I put the one from 2015 away somewhere safe. IF I can find it you can have it.
Thanks, that would be great. I did order one of the cheap ones through Ebay while I was waiting for Ellen earlier, and it claims to be compatible with Torque Pro:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torque&hl=en_GB
I had a £5 Google Play voucher through Wuntu, so I bought Torque Pro before it expires. I spotted this while I was looking for the KA OBD port too, which could be handy:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.outilsobdfacile.obd.connecteur.dlc
Both my parents have older cars that they don’t look after properly, so *when* something breaks (not if), I may be able to help… 😮
@bullstuff2 I know what you mean. Give me a set of dirty carbs and I’m fine 😀
@edps Right now I can’t get my own PC working properly, never mind building a Pi system 😀It looks like you can in the browser extension, but possibly not in the other options.
Obduction is currently free on gog.com
That’s brilliant, thanks Bob 🙂
I had one briefly but it didn’t play nice with Android Auto
The Honor 9 is the same, at least in a Ford. Sometimes it’s great and other times it will just sit there trying to connect forever. Apparently it’s down to a conflict between Android Auto and third party launchers like EMUI.
Android Auto works fine in my Swift, Mate 20 Pro, sometimes the car has issues connecting to the phone, that can take a minute or two. Usually it’s a few seconds. I’ve figured out the best way to get it to mostly work quickly, ignition on, plug phone in, start engine. No idea if that’ll help but worth a try.
Thanks Nolan, I’ll give it a try 🙂
P.S. Happy forum birthday 😀
The one job I would never carry out, was an engine flush.
Is that a complete no go Bob? My bike was stood for about six years in a garden before I got it, and I still get problems from time to time. I’ve been told that Sea Foam would probably help, but I trust your advice more 🙂
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-Foam-Motor-Tune-Engines/dp/B0002JN2EU
I had one briefly but it didn’t play nice with Android Auto
The Honor 9 is the same, at least in a Ford. Sometimes it’s great and other times it will just sit there trying to connect forever. Apparently it’s down to a conflict between Android Auto and third party launchers like EMUI.
When I’m getting the command prompt, it says Administrator in the title bar, so I’m assuming that it’s an admin prompt, and running both of the commands in my previous post gives me an identical second command prompt. I’ve tried running the DISM commands again with the same error, and tried another command that changes the source files to those on the installation media. I can’t get any joy with that either.
I tried running setup from the installation USB and setup started. It gave me a mouse, which really helps! It went through the steps to start a repair install, but when it reboots I get back to the same full resolution black screen with a spinning mouse icon. If I reboot from the USB now it tells me that setup has already started and asks whether I want to continue. That’s now a new loop, either continue setup or start a clean installation, or go back to the spinning circle.
I managed to get the Event Log Viewer open last time, and found an error with LogonUI.exe – 0xc0000006. After that there are dozens of errors, but I could only export them one at a time with no mouse (separate session to trying a repair install).
I’m going to make a new USB installer in case I’ve accidentally corrupted something, then try the DISM options with the USB source again, and I’m digging into the LogonUI error now. I’m away for a day or two, so will be a bit slow trying out the next options.
The problem with an Admin prompt is that it often mishandles driver replacement as these may ‘reboot’ during the install. Better to log out of your user account and restart by logging in as an Admin. The above is my explanation of why there is a difference between an Admin prompt and Admin mode, but maybe Dave has a better one.
Thanks Ed, but I’m not getting as far as logging in. The black screen looks like it’s about where the login screen should be, and some services are loading, like Origin and Steam, but I can’t get past that. Task Manager doesn’t show any users logged on, and I can’t get a lot of things to run, like Control Panel for example, so I’m not sure how I’d switch users. I tried looking to create a new user to see if that helped, but at the time I couldn’t do it through the gui, and I’ve been trying the DISM fixes in the meantime. I may try creating a new user next time, if I can get that far 🙂
As Ed stated earlier & I should have also made plain, DISM must be run with elevated privileges ie as administrator.
Sorry, I was under the impression that I was opening an admin command prompt. I’ve read so many different articles that everything’s running together in my head ?
