Soldato
Ok, I got given this HP AIO Thingy. its got a cracked screen and after seeing the prices for a new screen, I thought I wont bother.
It does howefer have a HDMI port and so I have had a play, in fact more than a play, and I was considering knocking up another MediaCenter just for giggles.
Anyway I have found a few things that I was hoping the I could get some answers to...
The Screen.
With the huge crack, the screen is kind of trying to display but with the crack, its all garbage except for a chunk of it. So, I removed the screen, but then the PC would not boot up.
I have put it back in, and it works.
So, is this at all dangerous? I was considering laying the thing on the screen, or covering it up and then laying it face down. Or of course simply behind a TV but also I wil be covering up the screen just so we dont see the thing trying to display anything.
Secondly, is there any way that I can force it to have the HDMI display set as the default?
Thankfully, under Windows, it is displaying the main output onto both, rather than it being an extention, but its still something I want to remedy
The M2 SDD
There is a small 14GB M2 Drive in this thing. Sure 14GB is not that good, but its being used as a CACHE. I can see the thing, but I cannot access it?
I have bought another one, a 240GB one and I do hope that I can use it - If not, then I have plenty of other PCs, so its not going to be wasted.
But The BIOS seems rather basic, and there is nothing obvious that will let me set it so I can access it?
It did have Windows 11 installed and it was disgustingly slow ( takes about 10 minutes to boot to desktop ) and so I have reinstalled Windows 11 but now it wont activate! - bugger.
Not a big issue, but the whole thing is now almost fast enough to use.
Its only got 4GB RAM and so I have bought another 4GB to at least make it hopefully useable.
These are of course silly questions, but they are annoying me.
Its an I3 2.2ghz but I have an old Core2Duo here that is way, way quicker.
How do these companies get away with making such poor performing computers?
It does howefer have a HDMI port and so I have had a play, in fact more than a play, and I was considering knocking up another MediaCenter just for giggles.
Anyway I have found a few things that I was hoping the I could get some answers to...
The Screen.
With the huge crack, the screen is kind of trying to display but with the crack, its all garbage except for a chunk of it. So, I removed the screen, but then the PC would not boot up.
I have put it back in, and it works.
So, is this at all dangerous? I was considering laying the thing on the screen, or covering it up and then laying it face down. Or of course simply behind a TV but also I wil be covering up the screen just so we dont see the thing trying to display anything.
Secondly, is there any way that I can force it to have the HDMI display set as the default?
Thankfully, under Windows, it is displaying the main output onto both, rather than it being an extention, but its still something I want to remedy
The M2 SDD
There is a small 14GB M2 Drive in this thing. Sure 14GB is not that good, but its being used as a CACHE. I can see the thing, but I cannot access it?
I have bought another one, a 240GB one and I do hope that I can use it - If not, then I have plenty of other PCs, so its not going to be wasted.
But The BIOS seems rather basic, and there is nothing obvious that will let me set it so I can access it?
It did have Windows 11 installed and it was disgustingly slow ( takes about 10 minutes to boot to desktop ) and so I have reinstalled Windows 11 but now it wont activate! - bugger.
Not a big issue, but the whole thing is now almost fast enough to use.
Its only got 4GB RAM and so I have bought another 4GB to at least make it hopefully useable.
These are of course silly questions, but they are annoying me.
Its an I3 2.2ghz but I have an old Core2Duo here that is way, way quicker.
How do these companies get away with making such poor performing computers?
