NicoleU

I will be doing a lot of traveling (or just away from my desktop in general) this year and next and realized that I need to invest in a laptop so I don't become buried in work. 

I have read threads on here and narrowed my search to an Asus ROG:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-gl702vm-17-3-laptop-intel-core-i7-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-1tb-hard-drive-black-aluminium/5622786.p?skuId=5622786&productCategoryId=pcmcat748301724422

My only concern is the display - I feel like the 4k ones are what I should be looking at, but are not in my budget.

Poppycock - this one is great or yes, start over and look for 4k?

Ok, so I backed up everything and everything goes well UNTIL the 64 bit is almost all the way installed and my monitor driver resets and it goes to sleep and I can't wake it up. I did a clean reboot and deleted everything and then first ran into this issue. My monitor works for a couple times and then shuts down. I figured out I had to go into device manager and update driver software. Took me sometime to finally have the monitor stay on long enough for me to update the driver. Now, I tried to install the 64 bit and all went well until I ran into this issue. It happens sooner so my computer reverts to recovery mode and goes back to my 32 bit install.

Any ideas on how to keep the driver update?

As far as I know, my system is 64-bit capable? I'm running on a 64x based processor. My friend built it with the idea that I would be using it for Photoshop. It was my goof of moving from Windows 8 64-bit to Windows 10 32-bit. I just must not have been paying attention that day.

Is there a way to check the Ethernet Driver?

I have a custom built desktop and upgraded a couple months ago to Windows 10 32-bit, without realizing I can't use my RAM to it's full potential (16GB is what I have installed). I have researched online and it looks like you can download the Windows Media Creation Tool and use it to switch from 32 to 64-bit. I talk to my friend who built my computer and he said to buy a brand new 64-bit code and do a clean reboot/install. 

Either way, I'm terrified to wipe my computer (Everything I have (photos, music, files, etc.) is stored on one of my external hard drives.) but my question is - can I use the Windows Media Tool? Is this a legit way to switch/upgrade?

3 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

Just to check, you don't crop the master files this way, do you??  11:15 is only for client jpegs.

Correct. I've read enough of your posts to know not to do that. Never crop masters. Delete jpegs when you are done with them.

Yeah, ain't nobody got time for that. Thanks for taking a look. Cheers!

Yes, some sort of a landscape crop. I usually crop final images to a 15 x 11 for landscape but I would take 10 x 8.

Lesson learned.

Any hope on extending the backdrop? I didn't have time to purchase a wider one and didn't think it would be hard to extend the backdrop but the banner and pom poms are causing a bump in the road for me. This is SOOC, just saved in jpeg.