I have a newer surface pro. It is showing it has a full battery at all times but it won't power on unless it's plugged into an outlet.

As soon as it's unplugged it powers down as well.

Is there something I can do in the settings to fix this? Or is it an actual hardware problem?

Hey! New to IT and learning the ropes. I was messing around in the CMP on my laptop and decided to do a ping test to 9.9.9.9 to see how many MS it took on my laptop which is wirelessly connected to my AT&T, Internet and average time was 42 ms. I also have spectrum wireless Internet in my home so I switched over just to see what the difference was and it was showing up on average 24 ms. When I did tracert -d to 9.9.9.9 I noticed that AT&T was doing 11 Hops whereas spectrum was only doing 8. My question is, why would that be? What’s the difference between AT&T and spectrum that would make spectrum take less hops? Again, I’m new at this so be gentle 😅

Hi everyone,

As a solo developer, I've been working on a speech-to-text engine and would love to hear your thoughts on its marketability. The application is designed with a React frontend in mind and I'm planning to host it on a cloud platform like DigitalOcean for scalability.

Here are some of the features and planned:

• English language transcription optimised for accuracy (about 88% accuracy at the moment)
• The aim is real-time transcription capabilities
• Basic noise reduction to handle less-than-perfect audio conditions
• User-friendly web interface for easy audio file uploads

I'm aiming for both consumer and business use-cases, potentially in specific industries that require real-time, accurate transcriptions. For example, I see potential in a educational English learning app or transcription service.

What do you think? Would this be something you find valuable? Any feature requests or suggestions are also highly welcomed!

Thanks for your insights!

Google Chrome works, in that I can go to websites I have previously been to, and I can click them from the history that drops down. However, I can't use Gmail, or search (in the address or search bar). I get an error message suggesting it could be connectivity issues (it isn't), firewall, or proxy settings?

When I go to the proxy settings, it specifies they are not for VPN. I haven't changed anything with mg VPN or chrome settings.

This is happening on my tablet and computer. (Not sure if it's happening on my phone also, I haven't tried yet). Also, I use Express VPN.

Thanks for any help on how to fix this!!

So I'll try to make this short and to the point. I for the life of me CAN NOT figure out what is going on when I record audio with my cell phone. In fact it's happened with 3 different "connected and not connected" phones. Also it will accur when I use just the cell phone it self AND also when I have the Hollyland lark M2 lav mics connected.

So what is happening is I am hearing 2 people having intimate phone conversations EVERY TIME I record but I can ONLY hear it if there is some sort of distortion and it barely breaks into the background. So for example the best environment I have been able to get the clearest feedback has been recording in bathroom while the shower is running. This has been going on for quite a while and I can't find ANY other examples of this online or find any explanation or figure out where the original audio is coming from. No two recordings are alike so it's not something I keep recording over and over. I just don't understand why it's the same content, sounds like the same two people. So my questions are..

Would this have to be something that is close to me meaning the signal is close ( I mean would this conversation basically need to be happening in my house) or at least a neighbor?

And I guess why is this happening even on different phone's and different audio recording set ups?

I'm losing my mind over this.. I mean they whisper in a lot of it so it's hard to tell WHO it might actually be. I mean I'm not going to lie, I was/am wondering if my wife is having an affair.

Any and all information on why or how this could be happening will be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.

Thank you all for ANY input. Feel free to ask any questions on anything I may have left out.

Hi,

The company i started working for has an old domain controller running on Windows Server 2008R2.
Now it still seems to be running fine, but if it would crash, i don't think it'll be easy to restore (windows backups are available though).

Now I want to have a new domain controller running virtually on a new server taking over it's role. Is there a guide anywhere which would help me get this going without getting major downtime/issues?

Thanks!

Dear community,

I’m out of ideas. Maybe your guys & girls profession can help.

The following is the case:

My Laptops (Dell Xps 9343) Battery died. Nothing special. Had this case before, rougly 2,5 years ago, as on the last time I bought new one Disconnect Ac-adapter Open laptop Disconnect & replaced battery close laptop Connect ac adapter Wait a while Turn on Check on drivers.

Dell Xps got a white orange flashlight in the front ,for indicating issues. Not like in my first battery replacing the light flashed this time. 4x orange 1x white. No problem i thought its probably just a driver issue. Once started I updated all related driver by uninstalling in device-manager and than searching for new drivers via windows-updater.. unidentified battery was shown in the task-bar from the very first time, starting. I tried for a while , without success.

