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Many of you might know that it is possible to add a spacer to the Mac OS dock icons with: $ defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}' $ killall Dock but the problem is, I find them a bit wide. I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to adjust the space of those spacers An image of the spacers I'm talking about can be found here Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Is that possible? Would it be possible to simply run the 1600 MHz module on a slower speed (e.g. 1333 MHz)? ...

I have a pair of earbuds with a microphone that I would like to record with instead of the terrible inbuilt one. Unfortunately, when I plug it in it still uses the inbuilt one. The icon next to the jack indicates that it is speaker and microphone, and the end of my audio jack does have four rings. The microphone works fine on my Android phone, so I know it isn't the earbuds' fault. I remember when I first plugged them, there was a dialogue menu that asked what I wanted to coect it as, and I selected sound and tried to select microphone, but it only let me use one so I selected sound and told it not to ask again. How can I get the microphone to work on those earbuds? Getting sound and mic to ...

I've been following this article (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1498-page1.html). I'm new to most of it. I assume it is not an issue because Scythe Mugen is highly rated...I'm wondering how a heat-sink that weighs 650 grams attached to the motherboard will effect the board on the long run? Specially if the motherboard is vertical... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Info: I'm using acer aspire 5733 (windows 8). I recently bought a new battery online that has a capacity of 112 Wh (which is double the original 48 Wh AS10D31 battery that the laptop came with). It came with the same voltage as the original one which is 10.8 V. Charger supplies 19 V 3.42 A 65W. Problem: I caot charge the new battery past 43% even after two days of charging. I tried to calibrate the battery by draining it all the way and uninstalling Microsoft ACPI compliant control but all attempts were to no avail. Any suggestions/advice. Thanks! Let's block ads! بخوانید...

So as the title says, I bricked my laptop. I'm not that good at explaining but let me try. I reformatted my laptop and installed the drivers given by the acer support, driver and manual site. and noticed my speakers aren't working. I opened my laptop to check if the speakers are still okay or the pins might have been discoected. So it was still okay, after a couple of minutes searching, I found out I needed to update my BIOS. and so I did (yes I checked the version first). everything was doing well as plaed except for some reason there was an error on memory block 0xFFFFF100. it didn't give me any more details except Error on Memory Block 0xFFFFF100 and decided to shut it self down. I re sta...

Am I safe to assume at this day and age that any newly manufactured Z97 motherboard, regardless of the original release date, will be out of box compatible with the i7 5775c or should I look for a specific brand model to be sure? I'm upgrading from a 2500k, so no way to plug in a CPU to just upgrade the bios before installing the i7. Thanks for any help. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Can i solder a 24 pin and an 8 pin to a server motherboard that has a proprietary coector. ...

I have Aspire E5-571G-55ST laptop and tools like CPU-Z and Speccy show that I have 2/4 slots used... Even Windows Task Manager shows that I'm only using 2/4 slots... But when I opened up the laptop to put in 2 RAM's in the 2 leftover slots, I found out that the motherboard has only 2 physical slots, or I'm not seeing good??? The motherboard is: Acer EA50_HB Chipset is: Intel Haswell-ULT rev. 0B South bridge: H8x/P8x rev. C1 Bios: Insyde corp. v 1.32 Can someone help me out to figure this out? Does it have 2 or 4 slots? Edit: Here are the pictures: If you guys would agree, I think tools like Speccy & CPU-Z can indeed make a mistake... But it shows I have 4 slots on Windows's task manage...

I am trying to dual boot windows and linux by putting my second ssd in this optical drive caddy. However, the caddy is not recognized by the BIOS. As far as I can tell from this site, I am ruing the latest version for my model (v1.21). When I tu on the computer, the blue light on the caddy lights up so I am assuming there is at least getting stata power if not data. Did I get a bricked caddy? Unfortunately I do not have another laptop to test it in. The ssd works perfectly if I put it directly in the hard drive slot. Any suggestions? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I'm looking into getting a Samsung 950 Pro 512 GB SSD with read at 2500 MB/s and write at 1500 MB/s. My motherboard is an Asus Sabertooth x79 so it does not have an M.2 slot on it. I was wondering if I used a M.2 to PCI-E adapter if I would get the above read/write speeds or if there would be a bottleneck of some sort? Further, if I can achieve those purported speeds, is there anything I should pay particular attention to when getting the PCI-E adapter? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I have recently built a Mini ITX system based on a Pentium 4 CPU (P4 HT 631).The CPU was bought off Ebay for 5$ and the motherboard was salvaged from a local recycling center. The system works fine, it boots in Windows, i can browse the inteet, watch videos ,etc.. .The only problem is that it runs quite hot (expected because of the P4). The system: - Pentium 4 HT 631 - Commel LV-672 system board - 512 MB DDR2 400 SDRAM So i wanted to see how hot it gets when idle and i stuck my k-type multimeter sensor inside the heatsink.The results: the multimeter shows 49°C (i can feel on my hand how hot the heatsink is) the BIOS shows only 27°C and even worse, the system temp is 19°C ! (while the...

I would like the fans to automatically adjust speed based on appropriate inteal temperatures. I have a dual-boot with Windows 10 and it works as expected under Windows. However, when I log in to Ubuntu, the fans are quiet for about 30 seconds and then spin up to what I'm guessing is about 70-80%. I took the following steps: sensors-detect service kmod start sensors pwmconfig The output of each of these commands can be found in this pastebin. I don't know much about hardware/drivers/modules, so I'm a little out of my element. pwmconfig obviously isn't finding the fan(s), but I don't know why or what driver/module to look for to get it to work. Any help is greatly appreciated. Let's block ad...

I am ruing Linux Mint on an Acer Aspire E 5 574G. The problem I am facing is, I have to press and hold the power button for a bit to trigger the lock screen or suspend or whatever option I have set in the power management section. But if I hold it for even half a second longer, the machine powers down. Is there a way to make it respond to a tap of the power button and not a hold down? When I tried to test detecting the power button tap with xev, it couldn't. Holding it did detect the stroke though. The following is the system details: thekindlyone@deepthought ~ $ inxi -F System: Host: deepthought Keel: 4.4.0-28-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Ciamon 3.0.6 Distro: Linux Mint ...

Good day everyone! Yesterday, I brought home my motherboard(biostar H81MG) together with the cpu(i5-4440) from my office and tried to make it my gaming mobo and processor. It's like a year old and still working but when I brought it home and tested it using my PSU(I tried a seasonic 500W and evga 500W) and not even a single beep nor the fan and heatsink coected to the motherboard is not tuing on. Everything is in place, the 4-pin and the 20/22 pin is perfectly fit and I even tried removing the ram and other more stuff, I only left the cpu and its heatsink and a single fan. But none of them is tuing on. Is this a Motherboard or CPU problem? Thank you in advance. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

- - Picture Link - - My motherboard (micro atx) lines up with these holes in a case I found. (pic related) The black circles are pre-installed in the case (I can't remove those standoffs) and the motherboard lines up on them. The red circles are those holes (4 in total) that the motherboard also lines up, but there is nothing there for the screws to go in. So, I was wondering, what do I put in there? Are there any special standoff screws for these holes? Let's block ads! بخوانید...