New PC win10 questions

[HeyYou]

6 hours ago, ladyonthemoon said:

Support for Windows 7 sp1 stops on January 14, 2020.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet

When it's over, I'll keep windows 7 for my games and install Linux Mint for the rest.

Wow. They extended support? AWESOME!

[donnato]

No worries Ash... I1m used to making receiver folders on my selected partition before I DL something so it already has a home. I`ll have to figure that out on win10 I guess.. 

 

[Ashenfire]

Ever since W3.1 came out, it was easy for me to transition to anything.  I have all my 'must have' items on a different Install drive.  I have my folder structure copied to my install drive, so I can create categories ONE time, and never need to again.  I just extract the category folders to the NEW O.S drive and install programs to them.  Easy peasy.  Of course I also have a mirrored copy.

So, its  the same structuring for any flavor of Windows.

[donnato]

Ok up and running. It is really fast, I mean, it boots in a couple seconds instead of minutes. CPU clocks natively at 3.7Ghz.  Can`t seem to get good sound with my headphones though.

[oldladyonthemoon]

2 minutes ago, donnato said:

Ok up and running. It is really fast, I mean, it boots in a couple seconds instead of minutes. CPU clocks natively at 3.7Ghz.  Can`t seem to get good sound with my headphones though.

Is it Nahimic that you have for your sound card? You need to set it up; it takes some getting used to but the sound is very good.

 

[donnato]

I haven`t seen that. Just the Realtec panel which really does nothing.

[oldladyonthemoon]

1 minute ago, donnato said:

I haven`t seen that. Just the Realtec panel which really does nothing.

Normally, you need a sound manager like Nahimic. Realtek is just the card. The computer didn't come with one?

[donnato]

Not that I see.

[Ashenfire]

I could have sworn I read your spec sheet for the rig....where is it? 

I need to know the Model, MSI motherboard type.  Anything to start with.

In the meantime, if you have normal external speakers, do they play loud, or are they also low sound?

Edited October 14, 2018 by Ashenfire

[donnato]

Hmmm... let me put that together and I`ll post it here.

[donnato]

Ok...

CPU : 8th gen. i7 8700K

MOBO :  MSI Z370 pro (MS 7B48)

Bios : American mega V. 2.60

Memory : DDR4 Dual channel 32MB

Graphics : Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

[Ashenfire]

And the sound?   Realtek version x              I see it might be Realtek ALC892

MSI 7B48-001R Z370-A PRO LGA 1151 (Socket H4) ATX Intel Z370 - LGA1151 - 8th

I am familiarizing this as we speak.  Also, check to see if you  can hear your external speakers properly, it can be that the surround sound

might now accept headphones in the same jacks you might think.  Unless of course, you are following a manual or pictograms where the

headphones should go. 

I am looking at the diagram now.

 

Edited October 14, 2018 by Ashenfire

[donnato]

I am using the front headphone jack.  I looked at the bios (different from what you show) and found the HD audio is enabled. I went to restart and got hit with updates that changed a few things.

[Ashenfire]

Its always going to be, wiring, setup, and drivers.

So anyways I was hoping you were using the BIOS to examine setup. 

It is good I posted the picture because I wanted to be sure I am seeing what you see.  It just dawned on me that the picture was not for an INTEL version.....

I am assuming you know your headphone are in good operational order.

Edited October 14, 2018 by Ashenfire

[Ashenfire]

Every motherboard that I purchased, had software to detect ports for correct drivers, cpu enhancements; various chipsets like LAN and SOUND.  Have you installed those?

[RabidGears]

Don, try the headphones on the rear jack. If they work on that then it may be an issue with the front jack.

 

BTW, nice rig

Edited October 14, 2018 by RabidGears

[Ashenfire]

Thats what I was getting at in the beginning, just waiting for updates, not to mention if external speakers work great, then the headphones will be an issue.

[donnato]

I have no external speakers ..  but I just started the jukebox here and the sound was somewhat louder so I unplugged and tried the rear jacks with no luck ...  However When I took off the headphones I found the very faint music coming from my monitor which is connected with display port. I have not yet played with those settings. Might be some conflict there??

Thanks RG, I`m otherwise pretty happy with this rig.

[Ashenfire]

If your monitor is using HDMI connections and a headphone plug in, then you will have to consider that the monitor has its own volume control.  But it won't be a conflict.

It just means that your volume control settings will have to be selected WHICH sound source you want to utilize.

[RabidGears]

Is there a setting in the Realtek panel for configuring the speaker setup? It might be set to something like 5.1 surround sound instead of stereo. I seem to remember a problem like that with my laptop when I got it first.

[donnato]

Ok , update ... I got the sound to an acceptable level so we maybe avoided an unfortunate RMA .  Yhat said ..  I proceeded to DL and install my security ... But wait, there`s more ... I also loaded Gimp 2.10.6 and imported my entire picture gallery from an external backup drive ... then,  picked my fav wallpaper and set it as my desktop background.  We`re looking good here.

[donnato]

Yes RG ... I fiddled with those settings and got some improvement. Not impressive... but acceptable.

[oldladyonthemoon]

7 hours ago, donnato said:

Yes RG ... I fiddled with those settings and got some improvement. Not impressive... but acceptable.

Why not installing Nahimic an try it?

[HeyYou]

12 hours ago, donnato said:

Ok , update ... I got the sound to an acceptable level so we maybe avoided an unfortunate RMA .  Yhat said ..  I proceeded to DL and install my security ... But wait, there`s more ... I also loaded Gimp 2.10.6 and imported my entire picture gallery from an external backup drive ... then,  picked my fav wallpaper and set it as my desktop background.  We`re looking good here.

Security? Windows 10 comes with windows defender. It ain't the best, but, its really all you need. Windows 10 frequently has issues with third party anti-virus software... Tends to interfere with updates, and various bad things happen.

[oldladyonthemoon]

4 hours ago, HeyYou said:

Security? Windows 10 comes with windows defender. It ain't the best, but, its really all you need. Windows 10 frequently has issues with third party anti-virus software... Tends to interfere with updates, and various bad things happen.

You cannot even use Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 10...