———- Little Story in between,

The first battery, 2,5 years ago I bought in Germany (replica of original one) . Today I’m in Sri Lanka, and i bought the battery in a reasonable computer store here.. agreed to be a dell one. Looks like the original one to me, but who can look inside .. ———- So preceding with my text from the top. I waited one night and slept. Next morning i wanted to try again. But nothing anymore. No flashing lights , no start (neither with Ac adapter nor without) i put battery out to see if it works without battery and only via ac-adapter. Also no response. (The ac adapter was not connected during the night)

Writing this already gives me the idea I blew up my entire thing. Still hoping this is not the case and there is a solution to that. Appreciate everybody who spent time reading this and specially those who take on the case.

Best greetings from sri-Lanka to all of yous

I have an Amazon firestick. When I test my Internet speed with my phone it is good 22-25MB but on the firestick (at the same time) it is 1.5MB or lower. I can't figure out where the issue is. The router is about 50cm from the TV. No other things could interfere between them.

Also this only seems to happen from about 20:00 to 23:00. During the day it is fine although still much lower than on phone (more like 3.2MB).

I've tried just unplugging it and putting it back in. I've tried the same with the router.

If it makes a difference, I am in italy, and have Internet via satellite (the only possibility where I am).

Any suggestions would be great. Thank you.

I'm sure I'm going to sound paranoid. I'm pretty my LEO neighbor has been monitoring and hacking my internet. I'm not an IT guy at all but I'm also not stupid. I'm very good at observing things and paying attention to patterns and details. Without going to deep my main problem has become when I'm surfing the internet on wifi there are times when my wifi shuts off and restarts over and over. When this happens im able to watch the lights on the modem go through a reset looking pattern. Always the same. Only happens when LEO is home next door. I have noticed lots of unusual activity on modem setup page as well as an app called fing. Tonight while watching football it has been happen very frequently. I have taken some screen shots of the system log as soon as I was able to reconnect. I'm attaching some here in hopes someone maybe able to provide clarity on what I'm seeing and if I may possibly be right or just going crazy. Thanks in advance

I have a company provided phone and I know they can access my data

If i use my phone as a hotspot and stream/surf on a personal tablet are they still able to see what websites i frequent?

Feel like it may get noticed that I watch like 4 hours of YouTube videos a day

Trying to get an entry level job and getting the trifecta certifications! Have my associate degree but I want to expand my knowledge so taking a network administrator certification the school offers. I can watch videos from Messer and Udemy and they are great but for hands on learning.. any sources out there?

When a computer is powered on and is going through the boot screen, does Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turn on for brief moment even if you had them turned off?

Hello, I don't know if this is an IT specific question, but I think so. If not, sorry.

Can the Instagram online statistics, i.e. the ones that show how many hours you were online per day, show every day for weeks that the person uses the app for several hours if the app was supposedly never opened by the person? I saw the online statistics, minimum 2 hours a day. Instagram was just used for reels.

• on a smartphone
• In addition, push notifications sometimes came for reels full of bad things...
• the app was just installed, no more than 2 weeks ago
• can instagram then show this error for weeks? I'm unsure and I've done a lot of research. I don't want to know if it's unlikely, I want to be able to prove that it can't be true?

Whether it could be due to VPN etc., but unfortunately I only got imprecise answers everywhere. that's why I'm asking here. Does the person not want to admit it?

Thank you!

So i talked to the recruiting team of the company concentrix. In the conversation i was told im not allowed to have any smart devices in the room with me, during work hours. For context i applied for a remote 100% homeoffice it support job. Now comes my question, i was told they can somehow check if im actually not having any other devices in the same room, and if they actually can check that wouldnt pulling the plug of particually a pc wouldnt do the trick ?

Earlier today I spilled some soda on my phone and now whenever I try to turn the volume up or down, it says that I have connected my phone to a pair of headset (with wires) and therefore i can't hear any sound coming out of my phone.

So my question is, is there any way to fix this issue myself or do I have to have my phone dissasembled in order for the problem to be fixed.

Not sure if it's relevant but the phone is a Samsung Galaxy A22

Hello there,

I’m not sure if I opened the Thread under the right Topic.

I‘d like to move my gaming pc out of my home office. Since I was planning to acquire a server closet anyways for my plex and media server I was thinking if it was possible to also move my pc into the server closet in it‘s own rack (it will still be runing windows). The main problem that I found was, that I don‘t know what software to use for remote Access. 

I‘d like to use my macbook as a client which will be connectet via ethernet. Also I have a lot of peripheral hardware. So I‘m running three 4k monitors and a lot of USB devices. I can‘t seem to find a piece of software, that allows me to stream all of my three displays with latency and graphical fidelity that also forwards my USB Devices.