I’m not getting as far as a login screen, so I thought it would start as admin. I’ll try this to see if it’s enough while I’m looking into it more:
‘C:\Windows\System32\runas /user:administrator cmd’
from this thread:
I’m going to give this a try too:
‘powershell Start-Process cmd -Verb runAs’
from this thread:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30480228/run-command-to-open-command-prompt-as-administrator#
(Sorry, posting both here so it’s easier to find everything from my phone later)
Sorry for taking a while to come back to this. I restored the backup yesterday and eventually got back to the black login screen. The EaseUS backup didn’t put the BCD back properly for some reason, so it took a while to sort that out.
At the moment the computer is booting and looks like it’s getting to either the login screen or close to it, but the screen stays black. I get the full resolution on both screens, and the mouse pointer, albeit as a spinning circle. The hard drive is working as if the system is loading, but nothing happens even if it’s left overnight. I tried restarting the video driver but it made no difference. It’s not getting far enough to try the other options Dave suggested.
Using the Regedit trick here:
https://winaero.com/blog/reset-windows-10-password-without-using-third-party-tools/
I got Task Manager and MSConfig running. Quite a lot of the system services and a few that I would assume are user services are running, but there’s no user logged on. Explorer loaded and gave me a taskbar, but I didn’t have a mouse at that point, and keyboard shortcuts for Explorer didn’t work. Keyboard shortcuts for the others worked though. I couldn’t get an Explorer folder window. I tried opening Control Panel but got an error message, and I tried setting VNC to allow incoming connections as it’s already installed, but it wouldn’t run at all. I was hoping to connect remotely from the black screen and rule a few things out either way.
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth also Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth also to regain space Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
I tried these from the command prompt that I got with Regedit, but RestoreHealth and either Check or Scan failed with a 605 error message. StartComponentCleanup took ages but said that it completed. Nothing seems to have changed though. I found a link that should have fixed the 605 error, but that didn’t work either.
The only thing that I’ve managed to change now is disabling the Gigabyte overclocking software services. They weren’t used, but as far as I can remember, they were the last things I installed.
Does anyone have any other suggestions please? I can access the installation USB from the Regedit command line, so may try a repair install that way if all else fails, but I’m not going to hold my breath for that to work.
Thanks again guys 🙂
I didn’t realise, but there are M.2 drives for the same price too:
No good for my old systems, but may be good for some of you posh buggers who’ve upgraded from hamsters 😉
Guacamelee is the current freebie for signing up to the Humble Bundle newsletter:
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/guacamelee-super-turbo-championship-edition
Well, that explains why I keep getting those videos.
By the way, remind me to ask for bedroom decorating tips… ?
Thanks for the replies guys. I haven’t had a chance to get on the computer yet, so I’ll try your suggestions tonight.
I’m happy to do a repair installation, it’s the refresh or reset that I want to avoid, as I want to keep my settings if I can. I can’t run anything outside the recovery environment at the moment though. I think the backup I took after the problem started was from when I had the blank login screen.
It’s sod’s law too. I was sorting out my portable drive to do a backup of the working system when this happened.
It feels very strange these days, as my main system is several generations behind, and realistically that’s the one that should be the server now. My gaming graphics card doesn’t (which is probably good, as I can’t keep up), and the younger version of me from 15 years ago would be hanging his head in shame, while eating a Pot Noodle sandwich and throwing every penny from his crappy job into new parts ?
Well, that was a bit of a bust. It’s an Intel HD 2000 graphics chip, so can do 3840 x 2160, but at 24Hz, and only if you can change the timing standard to CVT-RB (whatever that is!). I got it going, but you could see it dropping frames on YouTube 4K samples. I tried a 1080p film, and that looked the same. It’s not the end of the world, but it would have been nice to get a simple ending.
For some reason the Intel graphics software wasn’t running last night, even with the old nvidia card removed, so I wasn’t getting any of the options from that. Sometimes the Intel graphics wasn’t even giving a display. If I’d thought about it properly, I would have uninstalled the nvidia drivers properly first, but I haven’t had to change graphics cards for years, and forgot…
As the existing media system is running 1080p perfectly well, and the TV is doing a great job of upscaling, I’ll probably hold off for a few months and get something half decent as a stepping stone towards the eventual system upgrade. It’s tempting to get something like a dedicated Kodi box, but I’ll need to upgrade the media centre relatively soon anyway, so the money’s probably better off going to that first.
Still tempted to get the Quadro as a quick fix though… 😀
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