I just wanted to vent about something dumb real quick.

[Naruzeldamaster]

Ok so for about two and a half days, my pc has been having internet issues, and I'm wifi only but I doubt that was the issue to begin with. The router is only about fifty-ish, maybe more around seventy? feet from my PC.

Two days of frustration, I decide to dig into the settings on my pc, and I had to dig into the advanced settings to find out what the problem was. Somehow the Wi Fi card on my mother board had been disabled in the settings. :/

I feel dumb because I didn't think to try checking those settings right away. And we were thinking of sending the machine to Geek Squad to get it 'fixed'
I still plan to send my machine to Geek Squad when I upgrade my hard drive (I'm not technical enough to do it myself, and I still need to acquire the SSD to begin with anyway) but it was an obnoxiously simple thing to fix. Literally 'have you tried turning it off and then on again' ...

Also to make this rant a little less one sided, when was the last time you did something silly like this with electronics and how did you end up fixing it?

 

[pmmg]

how could you have any connection at all if the wifi was disabled?

I fix these things routinely. Sorry you have to go to geek squad.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

how could you have any connection at all if the wifi was disabled?

I fix these things routinely. Sorry you have to go to geek squad.

I would go to someone else if I could, but they're the only ones we know of in the area.
As for the wifi card, it would 'attempt' to connect, connect for a bit (with a really poor signal) and then say 'can't connect to network'
I managed to solve this issue myself (The Wifi Card being disabled) but as far as installing the SSD, I think unfortunately I will need to rely on geek squad.
They are usually fairly good, just don't ask them to do anything related to data recovery.

 

[SamazonE]

So could you fix it with software, or is it a matter of unscrewing the whole thing. I have a few devices that require SD cards, but one finicky device was my Anbernic RG280V. I had to use a chip-to-put-the-chip-into to connect it with my computer, which is an Apple I inherited from my mother, (not that she passed away, she just upgraded,) and currently it has dust damage.

It came with a whole lot of games, but I accidentally formatted it, the SD card, and it has an additional chip for OS/firmware, which can get really difficult, if you don’t follow the instructions to the letter. Luckily I didn’t mess with that.

It has some glitches. A dot on the screen, a gap between the case, showing some inner working lights. It was about the most dependable device on the market at the time, but now they have SteamDeck, and some other devices, that are far better for emulation - and may I say, piracy?

My advice is to leave the geeks-and-nerds out of it. Buy a device that is not custom, or built by a second party, just get a unit. Like the automobile market, they are making changes too quickly to cover, and there is a lot of variety. Just go apple, if it is too confusing, they have scaled down on their products, and are going the boutique angle, recently.

 

[CupofJoe]

Memory Companies like Corsair used to sell a SSD switching kit.
It had the software, a little hardware and a cable that let you swap/clone an SSD.
I haven't done it myself but know people that have.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

So could you fix it with software, or is it a matter of unscrewing the whole thing. I have a few devices that require SD cards, but one finicky device was my Anbernic RG280V. I had to use a chip-to-put-the-chip-into to connect it with my computer, which is an Apple I inherited from my mother, (not that she passed away, she just upgraded,) and currently it has dust damage.

It came with a whole lot of games, but I accidentally formatted it, the SD card, and it has an additional chip for OS/firmware, which can get really difficult, if you don’t follow the instructions to the letter. Luckily I didn’t mess with that.

It has some glitches. A dot on the screen, a gap between the case, showing some inner working lights. It was about the most dependable device on the market at the time, but now they have SteamDeck, and some other devices, that are far better for emulation - and may I say, piracy?

My advice is to leave the geeks-and-nerds out of it. Buy a device that is not custom, or built by a second party, just get a unit. Like the automobile market, they are making changes too quickly to cover, and there is a lot of variety. Just go apple, if it is too confusing, they have scaled down on their products, and are going the boutique angle, recently.

It was simply a matter of going one layer deeper into the network settings and enabling the card from there, no fussing with the hardware needed.
The strangest part of this whole mess is I don't know how that setting got turned off/disabled to begin with, I don't personally go that deep into system settings unless I absolutely have to.

As far as emulation goes I only emulate games I either currently own or have owned at one point. The only time I emulate them anyhow is for Randomizers, like the one for Ocarina of Time (there's one for Ocarina of Time X Majora's Mask but I'm less versed about the secrets of MM than OOT)