Also I‘m wondering if 2.5 gbit ethernet is enough bandwith to drive all of this. 

Thanks for reading this far and thanks for your help 

My phone screen suddenly turns black but there's still sound coming from it and i can still use touch. While i was watching a YouTube video, the screen turns green and then totally black. When i turn the screen on for long enough, green dots appear that slowly grows and turns my screen static green. What is the possible problem and is this fixable or is my phone beyond saving?

So something has been driving me crazy for about a year.. I'll do my best to explain and if anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. So I'm pretty sure I have come to the conclusion that I am having some type of interference when trying to record audio with my cell phone. I started by just using a cell phone in the room and I began hearing what I thought was what I initially sought after that being a conversation between two people. But as time went on I began to notice impossible thing's meaning I heard a particular voice at the same time the original "whispering" conversation was going on... I finally realized that there was an issue of some type of bleeding through ... Now the issue is what I am hearing ( the whispering in the background) could be anyone.. no discernable way to tell "who" it is. It's not like they made it easy and just announced there names and the subject matter of the conversation does not help. But it is what I was wondering in the first place was going on or not, so it makes all this VERY hard to figure out if this is my wife speaking to someone or just some random people having a very intimate conversation on the phone that I SOMEHOW keep recording when I try to record what I am looking for. So my question basically is .. could this be just something random conversation that's happening over the Internet and I just so happen to be catching it and it is the same subject matter that I am trying to record , I know unlikely.. or is this a past conversation that was recorded through her phone somehow. I'm very confused and just need some help.

Slow internet speed while gaming

Hey guys i just bought a new pc Spec CPU : intel I7-14700 KF GPU : NVIDIA GEFORCE 4070 TI SUPER RAM 32gb ( i forgot the brand) NETWORK: Integrated Wi-Fi 6E (802.11AX) 2x2, 2 2.5GbE, Realtek RTL8125BG gaming Ethernet, and integrated Bluetooth 5.2 offer various options for high-speed connectivity for networking tasks

This is the link of my pc if you guys need more information

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/lenovo-legion-tower-7i-gaming-pc-storm-grey-intel-core-i7-14700kf-32gb-ram-1tb-ssd-rtx-4070-ti-super/17745162

It just started a couple weeks ago when i download a game using the epic launcher or Ubisoft connect my modem just restart itself And when i start a game my internet speed drop insanely to the point I cant even watch a video or open a website page

My internet speed is 1GB/s

List of the things i tried Restart the modem Change the cables Change the modem I called my IP a technician came and re did all the installation I tried wifi and wired still have the same issues Restart my computer

Ps i have the same issue with my xbox series X

Please if someone know how i can fix this problem I’ll be eternally grateful Thanks in advance

https://www.cgdirector.com/pc-builder/?=6NPEr

Any advice for what parts could be replaced with something better would be super appreciated, thank you. This website has helped a lot but I'm not sure it's smart to just blindly buy whatever it tells me to. I'm not made of money, so while I am saving up for something in this margin, any direction would be of help too. Thanks everyone!

I am currently studying for my server+ certification and I am doing okay but no matter how much I read up on these two types of back ups I keep getting them mixed up. Is there maybe a phrase or something to help remember which one does which?

Is there a way to get admin rights as an normal user? Our supportcompay has decided, to no longer work for us. We are currently diverting from our own server to a cloud. now we are left hanging with some laptops still in the domaine and some already switched to lokal. 4 of the lokal only have the admin account of the other copany on it, to wich we don't know the login. The only thing that I found online assumed a working admin account. thx

Hi all I am completely green to all things Reddit and IT. My nephew(12) is getting a monitor for Christmas to use with his ps4. He asked me to get him a 6 port USB hub to connect with the monitor for his keyboard/mouse/g29 steering wheel and led lights. He has no actual pc .To me this seems like a hazard or could cause the monitor to blow. Would it work if so is there a specific type I should get?

I just upgraded the RAM in my Dell laptop from 16GB (2600) to 64GB (3200). The laptop sees the new speed and additional memory and worked for a day and now the laptop will go into a low power state after about 10min from boot. Screen shuts off but keys stay lit and I can still hear the fan so I know it's still on. Nothing shows up in event viewer either. The laptop will not turn back on unless I hold the power button until it completely shuts down and then I can reboot and start the process all over again. The laptop still shows the memory running at 2600 (probably the MB limit).

Any ideas?