PC Tech Thread

Possibly depends what program you use to image, not all imaging programs will work with putting an image to different hardware.

Trueimage universal restore has this function.

So i bought a laptop, but theyve skimped on the WiFi card annoyingly. I have a Wi-Fi- 802.11b/g/n which is not 5g compatible. Hell, its not even Wi-Fi- 802.11a/b/g/n...

And a current one is not even £50...

If im forced to buy a dongle, what Wi-Fi- 802.11AC USB modem do you suggest?

PCAdvisor suggests this

We recently got a couple of TP-Link Archer T4U
to access the 5Ghz band of ut BT HomeHub5
with our aged Lenovo (i5) laptops.

Installed without problem and work fine.

Yet to upgrade to W10, but presume TP-Link have the correct drivers.

I'm using one of these, no complaints http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/networking/wirelessnetworking/wirelessusbadapters/archert4u.html

Its a brand new Lenovo i7...

Very annoying.

Return it. It's not fit for purpose by the sound of it. A crap wi-fi card in a new laptop would be an absolute deal breaker for me, so that's what I'd do.

ive sent an email to the stockist to see if they come up with a solution.

Was this not listed on the spec sheet?

When one buys a top spec'd gaming laptop, one doesnt expect the area that connects one to the internet to be lacking esp when games are all about connectivity.

network Card: Lenovo BGN Wireless

Wireless Networking: WiFi 802.11b/g/n

I did not think i would need to learn the ins and outs of wireless before i bought it. Anything bought should be at least a/b/g/n... But a gaming pc should have AC.

I've a weird problem on my home PC. The cursor seems to slowly track left, meaning that it pops up when trying to watch something full-screen, quite annoying. I'd assume it's a dirty sensor on the mouse, but it still does it with the mouse unplugged. Is there some way to calibrate a mouse driver? Windows 7, MS optical mouse.

Wifi is prone to lag spikes and most gamers game in the same place every time, so use an Ethernet cable for a nice consistent connection.

At least if you get yourself a USB wifi adaptor, get one which allows the aerial to be sited away from the laptop.

Awaiting the order to arrive today. Thought that i will only use the 5g in one spot so its not crazy necessary that i have an internal card at the moment.

I have an image of W7 HP. Can meet you with a laptop to copy it somewhere if you want?
Bring a 4GB usb stick and it's sorted.

anyone want to buy a brand new 7200rpm 2.5 drive? made a mistake of buying 9.5mm and need 7mm.

Help please-
I intend to revive a five year old Sony VAIO laptop with an (internal) SSD drive.
I do find certain "Sony certified" ones, they're rather expensive though.
I'd rather go for one of the popular and less expensive ones like Samsung Evo -
but I'm unable to find out whether they're compatible with my VAIO laptop (VPCCW2S1E) -
if I'm correct I need to find out if the "controller" in my laptop is capable of keeping up with the SSD in terms of data throughput, otherwise it wouldn't make sense?

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Any SATA drive is compatible, so yea, the Samsung will work. You might need some torx keys to get in there.

Cheers.

Yea I understand it will fit (work) if it's SATA, question is if the controller (?) is able to handle the throughput / fast enough - so it would not be a bottleneck and make the endeavour useless.

Sorry if I'm missing a point, I'm not up-to-date on this shit like I used to be..

Oh I get you. Yeah, it might not have the SATA 3 spec which was released in 2009 but at worst, it will be SATA 2 so you should get 300mbps.

Still worth getting an ssd, basically.
I'd go with an 850 evo or pro - the 840 evo has a pretty terrible design flaw that slows old data dramatically. Newer ones seem fine. Samsung still seem to have the best track record regarding firmware, reliability etc.

Samsung still seem to have the best track record regarding firmware, reliability etc.

Yeah that's what I gathered through research so far, so figured I'd just get one of these.

Thank you very much for your feedback, it's appreciated!

The random-access latency of an SSD should give you a noticeable benefit even if you've got a bottleneck at the chipset.

So hoping someone can help, as i'm currently pulling my hair out...

I have a Samsung laptop, its about three years old. I want to run it with two external monitors (hopefully).
I can easily get one external monitor running via the HDMI, but that is the only port I recognise, the laptop does have something which it calls a Mini Monitor Port (far right on the photo), but for the life of me I cannot work out what cable I should be using, spent half an hour on the phone to Samsung support, but they were worse than useless!

Help?

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DisplayPort or Mini HDMI?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2030669/hdmi-vs-displayport-which-display-interface-reigns-supreme.html

Looks like you need something like this, http://www.laptopacadapters.co.uk/samsung-ac-adapters-c-4/original-vga-adapter-dongle-samsung-aaav2n12be-aaav2n12buk-p-46050.html

That could be a winner.... apart from the fact they want £30 for it!

You'll get a similar one on ebay for less than £5. It's digital so cheap cabling shouldnt affect the picture in any way.