Changing display resolution

On 6/23/19 4:56 PM, Paul wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:
On 6/23/19 1:08 PM, Paul wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:


The power supply hasn't latched off and the fans stay spinning..

Simple terms, please, what does "latched off" mean?


OK, this appears to have been the problem. I hope I can remember this,
should something like this ever happen again.

Everything is reassembled, and back up and running, including any updates.

At least I don't have to look at new hardware at this time. But, if you
would, what do you think of mini units like this? ...
https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Compu...TVPDKIK X0DER


Since I've no plans to use W10 as my main system, I'm thinking this
might be all I'd need. I have zero feel as to the speed of the Atom
processors.

And, I think this could be a solution for all the W7 latptop owners who
don't haul their systems around anymore. Or, laptop owners who
*thought* they would be hauling them around but don't.

You're not really done.

When it happens again, examine the capacitors (aluminum cylinders)
near the CPU socket. Look at the tops. Look for rusty brown deposits.
Sometimes the same fluid appears near the base, near their two legs.
These are leaking capacitors, from the "capacitor plague" era.

I'm going to hope for the best, that it doesn't happen again.

And, if it does, I don't think I'll put any time in trying to solve the
why it happened. It's just too old to worry about, and I really don't
have the time to spend on it. I'd probably just get something like that
AcePC I provided a link for.
There might have been one or two Dell models, with a 95%
field failure rate on mobo (leaking caps). You don't dare
risk even buying a replacement motherboard off Ebay, because
it could be ripe too, for those.

This mobo is HP specific, I couldn't find a different board that would
even fit the case. And, with this issue, it got old really fast when it
would take so much more time to do something than it should, because I
couldn't see what I was doing.


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Ken
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