Off Topic Chit Chat

I never tried iracing but Forza 6 and nascar heat 4 is fun. I'm also enjoying F1 2019.

 

Oh yeah. My surround sound system makes it sound to cool when I play .

 

To move the taskbar... right click and select "Taskbar settings", you should find a taskbar location setting that allows you to select left, right, top, bottom. They moved the setting from a drag/drop method to this because people kept accidentally moving their taskbars without knowing what they did.

I can only think of things to check, that you ( Tony ), probably have already looked into... Power cord is plugged in good, if it uses an external PS, also check that it is putting out the voltage it is rated for.

Verify the monitor is actually dead by switching inputs from the video card and/or cables. You can verify the output on the video card this way also.

It doesn't make logical sense that disabling sound would somehow cause a surge that could take out a monitor... but I could see a display setting getting changed somehow through a glitch. So, going off of a display driver issue.... Download the lastest driver for your video card and then use DDU ( display driver uninstaller ) from safe mode to uninstall the current driver, restart and install the driver again... Hopefully that will allow you to resetup your monitor settings.

 

Having networked drives alone... would not cause it to block an update to the drivers... but if something had one of the files open ( even just an explorer window ) it could stop it from completing. Of course, you still need to do it as an administrator ( but you know that ).

To clarify ... DDU is a free utility that is recommended to be run in safe mode... So the drivers could be uninstalled since it would certainly be in an admin account that you'd run it.

 

Let me call you first to make sure we aren't getting our wires crossed... but I'm going to finish my supper first.

 

Since there was no answer... I'll assume your busy with other things. Just call when you have time and we can verify that we are or are not talking about the same things... Hopefully it will save you some time .

 

I had forgotten that you told me that you had moved your user data folder ( s ) over to a network drive. I was also unaware that you had a Radeon graphics card... I thought it was a nVidia GTX 1050 Ti

 

BTW... You can temporarily move your user folders back to the C: drive, leaving their contents on the other drive... perform the installation and the reverse the process....

.... I think, since there are some user files that shouldn't be moved... USER.DAT and NTUSER.DAT to be specific.

 

Yea... that 3-2-1-1-2-3 thing??? I have it too!!!

What do you .... "folks" think about this???



With that I will post a pair.... Then my machine! Working towards an aircraft sim.

The suitable hard parts (yokes, rudder pedals, throttle quadrants, etc) are the key. Some are "cheesey" as hell. So I have to find a balance there.

 

EDIT: my link was not showing up???

ASUS VG258QR 25" (Actual size 24.5") Full HD 1920 x 1080 up to 0.5ms (GTG) 165Hz DVI-D HDMI DisplayPort G-SYNC Compatible Asus Eye Care with Ultra Low-Blue Light & Flicker-Free Gaming Monitor - Newegg.com

 

For monitor info and reviews... I highly recommend watching the vid's on Youtube from Hardware Unboxed... very thorough. If you go into their playlists, their monitor reviews have their own list to help with needing to scroll and search so much.

 

I'm by no means a computer geek but the prices for a monitor are not cheap. I my self use a TV's for monitors for my surveillance camera and my computers. I can get a real nice size TV for half the price and size of monitor. That's just me .

 

There is certainly nothing wrong with using most TV's these days and the technology is starting to merge in some of the higher end models... but in the general market, there is still a big difference between what a TV can do and a monitor is capable of. I use a standard 40" 1080p TV for my own media PC and video streaming from services like Amazon Prime, Youtube, Twitch etc. In fact, when someone I follow on Twitch streams ( usually it's Tony but also a few others ), I'll have the stream setup full screen on the TV and then pop out the chat on my other PC's monitor so I can increase it's font size making it easier to read comments.

TV's ( in general ) still lack good color accuracy for production type of work or speed and high refresh rates for gaming. If you are going to look for color accuracy... you'd look towards an IPS type of monitor. On the gaming side, you'd likely be looking more towards a TN panel which isn't great for color but doesn't have ghosting and other artifact issues and has higher refresh rates. However, there has a been a lot of work on IPS technology and it's starting to reach speeds that gamers prefer. As with anything, if you want the better or best in these categories, you will need to pay the prices they bring.